AboveGround

1309 5th St NE, Washington
(202) 798-3985

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The Governor's Fish & Chips
Battered Lil Banger
Fish \u0026 Chips
Curry Fish Puff
Fish and Chips
Sausage Roll
English Peas
Tartar Sauce
Curry Puff
Mushy Peas

Non Alcoholic Beverages
Irn Bru Soda
Launched in 1901 in Scotland, IRN-BRU is a carbonated soft drink made to an original secret recipe, which contains 32 flavours. In 1901, steel workers working on the re-building of Glasgow Central Station were drinking too much beer to quench their thirst.
Coke Zero
Coke Can
San Pelegrino
Apple Juice
Water

Mains
Big Fish Sando
Filet~o~who? McWhat?? This giant Beer battered water monster is on a gorgeous bun topped with piquant tartar sauce and shredded lettuce. Add chips for the win!!
"THE GOVERNOR'S" Fish & Chips
Crispy beer battered Atlantic cod, Triple cooked chips, Mushy Peas, Tartar sauce, Lemon
Shepherds Pie
Minced lamb and beef, onion and garlic, roasted carrots, Worcestershire sauce, buttery mashed potato topping
Battered Sausage & Chips
Beer battered Lancashire style sausages served over a mound of triple cooked chips served with malt vinegar, sweet curry mayo and love!
Steak & Ale Pie
Marinated steak, potato, carrot, rosemary, ale, beef gravy, puff pastry crust
Chicken Tikka Masala
A 1960's Classic~ Traditionial tomato based chicken curry with mild spices, served over fragrant jasmine rice, topped with Tangy mango chutney and cilantro
Chicken & Leek Pie
Free-range chicken, French leeks, Dijon cream, and puff pastry crust
Potato & Onion Pie
Sweet onions & potatoes poached in Irish butter, topped with puff pastry and served with zappy curry ketchup

Triple Cooked Chips
Triple Cooked Chips
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER BEST OF DC EDITORS CHOICE WINNER!!! Triple cooked to perfection paired with your favorite sauce or go bold and get all of them!

Bits N Bobs
Extra Sauce
We are the boss of all the sauces!
Battered Lil Banger
Lancashire style mini sausage battered and fried to perfection
Sausage Roll
English minced pork wrapped in buttery puff pastry served with house made brown sauce
Mushy Peas hot
Nothin fancy, all the classic nostalgia you could ever want. Imported mushy peas served hot delicious poured over chips with malt vinegar
Curry Fish Puff
Curried cod, English peas, and a whole lotta loved stuffed into puff pastry and fried crispy. Served with sweet curry mayo.

Pub Shop
Jaffa Cakes
affa Cakes are a cake introduced by McVitie and Price in the UK in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges. Jaffa cakes are circular and have three layers: a Genoise sponge base, a layer of orange flavoured jam and a coating of chocolate.
Crunchie Bar
Each bite brings a mouthful of honeycomb heaven. The golden centre is covered in a thick layer of Cadbury milk chocolate, for a delicious blend of crunchiness and softness. Made with sustainably sourced cocoa.
Kit Kat Chunky
This bar has the iconic crisp oven baked wafer finger smothered in thick milk chocolate made from 100% certified sustainable cocoa, supplied through the Nestlé Cocoa Plan. Just unwrap, break off one chunk and savour the deliciously smooth milk chocolate.
Tunnock's Tea Cakes
The Tunnock's Teacake is a sweet food often served with a cup of tea or coffee. It was developed by Sir Boyd Tunnock in 1956. The product consists of a small round shortbread biscuit covered with a dome of Italian meringue, a whipped egg white concoction similar to marshmallow, although somewhat lighter in texture.
Curly Wurly
Cadbury's Curly Wurly, formerly known as Wig Wag and Marathon Bar, has a delicious soft caramel centre wrapped in rich milk chocolate, One of England's most popular candy bars, wheat-free and gluten-free. Cadbury Curly Wurly is great either cold or at room temperature.
Picnic
Picnic is a chocolate bar consisting of milk chocolate and peanuts, covering chewy nougat, caramel, biscuit and puffed rice. Picnic bars are lumpy in shape.
Star Bar
Starbar is a chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury. The bar has chocolate covering and is filled with caramel and crushed roasted peanuts. The product is also sold in Canada and Germany under the name Wunderbar.
Flake milk chocolate bar
Cadbury's Flake is an old favourite. Imported from England, this unique treat features a delicate, crumbly flaked and rolled milk chocolate.
Turkish Delight
Frys Turkish Delight is a chocolate candy bar consisting of rose-flavored Turkish Delight that is encased in milk chocolate. Turkish Delight or Lokum is a candy that consist of chopped dates and hazelnuts or walnuts all combined in a gel. Traditional Turkish Delight which this is mostly a sweet gel.
Sarson's Malt Vinegar Bottle
This Malt vinegar is traditionally brewed using only the finest natural ingredients, matured in vats to ensure the highest quality and to create the distinctive "Tangy" Sarsons taste. It really brings out the flavor of your favorite foods or as a base for sauces or marinades.
Mcvitie's Chocolate Digestives
Your fave McVitie's Digestive brought together with smooth milk chocolate. The snuggle of pure dark chocolate. Enjoy a secret layer of irresistible, chewy caramel topped with a milk chocolate covering. Take the crumbly cuddle of your fave McVitie's Digestives for walkies.
Ribena Concentrate
It offers the flavorful taste of blackcurrants, having a light and energizing fruit drink. The Ribena Blackcurrant Concentrate satisfies your taste buds without the overpowering aftertaste when diluted in water.
Fruit Gums
Rowntree's® Fruit Gums are epically fruity-tasting gummy sweets in five delicious flavours. From blackcurrant to strawberry, lemon to lime and mouth-watering orange, everyone will find their favourite flavour. Bite into a fruit gum and release a burst of fruity flavour that lasts until the end.
Malteesers
Maltesers® - the lighter way to enjoy chocolate. These crisp honeycombed centers covered in delicious milk chocolate were first introduced in the U.K. in 1936.
HP Sauce Bottle
HP Sauce is a British brown sauce, the main ingredients of which are tomatoes and tamarind extract. It was named after London's Houses of Parliament. After making its first appearance on British dinner tables in the late 19th century, HP Sauce went on to become an icon of British culture.
Heinz Beans
Heinz baked beans is packed with fiber, low in sugar and virtually fat free, feature reduced sodium while still maintaining the same delicious taste. In addition, Heinz beans are a gluten-free food that provide a delicious option for a healthy lifestyle.
Jammie Dodgers
Jammie Dodgers are a popular British biscuit, made from shortcake with a raspberry or strawberry flavoured jam filling. Introduced in 1960, they are currently produced by Burton's Biscuit Company at its factory in Llantarnam.
Milky Bar
It's simple stuff! Milkybar®  is nothing but great, creamy-tasting smooth white chocolate. Enjoy milky deliciousness in a white chocolate bar, with no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. Milkybar® was created in 1937, when Nestlé almost exclusively manufactured milk products.
Tunnock's Caramel Wafers
Tunnock's Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits are iconic British biscuits! Made with 5 layers of soft, flaky wafers sandwiching 4 layers of sweet caramel and fully coated in creamy milk chocolate. First created in 1952 by Archie Tunnock at the Tunnock Family Bakery, these delightful wafer biscuits are a delicious combination.
Mars Bar
MARS® Chocolate Bars are an irresistible blend of chocolate, caramel and nougat. The tried and true original MARS® chocolate bar was created by Forrest Mars in 1932 and has since been a coveted favorite.
Fruit Pastilles
Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles come in five fantastic flavours: blackcurrant, lemon, strawberry, lime and orange. Rowntree's Fruit Pastille contain real fruit juice and no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives
Smarties Chocolate
Smarties are one of Britain's best-loved brands. There are eight colours to choose from; red, orange, blue, green, yellow, pink, violet and brown. The orange Smarties is flavoured with natural orange oil. Smarties are not only fun to play with, but have also contained no artificial colours or flavours since 2006.
Wispa bar
The Cadbury Wispa Chocolate is properly delicious and made up of lucious milk chocolate. Cadbury Wispa is velvety smooth with its rich milk chocolate, and the fun bubbles throughout the bar. This UK candy entices the taste buds of any candy lover with its creamy texture and sweet chocolatey goodness!
Milky Way Mini
These delicious British bars are made up of rich chocolate, and smooth nougat! Every bite's a thrill, so dig in! Trust us, they're out of this world!
Cadbury Dairy Milk Bar
Each dairy milk chocolate slab has a smooth and creamy wave of deliciousness moulded into a unique chocolate taste – a treasured national favourite. Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate is made from 100% sustainably sourced cocoa beans and milk ingredients for that classic Cadbury goodness.
Aero Milk Chocolate
Known for its unique "bubbly" texture that collapses as the bar melts
Yorkie
YORKIE Raisin & Biscuit, five solid chunks of smooth, milk chocolate with delicious raisins and crunchy biscuit pieces. YORKIE chocolate evolved from a bar that was originally launched in 1924 under the name 'York Chocolate' as a single milk chocolate bar produced in York.
Mcvitie's Penguin Biscuits
Penguins are milk chocolate biscuits filled with biscuit and chocolate cream. They are produced by Pladis's manufacturing division McVitie's at their Stockport factory.
Branston Pickle
Branston Pickle is made from a variety of diced vegetables, including swede, carrots, onions and cauliflower pickled in a sauce made from vinegar, tomato, apple and spices. Branston Pickle is sweet and spicy with a chutney-like consistency, containing chunks of vegetables in a thick brown sticky sauce.
Lion Bar
Lion is a filled wafer with caramel and cereals covered in milk chocolate. Lion does not contain any artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. Lion is part of the Nestlé Cocoa Plan which works with UTZ Certified to ensure a better future for farmers and even better chocolate for you.
Twirl Bar
Cadbury's Twirl are milk chocolate fingers, flaked and rolled with a smooth chocolate covering. Imported from England, Twirl was originally launched in Ireland as a single finger product and became a two-finger product on its UK launch.
Bird's Original Custard
Bird's custard powder brings you custard just the way you like it and there's no feeling quite like making your own! Bird's is best known for the original custard powder, that gives you the power to create homemade custard perfect for you and your family.
Colman's Mustard
Colman's prepared mustard combines a blend of brown & white mustard seeds to pack extra amounts of mustardly goodness to your dish. Turn everyday sandwiches, dips, sauces, chicken, and sushi into more bad-a$$ versions of themselves. Don't settle for bland, incorporate the exceptional!
Mcvitie's Original Digestive
Possibly one of the most popular biscuits in the United Kingdom and in The Complete Collection of Biscuit Types, digestive biscuits are a semi-sweet variety of biscuits, made mainly from coarse whole-wheat flour. The biscuit is firm but soft and crumbly in texture.
Bounty Chocolate Bar
Bounty is a coconut-filled, chocolate-enrobed candy bar introduced in 1951 in the United Kingdom and Canada. It is a direct emulation of the Mounds bar introduced by Peter Paul in 1936, and also copies the milk chocolate enrobing of Hershey's Almond Joy, introduced in 1948. It is no longer being sold in the United States.

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Recent Reviews

Went here for dinner, ordered fish and chips and shepherd’s pie. Both were sooooooo delicious!! They taste just like the ones I had in England!!! Don’t skip on this one when you are in Union Market! Cheers!
October 2025
Hands down the best fish and chips I’ve ever had!! Above Ground DC ruined me for all others! The batter was impossibly crisp without being greasy and the fish flaked apart like butter. You can tell it’s fresh and cooked with real care. The fries were golden and seasoned just right and that house-made tartar sauce? Unreal!! You can taste the chef’s love for good food in every bite. Whether you’re a local or just wandering through the market, this spot is an absolute must!!!
October 2025
TLDR: I highly recommend Aboveground for your fish-and-chips needs (plus good vibes)!

Aboveground is a hidden gem in DC, serving up delicious fish and chips from London, as well as other bites with South/Southeastern Asian influences. My wife and I had heard about this place, so we ventured to Union Market to see what it was all about!

We ordered the big fish sandwiches, two sides of chips (French fries), and the curry fish puff pastries...
September 2025

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AboveGround

1309 5th St NE, Washington, DC 20002
(202) 798-3985