Fed Up Restaurant & Takeaway sits on Marine Parade in Paraparaumu Beach, serving the classic Kiwi combination of fish and chips, burgers, seafood and doner kebabs from one busy shop. The menu leans proudly local: battered and crumbed fish, homemade potato fritters, paua fritters, seasonal whitebait patties and New Zealand green-lipped mussels, alongside a full burger grill, six kinds of doner kebab and a cabinet stocked with spring rolls, curry rolls and hot dogs.
There's more here than the takeaway staples, though. The kitchen turns out all-day big breakfasts, fresh fillet dinners with chips, wedges or kumara chips, seafood platters, a 300g scotch steak dinner, chicken katsu with rice or noodles, and a long bubble tea list. A Family Pack — four fish, two hot dogs, four potato fritters and two scoops of chips — is built for sharing.
Ordering is simple: browse the full menu online and pre-order for pickup, paying securely with Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. Pickup currently runs on Mondays from 11am to 8pm, so plan your visit — or your pre-order — around it.
Paraparaumu Beach locals don't have to look far for proper fish and chips. On Marine Parade, Fed Up Restaurant & Takeaway runs the full Kiwi playbook: a fried-fish cabinet with all the trimmings, a burger grill, a kebab menu and a dinner list that stretches from chowder to a 300g scotch steak. The name might sound like a complaint, but a 4.3 rating and a menu this broad tell a different story.
Everything starts with the fish. Fillets are dipped in the shop's traditional beer batter and fried until golden and crunchy, or crumbed in a signature seasoned coating; there's a pan-fried option too. If you'd rather choose your fish, the fillet menu names them: grouper with its meatier texture and sweet, mild flavour; premium blue cod, prized for delicate, flaky flesh; and tarakihi, a mildly sweet, medium-firm New Zealand white fish.
Around the fish sits all the classic cabinet fare. Thick-cut chips, crispy outside and fluffy inside; chunky seasoned potato wedges; and kumara chips, the New Zealand sweet potato take on the original. There are homemade potato fritters and corn fritters, spring rolls and curry rolls, hot dogs and battered sausages, and a homemade meat pattie hand-formed from beef mince and made fresh daily.
The seafood side runs deep. Green-lipped mussels in batter, calamari squid rings, king prawns with garlic sauce, crab sticks and fish cakes all feature. Two items are worth planning a trip around: the paua fritter — finely minced New Zealand abalone mixed with egg and herbs and fried to order — and the whitebait fritter, tiny freshwater fish folded through egg into a delicate pattie and only available in season. Nelson scallops, sweet and tender from the Marlborough Sounds, appear seasonally too, lightly battered or crumbed.
The burger list runs from a straightforward hamburger to the namesake Fed Up Burger, with cheese, Hawaiian, egg, steak-egg, bacon-egg, chicken, fish and vegetarian versions in between. The gourmet list upsizes things: jumbo chicken and beef burgers served with half chips, and fillet burgers built on crumbed blue cod, tarakihi or grouper. Doner kebabs come six ways — beef, chicken, lamb, seafood, combination or vegetarian.
Then there are the dinners. Fresh fillet dinners pair a fish fillet with chips, seasoned wedges or kumara chips, and the Fish Combo Dinner adds six squid rings and a crab stick. There's a Nelson Scallop Dinner, a King Prawn Dinner with chips and salad, a Chicken Tenderloin Dinner, and a Scotch Steak Dinner: 300g of scotch steak with chips or mash and salad. A chicken katsu, served with your choice of rice or noodles, rounds out the meal list — and the All Day Big Breakfast covers eggs, hash browns, mushrooms, crispy bacon, sausage, tomato and toast whenever the craving hits.
Fed Up runs a full online ordering system: browse the menu, build your basket and pre-order for pickup, paying securely online with Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. One thing worth noting before you set out — the listed pickup hours currently run on Mondays from 11am to 8pm, with the other days shown as closed, so time your order accordingly.
Feeding a group? The Family Pack does the maths for you: four fish (battered or crumbed), two hot dogs, four potato fritters and two scoops of chips. The Seafood Lover platter — two squid rings, two mussels, two scallops, a crab stick and half chips — handles the seafood fans at the table.
To drink, there's the usual line-up of soft drinks, juice and ginger beer, plus a surprisingly long bubble tea list: classic, brown sugar and caramel, creamy taro, strawberry and mango, and fruity blends like passion fruit-mango and strawberry-raspberry.
A battered fish with a scoop of chips and a paua fritter on the side is the canonical order; add tartare sauce and you're set. If whitebait or Nelson scallops are on the board, don't wait — both are seasonal. And if you're feeding the family on a Monday evening, a pre-ordered Family Pack waiting at the counter is about as easy as dinner near the beach gets.