The Golden Chippy
Brittle, greaseless batter that tastes of fish rather than of yesterday's oil, plus skate and halibut most chippies stopped keeping.1
Why go
A Turkish-Cypriot family runs this shop on Greenwich High Road, and The Infatuation's Jonathan Hatchman puts the case on the frying: the fish arrives cloaked with brittle, greaseless batter that actually tastes fresh rather than being masked by day-old oil or by being overzealous with the salt and vinegar
.1 The board runs the classics plus skate and halibut, and the kitchen will grill the fish instead of frying it if you ask.1 It opens 11 to 11 Monday to Saturday and noon to 11 on Sunday, which is longer than most.2
Order this / avoid
- Order: cod or haddock, or the skate if you want the thing the shop keeps that others do not.1
- Order: it grilled if you do not want batter. That option is on the board.1
- Avoid: eating in. Hatchman:
while you could eat in at one of the few tables in the basic restaurant area, we prefer ordering to take away.
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What locals & experts say
- Jonathan Hatchman, The Infatuation, September 2023:
Queues often snake out of the door on the weekend.
The outlet tags the shop for takeout, cheap eats and walk-ins, and carries it in its Greenwich guide.1 - Harden's has no survey feedback on this shop:
not enough people have commented yet
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Good to know
- Timing: 11am to 11pm Monday to Saturday, noon to 11pm Sunday.2
- Queue: worst at weekends, per the review.1
- Getting there: Greenwich High Road, a few minutes from Greenwich station and the park.
Verdict
could-visit — A Turkish-Cypriot family runs the fryer on Greenwich High Road and the thing worth knowing is what comes out of it. Jonathan Hatchman's line for The Infatuation is the whole case: fish in 'brittle, greaseless batter that actually tastes fresh rather than being masked by day-old oil or by being overzealous with the salt and vinegar', which is a sentence about frying discipline rather than about nostalgia. They also keep skate and halibut, which most London chippies dropped years ago, and they will grill the fish instead if you ask. It runs 11 to 11 six days and noon to 11 on Sunday, so it is there when you need it. The queue goes out of the door at weekends and the eat-in room is a few plain tables, so take it away and walk to the park.