ICYMI: Chip chip hooray! Inverness chippy is voted best in Scotland
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AN Inverness chippy has been crowned the best in Scotland.
McLeod’s Fish and Chips in Grant Street, Merkinch, beat off competition from five other finalists to lift the Best Fish and Chips title at Scotland’s Business Awards.
Inverness MP Drew Hendry was among those who offered their congratulations and even paid the worthy winners a visit to praise them for their “fantastic achievement”.
Tucking into a fish supper himself, he said: “Small independent businesses are the backbone of our city.
“It’s great that we can now boast that we are home to the nation’s best chippy.”
Loyal customers also filled the chip shop’s Facebook page with their own good wishes after it shared pictures of the award, presented during a ceremony in Glasgow last week.
“So absolutely proud of you all! Congratulations, you are fantastic,” Catherine Fraser said.
An equally delighted Donna Chinskie wrote: “You have done yourself and Inverness proud, you have made the whole of Merkinch proud.
“You’re a great asset to the community – well deserved.”
Owner Dave McLeod told the HN: “It’s fantastic, it’s what we’ve been working for over the last three-and-a-half years.
“We have invested widely and worked on the relationship with our customers and delivering a good product and it’s great to be rewarded for that.
“A far as the fast food industry is concerned this is one of the most rewarding sectors – fish and chips –because you can still put out a good quality product.
“If you do it right, it can be great.”
Formerly owned by the Pieraccini family, who had run the shop as Charlie’s Chippy since 1944, Dave McLeod and his wife Annmarie took over the premises in October 2016.
The shop made it through to the finals of the national competition after being named best city chippy at the Inverness Business Awards last year.
The competition winner is decided by a mixture of public voting and mystery shopping.
