The Cod Fry

The Cod Fry holds the fish-and-chip position on Crook's Hope Street parade, sitting in the middle of the town's central evening takeaway strip alongside the Fortune Palace Chinese, Kebab Kitchens, Big Bite cafe, Rain Flower Chinese and Elachi Indian — a concentrated mix of formats that makes Hope Street the defining Crook evening takeaway address. The kitchen runs the standard British fish-and-chip-shop format and extends it across kebabs, burgers and pizzas — a working broad-menu approach. Reviewer feedback consistently picks out the size and flakiness of the fish, the welcome from the counter staff, the efficiency of the service and the freshness of the cooking. Trading runs both a lunchtime session and an evening session Monday to Saturday from late morning through to early-afternoon close, reopening from late afternoon through to mid-evening, with the Sunday pattern evening-only. This twin-session daily pattern is the working chippy norm and gives the shop a wider customer reach than the evening-only takeaways on the surrounding parade. Among Crook's several fish-and-chip options that also include the Dhillon's Golden Fry on Laurel Gardens and the Golden Fish Inn over in Willington, the Cod Fry's Hope Street position puts it at the central-parade end of the town's chippy trade — drawing from the central market-square pedestrian footfall as well as the residential streets running off the parade.