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Chips (french fries)

May 2024

  • A plate of French fried potatoes in a Paris bistro<br>Hands of person eating from a plate of French fried potatoes in a Paris bistro

    Pass notes
    French fries: why chips are off the menu at the Paris Olympics

    It’s not just pommes frites. Beef bourguignon, avocado and foie gras will also be unavailable

April 2024

  • A portion of chips in a paper dish.

    ‘Crispy and fluffy’: Choice names one brand as the best – and worst – supermarket frozen chips

    Consumer advocacy group hands gold medal to a thin and crispy chip – although the same brand’s shoestring fries are also the worst-ranked product

October 2023

  • Rachel Roddy's chip omelette.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for cheese and chip omelette

    I first encountered this dish after a night in the pub decades ago. It had been years since I had one, and I can guarantee it won’t be so long until next time

August 2023

  • Fish and chips at the Anstruther Fish Bar. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing? – podcast

    Plenty of people will tell you the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland is the best place in the world to eat fish and chips. So what happens when its chippies – and chippies across the UK – start to close?

July 2023

  • Jonah Hill appears on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 6 December 2021.

    Brief letters
    Jonah Hill is giving therapy a bad name

  • Fish and Chips by the sea

    The long read
    A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing?

March 2023

  • Ellie Violet Bramley tries taramasalata

    ‘You’ve never eaten a banana?!’ 10 writers face their fiercest – and strangest – food fears

    Whether it’s the smell, the texture or the emotional associations, something has kept our guinea pigs away from everyday dishes such as hard-boiled eggs and shepherd’s pie. How traumatic will those first mouthfuls be?

January 2023

  • A wooden board on which sit loaded fries with pulled pork, jalapeños, cheddar sauce and onion.

    Carb heaven! 21 loaded fries recipes to try at home – from kimchi to spicy sausage

    Forget salt and vinegar: today’s chips are piled high with chutney, tofu, lasagne and even ice-cream. Here’s how to recreate chefs’ most comforting recipes

August 2022

  • Overhead image of boxes of fish and chips being eaten outdoors<br>Close up of take out fish and chips in boxes being eaten outdoors on cafe table

    Pass notes
    Taking a battering: what have young people got against fish and chips?

    A new survey has revealed that under-25s prefer Chinese and pizza as a takeaway. Can gen Z be lured back down the chippy?

July 2022

  • Ice-cream at Ice Cromer, the kiosk run by No 1 Cromer, in Norfolk.

    Beside the seaside: Jay Rayner’s 10 best value places to eat around the British coastline

    Oysters in Essex, cheese toasties in Scotland, cod and chips in Cornwall, Jay Rayner on the restaurants, pubs and seafront kiosks worth eating at this summer

June 2022

  • POV hand holding a box of Fish and Chips above Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall on a sunny September day.<br>POV hand holding a box of Fish and Chips ( Cod and Chips )above Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall on a sunny September day.

    Summer seaside guide
    Seaside fish and chip shops are a national treasure. Here are 20 of the best

    It’s one of the UK’s favourite dishes and it always tastes better with a big portion of sea air

April 2022

  • How to Eat online - grid

    How to eat
    After 10 years of turning every meal into an argument, How to eat is calling it a day

    For a decade, the Guardian’s How to eat column has been patiently and infuriatingly laying down the law on everything from baked beans to avocado on toast. As the series draws to a close, its creator explains what it’s taught him

March 2022

  • A waste-busting chip-and-chorizo hash courtesy of Tom Hunt.

    Waste not
    Chips with everything – Tom Hunt’s hash recipe to use up fish-and-chip shop leftovers

    Over-ordered at the chippy? Add a burst of flavour and enjoy the extra fries with whatever other leftovers you have to hand

September 2021

  • Loaded fries

    How to eat
    How to eat: loaded fries

    This month, How to Eat is ordering loaded fries. Is this a meal or a side? Which chips best defy the sogginess? And is it ever possible to have too much cheese?

August 2021

  • Air frying waffle potato fries at home. A woman is dumping fresh made potato waffle fries from basket onto a countertop together with chicken nuggets

    ‘Bro, I cooked it in a bloody airfryer’: is the unofficial appliance of lockdown just a tiny oven?

    Used to cook everything from racks of lamb to gummy worms, airfryers are a social media sensation – but food professionals are split on their utility

July 2021

  • Oven chips with oregano and feta.

    Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Yotam Ottolenghi’s oven chips with oregano and feta

    An elegant Aussie twist on the humble chip, baked to perfection

December 2020

  • Steak and kidney pie

    How to eat
    How to eat: steak and kidney pie

    This month, we are heating up an English classic. But should it be served with chips or mash? Under a lid or in a pastry casing? And where does veg fit in?

August 2020

  • A humble chip butty

    How to eat
    How to eat: chip butties

    This month, How to Eat is chewing over the chip butty. Or should that be chip barm? And what – if anything – should you add to it?

June 2020

  • Bowl of fries and bowl of ketchup

    Happy eater
    Oven chips, pork belly, spaghetti … I am the lockdown recipe king

  • Yotam Ottolenghi’s take on fish’n’chips is this buckwheat battered cod with sweet potatoes and toum.

    Yotam Ottolenghi recipes
    Fish'n'chips and 99s: Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for a British summer

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