"With you Mr Ben on the proper chip thing. Don't think they exist in caffs any more." finding them ANYWHERE is proper hard what we have is a plethora of places offering "hand cut", "triple cooked" chips - which sounds good (and should be a given anyway) but turns out to mean huge hunks o spud, with teflon exterior and bland, verging on raw interior because they are all cut TOO BIG. And people are proud of this! You see it all on the time on cookery shows on'telly this bobbins: http://www.potatolovers.co.uk/images/recipes/3268518741_0b142ca6e1.jpg no no no.... I want my chips hand cut, i want them triple cooked (or at least double) but have them as proper chips more like these: http://www.snarkandpepper.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/steak-frites.jpg And the two best restaurants in the area let themselves down in opposite ways: Franklins - too big and spuddy Palmerston - bought in bland frozen fries