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York village takeaway shortlisted for consecutive year in best chippy award
A DECADES-OLD York village chippy is among ten contenders for an award, and votes have put it in the shortlist for a consecutive year.
Osbaldwick Fisheries is nominated along with nine other chippies in York by readers of The Press as one of their favourites in one of the title's most popular competitions.
Readers of the newspaper have the chance to select their overall favourite by posting off a voting slip that features on a page every day until June 14.
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The winner is set to be announced in the week commencing June 23 and each copy of The Press in the coming days until the voting closes features a short profile on each chippy to whet the appetite and help readers decide which deserves to be the number one in York.
Osbaldwick Fisheries in Osbaldwick Lane was also shortlisted in 2024 and is the recipient of repeated nominations in past competitions where the favourite chippies have been nominated by readers.
Owners Mark and Karen Atkinson said they were 'humbled yet again by you, our customers, for continuously nominating us into the top ten finalists.'
The chippy opens three days a week – Thursdays from 4.30pm to 9pm, Friday from 11.30am to 1pm then 4.30pm to 9pm and on Saturdays from 11.30am to 1.30pm and 5pm to 8pm.
The establishment first opened on a Thursday night in 1997 with 190 kilogrammes of fish.
It was chosen to last the weekend and 90 per cent of it had been bought by customers at the end of the first night.
Mark said he's had previous experience as a chef and only came into the chippy trade by supporting a friend by helping out at their own takeaway at a Stamford Bridge shop.
Three years later he'd set up in business on his own.
Having used the same merchants for almost 30 years, Mark said Osbaldwick Fisheries prides itself on its high-quality produce with chips rumbled and chipped in house and bought from local suppliers.
He said: "We ensure that the fish is the highest quality offering from Iceland, where the colder waters breed stockier fish the ethical standards ensure that they don't overfish."
One reviewer on Tripadvisor gave Osbaldwick Fisheries 'excellent' scores for value, for food and for service, saying: 'Been getting our fish and chips from this shop for almost twenty years!
'Best in York. It is spotlessly clean.
'The food is fresh and delicious.
'And the owners and staff are friendly and efficient.'
To celebrate National Fish and Chip Day on Friday, June 6, the tenth anniversary of the commemoration, Osbaldwick Fisheries opened a customer competition to win vouchers to purchase takeaway food from the chippy.
