The Beach Hut - Islington

Rude service, unfriendly man runs it. Fish is greasy and chips not good. Avoid this place if you can!

Customer service is vile!!! Food is ok. But oh my god the couple who own it and run it are not pleasant at all. Never experienced such rude business owners in my life, all that I have told about this couple have said the same....Majority of the neighbour hood do not like this couple and there customer service!! The women doesn’t smile and the man is a bully!! They shouldn’t be allowed to run any business

Ordering from the Beach Hut reminded me of the Fawlty Towers episode in which Basil Fawlty only has one ingredient Duck and the menu is restricted to three options duck with orange, duck with cherries or duck surprise'. From the Beach Hut...I ordered their promoted fish tacos which I suspect is their fish version of the duck surprise. I have feasted on many a taco in Southern California and while I was not expecting a similar quality I was genuinely bewildered by their twist on these Baja staples. Essentially the tacos consist of the same battered fish that comes out the deep fryer, chopped up, and laid on a bed of wet salad which in turn is prepared on three rather sorry looking tortillas. The dish is accompanied with tortilla “chips” (think Doritos but worse) and a “salsa” which I suspect is in fact burger relish. Aside from the fact that you might as well just be eating a portion of battered cod, the chopped salad (not entirely sure diced cucumber and red onion is traditional in tacos) soaks the tortillas leaving you with a rather soggy and unappetising mess. Unfortunately it is also truly disgusting. If you do decide to order from this establishment which to its credit has been a feature of the Highbury high street for many years I would stick to good old fashioned fish and chips instead of one of their new “fish surprise” menus.

Great Fish chips always so fresh and tasty. They do an amazing job, thank you both at the beach hut

Unfortunately my experience of this place was not very good at all. We visited for take out in May and the queue was long. After around to minutes someone in front of me popped inside and asked how long the wait would be....The answer was hours!!! The reason given was they were dealing with lots of orders over the phone. This in itself was not a problem but not communicating this to the queue outside was very poor. When asked why people were not being told about this, the woman got quite abrupt. It was obvious that this is a small establishment with limited resources but the poor communication and lack of respect for customers was appalling. I will never go back.