Golden Phoenix

Golden Phoenix has been the Chinese takeaway on the Hardys Road parade in central Cleethorpes for more than 20 years, working a tucked-away residential pocket a few doors along from Verona Pizzeria. The shop trades on a long-standing customer base rather than on heavy aggregator marketing — the website is a single-page PDF menu and order line, which says something honest about how the operation runs.

The kitchen runs the standard Anglo-Cantonese template — chow mein, satay, sweet and sour, salt and chilli, curry, crispy aromatic duck pancakes and a long set-meal section — with the kitchen happy to handle gluten-free adaptations on several of the rice and noodle dishes. Reviews on TripAdvisor and Restaurantji consistently call out the sweet and sour chicken and the chow mein as the shop's reliable orders, with reviewers tagging the cooking for freshness and the portions for honest size.

Hours are tighter than most local Chinese kitchens: Tuesday and Wednesday closed, Sunday and Monday and Thursday running 4.30pm to 9.30pm, and a slightly later 10pm close on Fridays and Saturdays for the weekend trade. Delivery covers the surrounding central Cleethorpes streets.