Winstons in East Devon - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Fish and chips were medicore. Expensive. Large chips wasn't that much. Seemed to like using the polystyrene tubs a little too much.

It's a great place for fish and chips

Don't go early in the day. It took half an hour to bring our food, burger and chips twice, by the time the food arrived we had finished our cups of tea, but having paid in advance we didn't order another drink to have with the food. Burger was possibly the worst burger I have ever had, dried out and thin, and no-way was it a quarter pounder. The bun was greasy (on the outside, why? how?) the chips were obviously re-heated and had that odd crust to them that makes them dramatically disappointing. No wonder they take payment up front. Won't be returning.

We thought we would try this fish as was staying in the area. Overly priced and food is not the best. Would not recommend.

I not used to really good fresh fish and chips so I spoiled myself here with the cod and chips. Damn that was tasty!

Good quality fish & chips. Was a very disappointed with the portion of fish that I received in that it was small and also small portion of chips. Very expensive for what we received. No curry sauce available either.

Nice meal, the fish was cooked perfectly. The chips could have been hotter, probably chips waiting for the fish to be cooked. Staff, okay. It's not the best but worthy of 4xxxx.

Very noisy. Food ok. £18 for fish & chips. July 2025

Unfortunately a bad experience at this place due to the service. I went here as part of a school trip and took a small class of special educational needs children. We booked in advance but were late getting there due to traffic and the needs of our children. When we arrived we were greeted by a very rude female employee who had no understanding to our lateness and was not willing to listen to our explanation. We had children who were upset due to it being windy outside and the noise of furniture being moved around due to the winds and she refused to let us bring the children inside. Unfortunately extremely disappointing and no sense of inclusive practice or understanding at all. Based on this experience I would not recommend coming here. Maybe lessons will be learnt and the service will improve in future.

Superb piece of Haddock: The batter was amazing 👏 definitely worth it 👌

We travel around 180 round trip to have a walk along the front on a nice day and have done this for a few years and it was a local who recommended this establishment and so we have used it for our lunchtime stop. Always been good and they cook as you order but today and the last time we visited our Fish and especially the chips not to the standard of the past so will probably look somewhere else when we next visit Weston.

I have to be honest we were very unimpressed with this visit. All available tables were dirty although a member of staff did clean them afterwards and the price which we considered to be extremely high at £ 5.00 for two fairly small cups of tea. Also the milk was very oddly almost hot and kirdled fairly quickly ( a first for us ). Based on this we will not be returning

Winston’s looks like a family run restaurant and we like supporting independent restaurants before the chains take over. The restaurant is a little funky, which I like, with ‘bubbles’ hanging from the ceiling, a scuba diver to greet you and painted sea walls. Food was good. We had Haddock and chips, which was lovely. It’s not cheap but good. The only odd part was paying for the meal as you ordered it. A little odd.

loved it, the young lad severing me named isaak i believe it was surved me with up most grace and style, food was well worth the price and i will return as soon as possible, but the young lad deserves a pay rises

We paid for the £17.95 each for cod & chips, it came out & was a bit smaller than expected.I saw the lunch menu(afterwards)...cod & chips with mushy peas & it wasn't far off the size of the ours & cheaper. We had to pay extra for peas to. My cod was too crunchy & dry at the sides so gave to my husband.

Ate in this place many times but this time food was awful. Not gonna come back there anymore.

Walked in, saw the prices and walked straight back out again. I get it's a seaside town but remortgaging your house for a battered sausage no thank you

Im not the biggest fan of deep fried food, but I ate all my cod and chips, not a scrap left. Goes to show just how delicious this was, I couldn't help but scoff the lot!

Went in at around midday on a Monday recently. Ordered sausage and chips. Service was good. Restaurant clean and bright. Meal arrived quite quickly. Sausages were fine but chips were unattractive and inedible. Told the waitress when she cleared our table. She said she would pass it on, that was all. I think we made the mistake of going in early because those chips were definitely not newly cooked. People who ate later said that their chips were really lovely.

Seaside chippy. Very good fish and chips.

Waited ages to be served and for our food. Multiple bones in my cod. Chips average not fresh.

Great to have different fish options - we chose halibut. Very nice meal, friendly service, tables and chairs kept nice and clean. Quite a few bones in the halibut but lovely otherwise. Noisy environment due to lots of families with young children, but nice to see children catered for - given crayons and colouring sheets.

Putting 5 stars so my review can be seen. I wouldn't even give 1 star. Food was disgusting, soggy, and uncooked chips. Made us pay first before receiving our food, which now I understand why, so u can not complain.. I got up and used the restroom and got asked if we were leaving and rushed off our table. (My little girl was still eating) Price was outrageous. 55 quid for 2 fish and chips and 2 coffees! Wouldn't be returning, and I'd avoid this place if u want decent food, especially at that price. Staff was unhelpful and rude. The toilet wasn't clean either. Sand everywhere, which I understand near a beach but not hard to keep on top of.

Have been going here for 20 years, but am disappointed with the portions for the first time.

Luvly fish n chips...Best in Weston-super-Mare!!

Friendly staff. Good food. Pensioners special was excellent value.

Not for vegetarians. Visited Sun about 4. The staff were lovely and helpful. It was a bit of a disaster for me as my friend suddenly got hungry and wanted chips and we sat in. She wanted egg & something and chips. No eggs after 3 which was strange. Even stranger the children's menu still did egg and chips! I then found out that the chips are not suitable for vegetarians nothing to show in menu. I should have asked before i orderd. I asked about jacket potatoes but seems they go under the grill with the meat fat. Something that people are unlikely to think to ask. I had bread and butter which looked like margarine and mushy peas so not satisfying for me. Decades ago I was used to places not catering to vegetarians. It is usual these days although more chips shops are cooking in animal fat. I usually remember to ask before I order just in case. The staff were really lovely trying to sort it out otherwise I would have given less stars.

I ordered tuna and mayo jacket potato with a side salad. The tuna was very dry, like some tuna had been thrown on straight from the tin. The salad consisted of one slice of cucumber, a quarter of a tomato, a few rings of red onion and some limp brown and white lettuce. When I pointed out that the lettuce was awful, the waitress simply said that it was fresh every day and that's how it came! No apology, no attempt to replace it with something green, terrible and inedible. Offered us a free drink at the end of the meal, I'd rather have had better food!

Excellent food and the staff were very pleasant. Reasonably priced, given the quality of the food. Good range of menu options: I chose halibut; my wife chose cod.

£15 for a 30 minute wait to receive basically a child's portion, cold curry sauce. Never again. Give us some more chips you stingy rotters.

Enjoyable haddock and chips. Great service.

Had to wait a while for food to be served! People coming in after us was getting food before us! There was only 4 of us & a child so no excuse really.

Best piece of cod I have ever tasted and the service was very good, very attentive and friendly. We make the effort to come here when ever we come on holiday. Would definitely recommend ... x

Waited over 40 minutes for this. £12.40 later. Place has gone right down hill. Used to be lovely.

Went to the Winston's at 12:30 on a Friday and ordered a large chips. The young lad took our order and then disappeared for over 20 minutes sorting orders for the restaurant. He then came back to the counter, took orders and then disappeared again. At this point i had to call him over and tell him I've been waiting over 25 minutes for a portion of chips. He didn't act like this was unusual but he shuffled off and got me my portion of chips. Another lady had been waiting longer than us and was still waiting for food when I left. Chips were nice as usual (it's why we have always come back) but the portion size for a large chips was laughable.

Great place. One road back from the beach. Lovely chips

Absolute rip off. Had two takeaway cod and chips. Came to £24.80. Thought it was expensive when the lad rang up on the till, however I thought these are advertised as award winning so must be good, there was also lots of 5* reviews, so thought i would give them benefit of doubt. I was a tad concerned when two separate customers came back to complain about their orders while I was waiting for mine. Sadly I had cause to be concerned, as our order was absolute garbage and not worth a quarter if the price! Two tiny portions of chips that were meant to be large and many were rock hard ends and inedible. The fish was also poor. Batter mostly soft and just fell off and ended up like a pile of mush. Avoid this chippy at all costs!

Been coming here for years but sadly we will not be returning. I appreciate things have gone up but cod and chips now £15.95 and portion size decreased. £2 for a small pot of COLD mushy peas. 2 cokes 2 cod and chips A child's meal 2 mushy peas = £47.40 I feel greed may have got the better of this place. It was always a bit more than other fish and chip places in the area but it used to be well worth it. We didn't even get a slice of lemon with our meal this time

Very busy, but managed to get a table for three. Portions are generous and fish was delicious. Not impressed with the wines on offer. Service was swift and friendly.

It's OK. Had worse had better. Quite expensive, but it is the sea-side.

No stars ,as couldn't get anything to eat,usual queues,usual no staff to serve you,a portion of chips to go? Twenty minutes wait you're told...

Really good service and food came quick, the workers were lovely! Food was delicious, will be coming back :)

Good portion of fish and chips with plenty of fish in batter though cost more than expected.

Great service, great fish and chips. I requested a small portion of fish a chips and it was spot on. I will be visiting again the next time I'm in Weston-super-Mare

Had a delicious meal of haddock and chips, with a side of beans. Good choice of dishes, inc veggie and separate kids menu, with colouring sheets. Attentive staff and very helpful & welcoming. Would definitely visit again on future visits to Weston.

Yummy..just what was needed after getting blown about on the beach..

Looking at other reviews, it seems quite inconsistent. Poor food, good food. Today wasn't great, lots of greasy batter not alot of fish. Potion size varies in the reviews pictures. Should be better as it's not cheap, including a small jam jar of milkshake at almost £6.

Excellent Sausage & chips i shared withmy daughter. The staff were so helpful

Very nice, lovely fish and chips

Average food, £15.00 for cod and chips very expensive.

Absolutely worth coming for fish and chips here and salmon and dill fish cakes if you’re in Weston super mate. The staff are very accommodating and pleasant especially Kasey. Great service great food and to top it off great music playing. Awesome guys keep up the good work. Andie & Jo from Nottinghamshire

Had a really nice meal and a good price

Haddock was exceptional, grandsons loved the sausage and chips and curry sauce.

No taste at all , needs a lot of salt and flavor, expensive , cost is double (14 pounds) as compared with neighboring (8 pounds). The worst fish and chips I’ve ever eaten

Nice fish bar in Weston, very attentive staff and nicely decorated. Feels a little odd but you have to pay before you eat. Food arrived quickly The portion size was ample. Would recommend

Joke of place, came here on a recommendation... fish and chips way over priced tiny pitiful excuse for a piece of cod. Battered sausage with hardly any batter. Payment requested up front to which I initially thought that's ok they've had runners but it's so you can't get a refund once you've complained. Shame as we won't be returning

Fantastic meal as always pie and chips with gravy but the young lad who was cleaning and serving was enthusiastic and industrial. Think his name was Cuba

Havw been coming to Winstons aunce 2012. Have always found Staff pleasant & polite. Food always lovely. I have the OAP special which is plenty for me.

Fantastic food and great service. Value for money.

My mom, My little sister & I visited this place on the 9th of September 2023, After waiting to be served for around 10 minutes the waiter came over & took our order, a few minutes later he came back with the bill & told us my sister isn’t allowed to have her Mcdonalds Milkshake on the premises of the shop, we then asked what he would like us to do with the milkshake ie does he want us to put it away, throw it away or just leave the restaurant? To this he replied he doesn’t want us to leave however his boss told him to tell us we aren’t allowed to have the milkshake… The poor guy was confused as he wasn’t sure what to recommend himself so we asked if he could call his boss over. The boss came after another 10 minutes to tell us the same thing. We aren’t allowed the Milkshake, his reason being: Mcdonalds wouldnt allow our food in their store so we wont allow theirs… We asked what he wants us to do about this & he wasn’t able to give us an answer either so we asked if he wants us to leave. He started getting angry & told us we can leave but he will not refund us for our food because apparently it’s already being prepared (not knowing we haven’t payed for it yet) My little sister was scared & crying because the man was standing above us and speaking with an angry tone… When he found out the food hasn’t been payed for yet he told us to leave the place. Really not a good experience on a family day out especially for my little sister who just wanted to drink her milkshake.

I m afraid I can not rate the food, we were not served, manager asked us to leave the place because my child had half a milkshake from McDonald’s- we’ve ordered 2 full meals, but that was not good enough, My child could not drink her milkshake- as an explanation I’ve been told- McDonald’s would not let us in with their food, therefore they wont let us in with theirs-shocking!!! Even though we’ve already ordered. Do not recommend at all!!! I m planning to contact the owner, as surely the manager is not an owner! Child got scared and was in tears! Such a lack of professionalism! Worst experience ever! Just to show it is not everywhere- we were served elsewhere with a smile on the face of a waitress!

£14.30 for cod and chips. The cod was mostly batter it was very thin. Definitely not worth the money. The chips were very pale and barely any potato in them, no flavour atall. Won't be coming here again. Went on the pier, £9.95 for cod and chips, the fish was huge and full of fish.

Great food. Brilliant staff. And staff cleaning of tables. Superb

A little on the pricey side but the food was very tasty

Best fish and chips I've had in a long time. Service was great, nothing too much bother. Staff were friendly and efficient. Nice family atmosphere

These are the best fish and chips I've had in a long time. We love stopping in Winston's when we visit W-S-M

Looked nice food looked nice, staff had no clue what was going on waiting an hour for food to turn up ,Hungry kids refund and left lost customers.

The fish was acceptable but the chips were awful, hard and dry.

It was expensive but that's expected at these places. The prize shop were absolutely dreadful .... no teddies, keyrings or any if the normal prized just a few cheap nasty toys and some sweets ( really poor ) The lift was out of order, meaning absolutely no wheelchair access to the upper floor. This ment my mother in law was unable to take part or even spectate of alot of actives - she was also unable to access the gift shop or the prize shop to spend her 3500 tickets! The escalator also wasn't working 😅 Many other facilities were out of order, and alot of the machines were loomokg shabby and needed maintenance. They kept stopping and we had to call for help many times. The fellas on the go karts were .... extremely fed up and grumpy - witch is a great shame. But I can't say I'd be joyfully doing their job either. Overall it was run down, but we still had an enjoyable time.

They advertised “award winning “ Just wondering what this award is, as it’s far from award winning…. The food was welcomed on a rainy windy summer evening… simply because we were cold! Not much taste in the cod, chips were pale. Sausages were cheap, tasteless, probably frozen. Terrible service, very slow (and no, it wasn’t busy) Would I bother again? Probably not, I chose these only because of the “award winning” sign…. My advice is keep walking to the next one.

Fish and chips very expensive at £14.60 EACH!! Staff were good and attentive. BUT we were sitting near the door to the toilets and the smell which emanated from there was horrendous. I had my back to the door but knew everytime someone went through there. A cross between sewage, rotten seaweed and I hate to think what else. I wanted to complain but my friend was with me and was very embarrassed. The place was quite busy so surely others must have noticed it? I needed to use the Ladies but opted out of using those! That smell will stay with me for days!! I've put one star for atmosphere. Would have put less if it was possible. The atmosphere was awful.

First time eating here as we are from the West Midlands but the food was 10/10 chips were like a mountain and fish like a literally whale 🤣 thanks guys keep it up!

Excellent fish and chips. Superb service. Honest and polite staff. Thank you

On entering the cafe, we were told there would be a 15-minute delay as they'd run out of chips, we were ok with that. Next customers were told same & also told it was because they've been so busy for the last 2wks, I've no idea how that would affect the shortage of chips on that day. Order taken by waiter & delivered by waitress, it was missing 1 bread & butter. When asked about it, the second waitress said it wasn't on order, I told her waiter called everything back to us, and it was. She got it for us and charged us the £2. The mistake was their's therefore I would have expected not to be charged. It's not about the money it would have been good practice to not charge. The waiter was too talkative, which was quite annoying as you just want peaceful surroundings to eat your meal.

TERRIBLE SERVICE! Nobody waiting for food, so we ordered 2 fish and 2 chips. We ended up waiting 45 minutes. The fish was nice, but the chips very undercooked somehow, despite us having waited a very lengthy time. We finally got our food. It was crashing down with rain, big thunderstorms, so we perched at the stools to decide where we were going to go. Within 5 seconds, an extremely rude girl rushes over to tell us that we can’t sit on the stools inside the fish bar even though we had stopped there for a mere few seconds and we just spent £29 on 2 fish and 2 chips with them!!!! If we bought our food somewhere else, then tried to sit inside another chip shop, I could understand. But when she refused to let her own customers sit on stools that were apparently there not to be used but just to look pretty, then that is stupid. I explained that we bought our food from her shop and we were talking to decide where to go. She very rudely told us we couldn’t sit down to talk in the place we had bought food from. Not wanting to complain, I told her ok that was fine and we would leave. But it still wasn’t soon enough for her and she was ushering us out, treating us like we had the plague and she wanted to get rid of us. Especially considering there are chairs there, we had bought our food from her, we waited 45 minutes and still that wasn’t enough time for them to cook potatoes properly, plus it was thunder and lightning outside…….. still she stood there and started to scream at us to leave. What a joke. So what dismal service for making us hurry to leave your shop after giving you our custom, and because we didn’t have time to talk to decide where we were going, we ended up stuck outside in the thunder and lightning trying to find somewhere to sit, forcing us to sit down outside in the middle of the storm, and making my body hurt like hell as the weather exacerbated my arthritis like crazy for the next 9 days. Will NEVER visit here again and neither will I recommend.

Pleseantly surprised, looks empty from the sea front but has a restaurant behind it. Fish and chips was superb and loved the mushy peas would definitely recommend.

Fantastic service and great fish and chips. The best I’ve had for a long while.

Absolutely smashing very friendly staff would recommend 👍☺️

Food was fantastic, our service kept touching their face and had long false nails which is very off putting

Freshly cooked Fish and Chips, took a little while, small portions for take away, chips under cooked, but as only chip shop open at 1800hrs on a Wednesday evening its was all we could get! Oh at £12.20 was a shock after the £9.80 post 6 months ago!

Lovely welcome. Very friendly. Tables very clean. Haddock and chips and saveloy really tasty. Chips looked very pale but tasted good. Toilets clean. The server made the eating in a very nice meal. Thankyou. Definetly call in

Fantastic fish and chips. The quality is amazing. It's not as cheap as rival places close by. But it's definitely better food.

We went today (sun 18th) and the family that came in after us were still waiting for their order to be taken when we had almost finished. Their food took so long they had to have it as take away. Our fish were very greasy we had one napkin each and that was used to mop up the oil from the fish. (The Exxon valdiz left less) could'nt hear staff as they were not talking loud enough so we could hear over the racket in there. Some staff seemed on their own planet half the time. Food was plentiful just let the fish stand to drain any excess oil. It was a bit cramped and expensive for what it was. Unfortunately won't be back. Ending on a plus, the artwork was awesome

Service was very very very, we was waiting over 20mins for our food, than my fish ended up on the counter the lad tried putting back on the chips till I said for it to be changed, the guy on the till did not seem very confident it what he was doing, the food was okay not the greatest I've ever had. Dont think I would use again if in that area

Incredible fish and chips. The fish was very fresh, and chips were cooked perfectly.

Arrived about 30 minutes before closing for takeaway and was initially ignored by 2 members of staff, it took a 3rd member of staff to ask the other 2 if they were still serving takeaway, they then bluntly said no and didn’t apologise either. I then asked if they knew if there was anywhere else that would be open, only to be ignored again, and then I asked again but this time louder in case they just didn’t hear me, but ignored me again and just stared at me, proving they were ignoring me on purpose.

Visited this restaurant 10th June Sunday it was fairly quiet . had the fish and chips probably the best I've ever had tbf the batter was light and fish cooked perfectly (cod ) chips was soft and everything freshly made to order. The price is on the dearer side at 15 pounds per head. Takeaway option is cheaper then sitting in

Friendly staff ,clean and tidy . We dined inside and the food was hot and tasty . Fish was nice too

Nice friendly staff food was great grate price would recommend it to anyone

Cod and chips was nice but steep at £14.service was slow 45mins

LOVELY SERVICE TODAY i WILL BE COMING BACK AGAIN WE LOVED YOUR FOOD TODAY FROM KIERAN AND ANNALISE

We visited on a Sunday when it was very hot so understandably they were very busy. All food is cooked from fresh so there was a short wait, but the food was lovely. We ate in their outside restaurant. The service was fantastic. A good choice of food at reasonable prices. My daughter ordered a slushy, they temporarily ran out and there was a slight wait. One of the young waitresses can back after a couple of minutes to say that they were waiting for the machine to freeze the liquid and offered my daughter a complimentary drink in the interim. When they bought out the slushy another arrived two minutes later as she wasn’t happy that it was frozen enough. The staff are a great credit to the restaurant, well done!!!

Food was very good, but the service is so slow.

Come today spoke to a young girl when I asked do you need to sit yourselves or wait she shrugged and said with a sigh that "I would at this point need to look for a table myself" she then rolled her eyes and walked off I found a table went back up and asked 3 members of staff that we was ready to order they all ignored me completely waited another 5 minutes and left would give 0 stars if I could won't be returning which guts me as I've been here before and had lovely service

Food was nice but the service was shocking got youngsters serving food and taking orders.

Great place for "Senior" fish n chips, well cooked and good value.

Awsome place!! Sorry for the fish joke. Awsome place to eat, great selection on the menu from fish and chips, to salads there's all sorts to eat. Great service, friendly staff, they'll come and serve you at your table. Clean and tidy, especially to toilets.. You can eat in or outside plus takeaway. Plenty of options.. I'll be back every time...

Place and chips always fresh and huge portions. Home made chqnky chips . Nice service always . My place to go when in Weston

Proper fish and chips by the sea. Fast. Good quality. Great service. Cool restaurant, no stuffy atmosphere.

What can I say fantastic food and staff we travel 65miles just for Winstons fish and chips