balaclava fish

The best!

Love this place! Easy to see why they're voted best in Cairns ❤️. Enormous servings, friendly service and love love love chicken salted chippies ☺️

OMG 😱 …… Balaclava Fish In Earlville has the BEST Fish and Chips In Cairns! The serves are always generous and the chips and crumbed fish even after driving all the way home are still crispy. They also have awesome Fish and Chicken Burgers! Well Done to Adam and his awesome team! This weekend was our 5th time back! 5 ⭐️

Best fish and chips I've had in a long time. Coral trout was cooked perfectly and nice crunchy batter. Delicious cunchy chips. Friendly staff and great value too. This is my new local fish n chips place! Would definitely recommend!

Based on good reviews recently thought I’d ring and order... at 5.30pm rang 5 x over 5 mins and finally got thru. Disappointing they don’t cook Potato Scallops/Potato cakes. Never Ever been to a fish shop that doesn’t cook them, .....had to cancel order on that issue alone as I don’t eat chips. Pre COVID this shop DID. Think new owners?!? Will try the suggested Coral Trout another time.

Best fish and chips in Cairns!!

Don't just take our word for it, read the other reviews. We ordered the basket for two with coral trout which would easily have fed three people. 12:15pm on a Wednesday, plenty of parking and no wait time. At $38 the price was great for the serve sizes and quality received. Balaclava Fish isn't the trendiest place or connected to the Cairns CBD (which is what we were looking for), but the quality is exceptional. The fish was freshly, lightly battered before our eyes, cooked to perfect time and temperature in clean oil and presented a crunchy and decadent coating. Just the right amount of salt. The fish within was slightly opaque, juicy and melted in our mouths. Chips were crunchy, smothered in chicken salt at our request and fluffy within. The prawns and calamari similarly lightly coated, crunchy and cooked to gentle perfection. If you want a trendier, cosmopolitan experience, and at a higher price tag and smaller serving size, then head into the Cairns CBD. But if you want genuine surburban fish and chips cooked better than you remember as a kid on a Friday night, the heading over to Balaclava Fish will see you richly rewarded.

One of those hidden little gems! Ordered over the phone which was simple and fast. Shop was very clean, staff were proffessional and very friendly. Chips were great! Seriously great! Very generous portion and not overloaded with salt or oil like some of the other places! Fish was fresh still moist and evenly cooked. The chicken burger was excellent! Fresh ingredients, well prepared and big! Great value little shop! Highly recommend!!

One of the most popular fish & chips shops in Cairns and for good reason. Always fresh fish, cooked to perfection in a light golden batter and generous serves keeps us coming back on a weekly basis. Due to their popularity, I highly recommend placing your order by phone. This evening it took an hour for our order to be cooked and ready for pickup!

It wasn't busy when we visited. They gave us some extra calamari and prawns. Best fish and chip shop in Cairns. Beautifully cooked with generous portions.