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Ross Dunn

UK's best takeaways 2021: Two Ayrshire chip shops named among the best in the country

Two Ayrshire chips shops have been named among the best takeaways in the country for the second year running.

The pair have been revealed as the best of the best alongside fast food royalty up and down the UK.

The Plaice to Be in Kilmarnock and The Fish Works in Largs were the only two Ayrshire takeaways named in Fry Magazine's Top 50 Takeaways Awards 2021.

And the duo are only two of a handful of Scottish venues to make the prestigious list

The news comes as Ayrshire Live unveiled some of the best chippies across the region.

Fish and chip bosses at the Plaice to Be said on Facebook they were assessed on their adaption to coronavirus regulations as well as the usual quality markers including service, cleanliness, and the quality of food.

The venue posted: "We are again officially in the UK top 50 fish and chip takeaway for 2021.

"We had a mystery shopper come to try our fish and chips and it was based on service, cleanliness, adaptation to Covid and of course our quality of fish and chips! We scored an overall 98 per cent.

"Maintaining our quality, using the best product, perfecting oil management, batter and continuously trying to look to the future by developing our skills and and products by monitoring industry trends and changing markets!"

The UK's 50 best takeaways

  • Auckley Friery, Auckley, South Yorkshire
  • Callaways Fish & Chips, Dorchester, Dorset
  • Carlo’s, Alnwick, Northumberland
  • Castiglio's Fried Fish & Chips, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire
  • Chippy Chippy, Holyhead, Anglesey
  • Chips @ No.8, Prestwich, Manchester
  • Chish & Fips, Norwich, Norfolk
  • Cox’s At The Lighthouse, St Neots, Cambridgeshire
  • Croft Street Fisheries, Farsley, Leeds
  • Davenport’s Fish & Chips, Louth, Lincolnshire
  • David’s Fish And Chips, Brixham, Devon
  • Dhillons Fish Inn, Throckley, Newcastle
  • Dunkeld Fish Bar, Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross
  • East Coast, Musselburgh, East Lothian
  • Every Fish Bar, Harrow, London
  • Farnhams Fish And Chips, Boverton, Llantwit Major
  • Fiddlers Elbow Fish and Chips, Leintwardine, Herefordshire
  • Finn's Traditional Fish and Chips, Reading, Berkshire
  • Fintans Fish & Chip Co, Llanishen, Cardiff
  • Fish 'n' Fritz, Weymouth, Dorset
  • Fisherman’s Bay, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
  • Fochabers Fish Bar, Fochabers, Moray
  • Fraser's Fish and Chips, Penzance, Cornwall
  • Frydays of Kendal, Kendal, Cumbria
  • George's Fish And Chips, Hanham, Bristol
  • Harlees Fish & Chips, Westbury, Wiltshire
  • Henley's of Wivenhoe, Wivenhoe, Essex
  • Hiks, Brynhyfryd, Swansea, Glamorgan
  • Hooked On The Heath, Knutsford, Cheshire
  • Jason's Fish And Chips, Rackheath, Norwich, Norfolk
  • Land & Sea, Sowerby, York, North Yorkshire
  • Linfords Traditional Fish and Chip Shop, Market Deeping, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
  • Market Hill Fisheries, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
  • McLeod's Fish and Chips, Inverness
  • My Plaice Fish and Chips, Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk
  • Newington Fish Bar, Ramsgate, Kent
  • Priory Plaice Fish and Chips, Ulverston, Cumbria
  • Sea Salt + Sole, Dyce, Aberdeen
  • Seasmiths Fish + Chips, Porthtowan, Truro, Cornwall
  • Shap Chippy, Penrith, Cumbria
  • Shaw’s Fish And Chips, Dodworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
  • Smith’s Chippy, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
  • Sykes, Pendlebury, Salford, Greater Manchester
  • The Cafe Royal, Annan, Dumfriesshire
  • The Cottage by Haddocks, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire
  • The Crescent Fish & Chip Shop, Flint, Flintshire
  • The Esk Cafe, Carlisle, Cumbria
  • The Fish At Goose Green, Wigan, Lancashire
  • The Fish Bar, Crewe, Cheshire
  • The Fish Works, Largs, North Ayrshire
  • The Friary, Carrickfergus, County Antrim
  • The Golden Fry, Benllech, Isle of Anglesey
  • The Horseshoe Fish Bar, Pontnewynydd, Torfaen
  • The Little Chippy Tyldesley, Manchester
  • The Plaice to Be, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
  • The Shire Fryer, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
  • Tony’s, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire
  • Towngate Fisheries, Idle, Bradford, West Yorkshire
  • Valerio’s Fish And Chips, Lanark, South Lanarkshire
  • Yan’s Fish Bar, Cardiff

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