The best fish and chips in London
28 places
Brockley's Rock
££The only London shop in the UK top ten for Takeaway of the Year 2026, on Brockley Road since 2011 on the site of a former Chinese takeaway. MSC-certified cod and a homemade tartare sauce.
Faulkners
££A proper sit-down chippy on Kingsland Road that has been there since the early 1980s, with a Turkish side to the menu that reflects the street it is on.
A restaurant rather than a counter - table service, and busy at weekends. The Turkish grill dishes sit alongside the fried fish rather than replacing it.
Fish Central
££Half proper chippy, half sit-down fish restaurant, on the edge of the Old Street roundabout.
Fish Lounge
£A Clapham chip shop with three guides behind it and none of the tourist traffic of the central ones.
Fishcotheque
££On Waterloo Road since 1972, and the counter two separate London chip shop video channels went out of their way to film.
No working website - the domain that looks official has expired. Trading is corroborated by its own social page and dated third-party reviews, not by a live venue site. Confirm before recommending for a special trip.
Golden Union Fish Bar
££The Soho option, and the one to know if you want fish and chips inside the theatre district.
Hobson's Fish & Chips
££Double-fried chips and a light batter across three sites - Porchester Road, St Anne's Court in Soho and Villiers Street off the Strand. The family ran Oliver's in Belsize Park before taking on the Bayswater shop.
Ken's Fish Bar
£A south London chippy that three separate guides single out over far better-known names.
Kennedy's
££Pies baked on the premises - steak and Guinness, steak and Stilton - alongside the fryer, from a business that started about 150 years ago as a butcher's known for its sausages.
Masters Superfish
££A south London institution five minutes from Waterloo, buying from Billingsgate daily and frying several kinds of fish rather than just cod and haddock. The mushy peas are the ones people write about.
Prawns and bread and butter arrive unasked while you wait, which is the house tradition. Portions are large enough that the small is usually the right order.
Michael's Fish Bar
£The chippy east London locals vote for, at prices central London stopped charging a decade ago - flaky batter, thick chips, no seating and no card machine.
CASH ONLY. A takeaway counter, not a restaurant. Voted the area's best by 61% of Leytonstoner readers.
Mickey's Chippy
£The Stoke Newington chippy that turns up on every north London list, a few doors from one of the better pubs in the area.
Nautilus
££Fish fried in matzo meal rather than batter - the Jewish north-London tradition that predates the chip shop as most people know it, and a completely different, lighter crust.
Everything comes coated in matzo meal, in matzo and egg, or grilled. A sit-down restaurant as much as a takeaway, seating around 48. Portions are generous even by chippy standards.
Oliver's Fish & Chips
££Fries in pure rapeseed oil with no animal fats or hydrogenated fats, which keeps a standard plate under 500 calories. Fish daily from Billingsgate, Maris Pipers where possible.
The Whetstone branch has closed; Belsize Park is the only site trading. Sunday opening is stated two different ways on its own site and menu - check before travelling.
Poppies Fish and Chips
££Trading since 1952 and done out as a fifties chip shop, with sites in Spitalfields, Camden, Soho and Notting Hill.
Rock & Sole Plaice
££Claims a lineage back to 1871, with pavement tables on a Covent Garden side street.
Shoreditch Fish and Chips
££A 1960s-styled chip shop near Brick Lane doing the traditional version straight, with sauces thrown in rather than charged for.
Stones Fish and Chips
££On the 40-shop National Fish and Chip Awards 2026 shortlist and a UK top-three finalist in two further categories. Serving hake alongside cod while cod stocks recover.
Sutton & Sons
££Runs a fully vegan chip shop alongside the traditional ones - banana blossom instead of cod.
The Fryer's Delight
£Formica tables, beef dripping, and a room that has not been redecorated in decades. The most-cited chippy in London.
The Golden Chip of Hanwell
£Two brothers frying Scottish fish in small batches on a Hanwell high street, with a local reputation that outruns anything the central guides have noticed.
The Golden Chippy
££A Greenwich chip shop that built a large following on review sites rather than in the food press - fresh fish daily, thick hand-cut chips, and a proper sit-down room behind the counter.
Open 11:00-23:00 Monday to Saturday and 12:00-23:00 on Sundays and bank holidays, which is far later than most chippies. Eat in or take away. Halal preparation is available on request. A ten-minute walk from the Cutty Sark and the market.
The Golden Hind
££A Marylebone chippy open since 1914, with the original art deco fryer still standing in the room.
The Grapes
££A narrow Thames-side pub trading for roughly five centuries, part-owned by Sir Ian McKellen. Dickens drank here and put it into Our Mutual Friend as the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters.
Owned in partnership by Ian McKellen, the director Sean Mathias and Evgeny Lebedev. Tiny - the back balcony over the river seats very few and fills early.
The Mayfair Chippy
£££Fish and chips treated as a restaurant dish rather than a takeaway, with oysters, crab and mussels alongside - trading since 2015 and carrying an AA rosette for it.
Seven days a week for lunch and dinner. Takeaway runs alongside the dining room.
The Seashell of Lisson Grove
££On Lisson Grove since 1964 and frying since before the war - the chippy that draws a celebrity crowd without changing anything about itself.
The Summerhouse
£££A New England-looking clapboard room right at the water's edge, doing seafood and fish and chips with the canal a metre from the table.
Toff's
££Muswell Hill's award-winning family chippy, run by the same family since 1988.