The Cod Father Fish & Chips

Fantastic fish and chips! We had take away today and walked down to the beach to eat.
Food was so delicious and the service was really quick and very friendly staff. Highly recommend!

We used this place for the first time today. We first phoned to order, but nobody responded!! We decided to drive to the shop. Although the quality of the fish and the chips was excellent, there are some disappointing issues:

1)there is no option to choose the size of fish you want.
2) chips come as a unit with the fish and there is no option to choose the portion size separately, or no chips at all. As it happens in our case with the portion of chips allocated to one of us it was sufficient for both! The way their menu has been set up will lead to food waste.
3) too much packaging and rather posh. This makes the take away quite expensive in comparison with what other fish and chip places charge. The cardboard boxes are such a waste because they cannot be recycled as they get dirty with the oil from the food. It would be a much cheaper option and just as efficient to use paper.

This shop has only recently reopened (formerly Salt & Vinegar) now renamed The Codfather with new owners.
Please note the less favourable reviews from over a year ago do not relate to the new owners or trading name.
Superb fish & Chips. Cooked to perfection. The homemade fish cakes are out of this world. An added bonus of Gluten Free on Tuesday & Wednesday plus they do my favourite fish Skate. Fish is also cooked to order so its always fresh & hot plus not greasy like many other shops.
Lovely guys very friendly & welcoming.

WOW amazing new fish & chip shop with something a bit different! My family love the scampi & battered sausage. I had a beautiful bit of battered skate wing - you could taste it was fresh - I work in catering and I love fish - I will defo have again! The chips were chunky & crunchy and it was all freshly cooked while we waited. Nice owner too! Keep up the good work!

first time going here as wanted to try. we had a saveloy and chips, saveloy was cold and literally tasteless. tasted like plastic which was so odd? go to the other chip shop in lancing, can’t beat a classic

Easily the best Fish & Chips is South Lancing. Cod father opened around summer of 2022 so reviews before that should be scrapped.
We ordered online and collected, food was good, not swimming in oil and you could tell it was fresh. Everyone enjoyed their food although the mushy peas were a bit of a miss

Ordered a Friday takeaway including a sausage for my 5 year old. When it arrived the fish and chips were good but no sausage. Response from Cod fathers, sorry they were busy, so next time we can have a an extra one for free. Not much use to my son today and didn’t please me.

Really really really good fish & chips. Beautifully cooked and very tasty.