How much is a large fish and chips where you are?
Posted by xParesh@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 351 comments
I've just come back from London where we had a large cod and chips from Poppies and it was £22.95 for a large battered cod and £5.95 for chips - that was £28.90 per person and even the cheapest regular fish was £19.99 plus £4.95 for regular chips came to £24.94 per person. The quality was great but the price was eeek!
How much is a battered cod/haddock fish and chips where you are?
Artistic_Let9937@reddit
London is more expensive but Poppies isn't exactly representative of a typical chippy.
wildOldcheesecake@reddit
I find people tend to not realise that London is more than just the City & Westminster. There are a vast number of boroughs that boast a wide variety for towns. Chippys are well priced, even cheap in some places whilst still very decent. It’s just that tourists are unlikely willing to visit the suburbs and such.
Otherwise_Living_158@reddit
I found fish and chips to be by far the cheapest takeaway option when I lived in South London, it was actually suspiciously cheap.
Fish and chips is also terrible in London in general.
kazman@reddit
Exactly, I'm in North London and will pay between £10 and £15 for a decent plate of fish and chips. Central London is a different story.
sorryimhighrightnow@reddit
That isn't a bad price! I live in Leicester and used to pay a tenner for fish&chips, and that was for something I'd consider smaller than a small fish&chips. It was the best chippy in Leicester, though, before it unfortunately closed its doors for good.
kazman@reddit
Yes, it's not bad at all, at the lower end you'll be getting a small portion of fish but that's enough for me once the chips are added! All this talk is making me hungry, I may go there for lunch if I have enough time.
ClockAccomplished381@reddit
Even by Poppies standard that's gone up a lot, I used to go to the one in Spitalfields Market and it was about £8.50 for haddock just before COVID.
Coffchill@reddit
Yep. Was going to say that too. If you’re having fish and chips in the centre of town then that will make things dearer too.
Conscious-Dust-4942@reddit
Ours was £12.50 for medium cod and chips in surbiton it was a great shop called Top Cof but they went out of business so it was probably too cheap.
HarHenGeoAma62818@reddit
Pretty expensive here in Brighton too
Miserable_Future6694@reddit
It's usually around £10-12 in Northumberland.
Chinese takeaway is a bigger robbery though. Frozen chips £1.50 kg somehow turns into £3.50 cooked. I can understand chippy's charging £3 for a portion of chips when they turn a potato into a chip
Abquine@reddit
Aberdeen, fresh off the boat, jumbo battered haddock with chips, £12. Regular £9.
StarShipYear@reddit
Two issues worth pointing out here:
Sounds like OP either ordered separate portions or was incorrectly charged.
xParesh@reddit (OP)
uh oh. I think we must ordered the eat in prices that was on the menu but then ended up walking outside and sat eating eating next to the bins.
Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit
Incredible life choice
AdPale1469@reddit
this does my head in.
I've been KFC, and there is some little youth standing at the counter with his colonels meal, waiting for his friend.
Does he wait for his friend to get his meal?
no, he fucking stands there, and demolishes his 3 peices and chips while looking the guy that just served him straight in the eye.
like wtf bro
Sit down, get comfortable, then enjoy.
Razzzclart@reddit
Bit rubbish IMO
Apprehensive_Ask1157@reddit
No reason to trash talk
Razzzclart@reddit
Throw away comments like these aren't welcome either
SpecialLengthiness29@reddit
bin there, done that
Razzzclart@reddit
Stop wasting my time
Apprehensive_Ask1157@reddit
Don’t talk garbage
Yorks_Rider@reddit
Still better than having your fish stolen out of your hand by a sea gull.
Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit
Aye, because seagulls notoriously never hang around near scraggy bins.
Responsible-Mail-661@reddit
Millenial
Blue_Frog_766@reddit
Classy.
NekoZombieRaw@reddit
Nah not how it works at poppies. Am a regular there; They have table service; there's no way you could be charged the eat in price at the counter.
StarShipYear@reddit
Yeah but not only that, you ordered individual items rather than ordering a "supper" which would have been cheaper either way.
PatserGrey@reddit
not that I've lived in many parts of the UK but the only place I've heard of a "supper" was Belfast
StarShipYear@reddit
That's how it's described on the menu.
"Fish Supper Served"
"COME WITH CHIPS AND HOMEMADE TARTARE SAUCE"
PatserGrey@reddit
Oh yeah, I get that much, it's like the "meal deal". It's just when you said it, it reminded me of Belfast and I've not seen it here in England*
*Time here has mostly been confined to London and SE
JimmyJonJackson420@reddit
It’s £30 a head for fish and chips at Tom Kerridges in Harrods, I’d just go there if I was paying that anyway
LLHandyman@reddit
You've bin had
InsaneInTheRAMdrain@reddit
£16? Its £8 here and that comes with curry / gravy or peas.
StarShipYear@reddit
Cool
DefinitelyNotIndie@reddit
Not from an actual fish and chips plaice it isn't. Large fish and chips in the plaice at the bass of Muswell Hill is under 15 quid and you can sit and eat it at the tables. In a gastropub, yeah, over 20 quid.
StarShipYear@reddit
But I'm not taking about other place. I'm talking about the place OP went to.
DefinitelyNotIndie@reddit
Yeah, I think we're just reacting to the way OP quoted his price, said it was too high, and then asked how much they would cost around you, as if the sit down price in a restaurant is the representative "fish and chips price." The price of fish and chips in a restaurant is only indicative of the price of food in restaurants of that particular level. The "price of fish and chips" is, or should be, the price at a chippie.
tmr89@reddit
Sounds like they made it up for effect. It wasn’t £28.90 per person
Ligeiapoe@reddit
Yes, the £22.95 should include the fish, chips and tartare sauce in the dine in at Poppies.
trcr3600@reddit
Barnsley here. £8.60 gets you fish, chips and mushy peas.
GentlemanJim534@reddit
Barnsley is the plaice to be
Marmalade43@reddit
You won't get batter than that.
GreenEyeFly@reddit
Good cod
Apprehensive_Ask1157@reddit
Saved himself a few squid.
jackgrafter@reddit
All these puns are giving me a bad haddock.
Asl687@reddit
Stop carping on about it!
ConsequenceApart4391@reddit
Oh my cod will you give it a rest. I’ve haddock with your puns.
tvbeth@reddit
You're trout of order!
ConsequenceApart4391@reddit
You’re “reely” started to annoy me on another “scale”
bobkairos@reddit
Oh, for Cod's Hake, stop the puns.
totallyhumanhonest@reddit
Fish.
Consistent_Ad3181@reddit
Ignore them they are just doing it for the 'Halibut'.
Previous_Process4836@reddit
All these puns enough to make you eel
kazman@reddit
😂
Previous_Process4836@reddit
All this talk of fish and chips is making me eel
Away-Ad4393@reddit
Down here in Devon it’s around £14 for coffee and chips, regular size.
RegalRoseRed@reddit
No fish with that?
Away-Ad4393@reddit
That was supposed to read fish and chips🙄I’ll change it.
RegalRoseRed@reddit
Lol I was going to say that has to be the most expensive portion of chips ever 😆
r33c31991@reddit
Summer Lane chippy 😉
FoxedforLife@reddit
Haven't spent much time in Barnsley but went to an all you can eat curry house buffet there a few years ago and it was dead cheap.
fabulousteaparty@reddit
Rochdale here, my local chippy has a special - £7:50 for a "small" fish, chips and peas. - When I moved in 3 years ago it was £4 😭
totallyhumanhonest@reddit
BARNSLEY!
htimchis@reddit
Cheap as chips...
HurloonMinotaur@reddit
Outstanding
TheNorthDock@reddit
£10.70 large haddock or cod and chips at the local chippy
Suitable-Growth2970@reddit
£15.25 large cod, chips, a side (mushy peas or beans or curry sauce etc) with a can drink.
London
Great_Comparison462@reddit
Cod is a lot more expensive. Get haddock.
peanutbutteroverload@reddit
Large cod £10.99, large chips £3.99 curry/gravy £1.99....absolutely grim. That's not even bad by what I'm seeing online.
Glad I left the UK.
Pretend_Peach3248@reddit
£15 for 2 large fish, 2 large chips, a side and 2 cans.
Doug__Quaid@reddit
Scotland - 12.90 for a large fish and chips
SolisAeterni@reddit
£18-£20 in Shetland (takeaway too)
xParesh@reddit (OP)
You have shockingly good quality and quantity fish and shockingly low prices.
Mysterious_Brush7020@reddit
How is 13 quid a good price for frozen fish and chips shipped in from Sysco or some shite and then battered and fried. That's an awful price.
specofdust@reddit
Yeah but you have to go to Dalkeith for it.
Mysterious_Brush7020@reddit
Very true, it is a shitehole.
Bopping_Shasket@reddit
Everyone knows you don't buy fish and chips in London
Oceansoul119@reddit
Medium cod, 2x battered sausage, large chips comes to £17.40 as that's what I bought yesterday. The birds got the leftover chips this morning.
Skanedog@reddit
£9.50
Nick6819@reddit
Leicestershire, Probably about £7 for the fish, £3.50 for medium chips, £1.50 for mushy peas.
JBH-JustBeingHonest@reddit
Cheshire £6.95 fish / large pollock £2.95 chips
Far_Requirement7954@reddit
How!?
tmr89@reddit
Probably small fish
JBH-JustBeingHonest@reddit
It’s a large pollock as I said
tmr89@reddit
“Large”
JBH-JustBeingHonest@reddit
Here is a google review with a picture of the fish. Don’t know why I would lie about fish & chips mate
tmr89@reddit
I don’t know why, either. But it’s quite easy to do
JBH-JustBeingHonest@reddit
Johnstodd@reddit
Same price as in South Wales. The chips are massive too, 2 bags does our family of 4.
PoonDestroyer42069@reddit
large fish and chips (haddock, not cod) in my local chippy is now £9.00. It's a local man, very loved in the community and very loved. He keeps prices as low as possible and is very popular because of this. I live in North Lincolnshire.
True-Comfortable-465@reddit
I just had a “small fish dinner” in Reading for £11.50. It contained 2 pieces of battered cod, seemed quite a large portion to me, and enough chips for two meals. Also came with an apple pie I neither wanted or needed, but had to get to have the meal price. Could have had a drink but I don’t drink pop.
crayfell@reddit
East cornwall here. Regular cod, chips & sauce (gravy/curry/mushy peas) £12.60 for takeaway, £16.95 to eat in.
FordZodiac@reddit
How can a bag of chips cost almost six quid? They are just spuds!
56Hotrod@reddit
About £12-13 for a medium cod & chips on my part of the south coast (Bournemouth area).
Bex1775@reddit
£17.50 near me, but the size of the portion is about a third less than it was 12 months ago. Hereford
Bex1775@reddit
Ooh mushy peas on top is an extra £3.75 😅
Ljw1000@reddit
Takeout 3 medium cod & 2large chips £30 Walmer, Kent.
Sufficient-Star-1237@reddit
£11
bengreen04@reddit
Colchester, I’d say about £11.50-13
Hylobius@reddit
I nearly shat myself when I spent £16 on a special fish supper the other day!
That's near Glasgow.
MattyFTM@reddit
Went to the chippy for the first time in a while the other day. Was £28 for two large fish, two large chips, too curry sauce and two buns. Took forever, too (although they did throw in two cans of pop to apologise for the wait and I didn't even complain).
FlowerpotPetalface@reddit
About £9. North West England
v2marshall@reddit
Usually between £10-12 for a takeaway. More than that I wouldn’t buy it unless it was a sit down restaurant
SpecialLengthiness29@reddit
Wetherspoons do a "fish and chips" for £9.50. Of course it's a little bit shit.
FabulousEnglishman@reddit
A large cod and large chips at my nearest chippy is around £12
However you can get chips in a naan bread which you can then use to create a cod, chippy naan sandwich.
No_Psychology_8169@reddit
Last one I had (North Wales):
Two small fish and chips, 2 battered sausage, chicken nuggets, and curry sauce = £22.50
K0monazmuk@reddit
£12.30 for Cod & Chips, Small village chippy in Wiltshire, enough to feed two people.
Just down the road at a farm shop its £17.30 for the same...............
No idea why its '30p' on top for both.
totallyhumanhonest@reddit
You can go see a skeleton of a blue whale for free in The Natural History Museum and an Intel 17-14700k costs about £319.99 in London branches of Currys.
McLeod3577@reddit
Holy crap it's just under £15 delivered from the expensive farm shop near me in Devon. They have their own fleet at Brixham too, so fish is always really fresh.
darkdetective@reddit
Greendale? Their fish and chips are always brilliant.
McLeod3577@reddit
Indeed!
ADM_ShadowStalker@reddit
South east coast, I think its about £15? Might be cheaper if your rock up but I've ordered it through just eat a couple times.
TensionWarm1936@reddit
Go down to Seascape in Balham and get a miles better F&C than Poppies for half the price, with a can of drink included. Poppies is absolutely nothing special and is full of tosser influencers taking photos of themselves with their stupid faces next to some haddock.
dallasp2468@reddit
£13 - 18 for fish depending on the type and size (£15 for a large cod) and a £4 large portion of chips can feed 3 adults easily.
pickindim_kmet@reddit
£6.20 solo fish, £8.60 for fish and chips at my local takeaway chippy which is the best in town. The very best sit-in restaurant in the area is £14.95 for fish and chips and a tea/coffee included.
Fish and chips is the one thing I just don't eat away from the coast, no way am I getting it in the likes of London again.
glasgowgeg@reddit
Around £9 where I am in Glasgow
Neal_Ch@reddit
About £12 round my way…. South UK
SHalls17@reddit
Like £10-13?
not_a_bot991@reddit
Actual chippies not a restaurant: £17 for a large haddock and chips (Guildford Surrey)
oportoman@reddit
FFS that's ridiculous. You wouldn't pay that in a restaurant for that where I live.
Badnewsbrowne316@reddit
If that was in Camden you could've walked to Chalk Farm and found far better and cheaper options.
Archduke645@reddit
6.95 for Haddock and Chips in Margate on the seafront and it's tasty af
codechris@reddit
to be fair I've had cheaper in London including sit down. Kennedys on Goswell road
Orangeandjasmine777@reddit
A really nice country pub/restaurant in Herefordshire.. Fish and chips is around £14.
PatserGrey@reddit
Essex commuter town, large cod is £10.50, Haddock and Plaice are £12. "Small" chips is £3.50 but easily covers our family of 4. Portion sizes considered, we could be well fed for £14. I imagine when the kids are older, we'll hark back to these "cheap" days
ukpunjabivixen@reddit
South east london. It’s under £20
No_Battle_6402@reddit
£12 midlands for a large fish and a small chips (nearest chippy to me)
slade364@reddit
£14.20 near Bromsgrove.
monsieurkinkle@reddit
poppies is a tourist trap
j44ska@reddit
Prices depends of oil used. Halal (palm oil) ones are stull cheap. Proper ones with beef dripping are few £ more.
greyfox19@reddit
In Caerphilly south wales, my local chip shop is £7 for a bag of fish and chips
chroniccomplexcase@reddit
£12.75 for a large cod and chips or large haddock and chips or £11.50 for a large plaice and chips. Sausage and chips or battered sausage and chips is £7.25 and my order of large vegetable spring roll and chips is £7.50. Every option comes with either mushy peas, curry sauce, baked beans or side salad which I don’t think is common in most places anymore.
Plus the large fish and chips is such a large serving that it easily serves 2 people. For example I live next door to my parents, so we share an order. They order a large fish and chips and I just order the spring roll on its own and they wrap the fish separate to the chips, as the portion of chips easily splits 3 ways (and fills the plate up) and they split the fish portion in half and I have the large spring roll; with the mushy peas split 3 ways too. So for the price of £12.75 for the fish and chips and peas and £2.75 for the spring roll, you feed 3 adults for £15.50- which I don’t think is bad value at all.
The place is well known not just locally but far afield, even though it’s not near the sea, as it’s a large truck stop that has a massive car park to the one side for trucks to stay over night with shower facilities and toilets etc. As well as fish and chips they have a kebab part and a pizzeria too. Plus a corner shop/ convenience store/ off licence as it’s on a main road in a rural part of the county- so many locals use it an easier shop to get to for essentials because it’s closer/ easier to drive to over the nearest towns. Especially at night/ weekends as they open until much later. So it’s a very handy and popular place and all the food is very good and you get a lot for the price.
MikeSizemore@reddit
London too, but a snip at £10.50 for an XL cod and £4 for large chips. Cant get decent gravy of course and they’ve never heard of a babby’s yed or pey wet, but I’ve almost adjusted to that after 25 years.
Jezbod@reddit
Regular fish & chips with gravy - £11.50 from a mobile van, comes every Saturday ay 18:30. North Yorkshire.
jinglesan@reddit
But the north is getting expensive too - a single tea and a scone at Betty's Tea Room in York was £11.90?!?
It's almost like the OP and I are paying top-end tourist prices rather than looking for a regular place with more representative pricing?
hodgey66@reddit
Expensive considering not the usual overheads
Carlps77@reddit
Gravy.. just throw that £11.50 in the bin each Saturday why don’t you 😱
WatchingStarsCollide@reddit
Found the southern jessy
JustAnotherFEDev@reddit
Chipshop gravy is nice. It's pretty much a war crime to have it with fish, though. It's for pies.
Peas or curry for fish and chips.
Carlps77@reddit
This is the way 😁
tartanthing@reddit
Do you have the schedule for the rest of the UK?
X2seraphim@reddit
I was on a Royal Navy base not long ago and got fish and chips ( takeaway quality ) it was £1:50😂
History_86@reddit
£10.80 for a large cod n chips here in Gretna
No_Seat443@reddit
Nando’s or Memets (that doesn’t take cards so doesn’t get my business)?
History_86@reddit
Does on Foodhub
No_Seat443@reddit
Not helpful you don’t want to pay an additional service fee etc for that. Just get a card machine or take card payments on an iPhone/Android. It’s a cost if doing business like electricity, oil, rates, bank fees for a business bank account…..
Esp. as the only way to pay cash in is Cumberland Building Society or PayPoint as bank and Post Office already long ran away.
History_86@reddit
There’s two cash machines just go grab a twenty n stop moaning. Or pay 50p service fees on Foodhub and collect. It’s really not that hard
No_Seat443@reddit
That’s fine .. I’ll keep voting with my feet and take my discretionary spending elsewhere … if they don’t value customer feedback.
supperfash@reddit
You'll be confusing the world with the original Nandos.
No_Seat443@reddit
🤔😂
xParesh@reddit (OP)
was the n just a typo or was that meant to mean 'and'? ;o
Barkasia@reddit
You never seen 'n' as a contraction of 'and'?
Fish n Chips, Salt n Pepper, Rock n Roll?
GentlemanJim534@reddit
🤣🤣🤣 I thought everyone knew 'n' means and
Garlic_Wild@reddit
Just remember that 50% of people are below average intelligence…
Blazing_Ganja@reddit
It's probably an ai bot. I don't believe that an English speaker wouldn't have seen that abbreviation before.
TheVentiLebowski@reddit
Rock and/or roll.
DarkMime64@reddit
£13.60 at my local, for a large cod and large chips. This is Northamptonshire.
Neat_Issue8569@reddit
About £1.60, but to be fair I live in a temporal rift where it's simultaneously 2025 and 1972.
Traditional-Ice9940@reddit
Our local is £20 for cod and chips.
Seeing london prices, I know we got ripped off. Last time, I'll support the locals as the number of chips was minuscule.
Unusual_Resident_784@reddit
£12.50ish North Wales.
Relevant_Natural3471@reddit
Bit of a broad localisation - can nominate an approx £7.50 in North Wales
theawesomepurple@reddit
£19 for large cod and chips, nothing else.
imhiya_returns@reddit
£15 Cambridge
SpinMeADog@reddit
nearest chippy to me does large cod, chips, and mushy peas/gravy/curry sauce for 9 quid. The large portion of chips is hard enough to finish on its own to be honest. I'd sooner kick a bear up the arse than pay 30 fucking quid for a fish supper in london
Clear-Ad-2998@reddit
Here in Perpignan,at the Balthazar Brasserie, I'm eating cod and chips with fresh fries, mesclun and homemade tartare sauce for 19.90 euros, and it's very good. Lovely fin de siècle imitation ambiance, rapid and efficient service.
Creepy-Albatross-588@reddit
£12 for fish and chips. In live in a little town on the north west coast. It’s about £8 for a small fish and chips. I moan about having to pay £3.50 for a large chips!
Send_bird_pics@reddit
The best fish and chips in the UK is from a roaming van called Hake, usually around Newcastle. £15 for a huge portion but the quality is absolutely knock out and everything is home made. He also chars off a lemon for ya to add on top. Sensational. Think this is my small portion (£12) and I’d already eaten the chips haha.
Working-Hat4932@reddit
North staffordshire id say around £9.50 w/mushy peas and curry sauce
Hurricane_Taylor@reddit
Large chips here in Bristol are £5, large fish is £10. We don’t get fish anymore, and the chips are large enough to feed the four of us.
I usually get 1 large chips, 4 battered sausages and 2 pots of curry sauce for £15
Crazy_Breakfast_6327@reddit
Southampton: about £12
Matt_Wolfe@reddit
Fish and chips on pier in Cleethorpes their "super size" is 20 quid. Worth every penny!
Ill-Championship4982@reddit
I’m in Asia where it’s £7.00 for cod, chips and beans on Fridays
PresidentPopcorn@reddit
Large cod and chips is about 8 quid at my local in Lancashire.
integrity_girl@reddit
I live in east London. About £10. One of the worst rated places I've come across but the guy has known me my entire life and he always makes me a really good batch of chips so I'm happy
zonaa20991@reddit
We got haddock and chips, sausage and chips, a pair of spam fritters, and a pea fritter last night. The total was £28. In Plymouth
Extension-Art6345@reddit
My local chippy is one of the best in the country Newington Fish bar near Ramsgate. I got a decent size bit of haddock they’re small portion of chips which is more like a medium and a gherkin for £11.80. I think the large cod is £12.50 on its own so more expensive than the haddock
OptionalQuality789@reddit
Edinburgh can be anywhere from £10-17 depending where you go
Ilsluggo@reddit
South London - Large fish £10; large chips £4.50.
Conscious_Display965@reddit
£12.40 for a large haddock supper.
Otherwise-Plane8282@reddit
Where I live it’s £13.95 for large cod & chips but the piece of fish is huge and so is the portion of chips it could quite easily feed two people
Thislsnotmythrowaway@reddit
About £12, although my local does 3 fish, large chips, Spam Fritter and a large battered sausage for £17 so I usually do that
WhiteyLovesHotSauce@reddit
About £6 per person for us in Banbury for a large fish and large chips.
£4.80 for a large mixed meat & chips.
The real payment is from your anus the next morning.
Consistent_Ad3181@reddit
Around 13 Quid for a large cod and large chips, no sides
xxLoopyxx@reddit
£11.80 from my local chippy in Derbyshire (not in a tourist area - where it would be more)
BaldPleaser@reddit
£11 - eat in or take away.
Oldham
PresentationUpset319@reddit
£10•50 over my way
Standard-Still-8128@reddit
The prices on here are 🤣🤣🤣 we feed 4 of us from chippy for 30quid chicken nuggets fish an fish bites for kids 3 chips curry sauce an cans of Pop each
_franciis@reddit
£13.50 for takeaway large haddock and chips at Chew Valley reservoir in Somerset. You can sit on the picnic benches outside the restaurant. Or you can pay £19 and have them bring it to you on the tables on the other side of the planters.
ScaryHippopotamus@reddit
I recently had small haddock and chips with mushy peas, bread and butter and a drink (I had coke zero but tea/coffee also avail) for £10.50.
Large would have been £12.50.
Sit down meal with table service. Wakefield.
Standard-Still-8128@reddit
Is that at queen's drive, it's ok there
Opening-Reward-5210@reddit
£14:50 from settle chippy. But then additions are like £1:50 for peas and £2 for curry sauce. Well worth it though Propper decent chippy that- batter is light and crispy c
Standard-Still-8128@reddit
Can get it for 7quid up to a tenner west Yorkshire
VastYogurtcloset8009@reddit
We went to a small town on the coast yesterday. Take the dog to the beach and have Chippy for dinner. 3 of us. Missus had fish and chips & gravy, myself and my daughter shared a fish and chips with peas & curry sauce, also got 2 drinks. £38 altogether 🤷. Like everything now, it's a fucking rip off.
from_nyc@reddit
Currently in Edinburgh, went to Landy's Proper Fish & Chips. Got their traditional Haddock and Chips for £16.95
woodstar11@reddit
Absolutely fuck mental, not a chance!
rudedogg1304@reddit
£11 , from a food truck that is only near my Mums place thurs to sat, 5pm-8pm. It’s fantastic . I’m in NI
Spottyjamie@reddit
£15 (northwest) and its not even cod or haddock any more
Holiday-Poet-406@reddit
About £13 I seldom select large cod though a mini fish and chips is typical a decent meal £9.
Tugging-swgoh@reddit
£11
reallyOldWill@reddit
The comments here are depressing. Used to be able to get mini fish and chips special for £2, 10 years ago. The world is done for.
ellieneagain@reddit
Someone got battered with those prices.
beeurd@reddit
A large fish and chips? About £15 altogether but we can easily split that between 3 adults.
presterjohn7171@reddit
Rick Stein in Padstow wants £21.50 for his, however the best fish and chips in Padstow are at Chip Ahoy which costs £13.50.
luffychan13@reddit
York - Regular fish and chips £9.95
Usual order is large cod, large chips, large battered sausage and curry sauce. Comes to £16.45 and is plenty for the two of us.
Zealousideal-Sail893@reddit
In coastal Geordiland, about £12 for a large cod and zillions of chips, plus we always receive a free whole pizza... 🍕
lilhaehnchen@reddit
We paid £22 for 2 large cod and chips in Cardiff at the weekend.
Sweet_Strategy-46@reddit
6.99 here for large cod and chips
GianantonioRandone@reddit
average is about £12 - 19 quid
Character_Start9227@reddit
Tenner
roop27@reddit
This reminds me of the fish and chips I had in Hampstead. £20 of rose flavoured filth. Never again
JoeDaStudd@reddit
£11.45 including a side for large chips and large cod/haddock, £9.50 for the regular cod/haddock.\ It will easily do two people.
Joeysaurrr@reddit
South Cheshire, large fish and chips is £6.90
purpleworrior@reddit
I got 2 small battered cod, 1 large chips, small curry sauce, large gravy, large sausage, £21 last night
salchicha_supremo@reddit
I get 2 cods and a large chips with gravy for £20.
Avionykx@reddit
South Coast town here - £12 for a cod and £4 for chips. Mushy peas / curry sauce is another £2.30 - so £18.30 for take away cod and chips.
fireheed@reddit
Just tipped over £10 for a battered fish and chips in Auchterarder.
Mundane-Research@reddit
I don't know about fish but I discovered early in my pregnancy that I could get a mini chips and potato scallop for about £2.10 from my chippy and that 100% became a staple craving for me... and the "mini chips" weren't nearly as "mini" as I had originally expected (although it does depend on who's on the till)
Chunkweena@reddit
Central Scotland, large fish and chips £9.40. with mushy peas £11.40
Rough-Army-6424@reddit
10.95 from my chippy for large cod and chips
quoole@reddit
£9.95 for plaice/haddock/large Cod (including chips.) £6.65 is the cheapest, also including chips and mushy peas.
In the Midlands, so quality isn't as good as somewhere coastal, but not bad!
Fluffy_Register_8480@reddit
£9.70 where I am
tobotic@reddit
Checking the price on Just Eat (pretty sure it's cheaper if you go there in person): £10.75 for a large cod and £4 for a large portion of chips. Decent quality.
LastofAcademe@reddit
Our local chippy in my part of Lancashire is a bit of a fancy fusion effort so I consider the prices slightly inflated based on that, but even then a regular cod and chips is about £11, jumbo cod and large chips is a little over £14. Little less than £2 for mushy peas/gravy/curry sauce.
TwentySevenMusicUK@reddit
West Midlands - £7.50 for a “small fish”, chips and sauce of your choice (gravy, peas or curry). I say “small fish” because it’s more like a large you’d get at other places.
No_Hawk8947@reddit
Ramsgate. £6.95 for a large hake and chips.
Brilliant_Aide_3849@reddit
9.50 large cod and chips
BeanOnAJourney@reddit
£13.60 for regular cod and large chips to take away (everything is individual items at my chippy so you can mix and match, cod comes in either small or regular but their portions are enormous so it'smore like large).
BarNo3385@reddit
£7 for a large fish and large chips- which is way more than 1 person's worth of food. (West Mids)
Cooganred@reddit
I’m just outside of London, technically still a London borough. Last week I had a large cod and chips — about £18 and some pence, though I can’t remember the exact figure. Funny thing is, when I was a kid, both Mum and Dad worked, and every Friday was either fish and chips or pie and mash. There were seven of us... Mum, Dad and five kids - and back then it was considered a cheap meal. Can you imagine what that would set you back nowadays?!!
ReplyResponsible2228@reddit
10.65 at Murgatroyds in Leeds. 10/10 quality and taste
Watcher1818@reddit
Near Nottingham.
£8.50 for Hake and chips About £10-£12 for Cod and chips depending on size.
Proof-Order2666@reddit
£12 for a large ( good sized) cod and massive chips
Easy-Cat@reddit
£11.80 in Norfolk for large cod and chips
cosmic_monsters_inc@reddit
Has fish and chips always been expensive? Like relatively.
Away-Ad4393@reddit
No fish and chips used to be a cheap meal. Now cod has been overfished it has become expensive.
Recent-Astronaut-397@reddit
£7.50 for amazing f&c, Colne, Lancashire
antde5@reddit
£12.50. I live in one of the areas with the lowest average wage in the UK.
melanie110@reddit
£8.99 for large haddock and chips and a sauce. It’s been on special for about a year
mastersmithson@reddit
Like £7 in Bournemouth
Cultural_Tank_6947@reddit
£9.50 still.
I think the owner is making a conscious effort to keep it under a tenner. They've definitely not raised prices in the last couple of years. The amount of chips has reduced and stuff like curry sauce etc has gone up. They've started charging for ketchup etc.
But keeping the actual price still low.
And it works. If you get there between 6 and 7, you have to queue up most days.
Whithorsematt@reddit
£13.80 in West Wiltshire for a large. Absolutely massive portion.
ddttm@reddit
Illogan in Cornwall, this weekend, cod and chips, absolutely beautifully cooked, £12. Nice sized cod and huge portion of chips. Quick service too as there was plenty in the cabinet, none of this pre-order stuff.
ginger_lucy@reddit
North London. Medium cod £10.50, large £12.20. Medium chips £3.50, large £4.50, but I can’t fathom anyone eating those alone unless for competitive purposes so you only need one between two. So I’d say a large fish and chips is £14.45 realistically.
Polz34@reddit
I'm in the South West and it's around £10
LJ161@reddit
Usually £14 at my local for the large cod and large chips but they really do mean large chips. We usually get one large chips between the three of us which cuts down costs
Rebellious-Banshee@reddit
Just under a tenner where I am
Any_Listen_7306@reddit
In a small tourist fishing town in Scotland (fish fresh off the boats) it's £19-£21 for a large haddock and chips. So pretty expensive. Supporting local fishermen, though.
According_Repeat6223@reddit
£7.60.. Harrogate. Moore than I could eat.
Rare-Grocery-8589@reddit
£12.50 average in North Tyneside.
SyrupMoney4237@reddit
£5. And it’s really delicious. Love living in rural Scotland.
CallousJoy@reddit
South East - £15 pp.
kylehyde84@reddit
Just under a tenner in cleggy yesterday
peahair@reddit
One thing I’ve learned today is that the phrase ’cheap as chips’ these days can only refer to the silicon variety.
SeasonKey769@reddit
11.90 large haddock and chips
xParesh@reddit (OP)
Sorry how much for the chips? I think you missed that price out.
CindysExtraTesticle@reddit
Fish and chips means you get fish AND chips
tmr89@reddit
They’re trolling, see e.g. the made up numbers
SeasonKey769@reddit
Chips 2.95, large fish 8.95.
ScaryHippopotamus@reddit
I assume the price quoted is for everything..
jhughes1986@reddit
About £10
PozzieMozzie@reddit
Bognor Regis, The Ocean Fish Bar is £8 for a large fish and chips...plenty for 2 ppl and the fish is basically a whale.
franki-pinks@reddit
About £10.
dandyeric@reddit
I paid £16 for sit in large fish and chips in East Devon in August. I thought that was steep and I’m aware that prices have risen for good chip shop fish
Aggravating-Day-2864@reddit
£12.50...NE
Joober81@reddit
I pay £9.50 at my local chippy for haddock, chips and mushy peas.
facialtwitch@reddit
About £8 here in Liverpool
lookhereisay@reddit
Essex - £8/9 for a big portion. Love Poppies though but I think you were charged the eat in amount as I’ve never spent that much in there.
CandleAffectionate25@reddit
£11-£13 Carlisle
Zealousideal-Habit82@reddit
Hove, £16 something for medium cod and large chips with a small curry sauce. It's cheaper in the pub next door with a pint. My chippy days are done. Bankers chippy Hangleton and Grenadier pub.
tubaleiter@reddit
£14 for a standard haddock and chips, £11 for a half haddock and chips. That’s on the beach, on the south coast.
eeedeat@reddit
Also London here. £9.50 haddock and chips
Prestigious-Slide-73@reddit
£18.70 from Winking Willies in Scarborough.
This is insane pricing and it wasn’t even very good. (I didn’t choose it, we were on a family camping trip and this is where my brother chose to pick them up from - don’t think my face hid my discontent at transferring nearly £40 for 2 portions)
Atarisrocks@reddit
Just looked up my locals £18.50 - £20.40 for large fish regular chips and then £2-3 for mushy peas.
They all serve soggy fish and undercooked chips so not sure if the price is so high as they don't get many customers or the town is full of OAPs who pay the price as they always get a chippy tea.
If I drive to the next town over it is £15 for large fish, chips and mushy peas or £15.50 to upgrade your chips.
bobbyv137@reddit
A lot
elsiehxo@reddit
My local (Southwest London) that's just closed down did a large cod and regular chips for £12
Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit
....probs should have charged more and stayed open, eh?
wildOldcheesecake@reddit
Nope. People want more than fish and chips these days.
twopeasandapear@reddit
Regular fish supper is £10.50 from my local, you get a "jumbo" for £15.
thekielmark73@reddit
London (enfield) zone 5, haddock and chips costs about £16.
This is from a bog standard kebab style takeaway.
A sloghtly moren specialist place about 3 miles away is about 16.70.
So pricey.
manksta@reddit
It's been a few years since I went last but Friday at Crosse Keys in Central London I used to get fish and chips with a pint of Guinness for under £10. It's a Weatherspoons but otherwise a very nice building with decent f&c.
RNGGOD69@reddit
My local chipshop does cod and chips for £5.80 on a monday otherwise its £8 for cod and £3 for chips. This is in the midlands.
murrzeak@reddit
Golden Chippy, which was my local in west Greenwich, was also hella spenny - £15.50/17.50 for cod and £5.0/7.5 for chips.
urmumr8s8outof8@reddit
Last fish and chips and extra chips I got a couple week ago was £12.
carni748@reddit
Around £8 from Lucy's fish bar in Swindon
Next-Trust-7386@reddit
£12 in beautiful Sandwich, south east Kent.
DookuDonuts@reddit
Takeaway cod & chips, regular £14.50 or large £18.50
BiscuitBarrel179@reddit
Milton Keynes price - Large cod £7.80, regular chips £2.70, curry sauce £1.50. 12 quid all in. I did regular sized portions of chips as a large will feed a family of 4.
trevpr1@reddit
I sit in Frydays in Preston and have a nice freshly cooked fish and chips, small pot of mushy peas and a pot of tea for £10.60.
gilestowler@reddit
Last time I was back in Croydon I got an absolutely massive portion for £12. It was great - good batter, proper chippy chips. I walked up to the park and sat there eating it with the little wooden fork thing.
All things considered, I didn't think it was a bad price, but I do realise that it's a huge increase from when I was young.
migo_81@reddit
Poppies is aimed at tourists who don't know any better.
East London here and usually pay around £13/£14
Remarkable_Might4245@reddit
13.50 large fish chips and peas
snarkycrumpet@reddit
£12.75 for large cod large chips
sy_core@reddit
East London - just over a tenner for fish & chips, but you get what you pay for. You can taste the oil they are cooked in, and they don't measure up to others. Sometimes they feel a bit rough and stale, but they are large portions, so all in all, not bad.
Walkera43@reddit
Burham on sea ,Somerset. £10.80 for large cod and chips with two pickled onions.
supperfash@reddit
A chippy/sit in near me, £23 for a 1lb hudduck and chips, and you get another free if you finish it, or a dessert. They also do a free under 5s meal.
I'd say their normal prices are a wee bit steep though, the fish however, you wont get much fresher.
Marmalade43@reddit
£13.50 Large cod, large chips.
Dissidant@reddit
Tell them to remove the "service charge" this has been going on in London a while and more recently happenning in take-aways outside it
pakman_84@reddit
Ive never brought a large but im guessing just under a tenner in brum
Arsewhistle@reddit
Who is getting a large fish and chips per person? Or are portions in London really stingy?
A large fish and chips is enough for both me and my wife, and it costs £12 (Cambridgeshire)
V65Pilot@reddit
Small cod and chips, £12. And I wasn't able to finish the chips...and I'm not exactly petite. Fish was a decent size too. CR2.
AlarmedAlarm626@reddit
£10 for large fish and chips in Oldham, the fish is as long as your forearm. Has to be mother Hubbards if you are passing through.
sjcuthbertson@reddit
At my local place here in Oxford, a large cod is £14.50 but that's big enough for two people to share, unless they're both really hungry. Large chips is £4.50 and again, fine for two to share in most cases.
So £19 gets cod and chips for two, basically, unless you're really ravenous (in which case add sides!). Regular cod and regular chips comes to £11.50 so you are better off buddying up.
However, my place does a whole range of other fish options. Cod is expensive because it's cod, and it's often overfished. I like hoki: at £7, less than a regular cod for a few more ounces. I only really order cod or haddock at chippies that don't have other options. Two hoki and a large chips is £18.50, but you're getting about 25% more fish for that money, so you definitely won't be left hungry.
Thick_Suggestion_@reddit
Large cod, large chips and peas £14
Batmanswrath@reddit
I get a large fish and chips, large battered sausage, and curry sauce for under £16 (including delivery).
SilkySmoothRalph@reddit
Just under £9 for regular haddock & chips in west Leeds.
Far_Requirement7954@reddit
West Leeds includes armley, so…
xParesh@reddit (OP)
;(
behemuffin@reddit
£10.50 in a nice ish bit of Surrey just inside the M25
shiny_director@reddit
I think it’s £9 West of Halifax.
FlatTyres@reddit
Medium cod: £9.00
Medium chips: £3.50
Large cod: £11.00
Large chips: £4.00
Same prices for Haddock and Rock.
Isleworth.
Guilty_Nebula5446@reddit
£9 Swansea
MacSamildanach@reddit
£10-£12 for a large piece of Cod and a regular chips (and a large mushy peas) from one of my locals in Nottingham. And similar at my other regularly used one.
ghoultooth@reddit
South Yorkshire and it’s about £12 for a regular fish, chips and peas
uncle_monty@reddit
My local chippy only does one size fish and it's £9, and Chips are £4.20 and £5.20.
zillapz1989@reddit
£5 for chips. FIVE bloody pounds!
WinkyNurdo@reddit
Poppies is deeply average. There are far better chippies all over London.
Substantial_Gene_15@reddit
£10.60 chippy round the corner from me in Glasgow
sabretoothian@reddit
£7.60 in sunny Lincoln :)
mudual@reddit
Sutton & sons in Stoke Newington & Hackney have very decent fish suppers, and quite reasonably priced in my opinion for London.
In Glasgow it would be about £9.50 for fish supper, or £6.50 for lunchtime deals. Depending on chippy. Based on Salt & Vinegar Shawlands.
PeteWTF@reddit
Only place I ever get fish and chips is a multi award winning place right on the seafront in Largs. It's about £12.50, depending on which fish you go for
No_Seat443@reddit
At these prices most of the time I’ll make my own. (It’s not actually that hard).
CatalunyaNoEsEspanya@reddit
I paid £10.30 in Liverpool and £11.50 in the Cotswolds. You.got rinsed
Scarboroughwarning@reddit
Seriously?!
Way less than that
minxorcist@reddit
Under a tenner in Newhaven, for large fish & chips, though I normally buy the OAP size at £4 something. Might get a medium cod and small chips if I'm hungry and still only pay £5 something.
Dil26@reddit
Welcome to London
Adorable-Lack-3578@reddit
There are good deals in London. Ask the cabbies.
Cloielle@reddit
London: large cod, large chips is £18.50, but when I say large, I mean that order will feed two adults and a big kid.
Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit
Yeah the £25 mark is pretty standard in boujie Ldn spots.
Chuck_The_Lad@reddit
In North London it's around £10. Where the hell is Poppies. I think you got scammed.
Final_Flounder9849@reddit
Large cod, haddock or plaice is £17 and large chips is £5
There’s one just a little further away which is £14 for large fish and £3.70 for large chips
Can you tell I’m in London?
SirDiesel1803@reddit
I expect 40 for a kebab 3 chips one big fish one mini 2 curry sauces. Brum
smushs88@reddit
Regular cod - £10.80 Regular chips - £3.60 Curry sauce - £3.25
Think for large you can add another £2 to the fish and I I’m not 100% on the chips, but I imagine it’s about the same again.
MarlaDurden144@reddit
I’m in London and it’s £14 via Uber eats, less in person (iirc £12 for large cod, chips and a drink).
Poppies is bougie.
helpnxt@reddit
About a tenner
Riskrunner7365@reddit
£15 - £17 ish for a large cod and large chips --- South of Dorset
Psycho_Splodge@reddit
About £11 in the local I think. Idk I don't order just fish and chips
martzgregpaul@reddit
£19.95 for a large cod and chips from the nice one (here in sheffield) or £17 from the one with the greasy owner with the hairy back...
BusyBeeBridgette@reddit
£11.50 at my local. Just outside of Reading.
Felgar36@reddit
In cemaesbay fish and chips for two was 19.90 last weekend
IOnlyUpvoteBadPuns@reddit
£12.50 large cod and chips in outer London. And by large I mean it's still got the broken off harpoon in it!
Particular-Ad-8888@reddit
Large Cod, Large Chips £16
No_Doughnut3257@reddit
No_Doughnut3257@reddit
£19.85 for everything, Keswick
wardyms@reddit
£12 near me but also easily feeds a family of four with young children. With plenty of chips spare.
dinkidoo7693@reddit
Weirdly I had a flyer through the door earlier Large cod or haddock is £10, chips £3.50 minimum £15 for delivery though.
Another chippy is usually nicer and cheaper all in for £11.95 with a pot of peas/beans/gravy/curry no minimum delivery amount either
Inevitable_Panic5534@reddit
11 .10 for cod n chips in my local chippy in plymouth
GenuinelySaggy@reddit
About £12 or £13 for a large cod and chips in my south coast town. I have it maybe every two or three months.
PeterG92@reddit
£9.99 + £3.25 = £13.24 for a Large Plaice and Small Chips
foxhill_matt@reddit
£12 Swindon
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