Fancy's Family Restaurant

Overpriced frozen chips and fish. If you’re looking for a decent fish & chips spot in Barrie look elsewhere...

Have had delivery many times and was OK.Time before today fish was freezer burned and fries mushy called to see why and no concern by management.Tried one more time today food as my wife told the manager stone cold once again no concern only lip service.He is either too busy or JUST DOES NOT CARE.Maybe if enough people get as pissed as we are things may change.Will never order again.

I thought we would give Fancy’s a try and ordered a take out. Asked for the check as I paid by c/c, but the waitress has tossed it in the garbage, I thought I will look it up on the web when I get home. It looks like an overcharge of 20%..Called Fancy’s and gave my info, the chap answering the phone yelled out for Mike the Manager. Gave my info to Mike who kept interrupting and said right up front he would not be extending any credit. He was rude and did not care if we revisited. We won’t.

Let down.. better of going to a chain.

So me and my best gal are on the lookout for good fish n' chips in Barrie. Were not some self proclaimed fish n' chips experts, but we do know what we like. Being new here the only thing we have to go off is the trusty old interweb. And one of the better reviewed placed is Fancys. So we give it a try. Saturday after the dinner rush we hed in. First impression, well it looks like a standard fish n chips place, nets on the walls, dock style rope tied logs, plastic fish, the usual. Kwik peruse threw the menu, we decided on the halibut dinners. I only remember 2 types of fried fish being a option, which Iam fine with. The gal orders a ceaser salad, which in this case she does consider her self a expert. We also decide to order there "famous" clam chowdah ( say it frenchy). Service was fine, I dont like to review much on staff, as all it takes is one girl having a bad day to give a place a bad rep, and we all have bad days, so who am I to judge? But as for the food, I will be judging, no bad days allowed for cooks. Soup and salad comes, and the ceaser if definatly not in house made ( unsless you count opening a dressing jar) My Best gal ain't impressed ( I kind figured it was ginna be that kind of place). And the clam chowder, I suspect was of the same breed, maybe not, but defiantly not remarkable. But who really cares about that stuff, came here for fish and chips did we not, on to the mains. One peice of fish, square 6 inch X 6 inch and 1.5 inch thick. It looks good. Go in to break of f a corner. Thats funny , no fish in that fork full, take a look inside, it appears, the 6x6 peice of fish is actually 4x4 and half a inch think, the rest just batter. No worrys I say, the fat kid inside me love deep fried batter. Take a bite, and the fat kid inside of me is not impressed, Only discernibly flavor is old, over cooked oil. As for the tiny piece of fish inside, well it was a piece of halibut, not much to say about that, no extra flavor there. As for the fries, standard fare house cut style, no batter or extra seasonings, as it should be. I did enjoy the mushy peas though, My best gal didn't share the same view on the peas. Now we come to the straw that broke the camels back... the tartar sauce, pretty basic item, pretty hard to get wrong. That is unless you put thousand island dressing in it. Is this a joke? A kitchen accident? Defiantly not cool. I understand trying to put a spin on things but, thousand isle dressing in tarter sauce, not for this guy. At least warn a guy about it or offer traditional tarter as a option. There is nor reason to come here, I have better fish n chips at chain restaurants ( which I try to avoid if at all possible). My search for great fish n chips in Barrie contiues...

great service, been several times even on fridays when they are extremely busy with dining and take out we still get the great halibut which they are known for. have been going since 1987 and still appreciate that they hand cut fillets of halibut daily. servers are friendly , not a large wine list but have by the glass at very reasonable prices. very happy with the family fish and chip business which started in toronto in the early 50s. note all salads homemade