Narrator: We crowned Golden Chippy as
our favorite fish and chip shop in London.
Here's why this proper,
traditional chippy in the southeast
of England's capital came out on top.
Name is Chris. I'm from Cyprus.
I came here when I was 17 years old.
I was hoping to become
a surgeon on the humans,
and I ended up being surgeon of the fish.
Golden Chippy has been open for 15 years,
and I started it from
scratch, but these hands
been playing with fish for 42 years now.
Narrator: The Golden
Chippy currently holds
the No. 1 position on TripAdvisor
for the best fish and
chip restaurant in London,
but in 2016 it managed
to claim the top spot
for the best restaurant in the whole city.
Part of the restaurant's
achievement is due
to the friendly service of the staff
and its large portions of
fish, which Chris has described
as having a special ingredient
of lots and lots of TLC.
With the secret recipe of the batter,
cooked at the right temperature,
sitting there for one or two
minutes to drain properly,
gives it that fantastic crispy finish,
which is very light batter,
very tasty fish, and not greasy at all.
Anything I serve to the customer
has got to be good enough
for my belly. If it's
good enough for my belly,
then it's good enough for my customers.
So we've got this absolutely massive plate
of cod and chips here with a nice load
of mushy peas at the side and some salad.
Harry: So just looking at this,
I am super excited to tuck in.
The batter is visibly crispy
and the chips as well,
these are like proper chip-shop chips.
We've got that thickness on all sides,
nice and golden brown on the outside,
I'm hoping nice and light
and fluffy on the inside,
but we're gonna find out.
Cheers
Ju: OK, cheers.
It's like lava. It's just
so unbelievably smooth
and just really, really
nice sort of like fish flow,
texture, this is absolutely
melting in my mouth.
The batter is extremely
crispy. It's living up to all,
lives up to how it
looks, and you really get
that nice texture of,
the contrast in textures,
between the crisp of the batter
and the flaky soft melt-in-the-mouth fish.
It's really, really good.
So we saw them preparing
these chips from scratch
out the back, which is great
'cause you know they're not
just buying in a frozen thing,
this is freshly made,
freshly peeled potato.
You can taste potato, which is always good
for a chippy chip,
normally with chippy chips
they might be a little bit too greasy,
but this is just, I mean the
taste of the potato inside
is obviously coming through.
Also they fry it in just
the same oil as the fish,
so I'm getting almost a
little fishy taste from it.
It's like the whole...
I love it, fishy taste.
It's quite a skill to
deep-fry a whole meal
and not end up with something
that tastes just of oil
or that feels too heavy, but
this really does manage it,
could happily eat this whole plate.
