To serve you the best, we have start with the very best ingredients. All our fish is delivered fresh from Billingsgate Market every day or ‘fresher than fresh’ frozen at sea by fishermen off the coast of Iceland.
To make perfect chips we select only the best seasonal potatoes as this ensures a nice crisp outer and perfect fluffy consistency when cooked. From our homemade mushy peas and Tartare sauce, no corners are cut – only the best will do for McDermott’s.
Fish is a highly perishable product so it needs to be treated with care and respect so we invest heavily in training our staff to prepare it in our state of the art kitchens. At McDermott’s we always fillet and skin in-house and have a unique method of preparation to ensure every customer gets only the best prime white fish.
We only ever cook to order so cooked fish is never sitting around or soggy. We fry in pure, fresh ground nut oil which we change every day. Unlike other, more commonly used oils, this gives our batter the light, crisp texture that keeps our customers coming back time after time.
We purchase only the finest quality fish from recognised and respected fish merchants who guarantee that the fish they supply to McDermott’s is sourced from sustainable and well-managed fishing grounds. To ensure that our fish suppliers are aware of our determination to fulfil this procurement criteria we insist that they write to us confirming that the fish supplied to our takeaway and restaurant are sourced from sustainable stock. As such, all our fish is traceable back to boat and sector.