Haddock is the fish this city fries, and the guides here treat cod as the substitute. Salt and sauce is the vinegary brown sauce Edinburgh puts on chips, and you ask for it by name at the counter. A supper runs about a tenner at a counter and about twenty off a pub menu.
The fish supper.
The rooms, best first
- The Scran and Scallieverified
The Good Food Guide names fish and chips with chunky tartare among the pub classics this Bib Gourmand kitchen cooks properly.
- The Fishmarketverified
Gaby Soutar's review is headed get along here for the best fish and chips in Edinburgh, and Tom Kitchin picks the same counter.
- Black Ivyverified
The fish is Welch's of Newhaven haddock, and the plate comes with chippy sauce as well as tartare.
- Pierinosverified
The List files this shop under Best Batter, thick without being heavy and full of crunchy extrusions, and it has reached four award finals since 2024.
- The Chippy by Spencerverified
Won Best Team at the Scottish Fish and Chip Awards in 2025 and reached the final in two more categories the same year.
- Bertie's Proper Fish & Chipsverified
Gaby Soutar scored the haddock 7.5 out of 10 and called it a silky centred slab of crispy battered fish.
- L'Alba D'Oroverified
Haddock comes alla Romana here, fried with sage and onions, which is a preparation no other counter in the city offers.
- The Doricverified
The haddock is fried in a house beer batter on a menu that names its butcher four times over.