Morgan's Traditional Chippy in Carmarthenshire

Had the pleasure of eating here in April 2024. The food was fresh and perfectly cooked. The staff were very friendly. The service was well organised. The place was clean including the toilets. Highly recommend.

The staff were very welcoming, food was freshly made and very tasty. Lovely cod with a choice of Irish or fruity curry sauce. 100% recommend!!

We call here every week now and the fish and chips are beautiful. The fish and chips are all cooked fresh after you order. You can phone your order through first for a take away if you don’t want to wait. It is so reasonable and very difficult to finish the whole plate of food. We love going here.

Lovely food and amazing service every time, favourite chip shop

Food excellent staff very friendly only 6 people eating in

Absolutely lovely! Would recommend anyone here! Great food and great service 10/10 can’t wait to come here again soon!

Tasteless fish and chips . Batter pale, chips tasteless . Sorry but no more visits here . Poor quality fish but batter was bland.

Best fish and chips for miles around. In fact I’m going to have to say best I’ve had in south wales. You have got to try it

After not calling in Morgan's since new owners took over due to bad reviews. We called in today to try it for ourselves instead of listening to negative reviews. Firstly the food was first class for myself and my wife. Secondly our coffees were excellent. Staff very good and friendly. This is where we will be calling more often when we visit Carmarthen just as we did before. Best chip shop in Carmarthen without a doubt. Well done to the owners for keeping Morgan's going it's nice that some things don't get ruined. Definitely worth visiting.

We just called in to have a sit in meal. My husband had haddock chips and peas, wow the size of the meal was huge , I had scampi and chips fabulous. Needless to say we will be back, the staff were very welcoming and the price was reasonable. It was a shame we couldn’t eat it all , too big for us to handle, but good food.

Great chips & amazing mushy peas. Makes me hungry just writing this review.

The best chips any where and that's the truth 😍😍

The best chippy in Carmarthen! We love sitting in with freshly cooked fish, chips, mushy peas, bread and butter and a cup of tea.

The Irish curry sauce is a winner. All cooked to order. Tasty.

Every time we visit West Wales, we always stop off for a chippy tea here! The best fish and chips going! Lovely staff and the cafe takes me back to my childhood. Lovely that I can now share this with my own children. They always love popping in when we’re on staycation. Food is great and portion sizes are super generous. Great value for money. Diolch!!!

Fresh and delicious. Piping hot- and well wrapped. Friendly staff. My family voted these the best fish & chips we’ve ever tasted.Highly recommended-you won’t get better.

I wrote a 5* glowing review of this place 4 YEARS AGO..it was taken over by new owner 3years ago and went instantly downhill. I notice he has the audacity to respond to excellent reviews that were for the old owner!! .. Dirty tactics, keeping the old family name on this business and oll loyal EX customers reviews to make your business look good is totally underhanded and needs reporting!

Stunning chips. Ladies behind counter very friendly and will double cook the chips for you if you like them crispy like I do. Very glad I discovered this chippy 😊

Looking for a good fish n chips place whilst on holiday. Can definitely recommend this place, chips were easily the best I've had in a long time and really good portion. Fish was huge and not too greasy. All glad we chose the standard portion as we're totally stuffed!!

Best chips we've found in carmarthen. Staff were lovely and made conversation.

Best Fish n' Chips I've had in a long time. And reasonably priced.

Closed most of the time in the middle of the day, they don't have a website to tell you if they're closed during a particular bank holiday or not. There's one thing to be "traditional" and not have an app or website of your own and be disconnected with your customers. I lived here for three years and 8 out of the 9 times I wanted to order from them, they were closed (imagine being closed on a monday afternoon). The one time I managed to order something, I had to wait half an hour for the order. Their food is 10/10, but everything else makes it not worth it.

Beautifully cooked fish and chips fried fresh to order. We had our food to eat in the cafe area but I'm sure takeaways would be just as good. Good choice of fish, including hake which you don't often get. Opening hours for the cafe a bit restricted but hopefully will be extended in the summer.

Haven't been to Carmarthen in a while, so had not visited Morgans in 2 years but pleased to say the quality of this fish and chip restaurant has not diminished. The fish is always full of flavour, not over the battered or too oily. The chips are proper potato ones and perfectly cooked. I have been coming here, on and off, for years and I can see why it remains so popular with locals. The fish and chips are simply very very good

Always see this place on my way home after work and thought of giving it a try and I'm very happy I did! Absolutely loved the fish and chips takeout I got. The shop has a nice, warm and cozy feel to it. Will definitely be coming here again! :)

Nice pie. Good chips Great service

By far the best fish and chips we’ve had!!! Perfectly fried fish, nice crispy batter and good white firm fish inside. Decent portion size as well 10 out of 10, cane wait for my next lot.

Absolutely fell in love with this place but for a little while it went really downhill. I stopped going for over a year BUT decided to try again and so glad I did. It’s back to it’s glory days and sooooooooooooooo happy to have the best back

Fantastic fish and chips. Definitely worth to try it. Excellent curry sauce.

Searched this place out because it was recommended. Wish I hadn't bothered. Arrived close to closing time. Husband loves Fish and Chips, I don't. But I will usually find something on the menu I can eat as a veggie. Apart from a Pavement Pizza style veggie burger which I really didn't fancy I could have had chips, chip butty, or chips! Really??? I appreciate you specialise in fish dishes, but sometimes a group or a party has a veggie or vegan who would also like a nice meal. Offering chips or a chip butty is rude. Our local has battered halloumi, sweet potato fries, pea fritters or sage and onion patties. It's not difficult. Would have been OK if husband's meal was exceptional. It wasn't. So he had an average supper and I went hungry. Not a great result.

It’s such a shame but since Morgan’s changed hands a couple of years ago, it’s just not the same. We have tried the cod and chips several times and have always been disappointed. The cod is thin and generally over cooked. Our pieces were very small in comparison to before and there was far more batter than fish. Gone is the nice thick, white and flakey fish and now just over cooked, dry and small portions. It could actually be pollock. The chips also seem to be dry and overcooked. I would question whether they are blanched prior to frying. It used to be the best fish and chip shop I’ve ever been to. Sadly, no more. 🥺

Really nice chips. The rissole could do with a little more meat as photographed.

Amazing fish and chips as always. Abrupt and rather poor customer service on our latest visit. Always been very good before this.

Lovely food, good service and very reasonable, what's not to like?

Staff always make you feel welcome great food great service great price

Been going here for years, staff are great, food is reasonably priced especially compared to other cafes and restaurants in town, always go here if having a shopping day out with family, my children love the chips and sausage and my favourite is the fruity curry sauce, delicious. Portion sizes are very good, absolutely delicious food and highly recommend to anyone. Large variety of food choices. 10/10

Havent been here for a while staff were lovely but the food wasn't as nice as before wont be going her again

Never fails to deliver excellent fresh food at s reasonable price

Honestly used to be better but still pretty amazing

I haven't been here since I came as a kid and had such fond memories. Given it's been about 20 years it was strange to see this place looks identical. It hasn't changed one bit. In terms of covid it's a pain, you have to stand at a desk and order you food then fill out a book with your details. You sit down and it's brought over. The tables were clean but the chairs are rickety and not solid at all. I'm only 14st but felt as if these may give way! In terms of food. Cod was quote tasteless and the batter was crispy on top but soggy underneath. It had no flavour at all. The chips were standard chip shop chips however even with salt were not particularly nice My son had the kids nuggets and the meat was cheap and nasty. Costs wise cod and chips £7.95, drinks £1.30. not terrible pricing but I can't recommend this place and such a shame to return here and be disappointed. Oh and the toilets are rank, felt like I was using a toilet from the year 1546 in a cupboard with no light!

Awesome. Best fish & chips ever. NOTE: This review was for the previous owners. I haven't been back since it changed hands.

Based on past reviews we had a take out here ,should have read the recent reviews. Chips were warm and chewey . Mushy peas was cold and runny. COD was acceptable and curry sauce! well .....

Best fish and chips I ever had 😍

Clean excellent covid awareness. Tasty food.

If you say you're open until 7.30 pm ...... ...... don't tell us you're closed when we've walked across town to eat with you and arrive at 6.50 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

Really disappointed with our fish and chips, mushy peas were brown/grey and tasted really off, fish and chips both tasted like the fryer hadn't been cleaned in ages, black bits everywhere. Was told this was the best fishnchips in Carmarthen, maybe we went on the wrong day?

Under new management. As yet untested.

Wouldn’t return. We came 30 minutes before the shop closed and they only had 4 things left to offer that looked like they were left out for hours, the chips were room temperate warm and slightly chewy as if they’d been left for ages until they closed. Over priced for the taste. Rude service also

Very slow service considering there was only 2 other people in the shop. Messed-up my order and new customers waiting to give their orders.

Excellent food, as always. Recommended.

Had to give the place a chance given the previous reputation but it has gone seriously down hill. There is no way the chip oil is ever changed. Picked up a takeaway, by the time I got it into the car I knew it was bad as I was overwhelmed by the smell of oil! Seriously don't bother trying it out, you'll regret it. I don't understand why anyone would take over a successful business and run it to the ground like this, it makes no sense

We had a takeaway which was the first time we have used Morgans since the Coronavirus lockdown. Morgans seems to have gone down in many people's opinion, possibly due to an unfair cleanliness rating together with maybe also a case of 'The Emperor's New Clothes'. This has always been my chippy of choice, and we were not disappointed. The freshly fried large cod (huge) and haddock & chips were delicious. If you have stopped using Morgans and taken your trade around the corner, think twice next time and give them another go. The only negative was that I had to leg it to a cashpoint because they didn't accept cards. 10/10

Best chips in town, so happy they are open again x

Not as good a place as it used to be , new owners, fish and chips tasteless, gone downhill.

Three of us went in hope that it had improved since last visit, after a change of ownership. The thin end of our fish was fine, but by the time we had eaten to the thicker end it became rather dry and tasteless and the end of one portion was inedible - it looked like it might had been cooked partly frozen and was discoloured. I suspect they buy 'value' fish. Chips were acceptable.

Revolting greasy heap of mush. This used to be the best chippy in the locality. The queue used to be out the door on saturday nights so I was a little surprised when I went tonight and I was the only one in there. Not surprised anymore though. Pity.

Have been eating here regularly for 20 yrs+ and never had a bad word to say about the place until new owners took over. I have given the place a few chances in case the food was a result of a settling in period but the food is now awful. Fish portions are smaller and dry, and the chips are inedible. The new owner doesn't know how to either buy or cook fish and apparently doesn't even know how to cook chips. He may have increased his profit margin with cheaper suppliers, but it won't last long, the food is vile. An object lesson in how to destroy a formerly cherished local business.

New owner has kept the staff and food is excellent Superb fish & chips

Best chippy in Carmarthen by far

Been travelling to Morgan’s chippy for 30 years from Neath as a treat. Very disappointed today, fish was swimming in grease, chips were inedible too. Didn’t know it had changed hands, needless to say won’t be returning. Such a SHAME a good business ruined!!!

Spent about £30, as I walked out the door noticed a 1 star hygiene notice very hard to see. Dogs enjoyed it

Used to be the best chippy in Wales, new owners and the food is just not the same and not even good for that matter, such a shame.

Business no longer owned by the Morgan family. Quality definitely not as good. Will not be going back!

Went for lunch yesterday. Cod, chips, mushy peas, bread and butter and a mug of milky coffee. Excellent service, nicest fish and chips we've ever had. Highly recommended!

Literally the worst chippy ever since the new owners took over. I used to eat here 3-4 times a week..not anymore. The owner is not very nice at all and does not stick to his opening hours. Even the staff that have been there for years look like they have had enough of him.

Not sure why this place has bad reviews because I found the fish and chips to be out of this world. Best chips of my trip, without doubt! Short wait, everything cooked to order and the staff were good fun. Well done to Morgan’s for not letting me down on my home trip!

I have eaten at Morgan's for the past 25 years & have never had a bad meal. In fact there is hardly anywhere else I would reccomend for Fish & Chips. However, last Friday I shared a portion of Fish & Chips with my daughter & we were very disappointed. The fish was not freshly cooked, the batter & the fish were dry as if they had been sitting in warmer for a couple of hours The chips also were not freshly cooked I'm not sure if its because they were not busy or because they couldn't be bothered?But there were 3 female staff available & our food was nowhere near the standard it always has been!Very dissatisfied customer

I've been coming here for donkeys years. A visit to Carmarthen just would not be complete without a visit to Morgans Chippy.I dont know what they do to their chips, but they are always delicately crisp with a distinct crunch, and soft and fluffy inside. I'm not exaggerating when I say its chip heaven. The fish is always cooked to order so it involves a wait of the cooking time but it's well worth it. The result is mouth watering. No one does it this well, locally or as far as I'm concerned, anywhere else. The fact that the restaurant is so busy every weekday and full of locals says it all... Its no secret how good this place is. I would have thought the negative reviews on here are false and possibly vindictive. I've been coming here for 30 plus years and I have never been able to fault the place.

NEW OWNERS;; sorry to say the fish and chips is no longer as it was,,tasteless. SHAME

used to make special journey from swansea just for fish and chips from morgans.now under new owners ,the batter is too thick, the fish has been reduced in size but more importantly in taste,,maybe new supplier of fish.the chips are terrible.. didn't previous owners recommend same suppliers of oils, fish,potatoes etcend of an era I'm sorry to say..

Best fish & chip shop in Wales....

Best fish and chips in Carmarthen.

Great fish and chips my go to fish bar

I would recommend eating here the was discussing

Haven’t been since the take over but very pleased to see that it hasn’t lowered its standards. Went with husband for fish and chip supper which was just what we needed on a cold wet night. Everything was fresh and crispy. Staff are really friendly and helpful. portion size were large. Will be going again soon

After reading some of the recent reviews, I was worried that Morgans' had gone downhill. Went in tonight, delighted to find that nothing's changed; not even the staff although there are a couple of new faces, people do change jobs after all. Plenty of friendly banter with the girls, fish cooked to order and well worth the brief wait.

I have been going to morgans for sixteen years,in that time the fish and chips where excellent.Today I went again for my usual treat only to find it is now in new ownership. Sadly I will not be returning again. Reason being the restaurant was cold and uninviting "lacking atmosphere, longer than average wait for the food ordered" (small plates as usual) just okay nothing special for the price paid. I wish the previous owners good luck for the future and would like to thank them for the past experience of the most enjoyable meals over the years. I hope new owners take this review seriously.

The fish was gorgeous so thank you for that. However the chips are awful I will not return. They were old tasting and so sharp in the mouth bit n bobs really.

I travel the U K in my job and I usually find fish and chip shops to be a reliable source of good food. Until now I have rated the Cannon Fish Bar in Berwick Upon Tweed as my sole favourite - it is now joint favourite with the amazing Morgans Traditional Chippy. I have generally found such outlets in Wales to be pretty average and stumbling across Morgans was a revelation which has helped me to see Welsh chippies in more positive light. The people of Carmarthen are truly blessed to enjoy the privilege of such an eatery in their town. Spotlessly clean, friendly and competent staff serving excellent food with a smile all under the supervision of the fantastic Simon Jackson - a Welshman who, like myself a product of Ystalyfera Grammar School has lost his accent - that happens when you stay too long in England. I am looking forward to going back for a second round.

As regular visitors we returned on Saturday. We didn't realize it was under new ownership and were surprised that at 12.30 pm on a Saturday is was very quiet.

Just had a fish and chip meal and it was lovely.....cooked to perfection and great service....the new owners have for some strange reason been having unfavourable reviews but it all honest I can't fault them....great food and service....good luck to their new venture...

One of the best fish and chip shops, ever, crispy chips and crunchy batter on the fish. Firm fish, so fresh.

Enjoyed a lovely fish and chip lunch today with relatives. Fish was very good and the chips were the best I have tasted for a good while. Certainly worth another visit soon.

Been coming here for as long as I can remember, and always looked forward to an amazing meal, well how things have changed, new owner doesn’t even acknowledge anyone , but main thing is the standard of the food has gone downhill , chips do not taste the same and where have the fabulous homemade fish cakes gone ,now it’s just standard frozen ones that taste of instant potato and nothing else, staff look miserable ,looks like most have left, not surprised, took ages to get meal,couldn’t even serve a hot chocolate as steamer had broken ,ever heard of a microwave ? needless to say we won’t be coming back anytime soon .

Recent new ownership, standard and quality of food exceptional. Highly recommended.

I’ve been going here for years and it was the best chip shop for miles around. The atmosphere ha changed. It used to be a happy place to go and Mal the owner always had a smile on his face, New owner barely looks at the customers with no personality whatsoever. Went there tonight, no Steak and Kidney Pies, no minced beef and onion pies, only chicken and mushroom. Tried for a rissoles. Guess what, no rissole. Hardly any food in the hot counter, the fish that was there was really skinny compared to the usual cod we used to get there. Most of Mal’s Staff have left and those that are left look as miserable as sin. What a shame.

Honestly used to be the best chippy in wales, But i think they have been taken over and now its unedible! so dissapointed! used to visit here at least a couple of times a week..

Been coming here since I was a child, very disappointed yesterday. The fish wasn’t fresh and chips were cold. Definitely gone downhill since the previous owner.

Not so good now. Chips rather tough. Fish OK, but not top quality. Batter too thick. Disappointing - used to be better.

New owners - recently received a 1 star food hygiene rating. I have updated my review accordingly.

This place is amazing. I would recommend it to anyone to visit this place! My go-to every time! Staff and friendly and the food is delicious! It’s always so busy which is obviously a great sign!

Poor manners, all stood there looking at us silly despite saying excuse me, they were slow, impolite and charged me the wrong amount. Food was okay though :)

Ey up called in for fish and chips - 40 minute wait - they were very busy and were working quick and organised -fish and chips - one scoop of chips enough for 2 people - fish better than chips but not a patch on Fish and chips served up at Hampden Fish shop.

Amazingly good chips. Great range and quality of all the food that goes with them. Very clean and well organised. Lovely friendly staff!

Lovely restaurant food and service. Extremely tasty fish and chips served with a smile. Would definitely return

Tried this restaurant on advice of previous reviews on TripAdvisor not disappointed ordered large cod chips curry sauce and normal cod chips and mushy peas excellent portions served freshly cooked and hot. Very good quality and taste no complaints. Order taken and served by a very friendly small lady with red hair, even brought scissors to assist with sauce sashes. Toilets very clean and accessible. Would definitely recommend if this is what you fancy.

Disappointing Fish and Chips, the thickness of the fish portion appears to have reduced and taste not as it has been. Still ok but no where near usual standard. Hope this is a learning blip by new owners.

Recently stayed in Carmarthen and had another very pleasant meal at Morgans. I had the farmers feast (bacon/egg/chips etc), and my wife had the fish and chips, Both meals were excellent, and I've had excellent meals there before such as their home made faggots and gravy.

The Best fish and chips anywhere. Consistently excellent and lovely welcoming owner

Been here a couple of times, hubby had fish & chips & I had omelette & chips😀oh my word they were delicious. The chips are cooked to perfection👍lovely friendly staff & reasonably priced.