Eating out: East Anglia's Best Fish & Chips
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Bounty Fisheries, High Road West, Walton, Felixstowe, Suffolk
LOCATION: About two minutes away from Felixstowe's
main shopping centre but on a busy main street. However with a car it's
only a five minute drive to the seafront if you want a chip supper on the
beach.
QUALITY: Seafish awarded this chip shop a friers
quality award.
PARKING: You'll have to find parking in nearby
residential streets, which can sometimes be tricky. Free seafront parking
available on Undercliff Road East.
TELEPHONE: 01394 283356
Aldeburgh Fish & Chips, High Street, Aldeburgh
LOCATION: Drive to Aldeburgh and look out for the queue. Reputed by locals
to be the best fish and chips in the country these chippies attract custom
from far and wide. You'll need to walk through to the sea wall (2 minutes)
to eat - but watch out for divebombing seagulls who've obviously grown partial
to their fish suppers.
QUALITY:Perfect chips and delicious crispy battered
fish that's well worth the drive out on a summer's evening or as atreat
after winter walks on the marshes.
PARKING:If you are lucky you'll be able to get
a free parking space in the main square -alternatively there's a pay and
display car park down the road.
TELEPHONE: 01728 454685
Christine Cara, Southwold, Suffolk
LOCATION: In one of the most picturesque locations
- Southwold Harbour. The shop can be found in one of the traditional black
huts that nestle along the River Blythe. The shop also sells wet fish and
pates
QUALITY: After a windswept ride on Coastal Voyager
the most welcome meal you'll ever have in your life. No eating in faciities
but who cares when you can sit on a fence and gaze over the river to Walberswick?
PARKING:Parking is available in the harbour but
at weekends and school holidays the whole area can become busy
Flora Tearooms, Beach Road, Dunwich, Suffolk
LOCATION: Wooden shack with a reputation for good
honest English food. Scrubbed tables inside or wooden trestles outside overlooking
the beach.
QUALITY:Excellent fish and chips (locally caught
skate is a speciality). But, choose your day carefully, this cafe gets extremely
busy at peak periods.
PARKING:The tea room is right beside a pay and
display car park.
TELEPHONE: 01728 648433
Henleys, Vine Street, Wivenhoe, Essex
LOCATION: In a pretty village on the River Colne,
south east of Colchester
QUALITY: Award winning fish and chip shop -placed
third best in the UK in the most recent Sea Fish chip shop competition.
SPECIALITY: Customers are invited to choose what
they want from a wet fish cabinet as they enter the shop and it's then cooked
in front of them.
Also: Owner David Henley was recently invited
by Tom Parker-Bowles to appear on UK TV Food, to demonstrate how to cook
fish and chips. Potatoes are locally sourced and fish is from sustainable
resources in Norway or the Barents Sea. The shop is always busy but expect
to queue on Fridays and Saturdays. Customers travel from as far as Stowmarket
for a chip supper.
PARKING:Available outside the shop.
OPEN: Every day except Sunday 11.30 2.30pm and 4.30-9.30 pm.
TELEPHONE: 01502 724241
The Rembrandt Restaurant, Easton, Norwich, Norfolk
LOCATION: Just off the A47 on Dereham Road, Easton,
near the Royal Norfolk Showground. Look for the water tower!
SPECIALITY: Fish fried in batter made with the
restaurant’s own brew of beer.
Also: Fresh fish delivered daily; licensed bar.
OPEN: 11.30am-1.30pm Tuesday-Friday; 4.30pm-10pm Monday-Saturday. Last orders
in restaurant 9.30pm
TELEPHONE: 01603 880010
The Three Cottages, North Walsham, Norfolk
LOCATION: Bacton Road North Walsham, opposite
Sainsburys
SPECIALITY: Gluten free fish and chips - 25 minutes
notice required.
Also: Owner David Audley is president of the National Federation of Fish
Fryers. Holders of the Sea Fish Quality Award.
OPEN:Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 11.45am;
last orders 1.45pm; 4.30pm, last orders 8.00pm; Friday, Saturday 11.45am,
last orders 1.45pm; 4pm, last orders 8.30pm.
Downham Fryer, Bridge Street, Downham Market, Norfolk
LOCATION: 38 Bridge Street, Downham Market
SPECIALITY: Fresh fish from Grimsby and potatoes
from Lincolnshire fried using the traditional method dating from the 1800s.
Also: Recently voted top chippy in the Eastern region. Restaurant decorated
with over 100 photos of old Downham and 120 postcards of old aircraft
OPEN:: Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs and Sat 11am-9pm;
Sat 1pm– 10pm
TELEPHONE: 01366 383029
Mary Jane's, Cromer, Norfolk
LOCATION: Garden Street, Cromer. Short distance
from the pier if you want to eat your chips on the seafront
SPECIALITY: “Everything we do is special!
We are one of the few chippies that do skate wings.”
Also: Staff are friendly and always “up for a laugh – but serious
when the job’s to be done.” Under 12s menu available.
OPEN: Mon-Sat 11.30am-11pm; Sundays 12noon-10
pm. Restaurant closes 8pm
TELEPHONE: 01263 511208
Gorleston Fish Bar, Gorleston, Norfolk
LOCATION: On the corner of Bells Rd and Lower
Cliff Road, just off the A12 and two minutes from Gorleston seafront.
SPECIALITY: Haddock, skate, plaice on the bone
and rock. Plus a pensioners’ discount of 30p off all day Tuesday plus
Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes.
Also: We’ve won the Sea Fish Industry
Authority’s Fryers’ Quality Award for 2007 and once again have
been awarded 5 stars from the environmental health authority.
OPEN: Monday 4-10pm; Tues-Sat 11.30-1.30pm and
4.30-10pm.
TELEPHONE: 01493 603757