The Chippy in Central Bedfordshire

Overcharged a ridiculous amount and it wasn’t a mistake either as this isn’t the first time. Will not be using again.

Always good food and service with a smile. Best of all its cash only. Need to keep cash alive

Heard it was good here, and yes the spuds and fish were. And well priced. I did ask to sit in however, but was then handed a wrapped bag. I said I wanted to sit down to eat (the place looked clean and tidy), but was told I didn't say that?? Maybe some misunderstanding, but sulkily shaking my bag out onto a plate, I was then subject to hearing me being muttered about whilst I ate. Shame as won't go there again. But have rated the food fairly

Two chip shops in Sandy and this one is by far the worst. Intact probably the worst i've ever been to.

Prices getting higher and higher and portions getting smaller. Dont seem to sort out the regulars so we will be trying the other chippy in town for a while. Oh dont get vinigar on your chips it watered down

check your change before you move from counter got charged £3.70 for chips

They serve the usual fare of a fish and chip shop fairly quickly

Always great food ! Best thing is the fish is boneless and skinless !!

Portions getting smaller or is it me? Great service freshly cooked, but large chips does not do 3 kids now.

Loved the service and great chips

Gone downhill lately, last time chips were really not good at all, won't be using again.

Always get fish & chips here and never been disappointed

Ordered to go.... and it arrived on the counter quickly. Paid and the assistant gave me my change with a handful of small coins. Not a problem, but it was £1.00 short. I still had the amount she gave me in my hand and had not moved, she counted it, now knew it was short and told me to "check my pockets". How's that for customer service! Last time I use The Chippy

Can't remember the last time I had good fish n chips. Haven't been here for years and this was great! 👌🏻

The best chips in Bedfordshire, hands down.

nice chips good portions - friendly

All good as always. Never had a problem with them.

Nice fish and chip cafe - and the only place to eat in in Sandy in a Monday!

It was good I suppose cheap and it done the job but not my goto chip shop

Always great food and service, the best in Sandy!

Great chip shop lovely place to go keep the good work up

Small family run chip shop. Very well cooked food at good prices. Warm and friendly staff. Free parking outside. My family use this shop weekly as it's so good.

I'm going to give this 4 stars this time as we use the chippy a lot,but unfortunately I think they must have been rushed because both of our fish and chips were not great THIS time,I've got to be honest with my reviews normally fantastic but this time batter was very thick and wet in middle cups were not completely cooked. As I say we use them a lot and are fantastic,everyone has a bad day at any job,DO NOT HOLD THIS AGAINST THEM,normally brilliant xxxx

Fresh and tasty combined with quick service, excellent !

Always fresh, haven't had a bad item off the menu yet. (And I've tried most) I would recommend the town fryer locally for a kebab but you won't find better fish n chips locally. Chips are always cooked to perfection, thought it may have been a 1 off but no matter what time of day I go, they are perfect. It seems like all is cooked to order too.

As always we really enjoyed our fish n chips. The service was exalent & the fish was cooked to order. Highly recomend

Fabulous food everytime. By far the best chippy for miles

Chips are OK depending on time of visit. Seating area is now clean and fresh since covid. Not many pkaces left to visit in sandy that you can still sit and eat in. This being the only place left to do so late in evening. Not a very welcoming place but hey its all we got now.

This is a reasonably priced fish and chip shop. I ordered small chips and the portion was huge, I couldn’t finish it. It’s worth it if you’re famished but it was too much for me to finish. It was fresh and hot. Friendly and quick service. I can’t comment on the fish since I’m a vegetarian but good chips.

Very good fish and chips, friendly family run business

Haddock and chips mmmmmmmm top notch!

Great fish n chip shop lovely service

Nice chips and not much more to eat in.

I don't normally write reviews. But I rely on reviews so here's mine. Ordered pie and chips with a pineapple fritter. The pie wasn't cooked in the microwave long enough so the dough was a bit chewy. The chips were very much chips. Tiny chippings pieces not actual chunky ones. Very greasy. The pineapple fritter I ordered- was charged for two and received two. I quite like pineapple fritters so I didn't correct her. They were nice big a juicy.

We were hesitant to use The Chippy as a lot of reviews were not good. We took a chance and ordered over the phone for collection in 10 minutes. When we arrived they were just finishing cooking it. It was hot and delicious. The chips could have been a little crisper but that is only our choice. Overall we had a very good experience and would definitely use them again.

Chips a bit hard .burger looked like it had been sat on.

Hope you are hungry as the portions are huge

Nicely cooked food and excellent customer service

great fish n chips... best in Sandy

A quick meal was wanted, haddock was superbly cook, nice chips and plenty of them, a really good meal

If you want hard raw chips and grit and stones in your saveloy every single time, then this is the number 1 place. Vile vile vile vile vile!!!!! YUK!

Friendly welcome food improved as not visited for a while.nice hot fish and chips.

Nice food, chips cooked lovely, tomato sauce cachet unfortunately expired 3 months ago, otherwise would have given 5 stars, nice place to eat in as well, friendly staff.

I always enjoy the food, thank you

Friendly staff. Good food good prices all grand

Always a happy welcome and service plus all the food is perfect

Was great, but gone downhill recently, wrong orders, dry chicken. I used to like this place... Shame..

Food cooked to order - you can eat in here.

Top quality food enjoyed it always and best in Sandy!!!! Staff always friendly and cool people. portion size is brilliant.

Really nice food, freshly cooked, not overly greasy. Staff were friendly. Extremely yummy!

Good variety of food ie pies fish etc clean and friendly staff

My mum has been busy looking after my nan so as a quick meal we decided to have sausage and chips. Chips were disgusting. Tasted days old and every chip had bruised bits. Worse chips ever. Don't waste your money here go to The Town Fryer. Far superior.

Chips were amazing but i think the seating area needs a good clean

Like this place. Best chips in Sandy.

Great authentic fish and chips.

Fish was small and completely flat more batter than fish, chips were hard and tasted as if they were cooked yesterday,pleasant owners but don't waste your money!

Nice customer service and was very happy with my cod and chips n mushy peas

Food is served fresh, hot and hygienically.

I will not be buy any chips from here thay are rubbish,

The chips were terrible. Staff would crack if they smiled. Won't return again.

Fish was good, Chips were dreadful seating so cramped could hardly move to eat. Eating in restaurant wouldn't have expected to have to pay for sauce. Wouldn't go there again even for takeaway. Staff grumpy.

Great flavour and good value fish and chips

It was very cold outside so we headed for some good fish & chips and some hot coffee to try and get warmed up, Whilst the fish & chips were OK, the coffee was poor, just boil the kettle and poor a cup of instant powdered coffee which tasted yucky, very sad when so many coffee makers and selections are available to the trade, but what compounded the situation was that the building was like sitting a refrigerator. I don't know if the building had a heating problem, but I saw no radiators in the restaurant seating area, but an electric heater in the counter area. Even the two servers were wrapped up in fleece jackets behind the counter it was so cold. I'll be back sometime, but in hot sunny weather and drink coke, I won't ask for coffee.

Good service good food reasonable prices friendly owner and staff.

My favourite go to for a chippy locally if not having a kebab. My wife always has fish from here and it is always good quality and a good portion size. Chips are proper "chippy" chips, especially if you wait for the ones that have been out of the frier a few minutes rather than the fresh ones. Mmmmm, can just taste them now :)

No card payments is the only issue i have had. Why do no chippies take card?

Good food, usually go for haddock. No complaints

On 22nd November 2017, I did the eight mile walk from Bedford to Sandy via Willington and the route of the old university railway line. On arriving in Sandy, I went to the Chippy on the Market Square, right in the centre of the town and only a few paces from the bus stop where the buses leave for Bedford. In fact, you can see the bus stop and the buses from the shop window.My first impressions were positive, as there was a large sign in the window telling us when the shop was going to be open. You would think this would be a standard feature everywhere, but, believe me, it is not. A menu and price list in the window would be even better, but that is a minor detail and it may even detract from the views through the window.My second and third impressions were equally positive, as firstly there was no nasty noise pollution blaring from any radio or other unwanted implement of intrusion. Secondly, there was a clean, bright and attractive seating area where people could sit and eat their food in a pleasant environment, making this a lot more than just a take-away.The staff behind the counter were welcoming and friendly, and I ordered my fish and chips with a cup of tea to eat in. Prices were very reasonable, and certainly no more than you would pay at most take-away chip shops for food you would have to eat outside in the wind and the cold with a cheap wooden fork. Here, the food came on an attractive plate with condiments and proper cutlery, and I was able to eat it at a clean table with a good view of the market square and the town centre.It was a good meal. The large cod was excellent, and the portion of chips was perfectly big enough. The chips were crisp and good to taste, and were well cooked. There are salt and vinegar bottles on every table, allowing you to choose the exact amount to suit your taste, and a free packet of tartare sauce was thrown in to add to the flavour. My only suggestion would be to offer Heinz ketchup and HP brown sauce as alternatives just to make the choice even wider.Anyone coming into this shop as a first ever visit to a chip shop may well be forgiven for thinking that this type of service is common, but sadly it is not. There are a great many chip shops where space does not allow any kind of seating area, meaning that you have to eat food outside no matter what the weather. I even know of one chip shop where people can eat inside at tables, but where the staff still don't supply anything more than a cheap wooden fork to eat with.There are also plenty of chip shops with blaring noise, rude staff, unclean facilities, and/or grossly inflated prices, all of which were thankfully absent from this one. As I said before, this is one of the most impressive chip shops I have visited, and the owners obviously take a lot of care over making it as welcoming and pleasant as possible. It is a shame I don't visit Sandy more often, otherwise this would become a regular eating place of mine.It is also superbly located and easy to get to. The buses to and from Bedford and Biggleswade depart from a stop which you can actually see from the shop window, and there are some other local buses which use that stop as well. If you come to Sandy by train, you'll have a bit of a longer walk, but that is inevitable in a country where integrated transport is still an unknown concept.The town itself is a little sparse on facilities, although there is a public karzy not too far from the market square. It appears to be on its last legs, though, as both of the individual units had a broken flush on the day I visited, making the visit none too pleasant an experience. I can't imagine the attendant finds his work too pleasant either, if indeed there still is an attendant. Find the karzy before you go for food or drink, or it could be embarrassing.If you do the walk in from Bedford, be prepared for there to be quite a distance from your entrance into the town to the actual centre itself. Most of the walk is on combined paths and cycle tracks, so you are not breathing in fumes on a congested main road. The route is also well signposted, so you should still be able to find your way in even if you don't have a detailed map.However you get to Sandy, the Chippy on the Market Square comes highly recommended. If only all chip shops could show this kind of dedication to customer service and a clean, inviting environment. Great job, owners, great job.

Great chip shop! Always consistent with their food!

Super fresh fish and chips. Well impressed with the food and this place is very busy so book early or be prepared to wait. The manager Paul is a top bloke and super friendly. This is the place to go for fish and chips!

Nice people who run it but the fish the last time I visited the as appalling. Over cooked and more batter then fish. Not good standards

Cod and chips freshly cooked for me. They do egg and chips for those who eat in. I didn't have the time, which is a pity

Excellent tasty haddock and chips batter was divine and consistently lovely fourth time now

Food was ok but the chips were hardly cooked and soggy. Owner very friendly and it seemed clean. The fish was ok if a little small.

If you are looking for traditional English fish and chips then this is hard to beat great service and great food

We had eat in fish and chips, which was really well cooked light batter nice chips' Staff helpful , also varied choice of hamburgers pies Chinese baked potatoes. Will go again.

Eat In or takeaway. Good food, good prices

Good tasty food, bit concerned about the little girl that has to stand behind the counter some weekends!

Food isn't great to be honest, staff are friendly enough....shame as Sandy is short of a good chip shop.

This shop does the best chips in town!!! They are really good, i can also recommend the jumbo sausages and cod/haddock. You must try this place!!

We had another very enjoyable fish and chip supper from the Chippy in Sandy. Once again our fish was pure white and flaky and the batter melted in your mouth. The chips were cooked to perfection and tasted lovely and the staff are so pleasant and friendly. You can’t fault the quality and they are very reasonably priced.

I go to The Chippy for lunch most Fridays. Its basic but clean and the staff are very friendly. The best chip shop in Sandy.

This is a small, family-owned fish and chip shop, serving very tasty fish and chips. All their food is freshly cooked to order; it normally takes about five or ten minutes but it is well worth the wait!

Brilliant food only chip shop to use