The Empire Fish And Chip - Wakefield

This restaurant is very nice, and the drive-thru is very convenient if you're in a hurry. The food is excellent, especially the fish and chips. I wouldn't go anywhere else for my favorite meal. I hope others feel the same way.

Family birthday meal, and the service and food were GREAT! Fish was fresh and the chips weren 't soggy! There were options for small or big eaters, vegetarians and vegans and all the sundries you could wish for. The staff were efficient and friendly and the food arrived quickly and served professionally. Lovely, quirky place, although it was a bit quiet when we went and maybe could have done with bit more atmosphere . The Drive Thru ' seemed to be busy!! I would have no hesitation in recommending!

We arrived at 7pm... the restaurant was closed, the car park was empty.. we actually thought it was closed. we walked around the front to see if the chippy bar was open it was. we ordered fish chips with an unbattered sausage, scampi chips a steak pie chips. we was asked if we wanted salt vinegar before paying. told the young lady scampi fish meals with both, steak pie just salt. waited 15 mins for the scampi, fish, sausage pie to be cooked. they where boxed up. another lady asked what it was we wanted salt on, my wife said the steak pie please. everything was put in to a bag. i then asked if salt vinegar had been put on the scampi fish meals.. she said no... whilst she the young lady was taking boxes back out of the bag, she found the fish meal, put salt vinegar on, i then asked why there was 4 boxes.. she said for the sausage chips.. i said i only order a sausage to go with the fish chips. she apologised. she put the sausage in a fresh box added s v... whilst she was doing that we noticed the young lady putting s v on another box.. must be the wifes scampi. we decided to eat in the car in the car park has it would all be cold by the time we got home, glad we had wet wipes.. lots of oil. my daughter said the pie chips where yummy (shes 34 by the way) my wife said there was no s v on her scampi it was over cooked.. i opened my sausage ate that first, was ok. got to the fish n chips.. wow.. overload of s v... so mine got a double dose of s v by the looks of it. could only eat half. staff seemed totally uninterested, ready to go home by the look of it. not somewhere i would rush back to.

What an absolute disgrace this restaurant is. Came here tonight with the whole family for my nephews birthday, we was served by a miserable waitress. To then have to wait an hour and a half for our meals, when I approached one of the staff members at reception and asked her where our food was, I was told the drive thru and the takeaway bit was really busy so we would have to wait! Very cocky and very rude, one of my family members even witnessed her rolling her eyes as I walked away. When our food finally came, we had to wait a further 10 minutes for the sides we had ordered by a very slow unhappy looking waitress. They just dumped the sides down, rather than asking who’s was who’s! All the staff seemed very unhappy, miserable and cocky. My grandparents have always come to this restaurant. But needless to say we will never attend this place again! At the end of it when it came to pay the bills they tried adding extra stuff we didn’t order to our bill! We had a birthday cake and they wouldn’t even light the candles and bring the cake up to the table like all restaurants do. Absolutely appalling service.

Came here for a birthday meal after previously coming a year earlier. What a shock we got when we were seated. Even though this had been booked in for 2 months after 45 mins of waiting for our food we eventually asked what was happening. The young blonde waitress replied the takeaway and drive through are extremely busy so it’s having a knock on effect!! What!!! ? So the takeaway and drive through take priority over a 2 month in advance booking for a large party?? Absolutely ridiculous ! On looking around the restaurant everyone else who had arrived after us were eating within 15 mins of being seated! So it’s just a pathetic excuse and proves they can’t cater for large groups!! This place has really gone down hill! No beers or lagers on draught anymore either so everything is bottled and double the price!! The sides of mushy peas and curry sauce were missed so by the time they came out fish n chips were cold. Absolute waste of time and money! Won’t be going back again!