Every Swindon fish and chip shop ranked from best to worst

Most of the positive reviewers are loyal to their local fish and chip shop and have relied on it for many years.

At the other end of the scale, the most common complaints involve comparisons to cardboard, separating batter, and high prices.

With an overall Google rating of 4.1 the average Swindon chippy is of a high quality.

To provide the most scientific ranking, another rating has also been included where available, as well as the food hygiene score.

 

1. Lucy’s Fish Bar - 4.9

Address: Unit 2, Braydon Court, Swindon SN2 5DZ

Google: 4.9 

Facebook: 5 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Fish and chips were lovely!! Cash only but not an issue as there’s a card machine right outside.”

Worst review: “While good food and service, unfortunately closing times are unreliable in the winter, quite a few times we have turned up 30 minutes before closing and the shutters are down and all the lights are off, so only 3 stars due to the unreliable closing times.”

 

2. Phillips Fish & Chips - 4.8

Address: 39 Cricklade Rd, Gorse Hill, Swindon SN2 1AA

Google: 4.8 

Tripadvisor: 4.5 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Fantastic Fish and chips.  I had plaice which was amazing and my hubby had Haddock which was also particularly good.  Freshly cooked to order and a queue outside.  They are only open certain days of the week so best to schedule fish and chips night around that!”

Worst review: “Went there as it was rated one of the best in Swindon. Very disappointed that they don’t take cards or mention that it’s only cash.”

Special mention, as it won the Adver’s Best Fish and Chip Shop competition 2021.

 

3. The Fish Company - 4.7

Address: 152-154 Grange Dr, Swindon SN3 4LA

Google: 4.6 

Tripadvisor: 4.5 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “What an amazing chippy. Best Chippy ever . Fab staff and always happy and do an amazing job. Great pricing and the food is always fresh.”

Worst review: “The smallest portion I have ever seen in my life!!!”

 

4. The Trident Fish Bar - 4.7

Address: 7 Victoria Rd, Swindon SN1 3AJ

Google: 4.5 

Tripadvisor: 4.5 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “I am a regular customer, and this place is honestly excellent! The staff are really good and polite and the food quality is fantastic! One of the staff has excellent skills in wrapping the food box up in paper.”

Worst review: “Batter on the fish really bad, chewy and like cardboard. Tried 3 times now just to give the benefit of the doubt and always bad. Chips ok but nothing special”

 

5. Swindon Fish Bar - 4.6

Address: 106 Cheney Manor Road, SN2 2NR

Google: 4.5 

Just Eat: 4.4 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Absolutely delicious, don’t usually do reviews but this really tasted amazing. Keep doing delicious burgers, the cheese and the soft bun was beautiful.”

Worst review: “Would not recommend unless you're ok with spending £14 on a large chips that only feeds 1 and 3 burnt yet soggy sausages which is the mistake I made.”

6. Monica's Fish Bar - 4.6

Address: Neighbourhood Centre, Highdown Way, Blunsdon St Andrew, Swindon SN25 4FD

Google: 4.5 

Just Eat: 4.2 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Monica's Fish Bar is by far THE BEST. The fish is top quality! Service is always impeccable”

Worst review: “Extremely dry oily cod, taste as reheated. Chips the same. One of the worst I've ever tried. And not cheap as well.”

 

7. Kingsdown Fish Bar - 4.5

Address: Ermin St, Swindon SN3 4UA

Google: 4.5 

Just Eat: 4.2 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “In my experience, probably the best fish and chips in Swindon, I travel across town for it, because unfortunately I can't find anything nearly as nice near home.”

Worst review: “Your prices are disgusting! No way in hell are you selling at a reasonable margin, especially with the portion sizes.”

 

8. Fish & Chips on Thames Avenue - 4.4

88 Thames Ave, Swindon SN25 3NT

Google: 4.1 

Just Eat: 4.2 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Visited Fish & Chips on Thames Avenue tonight for the first time as our local shop was closed. Will definitely be back!”

Worst review: “Fish was very good but chips were terrible out of 3 portions we are going to throw about 2 portions away, they were over cooked as if they were trying to make them brown and hard”

 

9. Andy's Kebab & Fish and Chips - 4.4 

Address: 71 Marlowe Ave, Swindon SN3 3HQ

Google: 4.2 

Tripadvisor: 4 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Food was freshly cooked, not too greasy and expensive but then everything has gone up. The friendly staff enjoyed buying it again.”

Worst review: “Chips harder than Blackpool rock. Worst chip shop I’ve experienced wouldn’t trust 'em cooking a Pot Noodle”

 

10. Sims Chippy - 4.4 

Address: 192 Beechcroft Rd, Upper Stratton, Swindon SN2 7QQ

Google: 3.5 

Just Eat: 4.8 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Lovely food, damn good portion sizes and the staff are great”

Worst review: “Sausage was lukewarm and the chips are flavourless and dripping in a horrible fat and pie seems to be complete overdone in the microwave as dry inside”

 

11. Top Fry - 4.3 

Address: 470 Ferndale Rd, Swindon SN2 1HW

Google: 4.5 

Just Eat: 4.4 

Food hygiene: 4 

Best review: “Catered for a large group. Food was sooo good. Lovely and hot and a great selection.”

Worst review: “I recently ordered two pieces of cod and one large chips. The chips were ok but the cod was awful. There was like a thick skin on the bottom which was gross and there was no more than a tablespoon of fish”

 

12. Moredon Fish Bar - 4.3 

Address: 186 Moredon Rd, Swindon SN25 3EP

Google: 3.5 

Just Eat: 4.5 

Food hygiene 5 

Best review: “Always happy with the size of portions at this take away and I really enjoy their chips. For me, the only thing wrong is that their batter doesn't taste good (other people think it is ok) If I was reading them purely on unbattered food then they would be a 5 but their battered food would only be a 1 or a 2. “

Worst review: “Very disappointed with the food. The burgers ×2 were greasy, the salad was brown, the ketchup was runny and the smelled rank. Bun was all soggy. Didn't eat it, threw it away.”

 

13. Britz Fish & Chips - 4.3 

Address: 29 West Swindon Centre, Swindon SN5 7DL

Google - 3.7 

Just Eat: 4.2 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Great place for fish and chips before ice hockey. Good value and not greasy, portion sizes are reasonable too. Pam's smile as we arrive is great to see.”

Worst review: “Absolutely disgusting chips, completely undercooked, we couldn’t eat them. Curry sauce tasted like thick gravy, battered sausages were full of grease, and for what the whole meal cost I’m fuming.”

 

14. The Grill & Fish Bar - 4.3 

Address: Unit 3, Freshbrook Village Centre, Worsley Rd, Freshbrook, Swindon SN5 8LY

Google: 3.9 

Yell: 4 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Used this place a few times now. Very friendly staff, quick service and love the fish. Chips are crunchy and not greasy. Really good chippy.”

Worst review: “Chips tasted like cardboard over cooked, poor quality.”

 

15. Covingham Fish Bar - 4.2 

Address: 5 Covingham Dr, Swindon SN3 5AA

Google: 4 

Tripadvisor: 3.5 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Ordered for the first time in a year and was very impressed the portion size was huge nice chips fresh and excellent value for money.”

Worst review: “Worst meal ever had from here. Overcooked dry chicken balls. Curry sauce in bag instead of sweet and sour sauce. Pork chow mein pasta stodgy. Absolutely awful.”

 

16. Magic Chippy - 4.1 

Address: 5 Drove Rd, Swindon SN1 3AD

Google: 4.3 

Tripadvisor: 3 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “We wanted some fish and chips for the grandkids. They cooked all the food fresh in 20 mins. It was hot and very tasty. Everyone enjoyed what they had.”

Worst review: “Bought cheesy chips Tuesday evening. Opened them up when I got home to find them so cold the cheese hadn't even melted one bit. Never again.”

 

17. Mr Cod (Old Town) - 4.1 

Address: 130 Victoria Rd, Swindon SN1 3BU

Google: 3.5 

Just Eat: 3.8 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review - “Surprisingly good fish and chips from the Old Town branch!”

Worst review: “Been using this chippy for over four years, gone downhill a lot, ordered large chips, which was a pathetic amount to what we got before. Can even see the bottom of the box.”

 

18. Wichelstowe Fish Bar - 4.1 

Address: Unit D, Staldon Ct, E Wichel Way, Swindon SN1 7BY

Google: 4.1 

Just Eat: 4.2 

Food hygiene: 4 

Best review: “Excellent food, best chippy around. Highly recommended. The service is fantastic, always welcoming, happy and friendly.”

Worst review: “Rude staff, not helpful. I am hard of hearing and had issues and got shouted at like I was an idiot because I asked to repeat something.”

 

19. Great Western Fryer - 4.1 

Address: 78 High St, Wroughton, Swindon SN4 9JU

Google: 4.1 

Food hygiene: 4 

Best review: “Second time we’ve ordered online and collected within minutes of the pick up time. Huge portions of fish cooked fresh. Generous portion of chips. Will go again to this shop”

Worst review: “Oh dear, nice people and don't mean to be over critical but you just really don't know how to cook and serve fish and chips. Soggy batter and chewy chips time and again.”

 

20. Lee Tim fish bar - 4.1 

Address: 41 Nythe Rd, Swindon SN3 4AW

Google: 4.2 

Tripadvisor: 3 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Great food, shame it's cash only!”

Worst review: “Since the new owners have taken over, the food is not up to standard and the service is so slow.”

 

21. County Fayre - 4 

Address: County Fayre, 46 York Rd, Swindon SN1 2LE

Google: 4.6 

Tripadvisor: 4.5 

Food hygiene: 3 

Best review: “Thank you County Fayre for providing 30 portions of OAP fish and chips for our Seniors Club. All cooked fresh, packed and everything was still hot on arrival and very tasty.”

Worst review: “Whilst under the management of Andy, the service was always great, as was the food. It is believed that County Fayre has since been taken over and it has seriously gone downhill!”

 

22. St Johns Chippy and Chinese - 3.9 

Address: 8, Cavendish Square, Swindon SN3 2GD

Google: 3.7

Just Eat: 4 

Food hygiene: Awaiting inspection

Best review: “Food is nice from here, usually don’t have to wait too long, not so keen on the chips, everything else from here is nice though”

Worst review: “First time in a while. Found its changed hands and is a mere shadow of its former self. The menu is now on a single side of a small piece of card.”

 

23. Roughmoor Village Fish & Chips - 3.9

Address: Roughmoor Village Centre, Shearwood Rd, Peatmoor, Swindon SN5 5DJ

Google: 4 

Tripadvisor: 3.5 

Food hygiene: 4 

Best review: “Very good. All fish is cooked to order and tastes fresh. They obviously look after their oil.”

Worst review: “Absolutely terrible! The batter on the cod was stuck like glue onto the paper therefore on putting the cod onto a plate half of it was gone!”

 

24. Redhouse Plaice Fish & Chips - 3.4 

Address: 59 Millgrove St, Blunsdon St Andrew, Swindon SN25 2FW

Google: 3.8 

Tripadvisor: 2.5 

Food hygiene: 4 

Best review: “Today I bought fries with cheese. It's just incredible. A large box (almost ±560 grams) of mega tasty potatoes with cheese.”

Worst review: “Place has turned into a joke, it's either not open or cash only. Staff couldn't care either.”

 

25. Mr Cod (Upper Stratton) - 3.3 

Address: 537 Cricklade Rd, Swindon SN2 1AH

Google: 3.3 

Tripadvisor: 2.5 

Food hygiene: 4 

Best review: “Mr Cod is one of best shops in Swindon town.”

Worst review: "The worst fish and chips I have ever had in 51 years on this planet. I open the awful polystyrene trays and see three pieces of fish - yay, I then realise this was effectively three pieces of greasy batter with a tiny fish core - boo. This is the worst chippy I've ever been in and £9.99 for garbage fish, chips and curry sauce is a disgrace. Do not go here, do not encourage them."

 

26. Golden Star - 3.1 

Address: 1 Blair Parade, Moredon, Swindon SN25 3DE

Google: 3.3 

Yell: 1 

Food hygiene: 5 

Best review: “Do a great curry and chips! Can be quite spicy but best I've tried. Chips are different each time but mostly always good.”

Worst review: “The fish is some kind of tasteless prefab block which definitely isn't cod or any other type of quality tasting fish.”