Organised by Seafish, the public body that supports the £10bn UK seafood industry, the National Fish & Chips Awards are the UK’s premier awards for fish and chip businesses.
Quayside Restaurant & Fish Bar will now compete against nine other finalists for the chance to take home the coveted title of the ‘UK’s best fish and chip restaurant’.
The UK’s top 10 fish & chip restaurants are, in alphabetical order:
fish! Borough Market, Borough Market, London
Fish City Belfast, Belfast
Knights Fish & Chip Restaurant, Glastonbury, Somerset
Malt and Anchor, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Quayside Restaurant & Fish Bar, Gourdon, Aberdeenshire
Saltwater Fish Restaurant, Torquay, Devon
Something Else Fishy, Milborne Port, Sherborne, Dorset
The Cods Scallops, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
The Fisherman’s Wife, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Trenchers Restaurant, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
The restaurant award category is open to all UK fish and chip businesses with a sit-in restaurant at the main business location.
The National Fish & Chip Awards recognise outstanding restaurants across the country that are serving incredible fish and chips and providing excellent customer service. Shortlisted businesses have gone above and beyond to secure their place in this stage of the competition.
It’s not just about food quality, there are a wide variety of additional factors that make these restaurant's stand out, including: excellence in the sustainable sourcing of key ingredients; staff training and development policies and career opportunities for young people and creation of innovative menu options for those with allergies and dietary requirements.
Judges will make a final round of visits to each of the restaurants for mystery dining assessments, before crowning the UK’s best fish and chip restaurant on 23 January 2020 at the award ceremony in London.
Marcus Coleman, Chief Executive at Seafish, said: “The UK is world-renowned for fish and chip takeaways, but there are plenty of incredible restaurants serving tasty, healthy fish and chips to sit in customers day in day out.
"We have 10 of these exceptional restaurants represented in this list. Each is a credit to our industry and we wish them all good luck in the final round of judging.”
Award sponsor Alan Pearce, Field Sales Manager at Goldensheaf, added: “These top 10 restaurants have proven themselves to be focused on providing the best sit in fish and chips dining experience available in the UK today.
"Each of them excels in a number of different areas from the quality of food they offer through to their commitment to sustainability and the way in which they support and develop their staff. Any one of them would make a worthy winner, best of luck to them all.”
