Fish and Chips in Pembrokeshire: The Chippies, Town by Town

A seaside county owes you a good chippy, and Pembrokeshire delivers — from a Tenby dynasty that's been frying for generations to takeaway counters where you carry the parcel fifty yards and eat it on a harbour wall. Every shop named here is on our own verified register: each links to its page, where the Food Standards Agency hygiene rating is shown exactly as published.

One honest rule before the list: chip-shop hours are volatile. Many close one or two days a week, most shut between lunch and tea, and winter hours shrink without warning. If you're driving any distance, ring first.

Tenby

The name to know is Fecci — an Italian-Welsh family who have been feeding Tenby for generations. D Fecci & Sons on Lower Frog Street is the institution, and Fecci's Cornet Counter handles the ice-cream side of the empire. Around them, the town is chippy-rich: Pipers, Chip and Fry, the Park Road Fish and Chip Shop handy for the South Beach car parks, Tenby Fish & Chips, and Jessie's Plaice if you'd rather sit in. The classic move: chips on the harbour wall while the crabbing lines go up and down around you.

Saundersfoot

The Argosy on Milford Street is the village chippy, two minutes from the harbour — which is where the parcel wants to be eaten. Mind the gulls; they are professionals.

St Davids

Britain's smallest city has two: Peter's Plaice and St Davids Fish and Chips. After a day at Whitesands there is no finer supper, and Cross Square is the eating spot.

Pembroke and Pembroke Dock

Rowlies at 2 Main Street, under the castle, is south Pembrokeshire's best-known name — expect a queue on summer evenings and take it as the endorsement it is. Top of the Town covers the other end of Pembroke's long main street. Across the water, Pembroke Dock runs on Mr Chips and the Law Street Fish & Chip Bar.

Fishguard and Goodwick

Fishguard Fish and Chips in town, and down on the Parrog — yards from the ferry port — Goodwick Fish and Chips and the Dolphin, the traditional last chips before the boat to Ireland and the first ones off it.

Milford Haven and Neyland

Milford has the Coracle Fish & Chip Bar and the Haven Fish Cafe; Neyland answers with Mr Chips and the nicely named The Plaice to Eat — either one walks down to Brunel Quay and the marina.

The village fryers

Kilgetty Fish Bar serves the caravan-park corridor off the A477; Johnston Chippy and the Milton Fish and Chip Shop feed their villages and everyone driving past. These are exactly the shops whose hours change fastest — ring.

Beyond the wrapper

If you want your fish with a tablecloth, our restaurant listings cover the county's proper fish kitchens, and the fishmongers will sell you the raw article for the cottage kitchen — some of it landed a few miles from where you're standing. And every chippy above sits in our full eating and drinking directory, town by town, hygiene ratings included.