Choy's Fish & Chips

Choy's Fish & Chips has been serving Wonford Street in Exeter for years as a straightforward chip shop, cash only, no frills. It used to run a Chinese menu alongside the fish and chips, which some regulars still mention missing, but the shop has settled into doing one thing rather than several - fresh haddock, proper chip-shop chips, cooked to order rather than left sitting under a heat lamp.

The portions are the thing people talk about most - a large chips regularly gets described as enough for three people to share, and the fish comes fresh rather than reheated from frozen. Service is friendly and the staff get singled out for being genuinely welcoming rather than just efficient, which matters in a takeaway that runs mostly on repeat local custom. It is not a place chasing a food-tourism crowd - it is the kind of chippy a neighbourhood relies on, priced and run accordingly.