Mackeral Sky SB in East Riding of Yorkshire

Having been in the area for a week property portfolio scouting, this was our night in the North for a while and staying with friends. As I had been late back and everyone else had eaten, I chose to get Fish and Chips and give this place a second try, after all it had signage out stating “Award Winning Fish & Chips and Best Newcomer 2025”, interesting that they appear to have been open over 2 years, is not a new comer to me, but what do I know. I walked in and was immediately greeted with “what do you want”, no “how could we help you”, no “heres the menu, let us know what you would like after you have had a look”, no “we can reccomend XXX today”. I ordered Haddock and Chips and was charged £10.50, yes thats £10.50 for a take away Haddock and Chips, but at least the fish was going to be cooked fresh, much to the disgust of the muttering fryer, who was more interested in talking to his mate over the shop counter about a trip to Turkey! It felt like I was an annoyance at actually ordering. He went and placed the fish in the fryer and then came back to talk with his friend about Turkey. I waited and waited and eventually was presented with a very neatly packed box with my meal in it. I got back to our friends, opened the box and found the smallest overcooked fish I have ever seen with a decent quantity of overcooked chips. I placed the meal on a plate and as I did so nearly 2.5” of the fish snapped off to reveal that was solid batter! So the already tiny fish became even smaller, look at the picture! I attempted to eat what was there and finished up throwing most of it, overcooked and dry! WHAT A DISGRACE! I actually went onto the webpage of the company that clearly gives these awards to anyone that enters! Interestingly, they asses the contestants by online form and on occasion via a zoom call. So no actual visit then!!!

Lovely food, fish cooked to order in a nice crispy batter. Did not take long to get our order ready for us. Very clean premises and made to feel welcome.

V disappointing!! Ordered Fish & Chips and a Fish and this cost us £20 which we thought seemed v expensive. The chips were overcooked and given that the 2 cod we ordered were cooked from fresh, you certainly wouldn’t have thought so. V soggy batter on one of them and v hard thick batter on the other. Such a shame as given that we live in the village and the fact that this is supposed to be an award winning chippy, not for us I’m afraid!!

Lovely fish & chips and very pleasant staff. Sat in the little restaurant and it was excellent. Will definitely return :)

Absolutely top notch fish and chips very enjoyable indeed excellent ! the best I've had in a long time we will be back asap thanks

Really disappointing. Raw batter inside fish. Chips were dry and didn't taste fresh. The fish itself was lovely so such a shame about the batter.

Absolutely amazing haddock and chip's and mushy peas I go here regularly when I am off work or even on an evening after been in pub

Had fish and chips x 2 and 1/4 chicken all delicious. Fish was so fresh and the batter light and crispy. Will definitely be back again.

Great fish shop, lovely friendly staff and fish and chips were great will definitely return. Good value and good portion size

Our second visit and we were not disappointed! Excellent fish and chips, lovely crispy batter and perfectly cooked chips. Great service and we will definitely return, thanks again

I was very hungry. But the chips were undercooked and soggy the fish allegedly haddock was overcooked and was stale. I will not waste my money again !!

Whilst visiting friends and family we dropped in for take away fish and chips. Fantastic that the village has another/replacement Fish & Chip place as the other one was dire. Walked in and it was ‘busyish’ on the Friday circa 7pm, ordered Haddock and Chips along with Haddock and mushy peas, we were soon £17 lighter and asked to move along and wait for our order number. The lady that served us was very pleasant. It all seemed a little chaotic with customers unsure where they were meant to queue and also wait for their orders. The small middle age chap behind the counter with the baseball cap, seemed very stressed out and clearly created an atmosphere. Got back to where we were staying to unwrap the smallest haddock’s we had ever seen that were overcooked as were the chips. The fish were very hard around the edges and just didn’t taste like they were fresh. Very disappointed! Would love to see this place do well, but it needs to significantly up its offering, can’t believe we were just unlucky.