WILTSHIRE'S and the South West's best fish and chip shops have been revealed in this year’s Fry Magazine Awards.
Through unannounced mystery dining visits, shops and mobile units were marked on over 40 aspects of their business, from quality of food and customer service, to their social media presence and their Covid safety measures.
Despite coronavirus restrictions this year, the benchmark to pass was set at 97 per cent for takeaways and 92 per cent for mobiles - the highest in the awards history.
This year's winners include a chippy not too far away in Wiltshire and two in nearby Dorset.
Fry Magazine is considered the leading trade publication for the fish and chip shop sector and has been holding these awards since 2012.
The full list of winners are listed below in alphabetical order (winners in our region are in bold):
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
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