A short walk from the sandy beach on the southern tip of the island, you\u2019ll find Port Erin Chippy. As befits the best and most proper fish and chips, there\u2019s a wait and a hefty bill. But it\u2019s worth it. The batter is crisp, the flesh flaky, the chips perfect. It\u2019s also a clean and fresh spot, not that we\u2019ll dine in; there are benches by the sea for that. After dipping a toe in the ocean it\u2019s a dream train ride back up north.<\/p>\n
\u2013 William Sitwell, restaurant critic<\/p>\n
Longsands Fish Kitchen, Tynemouth<\/p>\n
27 Front St, Tynemouth, North Shields NE30 4DZ<\/p>\n
I grew up a couple of miles from Longsands, the chippy that stole my heart. It opened in 2017 when I was a sixth former. The chips, my classmates and I quickly realised, were perfectly crispy, the fish so delicately cooked. Ours had a \u201cno eating outside of school\u201d policy \u2013 one of the history teachers would stand at the window and shout at anyone caught scoffing chips outside the gates \u2013 but it never stopped us from spending all our weekend work earnings at this fine establishment. I still never bother with fish and chips unless I\u2019m in the area. There is simply no comparison.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Lauren Shirreff, features writer<\/p>\n
WalesCastle Fish & Chips, Criccieth<\/p>\n
5 Castle St, Criccieth LL52 0DP; 01766 522081<\/p>\n
Criccieth, a small seaside town tucked into the top of Cardigan Bay, is where I spent a week camping with my grandparents every summer. My grandmother would save every 1p, 2p and 5p throughout the year and use them to buy us ice creams from Cadwaladers \u2013 but the true highlight was the night we got fish and chips. Perfectly burnished, crisp batter coating tender flakes of cod and two portions of chips shared between five of us, all cooked fresh to order. There was always a queue, but we would still clamour to accompany my grandpa to make the pilgrimage. We\u2019d drive our goods back to the campsite, the precious newspaper parcel firmly on my lap, filling the car with the tang of malt vinegar, then sit in the awning to feast (and douse the fish in even more vinegar).<\/p>\n
\u2013 Jess Benjamin, lead lifestyle publisher<\/p>\n
O\u2019Shea\u2019s, Barry Island<\/p>\n
1 Western Arcade, Paget Rd, Barry CF62 5TQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A short walk from the sandy beach on the southern tip of the island, you\u2019ll find Port Erin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,18387,5456,1398,18389,18388,627,330,1797,18386],"class_list":{"0":"post-37147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-british-recipes","10":"tag-cod","11":"tag-food-and-drink","12":"tag-leisure-and-hospitality-industry","13":"tag-lost-britain","14":"tag-restaurants","15":"tag-standard","16":"tag-top-story","17":"tag-traditional-recipes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116578454271698205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}