Smeatons Fish & Chips in Cornwall

Best fish and chips I ever had in the whole UK. I am serious! I had battered sea bass and grilled cod, both are very very good!

Food was horrible! I asked for grilled sardines and got fried sardines with no taste. Makes me wonder if they washed the food with soap. My friends asked for squid and it was also horrible. How can you remove any flavour from something so easy to cook? Even the chips weren't great! My first time in St. Ives and I had the worst experience possible. Tinned fish for me if I ever go back!

Great takeaway fish and chips but had a long wait as the restaurant side was busy.

Some bizarre reviews on here...small portions are you serious? Huge cod and chips and got to be one of the nicest I ever tasted. Partner had mussles and chips and loved it. Service was great and really friendly, want to go again and we just went 2 days ago!

This was the best fish & chips we've ever had, both my friend and I. We had the grilled lemon sole and it was amazing, as were the chips which as they say, they're sourced locally and cut on the premises - and you can tell. The freshly made sweet potato crisps were fantastic. Excellent service too, premises were clean. As you can see, I ate everything on the plate, it was that good! Highly recommend!

The best seafood we’ve ever eaten!!! It’s in a really picturesque place and all I can say is we visited over a year ago and STILL talk about it. You just have to look at the food we had, it was delicious. Cannot recommend it enough!!! 🐟🐠🎣🐡🍤🍣💙

Absolutely amazing! We had scampi and chips, mussels, and a couple of Cornish sausages, washed down with Cornish lager, and all of them were the nicest we've ever had!The lager is award winning, and very light and fresh, it went perfectly with the food. All the food was very reasonably priced, it was a relaxed (yet high quality) dining experience with "chippie" prices!Perhaps to be expected, but I loved the fact that the chips' potatoes, the fish, the sausages, the beer, were ALL local.Finally, the staff were lovely, very friendly and quick, as well as knowledgeable about the dishes. Can't recommend enough, definitely going again asap!

Cute place and was so happy to get a table. The server was very friendly. We got the seafood to share as an appetizer. The shrimp were in a tempura or beer batter and were crispy and light. The calamari was in maybe a cornmeal batter and were sticks and not rings. It was good not great. The dips tasted mainly like Mayo and could have used some more flavor (IMO). I got the scampi which was okay but not what I expected. Fries were crispy and hot.I do appreciate the take away area offering so many items.

Called up. Spoke to a lady to reserve a table for my dads birthday. Was told 8.30 to 9pm should be a good time to arrive as they don’t do reservations. It will be quieter. 1st come 1st serve. We arrived at 8.30pm only to be told they are not taking anymore people. We had travelled all the way from london. After speaking to the lady in charge we finally got seated and then the experience became so much nicer. We were told we couldn’t have anything grilled but we only wanted battered fish anyway. The service was good. The food was really nice. The batter on the fish was so crispy. Thank you.

Excellent food and great Cornish lager. I love that they take walk ins and it goes fast! Specially loved the Cod and the squid, the chips are the best I had in a long time !