Recommended chippies fish and chips?

[Blue Hills]

Apologies if there is already a thread on this - would have thought that would have been but can't find.

And a quick question which prompted me to start the thread.

Reading one of Stuart Maconie's fine books I came across an enthusiastic recommendation for grandma pollards in/near Todmorden.

But a quick search seems to say that it is now permanently - ie not a temporary covid blight - closed.

Is it?

Perhaps @ColinJ can help?

On a more positive note and as a first contribution I can offer

The Fisherman, Settle, Yorkshire

https://goo.gl/maps/tn6syzcW6eWtR2XN9

A certain foreigner of my acquaintance declared them to be the best fish and chips in the world.

I thought them pretty damn fine.

 

[Dave 123]

Where my mum used to live in Ellesmere Port.
The Sea Breeze on Pooltown Road. Superb quality, cheap as.... chips, and a full Chinese menu too.

it might have been taken over since my mother died.

 

[Andy_R]

Fields in Esh Winning, Co. Durham.

They still use beef dripping and a coal fired range.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

Am I alone in not particularly liking chips. My usual order is fish, mushy peas and steak pudding.

If you're ever in Hyde, Cheshire, go to Kong's on Market Street.

 

[Blue Hills]

Fields in Esh Winning, Co. Durham.

They still use beef dripping and a coal fired range.

cripes - the coal fired range is keeping it trad.
Will check out if that way.
By the by, on ranges, I find it hard to believe that proper fish and chips can be produced without a range.
I well remember a young Italian visitor raving about fish and chips an Italian pal had recommended in a Covent Garden pub.
I found it hard to believe and that it was anything more than a tourist trap.
I will long remember on an evenings boozing going with an american pal to a pub in Smithfields, even then it had become somewhat trendy. We needed to eat - i went for fish and chips - it came vertically stacked - sod that. Ponces.

 

[Blue Hills]

By the by, have great hopes for this thread so am bookmarking as a guide for my future travels.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Apologies if there is already a thread on this - would have thought that would have been but can't find.

And a quick question which prompted me to start the thread.

Reading one of Stuart Maconie's fine books I came across an enthusiastic recommendation for grandma pollards in/near Todmorden.

A great writer!
And, a great broadcaster, I used to enjoy his Saturday afternoon show on R2
Then, of course, the teaming up with Mr Radcliffe

 

[Blue Hills]

A great writer!

Agree.
The book with the reference to the by now possibly sadly departed (seems odd if it was so rated) chippy is:

The Pie at Night

I can heartily recommend his more recent work:

The Nanny State made me

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There used to be one in Outwood (on the main A61, between Wakefield & Leeds) called 'Annies'

If I recall correctly, there were 3 others within easy walking distance, but Annies was the only one that used to have a queue before she opened
And, all she initially cooked, when I used to go, was Fish, chips, fishcakes, peas

If you wanted anything else, it was tough luck, or you went elsewhere

Sadly, she retired, & the shop was taken over, the fish was still good, but not the same
I reckon it's 10 years since I've been in

However, a couple of weeks ago, a patient looked familiar - even allowing for the mask
Upon asking, it was the lady who worked with Annie

She was surprised, but pleased that someone remembered, & with pleasure, her product

 

[Blue Hills]

If I recall correctly, there were 3 others within easy walking distance, but Annies was the only one that used to have a queue before she opened
And, all she initially cooked, when I used to go, was Fish, chips, fishcakes, peas

Certain southern ponces I know/folk who have watched too many of those progs would describe those as her "signature dish" - a phrase I choke on - someone in a pub recently asked me what MY signature dish was.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Certain southern ponces I know would describe those as her "signature dish" - a phrase I choke on - someone in a pub recently asked me what MY signature dish was.

I've heard that phrase used in Leeds, but I guess that's the incomers?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

If the fish is cod, it's not a decent chippie.

 

[Blue Hills]

If the fish is cod, it's not a decent chippie.

Very common these days I think for there to be no cod on offer.
Pity - so I know where you are coming from.
Just have to lump it.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Has to be haddock imo

 

[Brains]

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