I tried a Worthing fish and chip shop's new Christmas menu – including loaded chips with sausage, bacon, stuffing and gravy and even battered sprouts!

But what wasn’t on my festive food bingo card for 2025 was a fish and chip shop with a special Christmas menu.

So, when I found out the ever-popular Chipwick, in Brighton Road, was offering special festive items this month, I was very keen to try them.

I love fish and chips any day of the year, and in my humble opinion, Chipwick does some of the best fish and chips in town.

It was a pretty safe bet, therefore, that anything they turned their hands to would be delicious – and having visited there last week to try out the new menu it was absolutely correct.

My friend Emma and I took out daughters there for a quick early evening tea, and we were kindly given a plate of jumbo pigs in blankets (£3.95 for two) to try, along with two huge bowls of loaded chips (£8).

Our daughters faces lit up at the feast before us, and we all quickly tucked in. The huge pigs in blankets were gorgeous, served with pots of cranberry sauce and gravy and the perfect ration of crispy bacon to succulent sausage, but my absolute favourite was the loaded chips.

The generous helping of bacon and sausages, with crumbled up bits of stuffing, gave the chips so much flavour, and then the gravy poured over the top made them so moist and moreish.

It was the perfect way to warm up on a chilly winter’s night and get yourself feeling really ready for Christmas.

Even though the portions were big, we pretty much managed to scoff the lot as it was so tasty and we all agreed that we would definitely be back for more.

Also on the Chipwick festive menu, which is available for eat-in, take-away or delivery, is a festive burger with bacon, brie, stuffing and gravy (£10.95), and battered Brussels sprouts (£3).

Last week, it was revealed that Chipwick has been awarded the 2025/26 Gold Seal Good Food Award. The Gold Seal is given to businesses that have consistently achieved the Good Food Award for three consecutive years, signifying a commitment to quality food and service.

Chipwick has been serving the people of Worthing and beyond for 45 years. Run for all that time by the Rance family, this well-known chippy is as beloved by its long-time regulars as it is an ever-growing base of new faces.

Adam and Becky Rance bought the business from his parents Jeffrey and Sandra in 2003, who had owned it since 1981. The couple had already been running it before Adam’s parents retired, and knew the business inside out. Their focus was on continuing the legacy of quality food, as well as expanding the business.

In more recent years their children Beth and Ollie have started working there, becoming the third generation of Rances in the family trade.