Chippy Bank in South Lakeland

an area of outstanding natural beauty. big up Brian!

Well, I have been to some places that have made me feel unwelcome but never a chip shop. Chippy bank in Ulverston has a separate counter service or a sit down area that charges a premium to sit and eat. My partner and I wanted to enjoy our food at a table so we went inside, my partner sat down while I went to the counter to order. I stood there waiting to be served while three members of staff (two men and one elderly lady cleaning around) just looked me up and down and didn’t even acknowledge me. In the mean time the men were happy to serve local customers at the counter service. I will add that the chippy was very quiet with hardly any customers. A good six or seven minutes later the cleaning lady abruptly said “yes?” and I ordered two fish, chips and peas at a hefty £24. She had no idea how to use the card payment machine and was about to charge me twice for our meal. She didn’t wash her hands, plated them up and shouted “They are here at the counter!” The food was mediocre and totally not worth the money. This establishment obviously does not like outsiders, I would not recommend going here but if you do decide to use the Chippy Bank, dress like a local and not like a walker, a local shop for local people only. This horrible experience sadly spoilt our holiday in Ulverston.

Nostalgia at its best. Still as good as it was 30 years ago!!

We are just visiting area for 5 day break and found this place after picking up supplies fir the lodge.. Great fish & chip supper best batter we tasted in a long time..chips so fluffy and tasty great fodder must visit if your hank marvin..

Lovely friendly staff, always great quality delicious food.

Delicious, good quality food with great customer service.

Honestly I have had the complete and utter joy of eating the finest portion of chips I have had in my life Crunchy ...fluffy inside and perfectly seasoned I kid you not This Chippy and the chef cooking the food deserves a Michellen star These were without a doubt Exceptional staggering and unexpected Get yourself to Ulverston For the finest chips Wait for ....it.... In my best Clarkson voice... "IN THE WORLD!!!!!!

God ... I've just had the best .... 7 star chips I have ever ever ever eaten This chippy should have a michellen star I kid you not The chios are REALLY REALLY REALLY that good So get yourselves to Ukverston for a real treat

Great dining experience. Both fish and the chips were cooked well and the portions were a good size. We ate in and were served by a lovely lady called Rhiannon who was both charming and attentive.

On a recent visit to Ulverston me and my wife had fish and chips to eat in at this establishment. They were freshly cooked and really tasty,the chips were proper chip shop chips,this is how they used to be years ago ! Highly recommended 👌 👍

We really enjoyed the food here , the chips were brilliantly cooked and the Scampi that my wife had was impressive. The service we had (we sat in) was excellent and the staff extremely pleasant. This was recommended to us by the b&b we stayed in Saturday night and it was well recommended!

This fish and chips is a poetry of taste, the option to eat it somewhere is an additional advantage.

I don't normally order fish because usually not fresh however I couldn't smell anything and my nose didn't let me down. Fish and chips were excellent.

Quite possibly the best chips I've ever tasted in a long time. Chips soft and melt in your mouth full of flavor. Very happy will be coming back again.

We've been here many times. Sometimes we take food away, other times we sit in. This time we sat in, knowing we pay that bit extra for the privilege. However, prices have soared since our last visit. Very expensive food and we were surprised at the lack of service. Anywhere else when eating in, you get table service. Not here. We had to order at the counter, where there was no sense of being made to feel welcome. It felt as though the order was too much trouble (3 meals in total.) After I ordered the food, I sat back down, then was soon told "Your food's ready". I had to go back and do the waitering myself. The food was good but the gloomy mood of the staff and those extortionate prices are not an invitation to return. This chippy used to be very busy. On this visit nobody else was inside. I can't say I'm surprised! If you expect customers to return, at least have the decency to be pleasant. That costs nothing! Our money will spend elsewhere.

Best Chippy in the South Lakes, by a country mile.

Service was atrocious I only wanted a small Bag of chips chips at closing time, I'll never go again even if I have just to ulverston and right outside my place , him and her were knows and more concentrated on cleaning up, rather than selling much before there closure time

Great value and fish and chips were really tasty

Tasty fish and chips with quick, friendly service

Paid 4.70 for a small portion of very yellow chips and a warm, but not hot Holland's pie. Not the best value I've ever had, if I'm honest. Both pie and chips tasted a bit bland. Service OK but not cheerful. I suppose you can't expect much for under a fiver, but I'm tempted to try elsewhere next time. I suppose they have little competition now that Bar Conti, along the street appears closed 🤔

Really good fish, chips and peas

Had fish and Chips.The fish was under cooked the chips were dry and old taste. had to wait in the line for ages.Would not be coming again.

Great service. Great fish and chips.

Visiting area - quick chippy tea for family and wow, fish and chips like they used to be, at a fraction of the cost they are back home. Best I've had in a long, long time.

Wasn't great I'm afraid, possibly a one off I'm not sure. Soggy pastry on a pie bland please in need of a little something and chips were nothing special. Sorry chippy bank not a great visit 😕

Always great food, staff are so friendly and accommodating, best chicken nuggets in town!! Great prices too!

Friendly charming service and excellent quality Fish and Chips 😁 EDIT: After reading some of the other reviews I'm shocked to see some people 'down voting' the customer service. I think people who forget the staff are cooking food for you are not obligated to cater to your every whim and desire... You are ordering fish and chips, not buying a Lamborghini. 10/10 good scran

As with other reviews, won’t be going again due to the rude blonde haired old woman serving. Have been once a week for the last 2 months, but will go elsewhere now. Not the first time she’s been rude or messed up our order. Easy to overlook it until I overheard her mocking me to another customer as I left. Seems like she’s nice to the regulars, but not to anyone else.

Fish,chips, mushy peas, and homemade tartar sauce were probably the best I've had. Well worth a visit, eat in or out. Very reasonable prices.

Not impressed with the poor service and terrible fish received from Chippy bank. The staff serving were very rude and lack any customer service skills. Staff were very snappy in ordering us where to stand to be served. We wasn't the only customers to be treated this way. They serve regulars ok but not anyone new. Very unprofessional and we will go elsewhere in future! As for the food the fish was terrible! If you can find it underneath the concrete mash of batter. They can't be bothered taking the skin off the fish either. First chippy we've ever been to where the skin remains. There was more skin then fish. I gave two stars because the chips were actually ok but don't expect to receive value for money because although the chips were good, they were scarce! We won't be returning

Always liked the chippy bank, last couple of times it's been underwhelming. The fish wasn't very tasty, had to put lots of salt and vinegar to see if that worked, fish also a bit greasy and they seem to have lost chip shop chips or changed the way there done? Dont know if this make sense but when I finished eating I felt it didn't fill the want for the fish and chips tick.

Freshly cooked. Nice food. Friendly staff

Best saussage chips and curry i've had for a long time

Excellent food, everything was well cooked and tasted really nice. Some of the staff could of been friendlier but I would go there again.

Good chippy reasonable price, defo go again

Superb staff, the fish and chips are great.

A good place for fresh fish & chips. Very good service. The ambience is that of a takeaway place.

Brilliant chippy. Perfect chips every time. A lot of chip shops nowadays seem to take your order, give you a number and then have you stand around waiting somewhere awkwardly for them to call you up for collection. I find it slow and unnecessary. Chippy Bank have you queue around the shop, take your order and prepare it in front of you as you wait and then finally pay. Exactly as it should be. Friendly staff. Very clean and as I said, perfect chips. Reasonable prices too as well as generous portion sizes.

Had a takeaway from here whilst staying in the area, good food, good portion sizes and great value

Excellent chippy. One of the best I have had in a long time. We all loved it. It was quick service and a good price. Pity it’s not local to us

Wir hatten beide Fish'n Chips mit Currysauce und waren zufrieden. Ich mag lieber Kabeljau, aber hier ist der Fisch der Wahl Seelachs. Die Pommes waren lecker und die Currysauce auch. Sauberer, ansprechender Laden.

Just popped in for a bag of chips. Was impressed nice polite attentive staff. Clean chippy Lovely chips. But I cant comment on the rest of the menu as I didn't have anything else. Definitely go again.

Wonderful find. Shame it’s too far to go very often. It is the best tasty fish I’ve ever had form a take away. And the chips were gorgeous too. Will be back asap!

Lovely food, really friendly staff

Always nice fish and chips served here, you can tell the potatoes used are of good quality,& the fish served is fresh plus the frying oil I would say is probably changed regularly which makes a huge difference to the quality. I eat the curry sauce here but I've had better. Perhaps not as bigger portion size as some other chippy's but on the whole very nice fish and chips

The Pies are Lovely - The lady serving them a little Grumpy

2 Fish and 2 chips with a tub of tar tar sauce, curry sauce and mushy peas between the 2 of us for £19, absolute bargain and tasted amazing. Going back tomorrow for more 👍👍👍

Quite simply the best chippy in South Cumbria.

Amazing fish and chips best I've ever had.

Nice place, lovely wholesome Cumberland sausage

Being a Monday my usual place closeby was closed. Glad tried this as chips and all food purchased was really good. Chips were freshly cooked, really good, and spring roll was really really tasty. Steady stream of customers and nice staff.

Think we got the end of the batch of chips. Fish was a bit greasy but tasty. Still the best chippy in Ulverston.

Always been the best, chips are thick cut and tasty, not too much oil, just enough to make you realize you’re in an old Chippy.

Great food very reasonably priced

This is the best chippy I've ever been to the chips are so delicious. Been since I was a kid and I always enjoyed it. This is definitely the best chippy I have ever visited in my life. 😋😋

Went in recently, £3,95 for chips and curry, chips were over cooked and tasted pretty bad.

Lovely friendly staff and great food.

Love the chips, cheese & curry from here but gobsmacked to see this now £6 I understand everything goes up but £6 is just mental 🤯 Bit disappointed in how much it has gone up here not just a little bit but by a lot.😭

Excellent pricing, good food, efficient service.

Very good service reasonably priced friendly staff

Fantastic and fresh what more do you want best potato scallops for a longtime

Nice fish and chips. Served skin on but can be done skin off if you ask.

Good, quick, friendly service and great fish and chips!

Best chips in ulverston by far. Usually great friendly staff and service. Portions could be a little bigger for price but wouldn’t go to any other chippy in ulverston.

Amazing chips and the Cumberland sausage is amazing. Friendly, helpful staff and reasonable prices.

Love the Chippy Bank. Keep on Chipping!

Nice Friendly Service, Food Nice. But Little expensive for me 😏

Chip shop lunch while walking around Ulverston shops. Standard scampi, chips and peas. Food nice enough, friendly staff. Good to have sit down chip shop in the town... seating perhaps a little oddly arranged...high stools to eat at high wall mounted shelf table, large 6 seater table in middle which we ended up taking and only two of us which felt wrong to us.

Brilliant chippy, friendly, quick service and the food was gorgeous

By far the best chippy in the area. Nothing even comes close to how good the Chippy Bank is.

Fantastic chippy, our go to place in Ulvertston

The food here is great that's why it's always very busy but unfortunately the service is slow as there is only room for 1 server they could possibly serve 2 customers at a time if they got rid of the plastic screen, I was 8th in a queue and waited 15 mins to be served. unfortunately this is the 3rd time this has happened but it wont again as the £2.50 chip portions are seriously small it wasn't worth the wait

How I love my regular visits here! Delicious food, friendly staff excellent situation, well worth a visit.

You can eat in or takeaway. Everything cooked fresh to order. Always busy.

The very best food so lovely Fish and chips and at very reasonable cost. The service is so good and with a smile. Don't hesitate you won't be disappointed.

Great people service and quality of food never had better thanks for your help with this

Friendly, honest service - and thank god for places like this that serve the right size of portion (for table service) at the right price. Others take note - we don't need gutbusting portions of fish and chips at £18, especially if food is wasted.

Probably the best chips in Cumbria. Worth travelling for.

The best chips in ulverston by a long way

got to the shop more than an hour before it closed asked for 3 fish, just went “i’m not cooking anything else, this is all i’ve got” but there was nothing there!!didn’t end up getting anything. shocking service, not going back again! do NOT recommend!

Best chippy in ulverston - great service, great food and reasonable prices.

We always choose to come here for fish and chips. The best one in town. Not expensive.

Impeccable chips, however I wish I could say the same for the fish.

We where in Ulverston on holiday. We went out for dinner on a thursday. We didnt expect it to be busy. It was so we ended up at this chippy. Well thank God we did. Because this chippy was magnificent. The staff where great and we got a seat even tho it was busy. We ordered fish and chips and a verity of other things. Well the food came and it was jaw dropping good. Just everything was cooked so well. Fish was a good size and very tasty. I have been to places that claim they have the best chips and they don't. These guys really do. Can recommend them enough. Glad i dont live near there. Would be there every night.

Fantastic stop and very welcoming. The food was great and the kids really enjoyed the fish and chips. The brew was decent too.

First class, great menu, tasty food, well presented and very good prices. Fish and Chips as I remember them as a child, Love it.

Quite simply the best chips we’ve ever tasted. I don’t need to say anymore than that…. They just switched to some new sweeter potatoes apparently and man… they’re amazing

Stopped here on the off chance and due to the large queue waiting. Took a while for the queue to go down (luckily it wasn't raining as it was outside). We were shocked at the price of fish, compared to down our way this was cheap! The chips were a little overcooked and the fish really needed draining for a little longer as the amount of grease in the paper actually ran off but the fish inside was really lovely.

We decided to eat in and ordered Haddock and Chips and a cup of tea. The tea was lukewarm, and the fish and chips had clearly been cooked a long time before we ate. The fish was rather dry and the chips limp and unappetising. This was surprising given that the place was rather busy. It was disappointing because the last time we ate here over a year ago, it was good quality.

Took my friend here thinking that she wanted fish and chips but she ended up having a cheeseburger whilst I was on a vegetarian goal so I ordered chips, cheese and gravy (£5.60). Wow, never look down on a simple dish! This took me back to my childhood memories being brought up in a takeaway and having gravy chips as my supper. The additional cheese was a 'luxury' to what I used to have. It was very filling and it lasted me the whole day even after the hike to Sir John Barrow Monument and walking back to Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, I didn't need dinner. Great service and reasonable price.

The Chippy Bank has an excellent reputation- so I was really looking forward to a good meal after a long hard bike ride. Visited at 7pm on a Saturday night … wasn’t too busy & didn’t have too long to wait. The haddock was very good (so it should be at £4.50) … chips were small & bitty, soggy & lukewarm…. Mushy peas were also lukewarm & tasteless. Sorry - next time will be trying elsewhere.

Delicious chips and curry sauce on a mid-afternoon pit stop that hit the spot! The service was lovely in this traditional fish & chips restaurant.

Not as good as previous visits. Very expensive for what we got. Pie, chips, peas & gravy £8.10. £2.50 for the pie, £3 for chips and didn't get many & £2.60 for peas & gravy.

Fabulous - best fish n chips around & lovely service too!!

Best Fish and Chips in Ulverston.

Lovely well cooked food very welcoming clean nice people friendly staff and management all fresh food highly recommended

Great food & service. Always visit when in the area.

Always visit when in the area. Perfect for dinner after a day in the outdoors. Fish, chips, mushy peas & a cup of tea for around a tenner.

Awesome plaice sorry place regular a few time a year when visiting awesome staff polite friendly fast service , my haddock was blummin butiful.

Lovely friendly help full people clean looked after food cooked lovely tasty fresh