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Fish and Chips Crowned Britain’s Coastal King

8/21/2026

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  • The writer samples British seaside foods while road-tripping across the UK and Ireland.
  • He praises fish and chips as the undisputed king of Britain’s coastal cuisine.
  • Tim Hughes’s and Felicity Cloake’s recipes provide authentic fish-and-chips batter.
  • Yotam Ottolenghi offers a fish dish paired with spiced sweet-potato chips.
  • He enjoys paper-bag doughnuts, 99 Flake ice-cream, crab sandwiches, cockles on toothpicks, and candy-floss sticks as essential beach snacks.