Peter's Fish Market

Many moons ago, LGS and I went to the Spit with our dogs and afterwards, we ended up at Peter's Fish Market after a long day of trying to persuade my cowardly dog to enter the surf. We took some great photos and videos of that day but its full of crappy audio so its never seeing the light of day.

The look on her face and her body language spells:
I hate water.

I went again with my friend, Jubi, once she got her green P plates and we went to the beach. It was one of the first really hot days of spring this year and it was an absolutely gorgeous day. It was so bright I couldn't see my phone screen for trying haha.

Clear blue skies

The Spit!

We walked up and down this beach for 3 hours

Ohhh she's so fluffy!

We spent some time trying to find a place to go to afterwards that was dog friendly. Its pretty retarded to leave your dog in a car while you get lunch and we didn't know the area at all, so we went back to Pete's Fish Market after all, since I remember its right near the Spit and there were dogs everywhere.

Pete's Fish Market is a really open little spot, and to me looks like a trailer park opened up and started to sell stuff. Its right on the top of the local Fisherman's Co-Op but it seems to carry a lot of internationally caught fish. Its always packed whenever I've been, no matter the time of the day. The service is really brisk and to the point, but they're always swamped and its a fish and chip shop so I didn't really expect any better. Its full of locals, tourists and their dogs and there's an extensive seating area of shaded tables to sit at and they call out your docket number when your order is ready.

On the inside, there are four large displays of frozen/fresh fish for self service. You can pick your own fish to be battered or crumbed as part of your meal, but they price it by weight as well as an additional cooking fee of xxx/100g.

There is also this really creepy boat on top of one of the displays.

So creepy.

There's an area around the front that is just full of salads, fish products like dips and caviar as well as condiments for fish. The lady manning this area seems to stock all the available fish displays and the drinks as well.

This is a very distinct look but I can't describe it

Just below this sign, is where you actually order. There's also a large display to the right of it with fancier options than your standard fish and chips. Things like marinated fish or prawn skewers, lobster mornay, scallops and a whole selection of dodgy looking salads.

All the specials!

Salads!

Fancy stuff!

More fancy stuff

On the day we went, Jubi persuaded me to split a lemongrass snapper as well as a side of salad for each of us, cause she's on a mega health kick and lost crazy amounts of weight. I, only the other hand hadn't tried any of the marinated options and was also feeling motivated to lose weight. The lemongrass snapper was really fresh, well cooked and perfectly seasoned, we didn't even touch the lemon wedge that went with it. It was a huge piece and we just finished it between the two of us.

The Arizona Lemon Black Tea I had originally picked had expired several months ago, and I didn't even realise until I had almost all of it. The lady at the front of the shop apologised profusely and got me another drink, which was handy cause I was still thirsty. I didn't get sick from it thankfully.

I picked the seafood salad, thinking for some reason that since it was a fish and chip shop with such a huge selection of seafood, the seafood salad would have seafood extenders, celery and mayonnaise. I was wrong. That's all it had. I was a bit disgusted and immensely regretted my choice. The huge amounts of mayo made it sickly sweet, the celery was over powering and I got onion breath from the large chunks of green onion.

Really gross

Jubi got the Greek salad, and who cares because everyone has had Greek salad. Her tomatoes looked a bit watery but she thought it was quite good.

Average

Here is the picture of one of the specials with dodgy frozen fish, chicken salt chips and calamari rings. Delicious, unhealthy, greasy and delicious once again.

Delicious

Peter's Fish Market:
Atmosphere: 7. Solid local fish and chip place, packed, high turnover, cheap and efficient.
Service: 4. They take my order and that's about it. That one lady got an 8 for actually apologising and replacing dodgy drink
Food: 5 - solid fish and chips. I've had better and Swampdog is much closer and much higher quality.