Ocean Bar and Takeaway

Ocean Bar and Takeaway is a small fish-bar style operation on Mercaston Road in Chaddesden, the residential streets north-east of central Derby. It sits among the rows of post-war housing that fan out behind Nottingham Road, the kind of unassuming corner shop most easily described as a neighbourhood chippy. Cod, haddock, chips, the usual roll-call of battered sausages and pies are the spine of the menu, with the standard run of pizzas, kebabs and burgers tacked on the way most fish bars now operate to stay viable through the week. Reviews online are thin — this is firmly a walk-in local trade rather than a delivery-aggregator name — and it survives on the residential roads close by rather than passing trade. Worth a stop for residents in the eastern half of Chaddesden looking for a short walk to a fryer rather than a drive into town.