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Cheap as Cheaps: KMV Fish Bar in Smethwick Nov 19 2009

IF YOU want to go swimming to work off your chips, do note that Smethwick Baths is just up the road from this old-fashioned chippy.Read

Fox Hollies Fish Bar, Fox Hollies Raod, Acocks Green Nov 12 2009

I COULDN’T help noticing the juxtaposition of words outside this brand new shop which combines the words Fox and Fish and is right next door to an Ex-Cat (alogue) store. Fancy that!Read

Mile Oak Fish Bar, Watling St, Mile Oak, Tamworth Nov 05 2009

IF YOU get a pang for chips while travelling out to Tamworth via the “back way” from Sutton Coldfield, look out for this shop near to the traffic lights on Watling Street.Read

Atlantis, St Mary's Row, Moseley Oct 29 2009

IT will be three years in January since I last visited this shop, shortly after it had opened. Because Moseley folks are passionate foodies, my return was overdue.Read

Cheap As Chips: Catchems End in Bewdley Oct 22 2009

MY cheerful server seemed surprised when I asked him if this chippy on the busy A456 was named after the area.Read

Marks & Spencer, High Street, Birmingham Oct 15 2009

THESE takeaway chips were not just any old chips – they were M&S ‘chunky’ chips, dished up in the newish, basement burger bar.Read

Reed Square, 1010 Chester Road, Erdington Oct 01 2009

SOON after first opening, this clean shop was voted the UK’s No 1 chippy – back in ‘93/’94 during the last century in fact!Read

B My Chip, Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield Sep 24 2009

SITUATED next to a college on a hellishly busy main road, this ‘Perfect Portion’ award-winning shop offered two instant surprises.Read

Mega Bite, Pershore Road, Selly Park Sep 17 2009

THERE’S A sign inside this shop which says: Making the impossible possible... curryfied pizza’s (sic).Read

Ideal Fish & Chips, Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove Sep 10 2009

FRESH from a very tasteful makeover in February by Pershore-based experts Centreplan Retail Interiors Ltd, Ideal Fish & Chips certainly looks the business the second you walk inside the gleaming shop.Read

Harborne Fish Bar, War Lane, Harborne Sep 03 2009

WHEN I was last at the former ‘Harborne Fisheries’ shop in March, 2008, I noted the staff ‘looked as tired as the shop’s exterior’.Read

Ikea, M6 J9, Wednesbury Aug 27 2009

CAUGHT up in M6 no-man’s land one sunny evening, I was somehow persuaded by my wife to enter this labyrinthine retail hell-hole in search of light bulbs.Read

Fried Fish, Chipped Potatoes - Blists Hill Victorian Town Aug 20 2009

SHROPSHIRE’S Ironbridge equivalent of the Black Country Living Museum now has chips to match.Read

The Big Fish, A3400, Hockley Heath Aug 13 2009

IT’S always pleasing to report on the arrival of a new chippy – the more the merrier if they’re any good!Read

The Black Country Chippie, Great Bridge Aug 06 2009

I OFTEN wonder if Dutch people would feel at home with the Black Country speciality of orange chips.Read

The Ice Rink Fish Bar, Hobs Moat Road, Solihull Jul 30 2009

ONE OF Birmingham’s most famous chip shops, Bedders of Small Heath, is sensibly still only opening at lunchtimes and at Friday tea time, even though it’s got new owners, the Carrellis.Read

Hobbs & Sons, Black Country Living Museum Jul 23 2009

JUST look at the punters who can’t wait to get inside the Black Country Living Museum’s second fish and chip shop!Read

Our Plaice, Furnace Hill / Dudley Road, Halesowen Jul 16 2009

WHETHER you consider it to be Y-Our Plaice or mine, this stand-alone chippy is on the opposite side of a busy junction to a Tesco Express, which looks more like a shed than a palace of food.Read

EDC, Hilton Park Services, M6 Jul 09 2009

DRIVING along the M6, I had barely left Birmingham behind when I had a panic attack. Cue an emergency pitstop at the Thunderbirds-style northbound Hilton Park Services ready to refuel... with chips.Read

The Full Monty Catering Co., Centenary Square Jul 02 2009

WALKING back to the REP car park on Saturday afternoon I was just thinking I could devour a bag of chips when, hey presto, The Full Monty Catering Co van loomed large. Fancy that...Read