Rock & Sole Plaice

Covent Garden’s Rock & Sole Plaice is a bona fide fish-and-chips institution, as well as being the best-named chippy in town – quite something in a pun-heavy field. It’s been dishing up some of the city’s most-loved fried fare from its Endell Street shop since 1871 – two World Wars and modish food fads be damned.

Current owners the Ziyeddin family have been at the helm for 35 years and claim their chips are the biggest in the country, making a point of frying them in peanut oil. You’ll find tourists and workers alike queueing up for the big portions dished up at this old favourite.