Simply Fish & Chips - a proper British chippy in Abu Dhabi

Fish and chips are as quintessentially British as not caring about getting sunburned on holiday, watching football in the rain and playing Hollywood villains.

Some restaurants here do a tasty battered hammour and fries, and there’s a certain fast-food chain found in shopping malls that dishes up a version that may be palatable to other expatriates.

But any discerning Brit knows these options don’t compare with a real “chippy”. So news that Abu Dhabi finally has its first bona fide fish and chip shop has been greeted with joy by the city’s British expats pining for a taste of home.

Simply Fish & Chips is a five-minute walk from the Corniche’s East Plaza, making it ideal for seafront takeaways. It serves comfort-food delights including mushy peas, steak and kidney pies and battered fresh cod and haddock that’s delivered twice a week fresh from the North Sea.

Simply Fish & Chips’s Mancunian manager Hassan Sherazi came to Abu Dhabi six years ago to work as an architect. After he and his wife, Sam, and brother-in-law, Amir Shah, noticed Brits moaning about how much they missed their national dish on online forums, they spotted a gap in the Abu Dhabi market.

Original article by Jessica Hill

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Simply Fish & Chips – a proper British chippy in Abu Dhabi