Abbey Friar in West Dorset

Fantastic fish & chips. Best around by far.

Lovely experience. First chippie I've been to since getting off the plane a week back.

We have been visiting this fantastic chippy for well over a decade and have always had faultless service and meals. As someone who grew up in the trade, I know great fish and chips when I see it… and these are truly fantastic! Thank you!

Absolutely delicious food and extremely friendly staff, will definitely visit again when in the area.

Terrible. Please avoid. Cash only, no advice on where nearest cashpoint was. Unhelpful and staff extremely rude. Many really good places to eat nearby

Super nice classic fish and chips shop, delicious, generously sized portions, you can't go wrong here. Highly recommend. p.s. Thank you so much for letting us get away with being 50p short! Wont happen again

I happen to live on the other side of Sherborne near the chip shop at west end side despite this I always venture to Abbey Friar ( Westbury Sherborne ) as offer a far more authentic fish and chips and also for the banter from the 2 Scottish/Dorset brothers who run this great establishment. Prices are to suit all budgets and the generous portions make it tops in my book, especially as I’ve noticed chips elsewhere in the area can be significantly smaller portions wise, often making each chip well over 10p each.. So - Whether you are local or a visitor to the town, they treat everyone the same and impart their friendly manner & wealth of local info on all effortlessly. There is a board with info of where the fish was sourced and the type of potatoes used..Ok their taste in football is questionable but maybe mine is too.. I would say a must visit & I think there’s plenty of choice plus children’s portions should you need them too.. So well worth venturing the extra mile to eat from & also if your an ale fan you would be in good company here also.. Most friendly and proper fish & chips without costing tourist inflated pricing…

Best chippy in the UK, run by the nicest, funniest guys you will meet! And they are both fat from eating all the food they cook! Great value as well. Highly recommended.

We got fish and chips for dinner as a Group of 4 adults and 3 kids under the age of 4 and it was huge portions of chips.Would have been enough for + 2 people. Good taste and fast preparation. Friendly staff.

Best Fish and Chips around and friendly staff

Just a brilliant find ! 😃 We were a bit late but they were so helpful and fresh cooked our fish suppers while we waited! I say waited. .. actually they sent us to the pub for a swift half!! (Review of Digby Tap can be ready elsewhere 🍺👍😃) As Arnie said ... I'll be back! 😋😋😋 Well worth the 5 stars! ☺️☺️☺️

Wow, just throughly enjoyed another cod and chips. FABULOUS. Huge portion and fantastic value

Staff are very kind with a good sense of humour! Food was tasty and very much enjoyed. On behalf of the Ambulance crew, thank you all very much for your generosity. Brightened up our Easter weekend!

First time as I have just moved to sherborne and definitely NOT disappointed well lush

Lovely quante place great people and food and service

Totally excellent fish and chips!!!!! Never had better. Their mushy peas and curry sauce help complete an already great meal.

Absolutely disgusting, ordered fish and chips and it smelt like maggots will never go there again had one mouthful and chucked it away. Disgusting

Best chip shop run by a couple of Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 guys who make fantastic traditional fish and chips. can’t wait to get back down from Motherwell to see my brother in law and sister so we can get back in for a fish supper and see Martin & Stephen who always make us welcome .🤗

Such a lovely find. Such friendly service and the fish and chips were some of the best I’ve eaten. I usually find fish quite bland but this was so crispy and mooreish! Big potions too! The guys behind the counter were super friendly, chatty and kept us up to date about our order while they cooked it to order. Keep up the good work 👍🏻

The food is the best I've ever eaten from any chippy, very reasonable prices too,Highly recommended 5 star ⭐

Friendly warm welcome from all the staff. Will certainly be returning again; excellent fish and chips.

Fantastic fish and chips at sensible prices unlike the other place the opposite side of town where the food is good but you pay through the nose for it. Food is always ready for collection at the specified time. Love the banter in there too!

A great old fashioned chip shop fresh I gredients well cooked serv ice with a smile mile

Always freshly cooked , great tasty fish ,yummy chips , entertained by the great team whilst waiting for your order .😋

Great place.Fantastic staff.High point of my week. So friendly.

Without doubt the BEST fish and chips I’ve ever eaten. Super tasty chips, fresh fish and good banter! Yummy!!

We we’re staying near Sherborne and read the reviews, decided to drive in and get a takeaway as we were self catering. It was a surprise to find the restaurant is owned by 2 of my fellow Scottish countrymen! The crack was great as I waited for my order to be freshly cooked, as I had 4 miles to travel they made sure the food was specially wrapped, placed it in a box for me with lots of foil around the bags, just so kind of them. The fish was absolutely amazing and the batter crisp and not in the least bit greasy. Wow 😯 wish I had this place on my doorstep, absolutely outstanding fish and chips. Highly recommend should you find yourself in Sherborne. However please remember that it’s cash only, but there’s a Sainsbury’s round the corner so cash easy to get. Fabulous find for us, no wonder they’re busy, they thoroughly deserve a fabulous review. Thanks guys for a wonderful meal

Hands down the best chippy going. Not a massive fish and chip fan usually but these guys serve up a delicious chippy dinner

To average 4.8 on Google is extremely difficult. These guys well deserve it. A proper traditional fish shop of the highest consistent quality. It is clear this place is not run for the benefits of high profits, but for the pride of supplying the very best skilled cooking of fish and chips. There are few supreme masters of fish and chips but you will find them here.

Wow 😯 what an amazing chippy. Everything cooked to order, asked if I had far to go and all especially wrapped up for me. Great conversation with the two owners who are from my neck of he woods in Scotland - talk about coincidence! Absolutely first class fish and chips highly recommend if you’re in the area So good 😊 Thank you to the lovely men from Helensburgh and Dumbarton

The Abbey Friar is the best chippy for miles. Hosted by the magnificent Steven and Martin. 508 days to go according to the app lads. 😀

REAL chips ! One of the few non-commercialised chippies left - they know how to fry the perfect portion... Very reasonable prices - typical Scottish fairness ! Also I may never find out why these generous folk from the far North (!) gave me TWO pieces of cod - 1 slightly more cooked than the other, which was done to half a turn. If my ancestors weren't from Yorkshire I might consider going back to pay for it. Cash only - not too much of an issue - it's nice to see a bit of proper royalty now and again. In all seriousness, if you ever wonder why fish & chips tasted so much better in the 1980's then take a trip down Half Moon Street, Sherborne for dinner and remind yourself !

All good here, I live down the road and been here several times,

The best fish and chips I've ever had! That's coming from a Sussex coast girl..

Bought fish and chips from here and they were some of the best we have had.

Sorry no photos but the cod and chips are amazing one of the best places I have been to in a long time. Friendly staff cash only maybe a problem for same apart from that I will go again on my next trip.

Best fish and chips for miles. Great two guys, very friendly.

in a world of commercialism nice to see this long standing fish and chip shop continue to thrive , quality continues to impress , everything cooked to order , with a smile and some banter ,no limp steamed fish here, my first port of call when thinking of take away .top marks

The best fish and chips in the area

Pure dead brilliant fish and chips.

Very fresh fish and chips. Proper.

Popped in for a quick lunch. Really hard/impossible to find a reasonably priced place for lunch in Sherborne. Well this is it. Chips were gorgeous , freshly cooked, crisp on the outside , soft in the middle.Friendly and welcoming staff. Perfect. Stones throw from the Abbey, next to a wonderful second hand book shop. What's not to love. People get here!!

Best chip shop by far for miles, such a lovely treat to pop in and get our fish supper from here

Always good, fresh cooked fish on arrival, has to be the best around 😋

The food was excellent the best fish and chips I've ever had and so friendly and funny staff so lovely will definitely be going here again next time we are in Sherborne

Best fish and chips ever! Super friendly staff and there is never not a queue! A testimony of the Abbey Friar’s popularity.

Only had some chips after a visit to a few of the local pubs, but they were absolutely lovely. And it’s cash only! Cash is king….Bosh!

We live 30 seconds away from the other chip shop in town, but often make the effort to go to the Abbey Friar because it's so much better. The cod is lovely and crispy and the chips are good. Would be 5/5 but the curry sauce isn't much cop.

My wife and I had takeaway cod, chips and mushy peas. Delicious and excellent value. Very highly recommended.

Best cheesy chips in the world.

Always a pleasure to go there for delicious fish and chips

You will be wasting your time, Best Fish and chips for miles. Ignore the negative reviews. Go try it for yourself if you don't believe me

Abbey Friary is always our first port of call for a fish and chip supper. Always annoyed if we have to go elsewhere. We live in a small hamlet called Beer Hackett and have to travel about 5 miles but well worth it. Have been visiting this fish and chip shop now for five years and have never had a bad meal. Just hoping they are open tonight for our meal.

Great battered sausage and chips. Large chips are mammoth!

Excellent as always, everything freshly cooked.

Food cooked to order & tasted delicious

The only place in the world that doesn’t accept card in 2022! Queued for ages, no signs to say cash only. Sadly stuck in the past, needs to rethink

The freshest fish and nice chips good portions really very good Thank you

The food is cooked to order but the wait isn't long. There's nowhere better in Sherborne to get fish & chips.

Don't bother with anywhere else, I especially make trips to Dorset just for the fish & chips here...

Absolutely excellent, fish cooked perfect, service with a smile

Very slow service expensive and never had such a small cod in my life.

I have been going to abbey friar for years. At the start they served the best fish and chips by miles. Over the best year it’s gone down hill. I think that the oil they use as changed leaving the fish almost tasteless. The last fish and chips I had from them the chips had a green tint to them. The batter was under cooked and looked like wall paper paste. I left the chips and on the way home I was almost sick. Like many other businesses in the area they are cutting corners and it’s beginning to show.

Great welcome. Great banter and above all amazing fish and chips. Will return! Visiting from London and amazing choice and quality. Highly recommend.

Standard cod and chips ordered along with a curry sauce. Fish and chips were nice but the curry sauce wasn’t great. Service was friendly.

Yummy. Best fish and chips around by far

Best fish and chips I have had in ages. Friendly staff. Would highly recommend

Fantastic fish, chips & mushy peas! Martin & Stephen are great guys who make you feel so welcome! Can’t remember ever having had better fish & chips!

Cod damnit, this Plaice Batters the senses. Don't have a Chip on you're shoulder by missing out, its fabulous. Scampi on down if your in the area. Tatar for now

Great fish and chips, freshly cooked, so a little wait and well worth it. I had the cods roe cakes in crunchy batter with a lot of chips. Others had cod and chips, all lovely. Why go anywhere else !

Freshly cooked little in the way of grease meaty fish and nicely cooked chips. Good sized portions and reasonable prices. Absolutely excellent and well worth the small wait in the queue.

You don't really need to review a fish and chip shop that has a queue outside and down the road most nights. Absolute firm favourite of ours.

been to most chippies in the local area and abbey friar is by far the best all fresh cooked and good portions we now use abbey mosf weeks 5*****

Called in today to pick up Fish & Chips for my elderly parents who live in Sherborne. This is simply the best around! They only cook to order and the food is just great. Every time I visit, it’s a must to go here. Highly...

The food is great, and the atmosphere is always good, perfect for a Friday night meal! Food always wrapped in paper/cardboard so no extra waste to the environment!

Ordered cod twice chips and mushy peas. Service from Stephen, Martin and their colleagues was excellent, as always. Wonderful Saturday evening meal.

We had been recommended the Abbey Frisr by friends so decided to pop in for a take out on a wet lunchtime The guys were super friendly and cooked our food to order Portions were perfect and tasted delicious The batter was light and crispy...

We popped into The Abbey Friar for an afternoon snack of scampi and chips while staying in Sherborne and we were not disappointed! Hot, freshly cooked, great value, and served by very friendly Scotsmen! COVID regulations were in place but all made for an easy...

Great traditional fish n chips here, but I thought a rather mean take-away portion of fishcake and Chips for £3.90, but hey ho, this is posh Sherborne! Beware of the grumpy/abrasive and bullish Scotsman serving, I’ve not encountered him before, it seems he was stressing...

So glad this wonderful local, traditional chippy was open during the covid pandemic, with clearly marked spacing inside and queuing outside down the street. Has a little blackboard saying where the potatoes for the chips and the cod has come from, mainly Lincolnshire and the...

Simply the best value and quality fish and chips as well as many other fried dishes. It is eat in or take away. The boys there are Scots and banter flows freely. GREAT.

This establishment is, very much, an excellent community asset. Most of the customers enjoy the banter whilst their orders are freshly cooked by the two Scotsmen. My order was cod, chips and mushy peas. All excellent, particularly the chips which are, always, much less greasy than I’ve had from some other similar eating places.

Visited after looking on here for the best chippy to visit whilst in the area, but left in a hurry. We thought it would be great to visit this particular store after a long walk in the cold because pictures showed a seating area. Upon arrival we saw two doors, one of which led to another door which we presumed was the seating area (which was correct but it was all shut up with no lights etc no notice to say it was closed on the door). When closing the door we peered into the take away area and two young girls were watching us and laughing. It would have been nice if they had assisted us instead of acting their age. This lovely gesture was then followed up by a grown man hollering at us to go round and use the other door which led to everyone waiting in the queue to turn and stare at us tutting as if we were suddenly pushing in line. My husband replied that we were merely looking at the menu opposite us as we'd never visited and we were once again shouted at to go around to the other door. When exiting we noticed that neither door was labelled entrance or exit. This visit was not only frustrating but also embarrassing and completely unnecessary. My newspaper delivery boy has more customer service.

Very welcoming in The Abbey Friar. Two brothers run it together. It is always busy and is popular. The prices are really good too. My children like having a treat and going there.

I had the pleasure of working in Sherborne for 5 years in a row in a summer school and the first thing I did was stop by this chippy. Love the banter and dry whit of the Scottish brothers while you're waiting. And you do have to wait, sometimes out the door, which gives you some indication of how good the fish n chips are. They truly are the best I've ever eaten and unfortunately the summer school moved location but I still dream of going back to Sherborne JUST for the fish n chips to go and eat on the grass near the Abbey.

The lads suffered an equipment meltdown just prior to Pack Monday Fair.I went to collect cod and chips on the Saturday evening to see two disheartened Scotsmen.Was it because they hail from Dumbarton, and not Greenock.?...no.The Flux Capacitor in their deep fat fryer had let them down on the busiest weekend of the year with Pack Monday Fair looming..... absolute disaster..... a bit like Dumbarton’s fitba’ team.......Luckily, the day was saved by local electrician hero.Good hearted banter.....Genuine kindness.... I’ve seen them offer a customer who’d forgotten her purse, a free fish supper if she’d drop the money in later.Great cod and chips....Could we get hake onto the menu.... more sustainable and probably tastier than the threatened cod species?Top lads.... best eating experience in Sherborne.....and bloody cheap..Ian

I was working late and not knowing the area, i stubbled across this wonderful fish and chip shop! Great customer service and fantastic friendly atmosphere! They were so helpful and generous. A huge portion of chips and very good value for money! I would highly recommend them and i will make sure to stubble upon this place again!

Lovely people running the place. There are 2 brothers and they are Scottish, so they know what they are doing. Fish and chips are lovely there. Eating in is available, but sometimes they don't do it. Just check with the staff. Also they support charity called "Chernobyl children" which is amazing!

We rarely have fish and chips unless at the seaside, but when we do it is usually from here! Friendly service, always welcomed, great value and delicious. A few yards away from the Abbey, you can sit and watch the world go by with your take away delights...and this includes other foods than just fish and chips...or you can sit upstairs in the restaurant with a bottle of wine.

Lovely fish and chips but only had cod and they only take cash so I had to spend time looking for a cash machine

Fairly recent move to Sherborne and was informed this is the "plaice" for F & C. Not wrong. Lovely Fish & Chips and great atmosphere.

I often get fish n chips here for my Wednesday lunch . I drive a van delivering Organic produce and have to nip in , place my order and return after my last drops in the town centre. The staff are really helpful , very courteous and friendly. The fish n chips are one of best I’ve tasted . Ta for a great service and fab food,

We drive past two fish & chip shops to get to The Abbey Friar, one of them voted the the 3rd best chippy in the UK..... apparently, but not in my book.

We arrived hoping to sit in but apparently they only do this on Fridays - pity, as I am sure they could increase their turnover if this was extended to include Saturday as well. The proprietors are both Scottish and have a fantastic sense of humour making all customers feel as if they are really welcome!

Great fish, funny guy, only place to go when you need some great fish and chips. Always give a great portion and tastes great

An efficient place that does all sorts of food for reasonable prices and minimal waiting time, despite its constant business

Better than a childhood memory of ‘the best fish and chips’. No need to say anymore. Go and see for yourself. Brilliant!

My parents live in Sherborne and whenever I visit, we always grab the best fish and chips from here! Always cooked fresh, always brilliant! Thank you.

Popped in after a day in London, the guys are a great laugh and the food was amazing as always. Well worth a visit. Cheers guys!!

We were visitors to the area and wanted Fish n Chips for lunch. First class Fish n Chips and also directions (excellent) to Bristol Airport saved us 20 minutes on our journey.