The Strange Catch in North Somerset

Lovely people, gorgeous food, and gluten free too!

Lovely food good service fully rated

Visited the strange catch after a day out in the Weston super mare beach coming from the Midlands.. was glad I visited this shop as the food was fresh and tasty. Food is served fresh as per order which I appreciate as not all chip shops offer this service. Would highly recommend to all who are visiting Weston super-mare to definitely try out this lovely Halal food shop. 👍 Thank you

Not as good as the previous owners. Food isn't to the same standard. Fish was nice but the chips are not chippy chips anymore taste like cheap frozen chips. Mushy peas bland and tartar sauce tastes like out of a jar and not homemade anymore. Won't be coming back as the price was too high for the massive drops in standard

Lovely food - fresh fish and chips with amazing tartar sauce.

Great chippy fish nice and fresh chips good for me mum disliked the chips defo worth a shout

Excellent service! The gluten-free fish and chips was incredible! And they also had gf curry sause that was delicious 😋 will highly recommend 👌

Truly appalling food. Maybe they had a bad night? I've given them a 2 star review, as the service was pretty good, otherwise it would have been a single star review from me. I'll try again, maybe, although I doubt it

Great service and superb fish & chips. It helped end of our sea side trip on a high. ✨️

This is a great fish and chip shop :) catered to my mum’s gluten allergy and there are good kids options. Delicious!

The Strange Catch is a brilliant addition to any trip to Weston! So much choice for our Coeliac son which means such a lot to our family. The fish bites, cod and chips we all are were delicious, fresh, great value and piping hot. Very friendly, informed service. We'll return. Thank you.

Very kind and thoughtful staff, asked for a chicken wrap meal, rice box and of course classic large fish and chips , a lot of food for the price compared to other fish and chips shops! Was hot and very tasty! My go to fish and chips shop from now on,Perfect for families. Recommended

Just came here right after the beach, tired and hungry! The food really restored my energy and it was a very reasonable price for how much food they gave me! 🔥

Fresh food straight from the kitchen to our table my family was very pleased as we have some that require gluten free. Tasted both fish and chips and was spectacular! Better than the overpriced fish and chips shops, family friendly.

Me and family visited and done dine in. The shop was nice and tidy. We ordered fish and chips, mushy peas and curry sauce. The was so delicious. They cooked on order so we got hot food. The staff were so friendly and polite. We must visit again.

A very long wait for our fish and chips, another family in the shop had been waiting over an hour for their food, we felt sorry for them when our food was given to us first which didn't make sense. We were not informed of a long wait when we ordered and no updates were provided by the staff. When the food eventually arrived it was reasonable, the fish well battered and chips were OK. Don't think I would go back when next visiting Western. Perhaps this was a day when the shop was short staffed, communication should have been better or shop closed if they couldn't keep up with the orders.

Got fries and mixed kebab. Lovely food, great prices. Would definitely come again

Lovely staff, great food. They have a full gluten free menu, definitely recommend the gluten free cod bites!

We waited for an hour for reheated awful food alongside 4 other groups of very unhappy complaining customers. One of our meals was a warm reheated lamb kebab rather than the chicken wrap ordered. It looked inedible and was sent back. The staff didn’t care or apologise. The attitude was “take it or leave it” Very poor show. Avoid

Wouldn’t go there food is the worst I’ve ever tried 12 pound for 2 chips and the chips are hard and taste gross and the cooking take 20 mins for some chips shocking would rather eat sawdust

Terrible experience, completely inept staff and organisation. Waited nearly an hour for 3 orders. Everybody Sat waiting in the restaurant and very little food seemed to appear. People complaining and items being returned. Our food finally appeared after we complained and asked for a refund. Fish batter wasn't fully cooked through and chips had been reheated. One order was wrong item. No apologies for delay, it just seemed like the staff had no clue how to run a chipshop. Avoid

Great food, location and speedy service.

Had cod bites kiddie meal today. Good portion. 3 cod bites and very succulent. Defo recommend. Dog friendly too. All the family enjoyed their meal

We were staying in Weston Super Mare for 3 nights in a hotel and wanted fish and chips one night instead of eating in the hotel as the dinner times were very early for us. We looked around and all the fish and chip shops closed at 6pm which was earlier than the meals in the hotel. I googled this place and it got good and bad reviews like most places. My husband said lets give it a go and so glad we did there was 3 other people in front of us when we got there who were eating in we ordered takeaway and the server said it will be a while we said thats fine as we like it cooked fresh and when we got back to the hotel only a short walk it was still hot and the fish and chips were cooked lovely. Will visit again next time in Weston Super Mare 👍

Disappointing. Got a regular cod and chips but the portion was very small for the price. No offer of salt and vinegar and when requested, barely any was put on meaning the food was under- seasoned. Drinks fridge doesn't appear to be switched on as coke was room temperature. Chips are overcooked and dry. Should do better.

I think they must be under new management. As we walked in several people stormed out in anger, this we should have taken as a sign .Ourselves and 4 other groups of customers had been waiting for over 30 minutes for food despite being quoted a 15 minute wait AFTER accepting our payment. The staff were not at all apologetic and continued to take orders while clearly being unable to fulfill either the collection of instore or online orders. The food was fine but after waiting about 40 minutes we wished we'd gone elsewhere.

Best fish and chips for years. Only recently diagnosed coeliac. Actually preferred then to "normal" foam and chips. They are very allergen conscious.

Top quality food, top quality service. Excellent gluten free options

Visited today, took ages to cook our order. When finally cooked, chips were dry and very unpleasant. Scampi was over cooked and the outside was burnt. Very expensive for an awful meal

Great food, big fan of the variety, and the rice boxes are lovely

Amazing service and lovely employees

Looking for fish and chips on a Monday evening out of season 24/3/25. Nothing open on seafront found this place on Google what a find. Ate in at no extra cost. To add chips and can of drink only £3 extra. Food was lovely and freshly cooked. Husband had large cod and chips, I had cod bites and chips. Oops forgot photo of before but this was after, says it all yum!

Not exactly a dine in place, tables and chairs, food served in cardboard box, wooden cutlery. Food needs to be drained after cooking for a bit longer as box is very greasy, chips good, fish was good, batter needs to be bit thicker and cover the fish then drained to keep batter crispy. Plates and real knives and forks would be better. Average seaside chippy, not so sure about the wraps and burritos on the menu.

Went here at 12 for a sit in lunch on a Saturday. Completely dead. We were only ones in there. Food was good. My partner and I shared a scampi and large cheesy chips. Plenty of food for both of us for lunch. The chips could have done with being cooked for longer to make them a bit crispier but they were loaded with lots of cheese which was great. They also let dogs into the restaurant so meant we could sit inside out of the wind.

Went here around 6 months ago & the food was lovely. Having returned the other day it wasn't as good as i was expecting. Probably the worst battered sausage I have everhad (tasted weird) unsure if it was beef? Nice chips but the rest was mediocre,, probably won't return. Not sure if it has different owners to my previous visit.....

Just popped in for some food on our way back to the hotel. Our food was served within a few minutes. Piping hot and delicious. Would definately recommend. Will definately call back next time we visit Weston-super-Mare. Thank you.

TOILETS ARE AWFUL. This is 2025 and they have not seen any refurb since 70's apart from 12 layers if paint. Now onto the food: Fish was great had very tasty batter, Childrens menu popcorn chicken had weird flavour and was way too spicy for children meal. Mushy peas very watery. Tartare sauce never arrived, but to be fair we did not bother asking for it. Very generous portion of chips, probably bit too much, as most of it went to waste. Very nice and polite server. We have been lured in by very high reviews but you cannot be 5* with such low level of facilities

Lovely fish and chips right near the beach. Food was freshly cooked for us, and the other guests who were in attendance at the same time; which meant we had to wait a little longer than you normally do for fish and chips, but it was steaming hot and wonderfully cooked. We'll worth the wait. It was preferable to the norm. Also dog friendly! Fish was lovely, chips lovely and mushy peas and curry sauce also great. Reasonable and competitive prices.

We had a delivery last night, haddock, chips and curry sauce. The best fish, curry sauce and chips in weston. Well done we will.order again very soon.

Where do I start. Chips where horrendous frozen and half cooked. The tiny frozen fish that came out of a box which I saw with my own eyes was dry and tasteless. 2 fish and chips 3 sauces and 2 cans £29 don't waste your money.

Great takeaway and a few chairs to eat in. Really close to the sea front. Fab chips on a not very nice day and great customer service too. Thanks!

Very tasty and well cooked food. Price was pretty good and the server very friendly. Decor a bit underwhelming but clean and tidy.

Great chip shop with Gluten Free food. Highly recommended. We have eaten here a few times and no adverse reactions from eating the gluten free food. Good value for money with a large portion

Great place offering gluten free fish and chips (pictured) and a whole host of other gluten and non gluten containing items! Good value, I think they could be more generous with their condiments, lovely tartare sauce.

Very expensive for what you get. Gluten free cod and chips the box was half empty, the chips were over done clearly the fryer oil needed changing. Below average. Kids popcorn chicken is spicy so wouldn’t recommend for kids. Non gluten food was bang average. Overpriced and poor/average quality. Had better fish and chips and better GF chippy elsewhere.

Came here having read good reviews, was not disappointed, very fresh fish and nicely cooked chips!! Very polite staff! Would definitely recommend

Really good gluten free fish, chips and curry sauce. Service was great, couldn’t do enough for us 😊

Pander burrito was very tasty, like an Indian Mexican mash up! Never had that before, great value for the price as well!

This used to be my favourite chippy in town. It seems to have changed ownership though. Still good, though not great anymore.

I had regular cod and regular chips both gluten free and they were fantastic and very tasty

Had some lovely burritos here, and the server was really nice

Super Tasty food, good value and friendly staff

Whilst visit Western Super Mare had lunch here with my husband . The fish and chips were delicious. The portion was generous considering we ordered a small cod n chips. Would definitely go back when I’m visiting again.

Reasonably priced food, tasted delicious. Very friendly staff. All in all would highly recommend!

Delicious fish and chips. Kids meal great value too

Good gluten free menu. Everything was cooked fresh. He served a group of 15 of us all singled handed. Very friendly and pleasant bloke. Thank you for providing a place with a gluten free menu.

Well located fish and chip takeaway which also has a variety of options such as burgers, burritos etc. There is a reasonable amount of seating and no extra charge for eating in. Food is reasonably priced and portions are okay. Unfortunately the quality is not great. The haddock was not particularly flavourful and had soggy batter despite eating in. Chips are bought in frozen, which is not good enough. Chippies should be making their own chips. Mushy peas come out of a can and the curry sauce was a little watery. Service was fine, the server didn't speak much English but was polite enough. Overall okay but there are better options in Weston for fish and chips.

Just had gluten free fish and chips here. Very good portion size and extremely tasty. Really recommend.

Good clean restaurant with friendly service. Food was well cooked and non-greasy. I would say that portion size was average. The potatoes for the chips had black bruise marks but tasted OK.

Freshly made gluten-free fish and chips and curry sauce (a rareity for GF folk) was absolutely delicious and the service was great too. Highly recommend for a fish and chip stop by the beach.

We have visited this fish and chips, fish was very high quality and had mouthwatering taste, staff was friendly and serve high care customer service, and shop was very clean and tidy, they look after hygiene at high level,highly recommended

Tasty and fresh food. excellent customer service

Recently visited here, i got fish and chips, the fish was fresh with perfectly crispy batter, and the chips were warm and nice. The service was quick, and friendly staff made the experience even better. Highly recommend :)

Popped in on a visit to the town and the food was top notch! Hard to find a good chippy so I'll definitely be going back next time I'm down!

Great food, suitable for all the family- even a delicious gluten free menu! Will be back!

Delicious portion of cod cooked to perfection. Lots of piping hot chips. Very quick,attentive service. Very reasonable prices. Eco friendly philosophy. A bit off the beaten track BUT WELL WORTH THE EXTRA FEW YARDS.

Visited today after a long time for gluten free fish, I was seeing new faces today but the fish is on point like before, thanks the strange catch

Best fish & chip in weston, i am your everyday customer now. Rice box is fabulous. MUST TRY

Fish and chips are amazing!! My son had a ricebox which was also delicious, think I will be having a rice box next time!! Staff were lovely, polite and friendly staff and the service was quick. Highly recommended, love this place!

Recommend to everyone, best in town!!! Ordered burgers, were delicious.

Don't be fooled! This place is now under new ownership and is not what it used to be. The fish has gone way down in quality, and a 'large' fillet is now small. The chips are also poor. A change of hands has reduced this once excellent fish & chip outlet to just another poor to medium (at best) quality chip shop. Look elsewhere. I paid £32.25 for three small (supposed to be large) pieces of very poor fish and a standard portion of chips, made from poor potatoes poorly cooked. This has instantly slipped from a once 5 star fish & chip outlet (one of the best in town) to a sub standard rip off. BEWARE!

It was an amazing experience having fish from here, staff was lovely and welcoming. Will be visiting again xx

Good time. Good food, owner was really nice in giving me a replacement drink for one that I accidentally left behind 🙂

Always such yummy food and so many options for gluten free people. The staff are always so lovely would definitely recommend.

Absolutely amazing. I had the S/F chicken, lettuce and tomato wrap with bacon and it was heavenly; my brother had the burger and chips he also loved it; my mum who is gluten free had the fish n chips and said it was the best she’d ever eaten. Highly recommend the wraps they are amazing

Amazing food! The young lad -Liam- behind the counter was very helpful, polite and funny! Excellent customer service!

GF fish & chips & 1 normal. Absolutely delicious. Cooked fresh, everything in meal gf from vinegar to curry sauce to fish batter & chips... Wow just wow!!! This young man cooking should be an inspiration to other chip shops. He was bang on with knowledge and appreciation of a very difficult medical condition, to eat, within fast food restaurants. 100% recommended

The worst chips iv ever had from a chip shop, they were really dry and hard and couldn’t eat them. Price was a rip off aswell £14 for 2 portions of cheesy chips that we didn’t eat

My place in Weston for fish and chips, gluten free scampi and chips - must have 😉

Visited here tonight, decent fish and chips, with some solid alternative options if family or someone don’t want fish and chips. Reasonably priced also and cooked to order. We had regular cod, fish bites, regular chips, curry sauce and mushy peas. Fish was decent, flakey and flavourful but would say it was a touch greasy for me, a lot oil left on the box, oil seemed fresh tho. The chips were ok also but would loved a second cook on them and just get that outer crisp a bit more present. Cod bites kinda like smaller off cuts off fish battered and crispy if you like the ends of you’re battered fish these are the one as it’s like those crispy nice ends I enjoyed these. Both curry sauce and mushy peas were fresh and decent sized tubs, curry was nice decent all round flavour. Would go again probably one better ones in Weston tbh, it’s not thrown together and unthought about. Would rate this a solid 7/10.

I must apologise for not trying this place sooner. Living in Weston this is now our chippy of choice Much better than the supposedly best round the corner, don’t do Papas try here. Well Done Guys

We was in the area on Scout camp and needed 43 portions of fish and chips to eat on the beach at WSM, so we phoned around different shops until we found one that was happy to provide for us, and Pete and his team did just that, we had 43 happy campers enjoying a very tasty dinner on the beach. Thank you for an excellent dinner.

Spoke to pete at the shop and pre ordered 45 meals for our scouts They did amazing hot food, all ready on time, gave us a good discount for large group. Supplied salt, vinegar and ketchup. Highly recommend- especially for groups

Properly good classic fish and chips, best cod I've had for ages!

Lovely gluten free fish. Batter was nice and crispy. The only chip shop I found in the area that is actually gluten free. Husband had the hot dog and said it was amazing.

Came here for the gluten free fish and chips because my partner is coeliac. We were super impressed that gf is offered, and even more impressed that the batter on the fish was as crunchy as normal fish and chips! We're here for a week, will definitely be returning a couple of times as it was phenomenal. Super recommended!

This is the nicest fish and chips I’ve had in years in this town, price was fab! I was worried it wouldn’t be real chippy curry sauce as everyone uses mayflower ☹️, but it was old school curry sauce with the bits in exactly how a chippy curry should be! Fish was LOVELY and fresh! Portion size perfect, and I’m a big eater! Chips taste lovely, very happy with my order tonight & love that it comes with tartar sauce! 😋👌 thanks guys xx

Visited yesterday! Clean, friendly and super efficient people! Portions of the food just the “ right size”. ( many chip shops serves huge portions I don’t like that ) this one was just the right one! Additionally their fishes come from better sources. Amazingly they don’t use plastic packaging, and I loved their mushy peas! I am so impressed with their service, people who work there, work very hard to make sure everything runs smoothly and you can spot that from the first impression when you come in. Much appreciated, I will recommend you to anyone I know, and definitely come back next time! Cheers! 👋

The fish and chips were excellent. Having looked at the ratings prior to visiting it was decided to try here. I'm very glad that I did as the quality was excellent and the service very friendly and welcoming.

Nope... chips horrid and fish the same

Great GF fish and chips ! Staff very friendly and cod taste amazing ! Thank you ❤️

Excellent gluten free small cod and chips. Really friendly and helpful staff. Highly recommend.

Was looking forward to fish and chips here as they do gluten free for my wife. And have good reviews. Sadly disappointed . Staff were great but the food was a great disappointment. Both the normal and gluten free meals smelled and tasted of stale oil ? Could they have been cooked in the same fryer? ( then could not be called gluten free). Sorry will not go again.

After researching GF friendly options for our visit to WSM, we had no doubt in our mind that we would visit 'The Strange Catch.' My daughter really struggles to get decent fish and chips locally. However, the Facebook page, 'Coeliacs eat out too' made us feel that this would be a safe place - and boy, it did not disappoint. A whole GF menu with extremely aware staff. Able to explain the frying system in the back kitchen, offering GF vinegar etc - and she had no reaction - bonus! We sat in and ate - this is not a restaurant, but has a table for four and two large benches that seat 6 comfortably. The portion sizes were huge and the food was delicious. We 100% recommend this place

We visited here as it came recommended as a place catering to a gluten free diet. The gluten free fish was amazing, my husband actually thought it was nicer than his regular fish. The chips and curry sauce were lovely. They could consider serving the gluten free batter to everyone as it was so crispy!

Food was great .. missed part of the order .. staff couldn't understand what I was saying

Absolutely Brill Fresh and cooked to order and last 3 years serves Glueton free in separate fryers

Lovely fish, batter nice and light.

Had excellent fish and chips here this evening. Really good food, generous portions, friendly service. Plus they do excellent gluten free. Thank you.

First time here and it won't be the last. Perfectly cooked fish and chips lovely flavour and a generous portions. We will be back