The best fish and chips in London

The Kennington opened in March 2012 and offers a comfortable community setting for you to dine in. It’s renowned for good hospitality and proudly displays its ‘Best Newcomer’ award in the Great British Pub Awards 2013 for London and the Southeast! As a family-friendly pub, you can easily make this a family excursion and bring your partner and/or children along for the ride.

The Kennington’s menu has the holy grail of crispy beer battered hake and chips, crushed mint peas, and tartare sauce. At Dish Cult, we firmly believe that a fish and chips meal isn’t truly complete until it’s accompanied by tartare sauce and peas. Hake is also a great choice of fish since it tastes similar to cod, which is more traditionally used. For these reasons, you should definitely give The Kennington a visit.

The Queen’s Arms in Walthamstow Village is a pub dining room and garden with a classy interior featuring leather couches and rustic brick walls. On its menu you’ll find a beer-battered haddock, chips, peas and tartare sauce, which is an absolute must. Remember to make a reservation if you want to visit the Queen’s Arms. You can do that via the button below.

The Rose and Crown is a recently refurbished public house and dining room with excellent availability and opening hours. It focuses on serving consistent great classic pub meals using seasonal British ingredients. One of these dishes is fish and chips that include tartare sauce, mushy peas, and the added special ingredient of torched lemon! The team does change the items on its menu every week, so if you want to guarantee that you will get to try its fish and chips, you should head over to them asap.

You can’t have a London fish and chips guide without featuring Poppies – it’s an institution! Poppies’ décor is modelled after its founder Pop and has a strong 1950s theme. When dining here, you can expect to experience strong retro vibes and music uniquely tailored to each shop. In addition to this, it also has its own in-house fishmonger who prepares the fish onsite. Poppies takes quality control very seriously, stating that they ”believe that the quality of our fish, the traditional preparation and the precise cooking methods are key to our success”.

As a fish and chips specialist, Poppies isn’t short on fish options! It has everything, including cod, haddock, halibut, calamari rings, skate, plaice, mackerel, and a hot seafood platter, too. Of course, you can pair all of these with sides like chips and homemade mushy peas, but there are many more options like curry sauce, Heinz beans, and tomato salad.

Toff’s is a licensed fish restaurant established in 1968. You can expect excellent customer service since the business operates under the following motto: “Come in as a customer, leave as a friend”. Toff’s sources its fish from a Marine Sustainable Seafood council member. This means that the fish is from sustainable stocks and fished with approved practices, so you can eat ethically and guilt-free here. Once again, as a fish specialist, you get a lot of options on the menu. These include, but are not limited to cod, haddock, plaice, skate, salmon, halibut and calamari. Fish lovers are going to be spoilt for choice! Every fish dish can be served with chips or boiled potatoes. There’s a good selection of starters to choose from too, like Toff’s fish soup, scampi, avocado prawn, prawn cocktail and many more. There is also a side dishes menu that includes the classic and beloved mushy peas.