The 14 Best Fish and Chips in London (2026)

The West End and Covent Garden. Rock & Sole Plaice is the one I'd pick for a first plate of London fish and chips. It has been a chippy on Endell Street since 1871, it calls itself the city's oldest fish and chip restaurant, and the same family has run it since the 1980s. Cod loin and chips is £23 for a 230g piece or £27 for a large, haddock £22, and they also fry rock and skate on the bone when they have them. Mushy peas and curry sauce are £3.50 each, or order the Northern Style Sides (both together) for £5.50. There's seating over two floors and outside on the street, a licence for a pint, and a 12.5% service charge. The catch is that it's no longer cheap and it's busy from the moment it opens, so book. It fries in groundnut oil, which matters if you have a peanut allergy.

Golden Union on Poland Street, four minutes from Oxford Circus, is the Soho chippy I'd send a vegan and a meat-eater to together. It fries Scottish cod and haddock (£19.95 small, £22.95 large, with chips and homemade tartare) and has a proper plant-based menu: battered 'fish' and chips for £14.95, plus vegan prawns and sausages. It fries in vegetable oil, and sausages are cooked in their own pan away from the fish. It's an old-school diner with a drinks licence, open daily until 9pm (10pm on Fridays and Saturdays). Read the small print before you sit down. It takes cards only, no cash, it adds a 12.5% service charge, it charges £5 if two people share one portion, and there may be a £10 minimum spend per person.

Hobson's is tucked into St Anne's Court, a narrow alley between Wardour Street and Dean Street, and it's the West End chippy that covers the most dietary needs. Cod, haddock and plaice come battered, in matzo meal, grilled plain or with a spice, or in a gluten-free batter that's fried in separate oil. There's a vegan fish too. Cod and chips is £22.45 in the restaurant and £17.95 to take away, and it's open daily from noon until 11pm (10pm on Sundays), later than most chippies here. It rates 4.7 on Google across more than 11,000 reviews. Its posted menus date from 2025, so prices may have moved; there are sister branches on Villiers Street by Charing Cross and in Bayswater. Tottenham Court Road station is four minutes away.

Marylebone and Mayfair. The Golden Hind on Marylebone Lane has been frying since 1914, and it's a proper old-fashioned sit-down room with table service. The Golden Hind Traditional is cod or haddock with chips, mushy or garden peas and tartare sauce: £21.95 at lunch or £24.95 at dinner, when the fish is large. Cod, haddock, plaice, skate and salmon can be steamed with olive oil and oregano instead of fried, and the fryers use groundnut oil. It has a wine list, but you can also bring your own bottle for £5 a head corkage, and a 10% service charge is added. The thing to plan around is the split day: Monday to Saturday it closes between 3:30pm and 6pm, and on Sunday it shuts at 7:30pm. Bond Street station is six minutes away.

The SeaShell of Lisson Grove is a big, family-run fish restaurant three minutes from Marylebone station, with 90 seats and its own takeaway counter. There's been a fish bar on Lisson Grove since after the First World War; it was renamed the SeaShell and moved to this corner in 1964. The restaurant charges £25 for cod with your choice of side, so the takeaway is the better deal: cod and chips is £19 for 270g of fish, or £16.50 for a small 170g piece. The kitchen is flexible too. Any fish can be battered, in panko or matzo, gluten-free or grilled, the fish is halal, and there's no beer in the batter. It closes at 7pm on Sundays.

The Mayfair Chippy on North Audley Street, behind Oxford Street and four minutes from Bond Street station, is fish and chips with Mayfair prices and a cocktail list. The Mayfair Classic is fried fish, chips, mushy peas, tartare and a choice of curry sauce or gravy for £27.25 at the table (plus 12.5% service) or £20.25 to take away. Two things to know. Cod is off the menu for now, swapped for hake as a temporary sustainability measure, so it's hake or haddock. And every fish can be done in gluten-free or alcohol-free batter, with a tofu 'fish' for vegans. It's open from 10:30am every day. I'd go for the takeaway price and a bench in Grosvenor Square, a few minutes' walk away.

Bloomsbury and Holborn. The Fryer's Delight on Theobalds Road is about as cheap as proper fish and chips gets in central London, and one of the least changed. Two brothers from Piacenza, Giovanni and Giuseppe Ferdenzi, opened it in 1958, and it still fries in beef dripping, which gives the batter a deep, savoury crunch. On the shop's own menu, haddock, rock and plaice are £9.50 each, regular chips £3.10 and peas £2.20, so haddock, chips and peas come to £14.80. Cod isn't on the posted list; on Deliveroo, where prices run higher, cod and chips is £14.95. Sit in the plain caff or take it away. The drawbacks: the dripping means nothing fried here suits vegetarians, there are no bookings, and it's closed on Sundays. Holborn station is five minutes away.

North Sea Fish Restaurant on Leigh Street has been family-run since 1977, and it's the best choice near King's Cross and the British Museum if you want a proper restaurant rather than a counter. Cod or haddock is £23, and it comes with unlimited chips (ask for more). Any fish can be battered, grilled, or coated in egg and matzo meal, and the menu runs to whole Dover sole and lemon sole if someone at the table doesn't want batter. A 10% service charge is added in the 80-seat restaurant. The takeaway counter is cheaper, at £16.50 for cod plus £3.50 for chips. It's closed on Monday lunchtime and otherwise open until 9:30pm. Russell Square station is five minutes away and King's Cross St Pancras eight.

Westminster and Waterloo. The Laughing Halibut on Strutton Ground, a small street-market lane off Victoria Street, is the chippy for a cheap lunch after Westminster Abbey. It has been going since 1982. Eat-in cod and chips is £14.95, or £16.50 for the bigger portion, and haddock is £15.50; to take away, cod is £10 and chips £3.50. It also fries rock, plaice, skate and halibut. It's walk-in only with small tables, it takes cards, and service isn't included in the menu prices. The drawback is the hours: it closes at 8pm on weekdays, 4pm on Saturday and all day Sunday, so it's a lunch and early-dinner place. St James's Park station is four minutes away.

Masters Superfish on Waterloo Road is a no-frills neighbourhood chippy between Waterloo and Elephant & Castle, a few minutes' walk from the Old Vic theatre. Cod and chips is £13.95, a large cod £15.95, haddock £15.95, and it still fries huss, the old London name for rock, at £13.20. These are its Deliveroo prices, since it doesn't publish a menu of its own. It's almost entirely an evening place: it opens at 4:30pm Tuesday to Saturday, adds a lunch sitting only on Friday, and closes on Sundays and Mondays. Southwark and Lambeth North stations are each about six minutes away.

East, north and south London. Poppies on Hanbury Street, off Brick Lane and a minute from Spitalfields Market, is the East End chippy dressed as a 1950s diner. Its founder, Pat, known as Pop, came out of retirement at 70 to open this shop, and the brand dates its story to 1952. Cod and chips is £21.99 (£25.50 large), haddock £20.99, and there are East End extras like jellied eels, rock and a pickled egg for £1.95. The fish is fried in groundnut oil, switched to vegetable oil for a nut allergy on request. It's cheerful and bookable, but you're paying for the theme as much as the fish: sides are £3.50 each and there's an optional 12.5% service charge. It's open until 10pm or 11pm every day. There are also branches in Soho, Camden and on Portobello Road.

Sutton and Sons on Stoke Newington High Street is a family business with its own fishmonger, and it's the north London chippy with the most developed vegan menu. The vegan 'fish' is banana blossom marinated with seaweed and samphire, then battered, for £9.50 to take away, and the full vegan menu is now served at all three branches. For the real thing, the takeaway counter charges £12.90 for a regular cod and £3.95 for chips, and the restaurant lists cod at £18.50 with a drinks licence and tables you can book. Everything is fried in groundnut oil, so it's out for peanut allergies. There's no Tube: take the Overground (Weaver line) to Stoke Newington, about eight minutes' walk. It's open daily from noon.

Toff's in Muswell Hill is the award-badged north London institution: a chippy has stood here since 1968, it was named Britain's best fish and chip shop in 1989, and its current menu carries a National Fish & Chip Awards 2025 top-five restaurant badge. In the restaurant, cod and chips is £23.50 and haddock £22. The better deal is the daytime special until 5pm, cod, chips, bread and butter and a tea or coffee for £16.95. To take away, cod is £13.75 and chips £4.20. Since 2024 it has been owned by the Chesterford Group, a family business with other fish and chip shops, and recent Google reviews are mixed: some praise its consistency, others think it's too dear. It's a trek from the centre: no Tube nearby, so take the 43 or 134 bus from Highgate.

Olley's in Herne Hill is the south London pick, opposite Brockwell Park and two minutes from Herne Hill station (trains from Victoria). It works as a takeaway and click-and-collect shop, and every fish comes three ways: fried, grilled with a coriander, paprika or garlic paste, or steamed with ginger and spring onion. Cod or haddock is £13.45 fried or £14.45 grilled or steamed, chips £4.75, and the small-appetite deal of a small cod, chips and mushy peas is £10.45. Gluten-free fish and chips is available every day on request. The catch is the short hours: closed Mondays, dinner only on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and last orders at 8:45pm. Buy it and eat it in the park.