If you know nothing about World’s Most Delicious, let your nose be your guide: As soon as you enter the dimly lit space, the smell of malt vinegar wallops you in the face.
Brattleboro’s newest place to eat may be tiny, but it’s also colorful and gutsy: They serve fish and chips (and Belgian fries), and that’s pretty much it. The compact menu is even painted onto the wall behind the register, suggesting it will change rarely, if ever. With fish availability ever shifting, though, the market prices for each night’s supper are scrawled on a nearby chalkboard: $12 for eight ounces of fish and a basket of fries; $10 for half that.
“We only use hake,” says Sam Scott-Moncrieff, who opened WMD with his Dad, a Scottish filmmaker, in December. “It’s less oily.” And, he adds, it’s plentiful, which allows them to keep prices down. A nearby cooler has bottles of beer arranged in neat rows: Belhaven Scottish Ale, Old Speckled Hen, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Trout River Rainbow Red.
I order a half supper and settle in at one of three picnic tables adorned with salt, pepper, vinegar and a metal flower made from a spigot handle. On a small stage in the window, a musician named Brooks Letchworth strums on his guitar, taking part in WMD’s “ing For Your Supper deal — perform for an hour and WMD comps you a full fish dinner.
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Would love some F&C from home but a little too far to travel. Looks fab. When is a Brit going to open one up in Chitt county? Even a chip van. Dying for a decent chippie around here!