Fish & Chips on Ferry is a takeaway shop in Woolston, Christchurch, serving classic Kiwi fish and chips alongside burgers, fried chicken, Chinese-style meals, and fried rice and noodle dishes. The shop keeps things simple: consistent, quality food served fast, whether you're picking up in person or having it delivered.
The menu runs deep, from the standard scoop of chips and battered fish through to combo deals, seafood baskets, a full burger range, deep-fried classics like spring rolls and hash browns, and a dessert case of loaded doughnuts. There's also a Chinese meals section and a six-flavour crispy fried chicken and chips range, giving the menu more range than a typical fish and chip shop.
Fish & Chips on Ferry offers both pick-up and delivery, with online ordering that confirms orders in real time and gives an estimated ready time. Delivery runs across three zones with tiered minimum spends and fees, covering a wide stretch of Christchurch's eastern suburbs including Woolston, Bromley, Linwood, Phillipstown, Hoon Hay, Hillsborough, and Waltham.
Tucked into a shop on Portman Street in Woolston, Christchurch, Fish & Chips on Ferry is a straightforward neighbourhood takeaway built around one idea: quality food that tastes the same every time you order it. The shop leans on the classics of a Kiwi fish and chip shop while stretching the menu out into burgers, fried chicken, Chinese-style meals and fried rice and noodle dishes.
The chips section alone covers regular, crinkle cut, shoestring, kumara chips and wedges, sized as half scoops or full scoops. From there, the fried section runs long: battered fish, scallops, mussels, salt and pepper squid, prawn twisters, spring rolls, samosas, hash browns, and a run of crumbed patties including a chicken cordon-bleu pattie and a crispy chicken breast pattie. For anyone after seafood specifically, there's a beer battered snapper and a seafood basket that bundles scallop, mussel, salt and pepper squid, crab stick and fish bites with tartare sauce.
The burger range is extensive, starting from a simple kids burger up through cheese, bacon, egg, mushroom, pineapple and double meat combinations, all built on the same base of cooked onion, chow chow, lettuce, mayo, beetroot and tomato sauce. At the top end sits the Works Burger, loaded with bacon, egg, mushroom, double meat, cheese and pineapple, and the Angus and Kiwi burgers for those wanting a heartier feed.
For group or family orders, the combo deals section is built for convenience — a Small Combo and Lunch Combo for one or two people, a Twin Combo for two, and a Family Pack that stretches to three scoops of chips, two fish, two hot dogs, two meat patties and six chicken nuggets with a 1.5 litre drink. There's also a Vege Box for anyone after a meat-free option, combining mini spring rolls, samosas, onion rings, corn nuggets and broccoli and cheese bites.
Beyond the fish and chip staples, the shop offers a Chinese Meals section with sweet and sour pork, wonton, fish or chicken served on rice, plus homemade fried rice and fried noodle dishes with a choice of pork, beef, chicken or a combination. The Fried Chicken section offers 320g of crispy chicken and chips in six sauce options — lemon honey, teriyaki, hot spicy, sweet chilli, sweet and sour, or plain crispy.
To finish, there's a dessert case of loaded doughnuts — plain, chocolate, custard, black forest, salted caramel and triple chocolate — each available in a standard version or an "explosion" version topped with a chocolate Sante bar, alongside a deep fried Mars bar and a jam wrap. Drinks come in cans, 600ml bottles and 1.5 litre bottles across the usual soft drink range, and the sauce and garlic butter selection covers everything from tomato sauce and tartare through to British curry sauce, mushy peas, garlic aioli and garlic butter served on chips or over everything.
Fish & Chips on Ferry is open seven days from 11:00am to 9:00pm for pick-up, with a delivery service running Monday to Friday and Sunday from 11:00am to 8:30pm. Online ordering is available for both pick-up and delivery, with orders manually confirmed in real time so customers can see on-screen when their food is ready or on its way. Delivery is split into three zones, each with its own minimum spend and delivery fee, covering Woolston and surrounding Christchurch suburbs including Bromley, Linwood, Phillipstown, Hoon Hay, Hillsborough and Waltham.