Birmingham takeaway reviews from the Birmingham Mail

Cheap as Chips: Hot Spot, 798 Alcester Road, Maypole B14 5EZ Nov 18 2011

THIS shop used to be a hearing and mobility centre – now it’s the most brightly lit chippy I’ve been in to date.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Pot and Fin, 48 Brook St, Warwick CV34 4BL Nov 11 2011

NOT since May 27 have I awarded five stars to a high street palace.Read

Cheap as Chips: JK's Sandwich Bar, Union Passage, New ST, B’Ham B2 4RX Nov 09 2011

THERE was no sign of Harry Potter when I called at JK’s – nor, in fact, any chips.Read

Cheap as Chips: Mambo's Fast Food, 23a Hurst St, Birmingham Oct 21 2011

ONCE upon a time this was a famous flower shop.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Radley's Fish Bar, 486 Brays Road, Sheldon B26 2RT Oct 14 2011

NOW that the peripheral areas of this pleasant shopping parade next to a busy roundabout have been redeveloped, there are more places to park.Read

Cheap as Chips: Frydays, Martineau Square, Birmingham B2 4UH Oct 07 2011

NEW eatery Frydays claims to be ‘‘the city centre’s only traditional fish and chip shop’’.Read

Cheap as Chips: The One Elm Pop-up Pub, at Stratford Food Fest CV37 6BB Sep 30 2011

LAST weekend’s Stratford Food Festival proved the attractive riverside event, now in its second year, is maturing quickly.Read

Chip Shop review: Arches Fish and Chips, Slade Road, Erdington Sep 16 2011

WHAT are the odds of finding a chippy called the Arches (pronounced like the fake 60s Sugar Sugar pop stars The Archies) at the corner of Abbey Road and Slade Road.Read

Cheap As Chips: Golden Fry Fish & Chips, Westward Ho! EX39 1LH Sep 09 2011

NAMED after the 1855 novel by John Kingsley, Westward Ho! is a pretty little bay town in north Devon.Read

Cheap As Chips: King Kebab, 85 High Street, Kings Heath B14 7BH Sep 02 2011

KING Kebab is a great name for a fast food shop in Kings Heath.Read

Cheap as Chips: West Midlands Safari Park, Bewdley, Dy12 1LF Aug 26 2011

AFTER finishing the animal tour, this micro-chippy is your first chance of food at West Midland Safari Park.Read

Cheap as Chips: St John's Fish Bar, 31 Saint John's, Warwick, CV34 4NE Aug 19 2011

IF YOU are going to Warwick Castle or any of the many other nearby attractions this forthcoming holiday weekend you might care to pop into St John’s for a few fingers of golden goodness.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Green Fish Bar, The Green, Kings Norton, B38 8RS Aug 12 2011

CLOSED for years, this shop is so small it’s like stepping inside a brightly-lit microwave.Read

Cheap as Chips: Black Country Living Museum, Tipton Road, Dudley, Dy1 4SQ Aug 05 2011

THIS wonderful museum has two chippies – Hobbs, which still cooks chips in beef dripping, and this original shop which has now switched to vegetable oil for diet crazy punters.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Swan Fish Bar, 216 Swanshurst Lane, Moseley, B13 0AW Jul 29 2011

I HADN’T been to what would have been JRR Tolkien’s local chippy since May 2006.Read

Cheap as Chips: Kingfisher Chippy, 66 Meadway, Kitts Green, Birmingham, B33 0AP Jul 22 2011

ONE of the reasons chips have been part of our diet for more than 150 years is that we love ‘em.Read

Cheap as Chips: Balsall Fish and Chip Bar, Station Road, CV7 7FE Jul 15 2011

AS WELL as the nice touch of drawings by Balsall Common schoolchildren, there are two posters featuring dozens of exotic fish on the walls of this semi-rural chippy at 207 Station Road.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Arden, 2 Arden Road, Rubery, B45 0JA Jul 08 2011

THIS mini-shopping centre has been so heavily revamped it looks almost new, but you might still need a keen eye and a dashboard-mounted chips detector to spot what used to be the Golden Plaice Fish Bar.Read

Cheap as Chips: Bell Lane Fish Bar, 19 Bell Lane, B33 0HS Jul 01 2011

A NEARBY gym was full of larger-than-life exercisers.Read

Cheap as Chips: Pleasure Beach, Ocean Boulevard, Blackpool, FY14 1EZ Jun 24 2011

AFTER visiting the Seagull in Tile Cross for last week’s column, I thought I would take the 300th marvellous week of Cheap As Chips up to Britain’s chip capital.Read