While the food is good, I'm sure, as it always has been ... there's a few BIG problems: First and foremost ... the cleanliness of the dining room, or lack thereof, gives me great pause as to what the cleanliness of the kitchen would be. I did note staff batter dipping fish with bare hands. Should gloves be in use? I took a few photos in the dining room ... judge for yourself. I visited the place several times 40 years ago as a child, and I don't know that the place has been cleaned much since, tbh. It certainly has been redecorated at all.
Today was Good Friday. Yes, a VERY busy day for restaurants, and particularly so for Purvey's for a few reasons including fish being a traditional meal for the day. However, with 20 Skip The Dishes/Uber/Door Dash drivers lined up out one door, and about 60 customers lined up inside, out the door and down the street ... things quickly got out of control. While they continued to take MORE orders they had lost all control of the orders/customers they already had. Deliver drivers who had waited 30 - 60+ minutes were just walking out ... orders were being put up/called for drivers who had already left. One Skip The Dishes customer drove down LOOKING FOR her delivery driver, and God love her she said to the driver you leave and go back to work and I'll stay here and wait in line for my "delivery" order. Well before it reached this point the restaurant should have called a pause on all new orders.