The Empire Fish And Chip

Chips were like cardboard. Asked for salt and vinegar and none was added. Just no taste to the food. Sausage batter crumbled. No potato in the chips. Possibly the worst I’ve had. Shame. Was such a good chippy when it was Empire. Plus take out you hardly get a good portion. Have been to other Wetherby Whalers but this is far the worst for take out.

Although we can't fault the fish and chips the service was extremely poor. There were only five tables including ours being used and three members of staff and the wait to have our table cleared and order dessert was unacceptable. I looked over numerous times trying to get the attention of a member of staff, for some of the time they were just stood talking between themselves. We would never go back to the restaurant, but would use the drive through.

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!

Firstly the positive friendly efficient service. Negatives the carrot and coriander soup was very bland and I couldn't detect any coriander flavour! For my main course I ordered plaice and expected it to be cooked in breadcrumbs as is usual. No it was a thin piece of fish in a hard shell of batter. The plaice itself was watery and soggy and not very pleasant, to say the least. But because I was hungry, I ate most of it. This morning I am having stomach cramps not saying it was connected to the badly cooked plaice maybe a coincidence! But I shall not be going there again.

Really surprised to see so many negative reviews recently we had a lovely meal the other day. We haven’t been in years but we were greeted by really friendly staff. Seated straight away and they were very attentive our waitress brought drinks straight away and was honestly lovely. Ordered haddock with scampi! Also some bread and butter and mushy peas. The mushy peas were great nice and flavoursome. Batter on the fish was lovely and crisp cooked perfect for how I like it. Really nice scampi and good chips too! It is on the pricier side for fish and chips but don’t mind paying for quality. Will definitely be back.

We have been going here since Sheila hubby ran the restaurant, then Wetherby Whaler took over,at first it was on a par with the one in Wakefield.First meal out for us since Christmas as I have been in hospital really ill.We got the pensioner 3 course meal,I asked for both fish lightly battered with mushy peas chips.Hubby's wasn't too bad seemed cooked,mine was a different story,too much batter,slimy underneath,fish undercooked,lots of black bits in the fish,it turned my stomach.I did eat the mushy peas chips as I was hungry. Complained to the waiter,asked to speak to the fryer but he wouldn't face me,he sent a message to say reason it was like it was because it depends on the time of day the...

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 ha...

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...

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 ta...