The Fry Awards has announced the best fish and chip takeaways across the UK and some are right here in the North West. 

For the past three months, people with arguably the best job in the world have secretly dined at each outlet in the running.

They’re assessing 40 aspects of the business, including everything from the quality of fish and chips and staff presentation to front-of-house hygiene and customer service. 

The food remains the main focus, including ratings of the flakiness of the fish, crispiness of chips, crunch of batter and value for money. 

The takeaways tested needed to hit a 96% pass rate of the assessed factors, much higher than any previous years so you know they’ll all be incredible chippies. 

Reece Head, competition organiser, comments: “Announcing our award winners couldn’t come at a better time. The industry is going through a stage of uncertainty with coronavirus impacting the lives and incomes of thousands of shops and owners.

“This is just the news we need to lift the industry so that those that are still trading can tell their customers immediately, while those that are closed have something exciting to shout about when their doors open again.

“Our award winners are all at the top of their game and are moving with the times, embracing technology such as contactless payments, online ordering, and click and collect and delivery while still ensuring the food they are serving is top quality and the customer service is second to none.”

And the Greater Manchester borough that has managed to bag itself one of the top spots might be good at pies, but it turns out it’s also really good at fish and chips too…

Coming in the 50 Best Fish and Chip Takeaways is The Fish at Goose Green, on Clapgate Lane in Wigan!

It’s well loved by fans with a solid 4.8 out of 5 rating on Facebook and plenty of supportive customers.

One customer wrote ‘without a doubt best chippy in Wigan’ five weeks ago, and it turns out they’re not wrong!

There are a few other North West chippies topping the list too, including The Codfather on Manchester Road in Northwich, The Fish Bar in Crewe, and Fylde Fish Bar in Southport. 

See the full list below: 

• Auckley Friery, Auckley, South Yorkshire
• Bishopston Fish Bar, Horfield, Bristol
• Callaways Fish & Chips, Dorchester, West Dorset
• Captain’s Traditional Fish & Chips, Harrow, London
• Chish and Fips, Norwich, Norfolk
• East Coast, Musselburgh, East Lothian
• Drakes, Babbacombe, Torquay, Devon
• Fiddlers Elbow Fish & Chips, Leintwardine, Herefordshire
• Finn’s Traditional Fish and Chips, Reading, Berkshire
• Fish ‘n’ Fritz, Weymouth, Dorset
• Fishtastic, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
• Fochabers, Fochabers, Moray
• Frydales of Syston, Syston, Leicester
• Frydays of Kendal, Kendal , Cumbria
• Fylde Fish Bar, Marshside, Southport, Lancashire
• Hiks, Brynhyfryd, Swansea, Glamorgan
• Hill Top Village Fisheries, Huddersfield, Yorkshire
• Hirds Family Fisheries, Halifax, West Yorkshire
• Hooked@31, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
• Land & Sea, Sowerby, York, North Yorkshire
• Market Hill Fisheries, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
• Middleton In Teesdale Fish & Chip Shop, Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham
• Mister C’s, Fulford, North Yorkshire
• Mister C’s, Selby, North Yorkshire,
• My Plaice Fish & Chips, Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk
• Oysters Fish & Chips, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
• Penaluna’s Famous Fish & Chips, Hirwaun, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf
• Plattens Fish and Chips, Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk
• Priory Plaice Fish and Chips, Ulverston, Cumbria
• Proper Fish & Chip Co, Exmouth, Devon
• Redcloak Fish and Chips, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire
• Robinson’s Traditional Fish & Chips, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham
• Sandgate Friery, Penrith, Cumbria
• Scott’s Plaice, Gosport, Hampshire
• Smith’s Chippy, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
• The Chip Club, Kingston-Upon-Thames, London
• The Codfather, Manchester Road, Cheshire
• The Cod’s Scallops, Bramcote Lane, Nottingham
• 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 Magpie Café, Whitby, North Yorkshire
• The Plaice To Be, Kilmarnock, Troon, South Ayrshire
• The Real Food Café, Tyndrum, Perthshire
• Topcatch Fish and Chips, Southampton, Hampshire
• Towngate Fisheries, Idle, Bradford, West Yorkshire
• Valerios Fish and Chips, Lanark, South Lanarkshire
• Wetherby Whaler, Wetherby, West Yorkshire
• Wollaston Fish Bar, Wollaston, Stourbridge, West Midlands