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The 19 area
winners in the national Fish & Chip Shop of the Year competition
2007 have now been announced by competition organisers Seafish.
The shops will
now be judged on a strict criteria of product quality, staff
training, innovation, customer service, shop dècor and
cleanliness, staff hygiene, food preparation techniques, and for the
first time in the competition, their commitment to sustainable
practices to ensure a healthy and viable future for the industry.
Phil McMullen,
head of environment at Seafish, said: "Today's consumers are
more conscious of what fish they eat and where it comes from. Fish
and chips shops are responding by stocking a wider variety of fish
from sustainable sources and the Fish & Chip Shop of the Year
competition recognises this, as well as the shop's excellent high standards."
Regional
finalists will be announced in early November and the national winner
will be presented with the overall winner's crown by Ainsley Harriott
at a ceremony on Wednesday 23 January 2008 at the Royal Garden Hotel
in London's Kensington.
The shops
celebrated their success during Seafood Week which ran from 5 - 12
October. Also organised by Seafish, Seafood Week unites the whole
industry behind the '2 a week' message, highlighting the huge variety
of seafood available in the UK and showing how easy it is to eat the
recommended two portions from sustainable sources.
The Fish &
Chip Shop of the Year competition is now in its 20th year and fish
and chips is still the UK's favourite takeaway with more than 260
million meals eaten every year.
The
competition is sponsored for second year by Heinz SqueezMe! and
receives continued support from The Frozen at Sea Fillets Association
and Seafood Scotland. Wrights Pies sponsor the Contribution to Local
Community Award.
The 19 winning
area shops are:
Scotland
Anstruther
Fish Bar, Anstruther, Fife
Townhead
Café, Biggar
Wales
Taylor's Fish
and Chips, Penygraig, Tonypandy
Finnegan's
Fish and Chips, Baglan, Port Talbot
Northern
Ireland
Golden Cod,
Ballynahinch, County Down
Tommys Fish
and Chips, Ballykelly, County Derry
North East
England
Colman's of
South Shields, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Towngate
Fisheries, Idle, Bradford
North West England
Seniors,
Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Plaice
Station, Padgate, Cheshire
Midlands
Pete's
Chippery, Collycroft, Bedworth, Warwickshire
Andys Fish
Bar, Swadlincote, Derbyshire
Rainbow Hill
Chippy, Rainbow Hill, Worcester
Eastern
England
The Boundary,
Market Deeping, Lincs
The Pakefield
Plaice, Pakefield, Lowestoft
London &
South East England
Henleys of
Wivenhoe, Wivenhoe, Colchester
McDermott's
Fish & Chips,Addington, Croydon
Central
& South England
Broughton Fish
and Chips, Broughton, Milton Keynes
The
Trawlerman, Chineham, Basingstoke
South West England
Hanbury's
Licensed Fish Restaurant and Takeaway, Babbacombe, Torquay
Sims Chippy,
Upper Stratton, Swindon
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