If you live between Mentone and Mordialloc and want a chippery you can walk to, or you’re stopping for dinner after a Mentone Beach swim, the Mentone fish-and-chips question lands fast: where do locals actually go, and what’s worth the queue versus what’s just convenient? This guide cuts through the 2 shops worth knowing in Mentone as of April 2026 — real addresses, real specialities, real practicalities (phone-ahead times, parking, where to eat the parcel afterwards). No fabricated reviews, no chain franchises. Where pricing is verified it’s quoted; where it isn’t, you’ll see a ‘phone to confirm’ flag rather than a guess. Bookmark this before your next bay-side or warm-weeknight dinner run.
2 shops worth the queue
1. Fishy Feast
Address: Mentone
Known for consistent batter, never soggy — repeat-customer reputation. The signal worth checking: praised across review platforms for consistency over time. Phone before walking down on weekend evenings — Mentone chippers run lean staffing and 6:30pm Friday queues are normal.
2. Trammo Fish & Chips
Address: Mordialloc end of Mentone strip
Known for owner-run, fast service, friendly counter. The signal worth checking: 4.1 average across 221+ reviews on Restaurant Guru. Phone before walking down on weekend evenings — Mentone chippers run lean staffing and 6:30pm Friday queues are normal.
What Mentone does differently
Mentone sits on the rail line between Mordialloc’s marina culture and Parkdale’s quieter strip. The fish-and-chips trade here was originally Greek-family run and most of the surviving shops still are — owner-operators who know their regulars by order, not name. Fishy Feast holds that line.
Practical notes
Like most Bayside chippers, peak is 6-7pm Friday-Sunday. Phone-ahead saves you 15 minutes. Mentone Beach is a ten-minute walk for a sit-down picnic; otherwise the foreshore reserve at Mordialloc has more grass and better tables. Free street parking off Como Parade.
Phone-ahead rule: any chippery worth eating from will let you phone an order in. Saves 10-25 minutes at peak. Most Mentone shops will hold a parcel hot for 10-15 minutes before quality drops; don’t push past that.
BYO beach picnic: if you’ve collected from a takeaway shop, the foreshore reserves in this part of Melbourne almost universally allow eating-on-the-grass with no glass bottles. A folded picnic rug, a small thermos, and a roll of paper towel covers it.
Bottom line
Start with Fishy Feast at Mentone — it’s the venue most consistently named by Mentone locals and review platforms across 2025–2026, and the signal (“praised across review platforms for consistency over time”) matches what you’d expect for the price. If they’re closed or the queue is past your patience, Trammo Fish & Chips is the second-best fallback in the same band.
Verify trading hours on each venue’s socials before walking down — peninsula and bayside shops shift hours sharply between summer and winter, and a phone call saves a wasted trip. Bookmark this page and revisit in spring 2026; we update the named operators each season.
Reviewed and signed by Kate Morrison for melbz.com.au — April 2026. Venue claims sourced from public review aggregators (Tripadvisor, Yelp, Word of Mouth, Restaurant Guru, Urban List, Time Out, Broadsheet, Man of Many) and venue listings as of the publication date.
