The name and where it is please.
Colins Fish Bar in Pontllanfraith, Blackwood
Skewen Fish Bar, Skewen, Neath
China Panda, Aigburth Rd, Liverpool.
Wombourne fish bar, Wombourne.
Talk of the Town, Stainbeck Road, Leeds
Bovey Fish Bar, Bovey Tracey, Devon
In my town it's Barney's, Brook Road, Flixton
but the real answer (although it's 15 miles away) is
Armstrongs (the home of the Jumbo Cod), Bury Old Road, Prestwich.
"The dug out" in Tamworth seems to be the most popular but the curry sauce is not up too scratch.
Belgrave fish bar takes it for me as it is at the bottom of my road, next to a pub and an off licence and the kebab meat is bordering on gourmet.
Sadly my only local chippy is crap.
Trawlerman in Drighlington on Whitehall Road, just up the road from Leeds. Stuff of legends.
Asquiths ,smawthorne lane ,Cas Vegas
Hungary Hill Chippy, Stourbridge. Proper stuff.
Francine's, North Prospect Road, Plymouth. Also if you go any time after the middle of November they have a lifesize moving talking/singing Santa to irritate the bejeesus out of you whilst you queue. Oh yes, and there is invariably a queue (for a good reason).
Hard to narrow it down in Brighton! The following are nearest to me:
Fillets on Lewes Rd is good, also J&E Fish bar next door to Kums on Hollingbury Place.
J&E have a clock with "IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK" handwritten around the edge. It doesn't quite match the rest of the decor and seems profound because of this.
Sea Breeze in Dorking
Nothing in Newton-Le-Willows. Fishician used to be the chippy of choice but it changed hands, they installed a kebab machine* and it went downhill from there.
*Not that I've got anything against kebabs, quite the opposite.
The one in Risca by the park is ok, the other two are crap, one covers the all puts loads of MSG on everything resulting in Mrs L and myself feeling decidedly odd and not being able to get to sleep one night think they may have slipped with the packet on that batch 😯
Will check out Colins in Ponty on your advice Pigface.
Beedles in Bishop Auckland
Burrells in Barnard Castle
Clems in Shildon
I'm wondering whether the Captain will nominate the food hall in Harrods or Harvey Nicks. Maybe he'll play safe and go with Rick Stein's in Padstow.
Chris Fish & Chips, Rising Brook is where we usually go, but sometimes if Mrs Bigjohn & I are drunkenly riding back from the pub on Friday nights we stop in at the Windmill Chippy (rated #1 by Signal 1 FM!) for some well-needed carb & fat.
Oh the mention of Padstein reminds me that there's a really good one the top end of St Ives which is a match or better than Steins and doesn't have the parking, queing or cost issues.
my local is jumbos in culter - its "not bad"
but coming from arbroath i was always spoilt for choice
cairnie chipper if mike was frying
claudes(golden haddock) if claude was frying
and marcos on the shore was a good standby always if mike or claude werent frying.
These days if i want a decent fish and chips and a sit on the beach to eat it as is a must with a fish supper then its off to the carron in stonehaven but only at weekend - their penchant for reheating chips on a midweek makes for mushy chips.
Winsboroughs/Whitstones in Shepton Mallet is lauded in the media ["Best Fish and Chips in Britain” - People Newspaper Nov 2005] and immensely popular to the extent it causes traffic jams on the A37. But actually we like Steve's in the High Street. But we're biased as Steve's daughter is a friend 🙂
Peter Pan's in Dorchester
TJ's in Poole
Ahh well then a bit of history for you (specific to our area)
We have only had 1 chip shop (A) in our area for the last 15 years. we have a few take aways (Indian and Chinese) and this is how it’s been for quite sometime. The all of a sudden we have 3 new chip shops popping up in the last year. The chip shop (A) had a monopoly and there was always a queue winding it’s way out the door and along the carpark and onto the cricket pitch, it was like that for 15 years. The quality of chips was excellent and I think it deserved its reputation and possibly the best. Then we had interlopers.. 3 of them (B), (C), (D). B is owned by an Indian family and is frankly rubbish, C is run by an English family and is Ok actually. D on the other hand is smack bang in the best area of the village on the way back from the River and it’s Pub, back into the village on the only road in/out and guess what.. it’s excellent, really really excellent. .It’s a bit expensive but the quality of the chips are superb. Chippy A still has it’s queues out the door but now chippy D has queues too.
I don’t know whether more people are eating chips these days to support 4 chippys, but someones eating chips for sure.
Barracuda in Ossett.
John Becks in Carbis Bay is pretty good too.
EDDIES CHIPPY Wrexham,
down the hill from llandegla, over the bypass a494, over the railway brige, through the lights straight on and then turn left,at junction and eddies is on the right,
Hillycroft in Morley.
And before anyone parrots the guidebooks and says the Magpie in Whitby, the Quayside's better. It just is, ok?
berties of highcliffe
i may be slightly biased cus i worked there over the summer, but loads of people who came in said the food tastes great. the place was cleaned every night and all the leftover food was thrown out at the end of every night (if it wasnt eaten by me first 🙂 )
Captains Table, Slaithwaite (if you say wrong they'll know you are a commerinner). Fish, Chips, mushy peas, two rounds of white bread with marg and a pot of tea, a bargin at £4.99. What more can you want at lunch.
Grum - I lived in Hope Street many years ago - just up the road from Hodgeson's. Was good then but not called that - very northern - only opened between 11.30 and 1.30 and then 4.30 until 6!
new cod on the block, Sheffield
excellent - as was broomhill friery when owned by the same proprietors.
Seen a few in Leeds above. Best chippy I have used in Leeds in Drakes on Potternewton Lane, superb.
Fish Bits, Sidings Roundabout, Doncaster. Usually a queue, but it's there for a reason.
Local used to be Globetrotters in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh. Give it a 6.5/10 - decent but nothing special. Queuing out the door of an evening time, despite the fish supper costing an aspirational £6.
Ketchup unavailable, in the land of salt n sauce.
No idea, not been to one in a decade... it's nearly 10 miles to the nearest one from my house.
Wow thats terrible could you not move house.
Coes in Crossgates,Leeds is my favourite. Also Skyliner at Colton (Leeds again) is very good.
Some great chippies near Morley too.
Wells, Somerset - only tried two so far (the other one is across town - they'd be cold by the time I've walked home). Both utterly cack. I miss Kellaway Fish bar (Kellaway Avenue, Bristol).
Burton road chippy, burton road , lincoln
http://www.burtonroadchippy.co.uk/
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Millbridge Fisheries in Heckmondwike, next to Millbridge W.M.C. has in the past few years pushed its way past The Golden Fish (200 mtrs up t'road) to become the best chippy in the Cleckheckmondfax area. Although i will still go to the Golden Fish to see the bearded lady that serves, she dunt even try to hide it or owt, just wears it wi pride- Go on lass!
Midgley's on Butcher hill , West Park , Leeds.
you know how at some chippy's the fish is good but the chips crap or vice versa , well at Midgleys they're both good and you get a decent portion too.
We normally get 2 adult portions, 1 kids, a fishcake (i.e a slice of fish between 2 slices of potato battered! not to be confused with a pattie which is a mash of fish and potato in breadcrumbs 😉 ),a portion of battered pineapple rings and a chip shop curry sauce for just over £13.
The more they see you the bigger the portion of chips seems to get too.
We have two of the top ten in the UK in our village (depending which competition you enter) Linfords Traditional Fish and Chips and The Boundary, both in Market Deeping, one only 75 yards from my front door, which is a problem!!!
The Boundary is the best chip shop IMHO, but Paul Linford who owns the other one comes riding with my group every week.
http://www.boundaryfishandchips.co.uk/
http://www.linfordsfishandchips.co.uk/
Squires in Braunton. Dedoublelicious.
ha ha dabble. the young lass who works in my local chippie is known as the bearded lady. she must only be inhin her early twenties bless her. good fish and chips though
ha ha dabble. the young lass who works in my local chippie is known as the bearded lady. she must only be inhin her early twenties bless her. good fish and chips though
In North Wales, Rob's in Pensarn nr Abergele-- he's also a keen roadie
The Bay Fish and Chip Bar, Stonehaven.
Stellar haddock and chips, choice of the champions!
*Westhead Chippy, Croston, Lancs (local to me)
Others I used to frequent (a little too often sometimes!):
*Foster's, Alderley Edge, Cheshire (award winning before you get all indignant about its location)
*Frankies, West Didsbury, Manchester
Mine's Jumbo's in culter too, though wish it were the Bay in Stonehaven (the fish platter every time).
julianwilson - Member
Francine's, North Prospect Road, Plymouth. Also if you go any time after the middle of November they have a lifesize moving talking/singing Santa to irritate the bejeesus out of you whilst you queue. Oh yes, and there is invariably a queue (for a good reason).POSTED 9 HOURS AGO # REPORT-POST
Awesome!
Definitely the best chips I've had for a while.
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Where I used to live - The chip shop, Stafford St, Norwich.
Used to live about 20 steps from there & it took a lot of self discipline not to have more than one a week, especially as as its slap bang in the middle (about 50 steps either side) of 2 pubs. Miss it & the area loads..
Where I live now (& where I'm from originally) and my favourite chips in the World - Rossi's, Swansea. Best chips ever.
Riveresdale Fisheries in Cross Hills near Skipton is very good. Far better than any of the ones in Skipton.
I lived in Guiseley a couple of years ago and that had a couple of really good ones, one on Victoria road that seemed to just open in the evenings and Springfield fisheries that was open at lunch.
T&J Fish and chip shop on sandbanks road is worth a shout too if you're in the poole and bournemouth area!
The Frying Scotsman is very handy/bad to have just down the road
Frydays in Whaley Bridge is good, as is The Village Fryery.
Sounds like i need to try this " the bay"
Now most vomit inducing fish and chips - thats between one in durham which was also a chinese ( never a good sign) and the one in laurencekirk which i used once and vowed never to use again even if i was dying
Damn you all!
I want, nay need to go to the chippy now!
Seafresh, Wilton Rd, SW1, by the way.
Battered sossij on the way home, methinks...!
No ones mentioned upton chippy the last coal fired chipshop. Fryed in lard and located in a old cow shed.
Bloody hell, is NO ONE from Burnley reading this thread?
Trawlerman in Drighlington on Whitehall Road, just up the road from Leeds. Stuff of legends.
The classic" Trawler"! What about the Mermaid, Morley?
Wombourne fish bar, Wombourne.
Smiths in Swindon!
I have noticed one thing about this thread, the very West Yorkshire bias. As a Yorkshireman, infact born and bred Leeds bloke I have come to realize you can't get good fish and chips outside West Yorkshire, no I'll go as far as saying outside Leeds.
Nuff said, we need go no further.
Heathen. You'll be suggesting Tingley Bar next 😉
I beg to differ in that when in england ive found although the Chips are passable in some gaffs fish is almost never fresh.
How ever the best one was in wales near cwmcarn, the fish and chip shop had neither fish nor chips . Ironic really . I was so hungry though
Harbour Fish Bar, Amble, Northumberland
Mayo Fish Bar, Brookwood - not stellar but just a good honest everyday chippy.
I beg to differ in that when in england ive found although the Chips are passable in some gaffs fish is almost never fresh
In Yorkshire the fish is definitely fresh, very fresh, so fresh it will eat the ****in chips
Within two minutes of my house is Sams Chippy, great chippy and you can buy a large chips for £2... enough to feed a family of four! Back 'home' I would ride 15miles for a portion of chips at Lloyds in Lampeter. Yum
trail rat where was that chippy? Used to live right at the bottom of the scenic drive and the closest good chippy used to be in Cross Keys but it changed hands and went from brilliant to ho hum.
It's weird, I too believe that Leeds has the best fish n chips in the world, even better than the ones from the coast.
Apparently, there are some good ones up in the NE too near the coast.
There's a few good ones near me - as long as they cook in drippin'. The bad ones are few and far between imo.
Crosskeys sounds about right , was next door to /atrached to a chinese
in some gaffs fish is almost never fresh.
Now here's the problem , fish for fish and chips shouldn't be too fresh as it's too wet which means its a bit mushy when cooked. It should be left for a day in the fridge to dry out before cooking (my family used to run a chippy when we moved back to Leeds in the mid 70's)
Aye but it shouldnt taste " fishy" either
Old fish tastes different to reasonably fresh fish
The shop closest to the a9 in aviemore has always been guilty of this
You end up with fish that tastes like the harry ramsdens crappy frozen fish
Wee hurrie at Troon harbour. About 25 yards from the fish market. Top stuff.
Kim's Plaice on Frimley High Street is excellent. Light and crispy fish and proper tasty chips.
Bloody hell, is NO ONE from Burnley reading this thread?
I can nominate Church Street chippie, the Abbey Friar and the one on Infant street up from Mannings (Jeff Ellis), all in Accrington, if that's any help to you?
We're spoiled for choice in Accy, one of the few things it's got going for it.
As a Yorkshireman, infact born and bred Leeds bloke I have come to realize you can't get good fish and chips outside West Yorkshire, no I'll go as far as saying outside Leeds.
I obviously need to investigate some of the suggestions here, as without exception every chippie I've been to in Leeds has been rank.
The Crispy Cod in New Mills did the best fish and chips around when I lived there.
I now live in NZ and in 18 months have found only one chippy that doesn't do McCains frozen chips. Very disappointing.
Yeh Pook!
New Cod on the Block for the win. (Sheffield)
There's a coal fired chippy near my folks which must be pretty damn old school. but ive never been. (Lincs)