UK Chippy champions battering it out today!
16 January 2012
The UK's top 10 best independent take-away fish and chip shops have their chip forks sharpened and at the ready as they take part in the final judging to be crowned Britain's best chippy at the National Fish & Chip Awards, organised by Seafish, the authority on seafood.
Taking place at the Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel in London the 10 shops will present to a panel of industry experts who will decide if they receive the crown.
The shops competing are:
- Scotland: The Bay, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire
- Wales: Crispy Cod, Tonyrefail, Mid Glamorgan
- Northern Ireland: Pit Stop, Kilkeel, County Down
- North East: Quayside, Whitby, North Yorkshire
- North West: Seniors, Thornton, Lancashire
- Midlands: The Big Fish, Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire
- Eastern: Linfords, Market Deeping, Lincolnshire
- London & South East: Seafare, Worplesdon Rd, Guildford, Surrey
- Central & South: Wigmore, Luton, Bedfordshire
- South West: Hanbury's, Babbacombe, Devon
Fish & Chips factoids
- In 2011, Lady Gaga made a late night stop with her tour bus for fish and chips in Marylebone, London. The bus wasn't able to park outside the chippy so her security team went to pick up the takeaway while they found a suitable parking spot.
- Mike Tindall (international rugby player), Paulo Nutini
(musician) and Stacey Solomon (singer/TV presenter) used to work in
fish and chip shops before they were famous.
- The world's largest fish and chip portion was made in July 2011
at the Wensleydale Heifer, Yorkshire.
- Fish and chip shops are spreading fast in South Africa and
visibly booming. The Old Fashioned Fish and Chips chain, which
claims to have got in first, doubled its reach last year and plans
to keep expanding.
- The chips eaten in Great Britain each year come from potatoes weighing the equivalent of nearly 2.9 million Formula 1 cars. Laid end to end, those chips would take you around Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit over 1.5 million times - equivalent to more than 26,000 British Grand Prix's.
If you'd like to interview any of the winners or the host, Richard Corrigan please contact Chris Bone, Blair Grant or Alana Irwin at 3x1 Public Relations on 0141 221 0707.