The Complete Angler! Stirling’s new fish and chip restaurant is catching on By Ben Kelly InDaily Adelaide Ind News
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his month we ‘visit’ Storling near Adelaide, Australia Skippered by two accomplished chefs, Angler is Stirling’s refined fishand-chippery baiting customers with everything from carp burgers to scallop pies and dry-aged seafood sausages. Fish and chips are traditionally associated with the coast, but at Stirling, customers are driving up from the Adelaide plains just to seek out a $6 chip butty from new takeaway restaurant and fishmonger, Angler. Catching even more interest than the chips, which are hand-made with real potatoes, is an offering of woodfiregrilled seafood, dry-aged seafood smallgoods such as kingfish pastrami, and a focus on the underutilised South Australian fish varieties. Angler opened last January, founded by local businesswoman Amanda Prance in partnership with her nephew and accomplished chef Sam Prance-Smith. The concept for a combined takeaway/ fishmonger business came about after the pair shared a disappointing meal of takeaway fish and chips. “We were just sitting there eating these disgusting fish and chips and Sam
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said imagine if we actually had our own restaurant, and described the concept which Angler is about today – restaurantquality food in takeaway form,” says Prance. Along with its refined take on fish and chips, Angler also sells fresh fish and a unique array of smallgoods prepared in a dry-ager, which is more traditionally associated with beef. All produce is ethically-sourced, through a partnership with Fair Fish SA which puts more money back into the pockets of local fishermen for their catch. This includes often-discarded varieties such as leather jackets and sand whiting. Customers will also find redfin, mulloway, and snook on the menu. Prance-Smith has worked in top venues such as Heston Blumenthal’s famous three Michelin-starred Fat Duck Restaurant, as well as celebrated kitchens in Melbourne. Closer to home, the chef’s resumé includes the Star of Greece and the Salopian Inn. After Angler opened in January, a second chef with Michelin three-star experience, Jeremy Arrascaeta, landed at Prance-Smith’s doorstep by fluke. Originally from the Netherlands,
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