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Rosie’s Fish and Chips
Seafood$
This venue is included in Good Food’s 100 Essential Restaurants list.
Get in the car, roll down the windows and drive south. Let the sea breeze flow in as you track down the escarpment, snake along Sea Cliff Bridge, pull into Coledale and join the line at Rosie’s.
Behind the counter, Ben Sinfield slips fillets of flathead (or snapper, or latchet) into yeasted batter aerated with beer and soda water, then drops it into shimmering beef tallow. The coating puffs and crackles, hardening into an amber crust. In the next fryer, the chips – peeled and cut from the boxes of potatoes piled up outside – go in for a second dunk.
The package is wrapped in paper to take to the beach, and there’s lemon, dill-flecked tartare and Sarson’s malt vinegar to cut the fat. Meanwhile, the always-changing salads are super fresh, the crushed peas appropriately minty, and the non-battered fish options (octopus, mackerel) are grilled with precision.
Good to know: The Rosie’s team also runs the bistro at Coledale RSL, serving prawn rolls, parmies and more grilled seafood.
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Last visited: September 2026
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