Where can you buy the best fish n chips in Britain? The National Fish n Chip Shop Award winners would be a good starting place (no pun intended) to start.
The voting process included both customer reports and suggestions, alongside a panel of secret judges who between them visited each fish and chip shop at least twice using rigorous criteria to test for overall quality. Below are the overall winners of the national award as taken from the various categories.
First place was awarded to The Atlantic Fast Food, Coatbridge as the overall winner of the 2011 National Fish n’ Chip shop awards meaning the Scots have won the award for the past three years. It’s unlikely you’ll find any deep fried mars bars here (yes, they really do exist!), but you will find excellent quality fish and chips.
This is only the first time the Coatbridge chip shop has won the award and the Italian born owner Giovanni Fionda said “To win this competition as a first time entrant is a dream come true. It’s the best thing to have happened to us in our professional life and has made all the hard work worth it.”
Mr. Fionda was presented with his award by fellow Italian chef TV chef Aldo Zilli at a Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel in London.
Second place was the Finnegan’s Fish Bar in Porthcawl, South Wales, run by Huw and Sarah Jones. The Welsh fish and chip shop is renowned to be as famous for its clientèle as the fish and chips, with regulars including Ruth Jones of ‘Gavin and Stacey’.
Huw said “We are over the moon to win the second spot. There are not many shops in Wales that can say they serve some of the best fish and chips in the UK.”
Third place went to a fish and chip shop in the Midlands, with Great British Eatery
in Birmingham scooping the honour. According to many reports, the city has such impressive fish and chips that the city’s three Michelin starred chefs Glynn Purnell, Luke Tipping and Richard Turner reportedly stop by quite often. We can assume that one of the favourite dishes would be chips, fish and curry sauce.
For more information or to enter the awards, see the National Fish n Chip Shop Award web site.
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I don’t know about first or third place but I have to say second place is well deserved. Finnegan’s Fish Bar is the place we got our fish and chips from while on holiday last year and I have to say they were very good – better than anything we get at home in Torbay.
Didn’t see anyone famous though while we were there.
Are you sure this information is correct? According to the National Fish n Chip Awards website, the 2011 honour went to Fish n Chips at 149, Bridlington.
To be honest, I’m now completely confused by their web site
It’s changed a little since I was last on, but part of it suggests that the current winners are “The Atlantic Fast Food”, with “149″ being winners of one of the categories.
Another part seems to say the 2011 awards you can enter, but a third part suggests that they’ve already happened. Utterly baffled.