The Scrap Box in York

Mini fish n chips... Brill just right portion size for me thanks

A diner on the A1079 outside of York that isn't a romantic destination, but by golly, it serves the most amazing fish and chips! The staff are very pleasant and helpful, and the service is quick, even when it's busy. A deserving winner of many awards for its speciality. The fish is flakey and fresh, the batter is as good as you can get and the chips are just gorgeous. Worth a visit even if you're not that hungry.

Lovely little stop for tea fish and chips

Brilliant chippy easy to see why it's an award winner

My wife and I love The Scrap Box, one of our favorite places to eat when we visit the UK. The food and service are excellent.

Lovely, popped in a few times. Always good 👍

Been buying fish and chips here for years but decided this is the last time. Greasy as fish not drained, batter soggy, fish thin and prices way too high now. Not value for money. Stuart's in Pocklington better.

Well worth the trip from Pocklington. Consistently very good fish and chips! Peas and tartare also lovely. Service with a smile in a clean and comfortable dining area.

This is everything fish and chips should be. No fuss, no frills just perfectly cooked fish and chips with tasty seasoned peas. Forget the price just dive into the freshest and tastiest fish I’ve had in years! Almost as good as mine :) Thanks guys and nice chatting with you. Shane.

Food is always top notch and very friendly and welcoming staff

Finally made it through the door after passing by numerous times and well worth the effort. A chippy in a lay-by? First class fish and probably the best chips I've ever been served for many a year. Clean, real knives and forks if you wish to sit in, great service and staff I am well versed in good fish and chips and the Scrapbox hits all the right notes. Highly recommended and a must if you happen to be passing by. Or in my case made a deliberate journey to give it a whirl

An absolutely brilliant little find. I'm a long distance HGV driver, lay-bys and food outlets like this are great. Very clean, very pleasant service.

Great fish and chips every time. Amazing fish.

Excellent fish and chips. You can order and collect. Buy there and either sit in or take out. Best fish and chips around

Great food ✅ Friendly staff ✅ Quick service ✅ Reasonably priced ✅ Cleanliness ✅ Best Fish and Chips in the area!

Best fish and chips there is. End of!

Excellent fish and chips. A bit busy on a Friday teatime with a short wait for the good to cook.

Brilliant little place staff so friendly will be back

Very good fish and chips. Called a few times never been disappointed.

Usually very good but today the chips were some of the worst I've had. Black bits and green in places. Underdone too.

Best fish and chips in uk .Hands down . I will definitely be back

It was OK for a truck stop. Average food, fish and chips was fresh they accommodated my request for onion vinegar. I will use it again.

Delicious fresh fish. Friendly staff.

It is definitely worth a visit. Very good food

Stopped for chips on my way past at tea time, quick service and great food

Great fish and chips , fish lovely and tasty fried by jason. Totally recommend

Friendly staff and good service with decent food, plenty of parking too. Overall would recommend.

Our local fish & chips. Love it! Always welcoming, don't mind kids, can eat in if you want to with a reliable menu. Exactly what it says on the tin!

lovely fish and chips - and not bad coffee (didn't have decaff) was on our way to York and wanted something quick this did not disappoint

Only reason I tried was it said Voted "Top 50 in the UK". It was a sad looking fish and very very oily. Homemade tartar sauce was nice but I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone. Staff was very friendly and kind though.

Fresh fish and quick polite service

Monday dinner time with coffees ☕️ and 🍵 💯 % highly recommended 👌 👍

Best fish and chips in North Yorkshire

Got my order wrong paid for 4 fish and chips received 3, pathetic honestly.

Excellent stop off point during your journey, freshly cooked fish and chips, tea, and coffee both inside or outside, seating. We normally stop for a break with our dog.

Fish and chips were great. So much better than other local shops we will be back.

Great place, quick service, helpful and friendly staff. Good value for money. Very clean.

Lovely staff, very quick service, very clean building

The fish and chips here are very good, and there's plenty of them, too. I've been twice now, so I could give a honest review. The service is fast, and the staff are friendly and efficient. Don't let the setting put you off ( it's situated in a layby ), because the food is worth the trip. Well worth the effort of going there.

I had the small fish and chips no complaints. The food was excellent 👍

Good fish and chips. Always a friendly welcome.

This is a great place to stop of, fish and chips excellent the place is clean staff are excellent good portions and prices decent

Very kind helpful for our 🐟 and chips 🍟 the service really good 👍 😀 👌

Just really enjoyed our fish and chips cooked fresh, nicest fish and chips we've had for a long while

Love it. Service and food were brilliant. Always a Friday treat.

OH MY LORDY LORD, this was exactly what I needed for a FEAST. The wow factor was top notch as these 3 young lads last night, made this experience OUT OF THIS WORLD. I highly recommend getting your mukkas dirty and getting stuck in to the food. It slayed!!

Called here on way to east coast. Fish melted in your mouth. Friendly staff and gorgeous food

Always great service and beautifully fresh fish 🐟

The very narrow road to the location, you can enter at any time, there is no gate.

We have a very reactive dog in training and they put us away from everyone else.

Wow, wow wow, what an amazing place. The fish and chips are just the best. And huge portion, the service was 100%, nothing was to much trouble. Blink and you would miss it, its in a lay by near Dunnington, super clean. I had a small fish which would be a large in other chippies, my other half had a large fish and chips and I kid you not it would have fed a family of 4. If I could I would give it 10 stars, you must go and try it x

We both had regular haddock and chips, mushy peas and 1 carton of tartar sauce. With 2 cans it came to £27.50. Not cheap but the batter was crisp, fish was fresh and the chips were OK., but I can't find good crispy chips in Y'shire anywhere. We sat in to eat, the interior was clean and modern and reasonably comfortable. Will happily use The Scrap Box again.

Stopped on way home to grab dinner takeaway was very tasty nice light batter on the fish

Nice fish and chips but way too expensive, 3 fish and chips and two curry's came to £40 nearly. Not worth that, may as well go to a near by pub and have a sit down meal for similar price.

The first time we went here the portion sizes were good couldn’t wait to go back and we have being telling people to try out this place went back to day and we were disappointed even tho it was very tasty our regular fish were more like mini fish and it’s not cheap we will give it one more try but if the fish is same size as last time we will not be returning

Stopped on way back from Yorkshire Aircraft Museum. What a gem. Worth every penny.

One of my favourite places to get fish and chips, quality fish cooked in light crispy batter and beef dripping, really good service as always.

Reasonable choice. Good price and excellent food.

Often passed this place and got the chance to have a bite to eat, good value for money, will certainly visit again.

Great fish and chips every time.

A ABSOLUTELY GREAT PLACE TO EAT THERE FOOD IS PERFECT AND A GREAT PORTION

Been a few times when passing to Leeds. Chip butty and curry. Took most of the chips home as there were so many. Curry was fruity, slightly spicy as chip shop curry goes. Atmosphere OK, but biast as can remember building being public toilets.

This has long been my favourite chippy in the area. Still frying in beef dripping as it should be, beautiful fish and chips.

Excellent fish and chips with friendly service. The place is quite far out of the way. If you have a car is definitely worth the visit. The fish is excellent. Really well cooked with a delicious batter. Chips are amazing. Perfect combo of crispy with a nice bit of sogginess to them. Curry sauce was standout. Seating outside on benches was quite novel too, eating by the side of a busy road added to the enjoyment! Highly recommended if you’re able to get there.

Outstanding fish and chips, top marks all round 👍🐟🍟

Food was absolutely amazing went with my girlfriend today and was great love a good chipppppppppppy teeeeeeea

Fantastic fish and chips. Best we have EVER had. Highly recommended. Very friendly staff. 20 out of 10 LOL x

We used to go here regularly but things have got quite bad now. My partner and I got fish and chips yesterday and it was very close to the worst we've ever had. The batter had a strange taste and very bad after taste, the fish was so greasy it made me feel sick and the fish was so over cooked it was more like eating cotton wool. Very disappointing because we live 2mins away so this is our local but things have been gradually getting worse. Time for a new chippy for us!!!

Excellent fish and chips. Pulled into layby thinking it was a place that sold burgers and bacon butties.Inside really nice decor , friendly staff great value food . Very enjoyable.

Best ever fish and chips eaten in the big layby with benches

Stopped here after reading other reviews. Lovely friendly young lady and gentleman serving, super friendly. Recommend the Yorkshire patty fishcake. Ate in, lovely and clean. They have strong forks for take out too. Now I know it's here, will recommend yo others and use again on my way to or from the coast. Sorry, no pics. It's all gone haha.

Great chippy in a surprising location carntfault it staff very helpful call in with grandchildren who love it .

These are the best fish and chips I've had. Huge portions, 1 potion of chips is more than enough for 2 people. Friendly staff

Nicest fish and chips I’ve had in a while.

Fish was absolutely spot on. However, the chips on this occasion were a bit hard and undercooked, although normally really good.

Brilliant fish & chips, was a good lay over aswell for a good nights sleep in my truck. It’s nice you can sit inside and enjoy your food without sitting in your cab, which you’ve just been driving in for 10 hours.

Visited here for a stop off and sat inside for the food. Sausage and chips with gravy sausage was soggy , chips greasy , gravy watery. Was a poor portion for a large and that’s with me asking for more chips! Wouldn’t go back and wouldn’t recommend.

Brilliant fish n’ chips every time. The Scrap box never lets you down been coming here for years. Fantastic! Batter melts in your mouth.

Some of the best fish and chops I have eaten. The staff are always welcoming and efficient.

Great local to work so handy if want a chippy. Plenty of parking Gets busy. Food lovely depends who serves you as sometimes only had a few chips other times loads. Not that cheap

Been a customer since they opened, last night I bought two portions of fish and chips, same as last review, very greasy and fatty and slightly undercooked, only ate the fish after taking the batter off, such a shame from what has been a most excellent fish shop

What a fantastic place to stop. Fish and chips are fantastic!

Beautiful fish and chips..... excellent

Very capable and friendly staff, we need more places like this for respite at this insane time of year, very good decent hard working people, very good fish and chips, nice clean and tidy dining area

Excellent chippy. Very clean and tidy. Service was excellent. Good prices too.

Great for a quick fish and chips. No veggie option. Otherwise good, staff lovely.

Fresh food, but found it very greasy. Was disappointed that their wasn't a range of fish (menu just said large or small fish - would have preferred cod). The oil made the batter go soft after a while so I couldn't finish my meal. Food is cooked in beef dripping so the food did taste different. Fast service and seating area was clean.

10/10 experience at the Scrap box. I was feeling down so decided to go and get some Haddock and chips, on arrival I saw they had plenty of parking - I went in where I was greeted with the smell of haddock and chips. This was amazing - I went to the till and the server was very pleasant and understood my needs as a customer - Annie I believe she was called I enjoyed the haddock and chips before driving back to York. - the experience was very pleasant and I left full. Would I return, 100%

Great place! Amazing food, best fish and chips I’ve ever had. Friendly staff. I would 100% recommend. Can’t wait to go again!

Brill fish and chips, staff so wonderful and friendly 10/10, Thankyou so much it is was fishlicious 🐠

Staff were very helpful and friendly The cafe area is lovely and very clean The food was really nice definitely the best fish and chips in York Would definitely recommend to everyone

Beautiful fish and chips. We keep returning, it's very impressive. Staff are lovely particularly Annie.

Lovely fish and chips and very friendly staff and service was excellent, also easy parking in lay on the 1079 near Dunnington

Great place! Amazing food, best fish and chips I’ve ever had. Friendly staff. I would 100% recommend. Can’t wait to go again!

Always a good choice for chips.

Holy moly best fish I’ve had in my life and I’m not even joking

Well worth the visit, lovely fish and chips and very pleasant staff.

Great chippy, great staff and always up for a singalong. Thanks guys and girls 😁

What a great little find! Driven past it a few times on the A1079 on the way in to York. Looks like a toilet block from the outside so never really thought much of it, but I was very wrong! Lately they’ve had a sign outside saying they’ve been voted in the Top 50 Fish and Chips in the UK, so I felt it was time to give it a go. Upon entering, was greeted with an extremely clean and tidy yet simple layout of the shop. Counter at the front and seating to the left. The seating area is adorned with bags of potatoes, batter mix and wooden pallets giving it a funky look. The menu is quite simple. It’s basically fish, chips, sausage and accompaniments (peas, curry sauce etc). The small menu does however mean what they do is always fresh and tasty ! On this occasion we settled for the mini fish and chips each. When it came out (see photo) the batter had a lovely crispy finish to it (but not hard) and the chips were perfect too. Crisp but not hard. Tasty but not greasy. Everything cooked to perfection. I fancied a potato scallop (I think you call them potato fritters Up North!). The closest thing they had was a Fish Pattie, which turned out to be quite the revelation! Two layers of sliced potato with a layer of fish in the middle, which was then battered and fried. This was immense and like nothing I’d had before. All in all, excellent food in a simple but homely and clean environment. It’s not somewhere for a romantic date evening, but definitely a “must-stop” for a good lunch or fish and chip supper to eat in or takeaway. Will be back (and in fact, have! And had this fish bites. And they were good too!)

Superb chippy, great friendly staff, I have been here quite a few times and it's always good