Yes this is a classic British fish shop if you like chips then you will like this place however it…read moreis important to state it is expensive however worth it

The best fish 'n' chips ive ever had. Although often busy due to its reputation the service delay…read moreis kept to a minimum. Prices are a little expensive compared to other fish n chips places but the food makes up for it in quality. Menu consists of the usual things but also includes curries made at Finnegans itself.

Only tried this place once, as they sell my favourite Clarks Pies!…read moreI ordered two to takeaway and the Lady was about to remove the packaging. I asked her to stop and when I got the pies Home, they were out of date. I complained and reported the matter to Trading Standards who investigated! As for Finnegan's, I had two free fish and chip meals as compensation. Good job I never ate the Pies, I might not be writing this review!

Finnegans is an award winning chip shop situated on station hill and always packed out year in…read moreyear out. Finnegans fry each fish to order which means perfectly freah and delicious food is served but there are always long lines. Finnegans sell all the usual fish shop fare the prices are a bit steeper than in some chip shops but the extra cost reflects the enhanced quality of the ingredients used. For tourists Finnegans might lose out to it's competitors Beale's and Sidoli's because this is just a take away, whereas you can dine in or takeaway elsewhere. But on a summers day who needs to sit inside grab your chips and a deckchair and get stuck in. EDIT Just walked past today and they have had a full refit - it's looking really smart inside - lovely!

I ate here recently having a plaice and chips takeaway! When…read moreI got the meal home it was tasteless! The fish was like wet paper and the chips pale and greasy! The prices are astronomic too! Never again! Visitors don't be conned, take your custom elsewhere in Porthcawl!

Sidoli Bros have been around for many years with shops all around South Wales. They are famousfor…read moretheir Italian expresso coffees, I especially like their Lattes. This particular shop is a takeaway Fish and Chip shop. They also have a sit in restaurant for around 30 people. The restaurant was very clean and tidy. As it is a takeaway as well there is a quick turn around of the food, so it was freshly cooked and piping hot it was delicious, fish that tasted like it had just been caught and tasy chips that werent too greasy. Overall a very recommendable place to dine with the family as prices were very reasonable. A hit with the tourists in the summer, and only a stone thrown away from the sea front.

Staff are very friendly, and the pea fritters here are delicious. :)read more

Wonderful Food And Good Service And A Nice View Of Pyle Cross And Some Nice Parking!!read more

We were disappointed with the meal from the deli, chicken was undercooked/ chilled in the scone…read moredish, child's cheese sandwich was two thick slices of bread no butter and two huge cheese prefab slice, breakfast bagel was ok but drowned in egg mayo with the emphasis on the mayo, which was a substitute for omelette? Prices were high too for food wrapped in paper and disposable cups.

My partner and I have been very excited to come here for a long time due to the creative and…read moredelicious looking meals they post on their social media, as well as a good vegan menu. We took the family here as our first time eating there, and we have never been more disappointed or embarrassed with the food - especially after hyping it up to the parents just how good this place is supposed to be. We all began with a sharer starter which consisted of Glamorgan sausages, olives, chorizo, dipping bread, and (I forgot the name) bacon wrapped around prunes/dates. Most of this was pretty tasty in all fairness, besides the olives which for some reason seemed to be pickled, or at least heavily doused in something acidic - these were not nice at all and not what we expected when ordered. This was all fairly tame and not much of an issue. The mains however... Two of us, including myself, had the pork belly. The menu only mentioned that there was going to be pork belly, purple sprouting. cider gravy and black pudding. What arrived was a big plate of unpleasant surprises. There was a few sprigs of *regular* broccoli sprouting, which was hidden amongst all the less desirable asparagus - neither of these are substitutes for purple sprouting! The potatoes were drowned in what seemed like half a jar of mustard - even if I did like mustard, this would have been way too much and killed whatever other flavour was there; having some with the pork still tasted overpowering. The gravy was very sparse and didn't give add much moisture or flavour to the pork. The pork skin/crackling was really thin and chewy instead of being crunchy. To give credit where it's due, the pork was quite nice, it just needed some gravy and more attention to its crackling. The flavours on this plate just generally did not mingle well at all. Also we didn't realise that we were not given black pudding until 2 thirds of the way through our meal. Cobbles did compensate us with free cake as desert so I will not knock them for the black pudding. Unfortunately this doesn't make up for the rest of this disastrous meal. One of us had the 'white' (why not just say the fish?) fish and chips. This was largely fine apart from the triple cooked chips. These chips looked like beastly wedges of quartered potatoes, and go figure, they were really under cooked and firm in their centres and the skins were not very crisp. Triple fried chips done wrong is quite an impressive feat for the Welsh Restaurant of the Year... My partner had the vegan to-fish which we all agreed was the most miserable dish out of all of us. The chips were the same as previously mentioned, but the 'to-fish' was just a huge slab of tasteless, un-marinated, unpressed tofu wrapped in a sheet of seaweed (forgive the lack of proper name for the seaweed, my memory can't recall). Granted, the seaweed tasted kind of fishy, but it did not cut through and balance well with the big watery sponge of tofu. It seemed like a really poor effort on what was an attempt at a vegan fish and chips. We appreciate the inclusiveness of vegan items on the menu, but please do not put something so slap-dash and tasteless on there. As feedback we suggest battering or frying the tofu, or perhaps do a battered mushy pea fritter instead which we have known some chippies to do. But as it is, it is just an expensive and tasteless insult. Just an additional note, we were sat right next to the kitchen's music speaker. It was quite deafening for my partner who was sat there, and couldn't make out the conversation we were having after being blasted with Linkin Park in one ear, and Ed Sheeran in the other. Not all bad though! The service was lovely, and the cakes were delicious. Including the vegan Oreo cake (you really wouldn't know it was vegan). I will always credit a restaurant for sourcing their meat locally and free range too. If this restaurant becomes honest with their customers by coming clean with what is out of stock and what will be on the plate when the food arrives, then maybe this could have been a 3 star review. Tweaks to the vegan menu is much needed also.

The 'burger' in a bunker my Mrs was given yesterday for £4.50 is without doubt the worst fast food…read moreI have ever had. It looked bad enough to begin with & tasted a thousand times worse. It was like chewing flem,absolutely disgusting. They couldn't even be bothered to centralise the cheese on the flem burger. And to make matters much much worse,no onions! I will never ever set foot in there again!!

Portions small, quality low, prices high…read more Chips are always tiny, soft and cold. The fish are small and mostly batter. Staff always appear moody and unsociable. The restaurant is kept in a clean state and doesnt get very busy so you are almost always served in quickly.