chippers are a plebs food, common as muck. give me pan fried seared bass any day. Batter for ****s sake
I couldn't say which is the best I've had but wherever I've lived I've found a good one and stuck with it. It's worth travelling a few extra miles to get quality. There's one in Downham Market which is/was holder of the prestigious "Best Chippy in East Anglia" award.
The best chippy I've ever been to sadly closed years ago. Maude's in Latimer Road only used to open for a few hours a day but the queues went out the door and down the road. The secret was cooking everything fresh and they only used beef dripping, no vegetable or fish oils at all. You never got huge portions but you didn't need them, the dripping made sure your arteries were clogged before you got to the bottom of the bag. No pies, no kebabs, no chicken, just fish and chips. Maude's old feller kicked the bucket and the son didn't want to carry on the business so I've been told. Shame because it was local and I've never had chips like it since. Regarding the OP don't northernshire folk call them Chip Oils?
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Latimer Road Tube? I used to live very near to it but the main road is called Bramley Road. Not sure where Latimer Road as in the actual road is? There is a row of shops under the Westway and can't remember much in the other direction other than a cafe.
When I was a little kid there was a chip wagon that visited our village on Tuesdays, even though me and my mates were usually skint if we rocked up on our bmx s the lady would give us scraps, crunchy bits of batter... I know this was common in the 80s but I doubt many places do this anymore especially for free...
There is also a ponsy chain called fish works in London where you can buy lobster and chips plus traditional type stuff with a decent bottle of wine, I sometimes take the kids to the one in Piccadilly as they always eat everything put in front of them.. This is definitely not called a chippy or chipper and they put the chips in a tiny half tin can thing with grease proof paper.... In fact I'm going when I get back to London...
Latimer Road station is on the road that turns into Bramley Road just under the Westway. Back in the day before the Westway split that part of the world it used to run all the way to North Pole Road and it is in the truncated part of Latimer Road that Maude's used to be. Next to what used to be The British Volunteer pub. There is another chippy at the end of the road - Micks Fish Bar from memory - that started when Maude's was still going but they expanded into chicken, pies, burgers etc to catch the custom that didn't want just traditional fish and chips. The shops under the Westway that you are thinking of are rough by any standard, would not venture there! There was also a decent chippy that used dripping to fry with right next to the iron bridge at the top of Golbourne Road, just before Trellick Tower but that got taken over in the mid 70's and they never tasted as good. Do any other chippies fry with dripping these days? I haven't found one in decades in the South but wondered if our UpNorthernShire cousins may still get decent chips.
20 odd years ago and I only lived there for about 8 months so it's all a bit vague plus I was veggie in those days so tended to get either vegetable curry or on market days head up to Portobello Road for a Jamaican pattie. Was looking at the area on googlemaps, totally changed. There used to be a New Age Traveller site behind our flats, looks like it's now part of an expanded sports center. Don't know if they still do but Harry Ramsden used to only use dripping.
