Newark is a historic market town with plenty of fish and chip shops on its doorstep, but we decided to try the town's best rated store with a 4.5 rating on Tripadvisor. Bentleys Fish and Chips, in Middlegate, has more than 110 reviews on the online review site, most of which rate the business as excellent, equivalent to five stars.
I decided to test the shop out for myself, to see how good their fish and chips really were. A visit on Friday, September 30, certainly proved that it was a popular business among people in the town as there was a steady queue from 12pm when I first walked past until 1pm when I decided it was lunch time.
There was a really friendly, but busy, atmosphere in the shop, as all the staff seemed to know a lot of their customers and they also had a restaurant on the opposite side of the building to the take away store front. There were plenty of classic options on the blackboard behind the counter but I decided to try the special of the day, which was a bargain too good not to try.
