Not all chip shops are created equal. Not many of them share a party wall with a Michelin starred restaurant, for example. But Ancoats’ Hip Hop Chip Shop does.
And it’s really not like other chip shops, not least because this week it was named the second best chippy in the whole of the UK, only being pipped to the top spot by some place in Mayfair.
It scored the accolade thanks to the crunching of a host of complex data, from Tripadvisor reviews to Instagram hashtags. But can data translate into a decent dinner?
