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<\/p>\nThe top three Merseyside chippies are some of the most popular in the region<\/p>\n
14:55, 05 Jun 2026Updated 14:57, 05 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
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Yanni and Sandra Lawton, from Yanni’s Traditional Fish & Chips(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
In honour of National Fish and Chip Day today (Friday, June 5), the ECHO asked readers to name the best chippy in Merseyside. The votes have been tallied and verified and one Liverpool chippy came out on top against a number of very popular venues.<\/p>\n
From award-winning takeaways <\/a>to real hidden gems, there are plenty of chippies <\/a>to choose from. If fish isn’t your thing, chippies still <\/a>have more on the menu including pie dinners, burgers and even Chinese specials.<\/p>\n In third place is Portland’s Fish and Chips on Sefton<\/a> Street. The Liverpool chippy was named the best in Merseyside after earning a spot in the National Fish & Chip Awards<\/a> top 40 and was the only Merseyside contender to make the 2026 shortlist.<\/p>\n Just falling short of the top position and landing in second was one of the most celebrated businesses in the region – Byrnes. The chippy has been feeding happy Walton customers for four generations, ever since Patrick Joseph Byrne opened his fish and chip shop on Stuart Road, Walton<\/a>, in 1932.<\/p>\n The winner with the most votes and taking home the title of ECHO <\/a>readers’ favourite chippy is a family-run venture, Yanni’s.<\/p>\n Spearheaded by married couple Yanni and Sandra Lawton, the chippy has gone from strength to strength with numerous accolades and national credits, as well as being a tourist attraction for people visiting the city, especially from cruise ships.<\/p>\n Yanni’s Fish and Chips (Image: Stephen Peel)<\/p>\n Chef Yanni takes responsibility for preparing the battered fish, steak puddings, pies, sausages, burgers and fishcakes, while Sandra and staff take orders and serve meals in paper packages or trays for customers.<\/p>\n Thrilled with the title, Yanni told the ECHO: “We try to keep everything simple and easy. Everything is fresh. We’re constantly busy and we’re known for the fish and chips.<\/p>\n “[Being named Merseyside’s favourite chippy] makes us feel good. It allows us to continue what we do so we’re quite happy and we try and take care of our customers as much as possible.”<\/p>\n Yanni and Sandra Lawton, from Yanni’s Traditional Fish & Chips(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n Yanni’s regular John Gunning, from Toxteth<\/a>, has been visiting the chippy for close to a decade, confirming there’s no better place in the region for a good old fashioned chippy tea. The 65-year-old told the ECHO:<\/a> “All of your food is cooked fresh. You’ve got to try Yanni’s scollops, they’re just to die for.<\/p>\n “I’ve tried other places but this is the best. You can sit here any day of the week and customers come and go and the staff know most of them by name. I’ve got friends in Australia, South Africa, Belfast and Scotland, and when they come to visit me the first thing they say is ‘can we go to Yanni’s?'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top three Merseyside chippies are some of the most popular in the region 14:55, 05 Jun 2026Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,3972,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-liverpool-restaurants","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Yanni's](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_YANNIS-FISH-AND-CHIPS.jpg\")
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