Ranskill Village Fish Bar

Ranskill Village Fish Bar is the chip shop for Ranskill — the small Bassetlaw village a few miles north of Retford on the East Coast Main Line, set in the strip of villages that runs along the old Great North Road from Bawtry down to Tuxford. The shop occupies the corner unit at the top end of Station Road, next door to the village Post Office and General Store, which sets it up as the de-facto village food hub for Ranskill and the surrounding settlements of Torworth, Mattersey and Lound. The menu is the traditional British chippy range — fish and chips in cod and haddock, battered sausage, homemade fish cakes, mushy peas, curry sauce — with the chips repeatedly singled out by reviewers on Yelp and Cylex as fresh-cut from real potatoes rather than the frozen-in industry standard. The front-of-house is consistently picked out as friendly and conversational, which is what village chippies tend to live or die on. A useful Ranskill local with a strong reputation across the small north-Bassetlaw village cluster.