Mr Chips

Mr Chips occupies a corner unit on the Sutcliffe Avenue parade, the main shopping run for the Nunsthorpe estate and the residential streets that fold into the eastern edge of Scartho. It is one of the busier hybrid takeaways in this part of Grimsby — fish and chips lead the board, but the menu also runs across pizza, burgers, donner kebabs and the usual fried-chicken supplements, which makes it the default order-in for a household that cannot agree on a single cuisine.

Reputation among regulars is generally favourable on portion size and on the speed of service when the queue is moving; review sites carry a wide spread, which is normal for a high-volume shop trading to a mixed evening crowd. Like a number of Grimsby chippies, the fish itself is sourced from the local trade and fried to order, with curry sauce and mushy peas the standard sides.

The shop trades through the lunch hours as well as the evening, which is a point of difference from the strictly evening-only Chinese and pizza places along the same parade. Sutcliffe Avenue carries steady passing footfall from the surrounding estates, and the takeaway leans on that walk-in trade as much as on phone and app orders.