The Good Catch in Trafford

Good food and staff very efficient at front of shop to ensure safety

Probably my favourite chip shop in the country.... Moved away (80 miles) and still take any opportunity to nip in here. Their fish is awesome always cooked fresh to order and the batter is so light crispy and tasty...

Great fish and chips would highly recommend.

Always good but a bit pricey at the moment!

I'm afraid this chippy has the wrong name. It should actually be called .. The Bad Catch. Not only does it have a minimum card spend of five pounds.. but to add insult to injury .. I paid three pounds thirty for a chip barm today and when I opened it I discovered roughly 15 chips on my barmcake ... now I know food inflation is running high at the moment but that's ridiculous. Anyway.. what I would advise anybody considering using this chippy is..... DONT.!!!

Excellent traditional Fish n Chips - always top quality and fair prices - well worth the 20 mile round trip.

Great food, excellent staff, reasonable prices 👍

Nice polite staff. There is always at its best . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Completely overrated, Costa’s on Hale Road much better. Also, they don’t take card payment for anything under £5 which is ridiculous these days.

Fish and chips, mushy peas for three, chips were warmed up and lots of bits not worth the money.

Excellent food and quality but need to ge t there early to avoid disappointment

Lovely food friendly staff. Thank you

Good service and excellent fish and chips

Best chippy in Altrincham and Hale. Monday and Tuesday gluten free fish and chips available.Staff are always on the ball and the fish is superb as are the chips.Been usung this place for over a decade so will leave more reviews.

Wow, just dropped in for a quick snack on the way to the tram. Proper old school chips at £2.50, very rare. Can't wait to come back and sample more from the menu!

Great staff Great food Would come again

Was a good place to eat, not so much anymore. Food standard and quality has dropped considerably. There is one particular server (assums she is the manager and has glasses) who is rude and she has absolutely no customer service. Its local to us and unfortunately we won't be back.

Excellent local chippy with friendly staff and great food

It was busy so they were taking orders at the door, ordered at the same time as a friend. Order came within about 15 minutes we then stood waiting for a further hour for my friends order. My order was stone cold. And the scallop was missing

The Good Catch used to be our favourite fish and chip takeaway, for many years but unfortunately recently the quality of the food has declined. The last 3 times we have been disappointed. Regrettably we will have to look around and find an alternative.

Proper chipy only thing missing is the newspaper

Busy chippy doing good quality fish and chips.

Staff can be rude at times however this is a chippy so to be expected. Definitely the best fish and chips in Manchester. Not too pricy considering its hale. They accept American Express.

Pudding and chips very cold. Best thing was the gravy.

This is my first time having authentic fish and chips! We waited outside until 4:30 when it opened and it was worth the wait. Staff was very friendly food came out very fast we took it home and it was amazing. It was worth flying from Connecticut all the way to London taking a train to Manchester to find this place! They actually need to charge more for their food. It would be double this price in the United States and I would still pay it.

I encountered this establishment by luck, for me! Requested to attend as a plumber, not as a mascot or as some promotional gimmick, but to fix a sink. I can only rave about the quality and service given by the team. Had to see why the shop was never empty. Fish chips and a barm were requested. Golden crisp chips. Moist fish with a golden batter tanging from the salt and vinegar was a delight. It may even make me Altrincham united fan, as its within the flood lights of the ground. Thanks for a tremendous lunch. 10 out 10,cant wait for the next plumbing issue

Tripadvisor Tripadvisor Write a review, make someone's trip Stories like yours are what helps travellers have better trips. Share your experience and help out a fellow traveller! What would you like to review? Your reviews The Good Catch Hale, United Kingdom Codding you not! November 2023 I encountered this establishment by luck, for me! Requested to attend as a plumber, not as a mascot or as some promotional gimmick, but to fix a sink. I can only rave about the quality and service given by the team. Had to see why the shop was never empty. Fish chips and a barm were requested. Golden crisp chips. Moist fish with a golden batter tanging from the salt and vinegar was a delight. It may even make me Altrincham united fan, as its within the flood lights of the ground. Thanks for a tremendous lunch. 10 out 10,cant wait for the next plumbing issue

Sorry but the curry sauce I had today. Advertised as spicy curry sauce and explained as spicy curry sauce was shocking. No taste or spice at all.

Always amazing fish and chips can never go wrong best in altrincham

Used Good Catch for years and enjoyed the food. However today it came to my attention that the staff put fish and meat products in the same fryer, and use the same utensils. When we first bought from Good Catch, the shop floor manager reassured me that meat products are cooked in a separate fryer to the chips and fish. Maybe management has changed. Unfortunately they will lose a lot of customers once the word gets out eg Muslim, Jewish, pescatarians, etc.

Eat fish and chips in Altrincham

Freshly cooked food of great quality , we use this venue quite regularly.

Very good, tasty and fresh.sometimes in rare occasions spicy curry tastes bad, and the first batches of fish absorbs more oil. I visit them often and only occasionally they let me down.

gluten free fish and chips, winner

Ordered chips and gravy, in my opinion the chips were slightly under cooked as they all stuck together in the tray and were, imo, pretty soggy (nothing to do with the lovely thick gravy) I will say I have ordered chips from here before that have been perfectly cooked btw

had the chicken curry rice and chips was delicious best ive tasted. Food was hot and tasted so good better than other curries ive ha

Usually fantastic. So disappointed today. Awful batter. Smaller portions. Disinterested staff. Food not hot.

Usual very good fish n chips. Good portion and nicely cooked.

Good quality, clean environment and friendly staff

We'll run, courteous, friendly fast staff and great food Serves gluten free fish/chips on Mondays and Tuesdays with actual tasty GF batter! Recommended

Best fish and chips in Hale. Often queueing outside. That says it all. They do gluten free on a Monday for Celiacs. Give it a go. We love it.

Love their gluten free options! Absolutely delicious, very tasty, good portion sizes. I am a very happy coeliac. 🥰

Good chippy! Staff are great, food is just as good. Have been a good number of times thou and what I wanted wasn’t available sadly (hence 4 stars) but that doesn’t detract from how good the food is. Pricing is higher than some competition in the area but with the cost of fuel now it ‘sort of’ balances out a little.

Has changed hands by the looks, and has gone seriously down hill , was the best chippy for miles, now soggy mediocre undercooked stodge, crying shame...

Great local chippy, always fresh and tasty, Gluten Free Fish on Mondays is excellent, you really can't tell the difference to standard batter. 👍

The way a real large vid fish should look

Great service and great fish and chips.

Consistently good fish & chip shop

Best fish and chips had for a while

Been a local customer here for many years, we’ve moved areas and have been travelling well out of our way to continue our custom. We have travelled on two occasions now and the shutters have been down an hour before closing time. We checked the closing time on the website prior to visiting and also on Google. Very disappointing and we will no longer be travelling out of our way for this chippy. Such a shame!

Very expensive , fish cake one day it's good the next it like biting in to a rock.

Can't comment on the food quality but can comment on the ridiculous queues and very expensive prices. I did not buy just walked out. I'm glad I did looking at some reviews. I know why it's called 'The Good Catch' nothing to do with fish. You are the Good Catch, customers and their money. Loads of places elsewhere, less busy and better quality and much cheaper. Don't be fooled about awards. Had lovely F&C elsewhere and much better value they get my award as a customer.

As ever perfectly cooked, wrapped to your instructions and the prices are just righ.

Drove from Mobberley you were shut your Google ad says your open

Best english fish and chips in the area and the staff are very helpfully and friendly and a bonus the fish are either cod or haddock.

Good Chippy getting more Expensive.

Always fab fish and chips from here. Freshly cooked for you. Tip: phone your order through as there is often a long queue

After a round golf myself and Mrs L we’re famished and neither of us wanted to start cooking. Our decision to nip to The Good Catch, which was a 3 min drive seemed a good one but sadly turned out to be a disaster. The take away was 5 mins from closing so when I was told there was “no fish” I conceded and we opted for chips accompanied by 2 large cartons of curry sauce. I also added a cheese n onion pie (I should have known better) for good measure. We arrived back home excited and looking forward to some good old comfort food, which was far from good. The chips were soft, overcooked and I don’t mean in a crispy way, pale mushy & stuck together. The curry sauce was that thick it could have been cut into a slice and was difficult to remove from the carton. We ended up boiling a kettle and adding a substantial amount of boiling water to turn the sorry sludge into something that would actually coat the chips or allow the chips to be dipped into it. I haven’t had a Holland’s pie for years, and after biting into it remembered why, thick ignorant pastry, minimal filling and lacking any cheese taste to speak of. Whilst the pie issue indeed lies with Holland’s (god know how they have lasted this long) the poor excuse for chips and curry sauce is firmly TGC’s issue. They shouldn’t have served either tbh let alone charge good money for them. As soon as I saw the numerous poor reviews below I wasn’t surprised and this place, which was once very good has gone completely down the pan and I won’t be returning. Catch yourselves on and be GOOD please instead of serving up this awful gruel.

Soggy chips curry as thick as baby food..they had no fish? It’s a fish and chip shop. The worst chips and curry I’ve ever been presented with.

I knew as soon as I started tucking in that I had to review and give praise. 5 stars (3 stars max is my usual default maximum) The best fish and chips I've had in a long time.

Great chippy. Always busy. All freshly cooked.

Chips were soggy and home made fish fingers were scraps of fish in batter. Not really that impressed.

The fish was ok but I have never had chewy chips before!! It was very quiet in the shop so wondering if the chips had been sat there a while and maybe re fryed Not normal quality , very disappointing .

Fast and friendly service food lovely

Simply the best around. Thank you.

Saturday teatime and an empty shop should have been a bit of a red flag really. They used to queue outside this shop for good quality food. I spent £25 on 5 meals but it really wasn't good. The fish used to be cooked fresh but it was already cooked when I got there. Chips were lukewarm and tasteless despite the girl putting on, what seemed to be, a bottle of salt and vinegar. Even the paper trays were flimsy and needed a plate underneath. Not impressed at all.

Ordered fish and chips, cooked to order and very enjoyable.

Really nice customer service, Tasty fish and chips, even though it was abit of a small size of fish, it was really delicious. sausage was beautiful. chips could’ve been fresher. but overall i would recommend.

First class fish and chips, always freshly fried. Best fish and chip shop that I amaware of

Just paid over £13 for 2 lots of fish and chips, I started eating them in the car......chips were COLD fish was luke warm at best. Waste of money. Maybe if they spent less time talking and more time checking the food they would do a lot better? Won't be rushing back.

The best fish & chip shop ever.

Best chippy around. The fish is amazing, And the pies are very nice. Great friendly staff. Would definitely recommend

This used to be nice. Probably the worst chippy in the area. On so many occasion been very disappointed so now leaving a review and never going back….. Soggy greasy chips portion, fish size gonna smaller, never fresh like it used to be. Now cooked and left there. Over battered. Some staff never polite and welcoming (bad attitude) Not exactly cheap. You would expect to get what you paid for. I would strongly recommend eating any where but this place

One of the best fish and chip restaurants in the Manchester area.

Vert tasty, great value, plenty of choice and apparently sustainably sourced

Nice fish and chips all freshly cooked to order. Really good batter.

Just had fish and chips here for the first time, and last. 25% fish, 75% thick crusty tasteless batter. The fish part was very dry. Pretty awful. The shop itself and staff were very organised. Shame about the products

Amazing chippy, not far from the sea front

Great food, been coming here for years. Go to chip shop in the area for me. Strongly recommend

Yummy yummy......plus a cake shop next door if ur bein' really nauteh 🤤🤤

Best Fish and Chips in Altrincham

Just passing thu with work outstanding chippy really spot on a little pricey but well worth it

Since lockdown the quality really has plummeted, fish is tiny and not well cooked and the chips are far too soggy and greasy. This place used to be very good, not sure what happened. It's possible it changed ownership and cost cutting has become more prevalent but I think it's more to do with the staff there who have no clue. They leave the fish out for about an hour on the rack until its served, you pay full price only for cold fish.

I used to think this was the best fish and chip shop around but since they reorganised due to covid I’ve not enjoyed the food. Often greasy fish and soggy chips. Keeping customers outside in the cold and rain doesn’t help either. When I asked they said they now preferred to work this way.

They are very nice people and I have been going them for years.

food great and friendly service

Very good love th fish and chips

Very friendly staff, quick service. Asked for a burger and it was good.

Has always been the best chippy around been going there 2013

Great hot fish and chips Thanks Arcc Construction

Friday fish & chips really enjoyed it

Still good but quality seems to have dropped a little lately. Big queues, great staff.

Great fish and chips, best in alti

I used to come to this place all the time, but after lockdown, fish is no longer cooked fresh to order, it is smaller, chips are undercooked an greasy. What's more, the vinegar they use tastes like it was made in a chemical factory. I won't be coming here again, luckily there are two other chippys nearby with much better quality fish and chips.

I paid £6.90 for fish and chips in a box. After getting home and opening the box the whole meal looked a disgrace. I ended up throwing most of it away. I wont be going to the good catch in Hale again. How they can serve that to people is beyond me.

The third time I've bought fish and chips and it will definitely be the last. Called just on opening time and the chips were burnt and greasy certainly not fresh and the fish was not much better. Most ended up in the bin. I won't be returning.

We had a very disappointing meal again from The Good Catch. The chips were soggy and burnt, the cod was dry and the curry sauce was congealed. We used to boast that we lived near the best chippy but not anymore!

Absolutely delicious beer battered fish and the chicken curry is the best we've ever had.

The best chippy I’ve tried in the Altrincham area and we’ve tried a few that are not so good. Consistently great food and staff always friendly. I’d recommend the tartar sauce.

The best fish n chips in north west period .. I am a big fan of this place. Always fresh fish and steaming hot chips. The service is excellent and the staff polite and friendly. The place is always very clean. Price is reasonable and portion huge.