This was our local Charcoal Chicken about 8 years ago, and even after shifting to the western suburbs and back, we still cannot find anything close to as good as this place.

Chips are some of the best takeway chips you will find in Melbourne - always cooked on demand, crunchy, hot, and not at all oily. They really know how to cook chips, we just wish more places did too.

The chicken is deliciously covered in plenty of herbs and spices, and there just seems to be something special about the flavour. It's never dry or too fatty. The salads are also excellent and the Chicken/Salad/Chip value packs are highly recommended.

This family run business is very clean, service is friendly and quick. Make sure you get there reasonably early, or phone ahead, as they have been known to sell out of chickens early some nights.

Approximate cost: $8

There is NO '2 piece of fish' value pack, which meant we went for the '4 person family pack'. For three of us, this was far more than we really wanted to spend on fish and chips, but we had high expectations after finding the shop on WOMOW.

It turns out if you do the maths that the family pack isn't really much of a saving over ordering things seperately. It does have dimsims from the Sth Melb market, however these were EXTREMELY SALTY, and were too hot to touch for about 15 minutes. The dimsims seemed like they had been fried two or three times they were that hot and hard! They were close to inedible. Potato cakes were a little oily.

On the plus side the chips were above average and the flake was large, juicy and well cooked. Calamari rings were also nice.

We will go again, but will stick to just the flake and chips next time.

Approximate cost: $10

Chips crispy, but unfortunately left a strange, chemical after taste in our mouths! Perhaps the oil was burnt or was overdue for changing? Server doused the chips in chicken-salt without asking. Chicken was moist and tasty.

Approximate cost: $7