Best fish and chips you've ever had

[No17CherryTreeLane]

We are having fish and chips tonight.
It will be "OK", decent but nothing exceptional.
We still talk about the best f + c with reverence.
We stopped off on our drive back down south from Northumberland for lunch, googled the nearest chippy and found ourselves at Harbour Fish Bar in Amble.
It was heavenly.
I've never heard or tasted crunchier batter.
If you're a local, you're bloody lucky!

Tell me about your best chippy experience! 😁

This is lovely. He’s a keeper!

Lucy’s chip stall, Norwich Market, for chips.

papa's blackpool

Plaice and chips from Hobbs’ and sons at The Black Country Museum, Dudley. I often fantasise about it. Going to Birmingham for a gig in summer, wondering if I can get a return trip shoehorned in.

It's not bad. Better than Mary Janes, which has vile soggy chips but is inexplicably popular with locals. I had lovely, huge portioned f&c a couple of times in Norwich served by a Chinese lady who I think was the owner, but I can't remember the name of the place unfortunately.

Two Steps in Sheffield

The two best I've had were both in Filey, on the same holiday, both good in different ways. I can't remember all the details or what they were called but one was on a back street.

Aldeburgh again, eaten next door in the pub with a cold beer.

Weirdly, the best I've had was from a chippy called Bedders in Birmingham. I believe they're still there and are so well known for veing excellent, that they only open for a couple of hours lunchtime and evening, with a queue out the door. I remember my dad bringing some fish and chips back from there when I was in my teens, and they were beautiful.

Combe Martin in North Devon. Not sure what the chippy is called but it's a black & white building and we ate the chips on the nearby beach.

Eating them on the beach definitely made them taste better, but they were easily the best chips I've had. The next time we visited the area we made a special trip to get some more but the chip shop was closed 😒

The Railway Chippy?

Not at all helpful because I don’t know what the place is called or where it is other than “somewhere in Tokyo”, but yeah - Tokyo. They used tempura batter (which is flour mixed with sparkling water and I think something else), super fresh and super hot oil, not cod or haddock, and their chips were more like fries. Portion size was sensible. This was about 15 years ago and I can still remember everything about it: the look, smell, sound, taste of it and my emotional response to it. I did eat it with chopsticks! Sensations probably heightened by having eaten Japanese food for 99% of my meals for the preceding 7 weeks!

@TwoBigNoisyBoys your fella sounds wonderful! I hope you are in a better place now with your health.

Came on to say Magpie 😍

Fish and chips is always great!

Is that the one on/near Cleveland Bridge? I think this is the one my SIL raves about.

The Seashell in Lissom Grove (w.london) used to be very good but v posh . No idea what it's like these days.
Also a good one on Farringdon Rd, just past the junction with Gray's Inn Rd where I used to work. But having f and c in your lunch hour is just weird and wrong, somehow. Perhaps it's the fear of returning to the office smelling of fried batter and vinegar...

Anstruther but, as others have said, not the famous one.

Omg now I'm craving fish and chips badly !!!

No one will have of heard of this ... But a massive shout out for the Shelton Lock Fish Bar in Derby (300 miles from me, but near a relative). Absolutely outstanding, incredibly good value, and a fun place to people-watch in the massive (but fast-moving) queue on a weekend night.

I know Shelton Lock well! A good vote!

@Tomatocutwithazigzagedge Yes! New Quay! Fabulous all round. Best ever.

Grosvenor Fish Bar, near The Lanes?

Oh, the one in Stoke on Trent was called Uni -Chip. It was named that because it was near Staffordshire University campus.

Tried googling the Sandbach one, but am stumped. There are two it could have been.

I still maintain the Seahouses one (Lewis') is the best I ever had. I will be in that neck of the woods again this summer, God willing, so will make a stop there.

I also rate Lewis's in Seahouses, but the best one I can remember came from a chippy in Llanon on the Welsh coast south of the Dyfi. It was pouring with rain and I ate in the car and it was wonderful.