UK's top 10 fish & chip shops announced

11th November 2009, 12:04pm

The 10 top chippies in the UK have been announced in the national Fish & Chip Shop of the Year competition.

The finalists will now go chip to chip in the national finals in a bid to win the highly coveted title of National Fish & Chip Shop of the Year 2009.

The successful fish and chip shops, in alphabetical order, are:
• Atlantic Fish Bar, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Broughton Fish & Chips, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
• Daniel's Fish & Chips, Weymouth, Dorset
• Finnegan's, Porthcawl in Mid Glamorgan, Wales
• Fish & Chicken, Ballymena, Northern Ireland
• Great British Eatery, Birmingham, West Midlands
• Linford's Traditional Fish & Chips, Peterborough, Lincolnshire
• Metro Fish Bar, Bury, Lancashire
• Royal Fisheries, Whitby, North Yorkshire
• Scooby Snax, Colchester, Essex

Organised by Seafish, the authority on seafood, the competition recognises the quality, value and choice offered by fish and chip shops across the UK and rewards only the nation's best with the sought-after title. Previous winners have seen their sales increase by 40% within months of winning the competition.

Now facing the ultimate challenge the shops must provide the judges with information about their business before answering questions from the panel of leading industry figures on a wide variety of business and industry-related topics including sustainable sourcing, health and safety and maintaining product quality.

Nikki Hawkins, competition judge and project manager for the competition at Seafish, said: "The standard of entrants continues to increase each year and we are witnessing fish and chips shops paying an increasing amount of attention to sustainable sourcing as well as offering quality, value and choice.  This industry has come a long way in 22 years and competition for the National title only gets fiercer each year."

The winner will be presented with the champion's crown by popular TV chef, Aldo Zilli, at a ceremony on 21 January at the Park Plaza Riverbank in London.

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• 10 Dec 2009 - Three chippies shortlisted for National Training Award
• 25 Nov 2009 - Seafish unveils new award category in Fish & Chip Shop of the Year contest
• 14 Aug 2009 - Voting begins in Fish & Chip Shop of the Year contest
• 13 Feb 2008 - Top Chippies Celebrate
• 09 Jul 2007 - Search is on for the UK's best chippie

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