Dory's Fish & Chips is a local takeaway on Kimbolton Road in Feilding, serving the full range of Kiwi fish-and-chip shop favourites seven days a week. The fresh fish is cooked to order, battered or crumbed, with blue cod, gurnard, snapper and tarakihi on the menu, alongside a wide seafood selection that runs from scallops, oysters and king prawns to mussel, paua and seafood fritters.
The menu reaches well past the classic fish and chips: there is a long burger list with everything from a simple cheeseburger to Jumbo and Super Jumbo steak and chicken numbers, junior burgers for smaller appetites, sandwiches, cooked breakfast plates like the Kiwi Big Breakfast, and a deep-fried cabinet stacked with spring rolls, wontons, hashbrowns, fritters and sweet treats such as deep-fried Moro bars. Families and groups are well catered for, with a Kids Pack and seven numbered Special Packs sized from one fish all the way up to six.
Orders can be phoned through on 06-323 9922, and the shop opens from 3pm on Mondays and from 11:30am Tuesday to Sunday, closing at 8:30pm each night.
Feilding has no shortage of places to eat, but on Kimbolton Road there is one address that answers a very particular craving: Dory's Fish & Chips. A proper local takeaway in the classic New Zealand mould, it pairs hot fish cooked to order with generous scoops of chips — and then keeps going, with a menu that stretches from jumbo burgers and cooked breakfasts to oysters, milkshakes and deep-fried Moro bars. It is the kind of shop built for the Friday-night fish-and-chips run and for feeding a whole household at once.
The heart of the menu is the fresh fish, fried to order in either a battered or a crumbed coating. The line-up reads like a tour of New Zealand waters: blue cod, gurnard, snapper and tarakihi, with each variety available both ways, so you can have your fillet exactly how you like it. Pair a piece — or two — with a scoop of chips and you have the Kiwi classic in its purest form.
The seafood offering goes well beyond the fillets, too. There are scallops, mussels and Pacific oysters by the piece or the half-dozen, king prawns, squid rings, crab sticks and fish cakes, plus hearty mussel, paua and seafood fritters. It is a fuller seafood selection than most takeaways attempt, and it makes Dory's a genuine destination for anyone who loves fish done simply and well.
A chip shop lives and dies by its chips, and the range here covers every camp. Standard scoops sit alongside chunky cuts, crinkle cuts and shoestring fries, as well as beer-battered fries and kumara chips for something a little different. When you want chips as the main event, there are bacon and cheese wedges, seasoned wedges and garlic butter chips — the humble potato taken to another level entirely.
The burger list is one of the longest you will find at any takeaway, running from a simple cheeseburger through Hawaiian, fish, bacon and egg, chicken and bacon, steak and egg, and camembert-topped beef and chicken versions, right up to the Jumbo and Super Jumbo steak and chicken burgers for serious appetites. Junior burgers in beef, chicken, cheese, egg, fish and Hawaiian styles are sized for smaller hands.
There is a full sandwich menu as well, from cheese and onion to ham, cheese and tomato, and a breakfast selection with bacon and eggs, a bacon and cheese omelette and the Kiwi Big Breakfast. And in true chip-shop tradition, the deep-fried cabinet holds battered sausages, hot dogs, hashbrowns, spring rolls, curry rolls, wontons, onion rings, corn nuggets, fritters and stuffed mushrooms — with apple pie, fritters and deep-fried Moro bars waiting for after.
Feeding a family or a crowd? The numbered Special Packs do the maths for you, scaling from a single-fish pack with a hot dog, spring roll and a scoop of chips, all the way up to packs of six fish with sausages, crab sticks, fritters and multiple scoops of chips. The Kids Pack keeps things simple for little ones, combining fish bites, chicken and corn nuggets and half a scoop of chips.
Round it all off the old-fashioned way with a thick milkshake — the flavours run from strawberry, chocolate and vanilla to lime, caramel, banana and peppermint.
Dory's Fish & Chips sits at 285 Kimbolton Road, Feilding, and opens seven days a week — 3pm to 8:30pm on Mondays, then 11:30am to 8:30pm from Tuesday through Sunday. Orders can be phoned ahead on 06-323 9922, which is handy at the evening rush, and questions can go to [email protected]. Whether it is the Friday-night fish-and-chips run, a Super Jumbo burger after sport or a feed for the whole family, this neighbourhood takeaway has the cabinet stocked.