For a whole week, from the 4th to 10th June, Dubai’s leading British restaurant, Bread Street Kitchen & Bar, will celebrate the classic British seaside dish for National Fish & Chip Week. In commemoration of the traditional British dish of fried fish in batter, Bread Street Kitchen will be serving five variations starting from AED 95.
Special dishes for the week will include curry batter cod & chips with mushy peas and curry sauce (AED 130) and crumbed scampi & chips with mushy peas and cocktail sauce (AED 130). Diners can also enjoy battered lobster tail with mushy peas and cocktail sauce (AED 130), as well as smoked haddock fish (AED 130) and vegetarian fish & chips with mushy peas (AED 95).
Bread Street Kitchen will also be featuring a range of Fish & Chips specials, as well as scampi and soft-shell crab sliders at the restaurants award-winning Family lunch on Friday 5th June. A signature cocktail, ‘Bee Beer’ (AED 75), will also be on offer, featuring brandy and organic honey, the perfect pairing with a plate of Fish & Chips.
So, what’s with the British obsession with Fish & Chips? Here are 10 facts that we bet you didn’t know about Blighty’s favourite dish:
- The dish is a well-established staple of the British diet, once considered so important that Winston Churchill wouldn’t ration the dish during WWII due to fears of triggering widespread discontent.
- Fish and chips were first served together as a dish around 1860 – although their origin is contested. In London, the Malin family claims to be first, as do the Lee family in Manchester
- Fish and chips were served in newspaper until the 1980s
- British consumers eat some 382 million portions of fish and chips every year. That’s six servings for every man, woman and child
- Annual spend on fish and chips in the UK is in the region of a staggering £1.2 billion
- There are currently approximately 10,500 specialist fish and chip shops in the UK
- There is a long tradition of funny chip shop names – our favourites are The Cod’s Scallops and mobile fish and chip shop Star Chip Enterprise
- The word batter comes from the French word battre, which means to beat – in reference to whisking the flour and water together
- Brits use at least 26 different words for fish and chips
- A survey of 1,000 adults shows ‘chip shop chips’ are the nation’s favourite chips, with nearly half of all respondents putting them first.
- Date: June 4th -10th June 202.
- Friday Brunch 12:30-4 pm.
- Saturday 12pm-4pm.
- Dinner: Saturday to Wednesday 6 pm to 10.30 pm.
- Thursday and Friday 6 pm to 11 pm.
- Children of all ages are welcome.
To find out more about Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen & Bar or to make a reservations log onto www.atlantis.com/dubai/restaurants/gordon-ramsay-bread-street-kitchen or call + 971 4 426 0800. Alternatively, check us out on social media @breadstreetkitchendubai
