Frank's Fish & Chips is a fish and chip takeaway at 39 Lydney Pl N in Porirua, holding a 4.4 Google rating and keeping customers up to date through its Facebook page.
A good fish and chip shop lives and dies by the fryer: batter thin enough to shatter, chips thick enough to stay fluffy inside, and oil changed often enough that nothing tastes of yesterday's batch. In New Zealand the fish usually goes by the piece, so it pays to ask what's freshest that day — tarakihi, gurnard and hoki are the usual names — and whether crumbed might beat battered. Frying to order costs a few minutes' wait, but it is the difference between crisp and soggy. Regulars eat theirs straight from the paper; chips left wrapped for the drive home never quite recover.
For a straightforward, well-rated feed in Porirua, Frank's on Lydney Place North is an easy stop.