SOMETIMES you get a medical need for fish and chips just to help you through the working day. Nothing else will do to fill the lunchtime hole.

But amid spiralling prices and indifferent quality, getting a decent dinner time feast in Blackburn town centre can equate to mission improbable, or a butty from the market.

But, ever the adventurer, I got that feeling for fish and chips yesterday — and escaped the shackles of my desk in Telegraph Towers, through the grounds of Blackburn Cathedral and to the Chippery.

It is a couple of years since I have been in the big red shop on Corporation Street and, to be honest, my previous experience did nothing to make me rush back.

To put it politely, the fish and chips two years ago were on the bad side of not very good.

But there has been a change.

Crisp batter encased the jolly decent fish, while the chips were OK, even though one of the number of colleagues who raided my dinner tray when I got back to my desk got the impression his bit of fried potato had come from a packet.

But never mind, they were good — and the mushy peas (and mushy peas are a must with takeaway fish and chips) were spot on.

The Chippery may not be perfect . . . but it is back in the frame.

VERDICT

  • Taste: 8
  • Temperature: 8
  • Speed: 8
  • Value: 8
  • Choice: 7