Fish and chip-o-philes eagerly fill up at this North Vancouver eatery
Mia Stainsby
Sun
Kim Willcocks (left) and her mom Violet McArthur enjoy fish and chips served by Ron Lee at C-Lovers Fish and Chips. It’s part of a franchise with some six restaurants scattered throughout the Lower Mainland. Photograph by : Stuart Davis, Vancouver Sun
I’m good at stomping on my brakes when faced with big helpings of deep-fried foods and that would include the fish part of fish and chips. The good-girl part of me peels away the batter to get at the lean fish. As for the chips part, all right! I admit I’m not entirely immune to gobbling up big platters of them. Who is?
I know there are fish and chip lovers out there who know that with fat, comes flavour; so for them, I did this — went and tried C-Lovers Fish and Chips in North Vancouver, which I’ve heard is a good family stop for the English-y fare.
It’s part of a franchise with some six restaurants scattered throughout the Lower Mainland. I’ve only been to this one in North Vancouver and found both the fish and the chips quite delicious. The chips are not the industrial, frozen variety. Staff peel and cut the potatoes every day and cook them into crisp, golden sticks. And yes, I gobbled them up. They use halibut and haddock for the fish and you can have one or two pieces; you can also have fish without fries, but what’s the fun in that?
There are prawn and oyster dishes as well but most people go for the fish and chips. The true believers can go for all-you-can-eat fish and chips, where for $9.95, you get started with six small pieces of fish and chips and proceed to as many more plates as you wish. Fish and chip-o-philes, apparently, are a restrained lot, as at this location anyway, guests normally don’t go beyond two plates. (The all-you-can-eat offer is good between lunch and 3:30 from Tuesday to Saturday and from lunch to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
And no surpise, they get a lot of Brits. “Any of our regulars who are British love fish and chips and whenever they have family from Great Britain, they bring them here,” says assistant manager John Loucks.
Expect to pay $7 to $11 for a fish and chip dinner, depending on portions.
C-LOVERS FISH AND CHIPS
1660 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver, 604-980-9993. Open for lunch and dinner, daily.
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