50 Best Fish & Chip Takeaways 2020

The Fry Awards 2021 announced the 50 Best Fish and Chip Takeaways and the 10 Best Mobile Units.

Only two in Lincolnshire

(in alphabetical order)

Auckley Friery, Auckley, South Yorkshire
Callaways Fish & Chips, Dorchester, Dorset
Carlo’s, Alnwick, Northumberland
Castiglio's Fried Fish & Chips, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire
Chippy Chippy, Holyhead, Anglesey
Chips @ No.8, Prestwich, Manchester
Chish & Fips, Norwich, Norfolk
Cox’s At The Lighthouse, St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Croft Street Fisheries, Farsley, Leeds
Davenport’s Fish & Chips, Louth, Lincolnshire
David’s Fish And Chips, Brixham, Devon
Dhillons Fish Inn, Throckley, Newcastle
Dunkeld Fish Bar, Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross
East Coast, Musselburgh, East Lothian
Every Fish Bar, Harrow, London
Farnhams Fish And Chips, Boverton, Llantwit Major
Fiddlers Elbow Fish and Chips, Leintwardine, Herefordshire
Finn's Traditional Fish and Chips, Reading, Berkshire
Fintans Fish & Chip Co, Llanishen, Cardiff
Fish 'n' Fritz, Weymouth, Dorset
Fisherman’s Bay, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
Fochabers Fish Bar, Fochabers, Moray
Fraser's Fish and Chips, Penzance, Cornwall
Frydays of Kendal, Kendal, Cumbria
George's Fish And Chips, Hanham, Bristol
Harlees Fish & Chips, Westbury, Wiltshire
Henley's of Wivenhoe, Wivenhoe, Essex
Hiks, Brynhyfryd, Swansea, Glamorgan
Hooked On The Heath, Knutsford, Cheshire
Jason's Fish And Chips, Rackheath, Norwich, Norfolk
Land & Sea, Sowerby, York, North Yorkshire
Linfords Traditional Fish and Chip Shop, Market Deeping, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Market Hill Fisheries, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
McLeod's Fish and Chips, Inverness
My Plaice Fish and Chips, Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk
Newington Fish Bar, Ramsgate, Kent
Priory Plaice Fish and Chips, Ulverston, Cumbria
Sea Salt + Sole, Dyce, Aberdeen
Seasmiths Fish + Chips, Porthtowan, Truro, Cornwall
Shap Chippy, Penrith, Cumbria
Shaw’s Fish And Chips, Dodworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Smith’s Chippy, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Sykes, Pendlebury, Salford, Greater Manchester
The Cafe Royal, Annan, Dumfriesshire
The Cottage by Haddocks, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire
The Crescent Fish & Chip Shop, Flint, Flintshire
The Esk Cafe, Carlisle, Cumbria
The Fish At Goose Green, Wigan, Lancashire
The Fish Bar, Crewe, Cheshire
The Fish Works, Largs, North Ayrshire
The Friary, Carrickfergus, County Antrim
The Golden Fry, Benllech, Isle of Anglesey
The Horseshoe Fish Bar, Pontnewynydd, Torfaen
The Little Chippy Tyldesley, Manchester
The Plaice to Be, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
The Shire Fryer, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Tony’s, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire
Towngate Fisheries, Idle, Bradford, West Yorkshire
Valerio’s Fish And Chips, Lanark, South Lanarkshire
Yan’s Fish Bar, Cardiff
10 Best Mobile Fish & Chip Units (in alphabetical order)
Cod’s & Rockers, Tadley, Hampshire
Flitch & Chips, Flitch Green and Dunmow, Essex
Go Fish & Chips, West Berkshire
Howe & Co Van 66, Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire
Howe & Co Van 22, Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire
Mobile Chip Shop, Leicester & Nottingham
Shappy Wheels, Shap, Cumbria
Tony's On The Go, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire
Trish & Chips, Telford, Shropshire
Tropics Two, Dersingham, Norfolk

Hmm....I smell something fishy  

Nothing local to our area
None from Hull
None from Whitby

What a load of Pollocks, everyone knows our chip shops are Brill......

None in Suffolk but I could name a couple at least.

Not sure about this award but on their web page they put:-

'The Fry Awards 2022 will be open for entry in May when the 10 Best Restaurant category will return too.'  

This being the case for restaurants then it looks likes if you didn't enter then you didn't get considered, which is probably the reason so many good chippies are not included.

Quoted from DB

Not sure about this award but on their web page they put:-

'The Fry Awards 2022 will be open for entry in May when the 10 Best Restaurant category will return too.'  

This being the case for restaurants then it looks likes if you didn't enter then you didn't get considered, which is probably the reason so many good chippies are not included.

It’s the same as those ‘best companies to work for awards.

Hasn’t this always been a kind of ‘you have to enter, sometimes pay’ to be considered rather than just people being able to nominate etc?

I know elite Chippy which operates across a few places in Lincolnshire claims to win these type of things but pays to enter etc...and it’s flipping dreadful. Used it in sleaford, woman handed me the tray, had one chip and gave her it back. Awful.

Burton Road chippy in Lincoln too, another that promotes itself as ‘award winning’...drivel. There isn’t a good chippy in Lincoln but Burton road isn’t close to being the best of a bad bunch.

And no chip shop that sells those god awful frozen fish cakes with breadcrumbs should be considered...should be an automatic expulsion...

I remember when I was younger that Marklews on Humberstone Road was amazing. Haven’t been in years and years though. Also a chippy used to be an occasional treat which I think added to the taste.

I used to love having a bag of heavily salted and vinegared (blatantly not a word) chips on the seafront sat on a bench or wall. My mum used to say it was the sea air that made the difference and she was right (not scientifically I bet but still).

Quoted from Sandford1981

I remember when I was younger that Marklews on Humberstone Road was amazing. Haven’t been in years and years though. Also a chippy used to be an occasional treat which I think added to the taste.

I used to love having a bag of heavily salted and vinegared (blatantly not a word) chips on the seafront sat on a bench or wall. My mum used to say it was the sea air that made the difference and she was right (not scientifically I bet but still).

Still is great, a proper chippy, small menu none of that kebab meat, pizzas or anything just fish, chips, fishcakes, sausages and pies. The fishcakes are the best I've had. I've lived in Mablethorpe (average to crap chippies) for over 30 years but I still go to Marklews as often as I can when I'm in GY.

I've noticed with these lists that they never actually include the really good chippies because basically they don't need it. Most chippies in Grimsby and Cleethorpes are brilliant and it's something you appreciate more when you move away. I was so lucky to have spent my childhood in Grimsby.

The chippy not too far from where I live, Russells in Second Avenue has always been a top chippy. Russell has just recently retired and sold the business on, so hopefully the new owners will keep up the good work.

Not been since Russ left so can't comment on whether they are or not.