Fish and chips

  • Poppies fish & chips have opened on Portobello Road

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    With restaurants in Spitalfields, Soho and Camden, fish and chips purveyors Poppies have headed west for the first time, opening on Portobello Road, Their new restaurant takes over what used to be a bank (and before that, a butchers) on the corner of Colville Terrace and Portobello.

    Inside you'll find all the usual retro fittings you'll see in any Poppies but this one also incorporates the bank's old vault

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  • Golden Union is returning to Soho with a new buttie menu

    Golden Union is returning to Soho with a new buttie menu

    We've already heard about how Soho is hoping to pedestrianise over the summer to give it a post-lockdown boost and now there's news of the return of a Soho staple - Golden Union. The much-loved fish and chip shop has been in Soho for 12 years and it's returning with something new - a buttie

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  • Poppies Spitalfields is back doing chip butties and battered sausages

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    Is today a bit of a fish & chips revival day? Not only has Toff's just started back up in Muswell Hill, but in Spitalfields Poppies reopens for business today, doing takeaway, click and collect, and delivery.

    All the old favourites will be back on the menu - so if you're planning a park snack, pick up a portion of battered haddock or sausage or

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  • Fish & Chips returns to Upper St Islington with Trawlerman's Fish Bar

    Fish & Chips returns to Upper St Islington with Trawlerman's Fish Bar

    Hot Dinners Exclusive

    A new restaurant in Islington certainly highlights the cyclical nature of the restaurant business. Trawler Trash on Islington's Upper Street shut its doors in 2019 and the site has been closed ever since. But now a new restaurant has opened in the space and locals will be very pleased to learn that it's a fish and chip shop called Trawlerman's Fish

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  • Poppies teams up with Gunpowder and som saa for very special chips and curry sauce

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    If the idea of putting curry sauce on your chips has never occurred to you, then you're in the majority in this city. According to a YouGov Survey, just 6% of Londoners consider curry sauce to be an appropriate chip accompaniment.

    That's about to change if Poppies have anything to do with it. The trad chip

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  • The Chipping Forecast returns to Soho in a permanent spot

    The Chipping Forecast returns to Soho in a permanent spotThe fish and chips restaurant with the great name used to be on the market at Berwick Street. Now they're coming back to Soho for good. 

  • Sutton and Sons in Stoke Newington are launching a vegan fish and chips menu

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    The latest section of the London food scene to chase the vegan pound is the chippy. And Stoke Newington's Sutton & Sons are first out of the gate. They're launching a new vegan menu with vegan ‘fish’ & chips.

    They did some noodling around with ideas during Veganuary apparently and came up with the idea of using banana blossom which they say is "remarkably like the real thing due to a marinating process in seaweed to give the fresh seafood

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  • Clerkenwell’s got a new fish and chip shop called United Chip

    Clerkenwell’s got a new fish and chip shop called United ChipForget your greasy local frier - Clerkenwell’s new fish and chip restaurant United Chip’s all about the millennial pink, Bangkok prawn burgers and complimentary aioli.

  • Test Driving Gilly's Fry Bar, where a chippy + Asian influences is a very good thing

    currychipsWe check out a new addition to Finsbury Park, where pretty special things are happening under the guise of a Fish and Chip shop...

     

  • Trawler Trash comes to Islington - sustainable seafood on Upper Street

    Trawler Trash comes to Islington - seafood on Upper Street

    A Hot Dinners exclusive

    What: Trawler Trash

    In a nutshell: A new fish restaurant for Islington

    Summing it all up: Expect a sustainable, weekly changing seafood menu. And there's a cocktail bar at the back too. 

  • Poppie's Fish and Chips hits Soho's Old Compton Street

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    Two fish and chip stories in as many days? Who'd have thought the chippy would be a 2016 trend for London? Following hard on the heels of yesterday's story about new Notting Hill opening The Chipping Forecast comes news that Poppie's Fish and Chips is opening in Soho. They'll be taking over where The House of Ho was and which used to be the old 2i’s

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  • Sutton and Sons fish and chips comes to Islington

    Sutton and Sons fish and chips comes to Islington

    Fish and chips aren't just for Fridays. Stoke Newington based chippy Sutton & Sons is proving such a success (also opening in Boxpark in Shoreditch) they're opening a new site in Islington's Essex Road. It's an street that's not blessed with great places to eat and owners Danny and Hana Sutton are confident they'll soon become a local favourite. 

    The menu - based around freshly caught, hand picked fish from

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  • Kensington Place adds a pop-up fish & chip shop Notting Gill Chippy

    chippyUpdated 5/9/15 with extended opening details

    Kensington Place has recently had a bit of a refurb and now they're adding something new - a pop up chippy. The food, as befits its location, is certainly more upmarket than most fish and chip shops.

    For instance, on the menu will be:

    • Lobster Thermi-Bun, a savoury doughnut filled with lobster thermidor sauce (pictured). 
    • Bitter & Twisted Scampi - made with whisky-cask-matured Harviestoun
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