Pirates Fish Chips - East Mesa

There is a quiet moment. Alone in your car with a meal that was $3.91. This quiet moment, away from the usual thrush of time, the food is fresh in the way fried food is: scorching, cheap and easy, quick and greasy. It lasts, the peace, silence, stillness, as long as the boat of fish chips does. There is a quiet moment and for $3.91 it’s not a bad deal.

If you love the Mesa classic Pete’s, then you’ll love Pirates. It’s literally the same. Except Pirates takes debit cards. Not really any seating maybe a picnic table. It’s more get it and go. Kind of greasy, kind of cheap but in a guilty pleasure kind of way.

I 've come here quite a bit, especially since I live just up the street. Every other time I had a great experience, but this last visit was bad... REALLY bad. We sat for about 7 minutes in the drive thru without anyone saying anything. My boyfriend said hello? a couple of times after about 3 5 minutes. I 'm patient, but not a word for that long? A man fighting with his girl might find that length of silence enjoyable, but I 'm here to eat! After about 5 minutes I backed up and went forward, thinking maybe I didn 't hit their sensor the first time (I definitely did). Then after 7 minutes my boyfriend honked the horn and loudly said hello? Anyone there? . Maybe that irritated the worker, but I 'm a woman in a bad mood who hasn 't eaten a thing all day and it 's 5pm... is hangry (angry because you 're hungry) a real thing? It sure is! Ask my poor boyfriend. Took another 2 minutes to finally get someone to respond... There was someone at the window ahead of us, but no one was handing them food and the window wasn 't even open so it isn 't like the person was busy talking to a customer. They could have (and should have) answered within 30 seconds of us pulling up and let us know they needed a moment. I understand people get busy, but communicate that. Let us know you know we 're there and that you 'll be right with us as soon as possible. Well, after that enjoyable wait, I get home and start eating... I LOVE their chicken strips but these were almost entirely breading... I was taking off 2 pieces that were 100% breading, absolutely no chicken inside whatsoever. Out of my 6 strips I had 3 small pieces of chicken, MUCH smaller than the usual pieces they give, that were 50% breading. They were so small and so much of it was breading that I got about 15 25% of what I 'd usually get from a chicken strip. I 'm talking like the size of my index finger was chicken... and I 'm a pretty small girl. The 3 larger pieces weren 't any better. Sure, I got more chicken, but not by much. Again, I was taking off chunks that were 2 or bigger of pure breading. The picture is from just 3 of the 6 pieces of chicken AND was taken after I gave about 5 medium to large pieces of breading to my dog... at least my dog was happy. But then again, sniffing another dog 's butt makes him happy, so I wouldn 't say that 's much to go off of. Horrible experience all around. I don 't think I 'll be going here again. I drive all over the valley for work, so I 'd much rather just stop at another location on my way home than risk this unpleasant experience all over again.

Super food. Easy ordering and quick service. Had mine to go and everything was packed nicely with a bunch of extra condiments. Thanx. Happy trails

My favorite fish and chips place in the east valley been eating there for years and I've never had not one bad experience in all the years that's why I always go back for more