Jesus provided the fish, Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the potato and we did the rest. So give thanks to miracles, explorers and beef dripping for the invention of the world’s most famous takeaway and feast your eyes on some of London’s finest places to get it. Rule Britannia!
Rock and Sole Plaice
There’s a reason The Sun is Britain’s best-selling paper and it’s not for its content, so it must be the headlines. Everyone loves a pun and with Rock and Sole Plaice you’re getting great fish and chips and a tummy tickler to boot. Once all tittering has subsided, savour some of London’s fluffiest chips- double fried in peanut oil (sorry poor allergy sufferers). Loved by tourists and locals alike, it must be good because people keep coming back in spite of the high prices.
Fryer’s Delight
As well as arguably being the first song to popularize rap, Fryer’s Delight is a Holborn chip shop famed for its exquisite batter. The dipped fillets are fried in the classic beef dripping, which results in the crispiest of crusts. Portions are generous but this is no frills dining so don’t expect winning smiles to go with those happy portions.
Masters Super Fish
Whether you visited Masters in the past five years or the past five days, your experience is likely to have been the same. Some things never change and huge portions still come accompanied by free prawns and pickles while you wait. The double fried chips and flaky fillets are some of London’s best; just ask the cabbies that turn Waterloo Road into an impromptu taxi rank to get their super fish.
Olley’s Fish Experience
Throw down that bhaji, drown your spring rolls and flush your second rate slice to the sewers because it’s time for the fish and chips EXTRAVAGANZA! Olley’s Fish Experience features not just South London’s best restaurant and takeaway for your newspaper wrapped supper but a whole selection of sea life thrown to the fryer for your pleasure. Mahi mahi, butterfish, swordfish and tuna are just some of the floundering fancies and if you do happen to have a medical aversion to the nut oils then they can even grill or steam.
The North Sea Fish
Leave the restaurant alone and head for the takeaway to avoid the inflated prices. Long gone are the days when a bag of chips and a large cod would set you back just one five-pound note, but at least the quality at North Sea Fish lives up to its prices. Cracking open the golden batter of a massive piece of haddock you’re met with downy clouds of steaming flaky fish. The chips are well worthy too and they only go and put them in a cone to make Bloomsbury come over all seaside town- just without the slot machines and grannies…
