Fish and Chips Near Me is an independent directory of Australian fish and chip shops. This page explains where our information comes from, what we do to it, what we know it gets wrong, and how to have your listing corrected.
We would rather tell you the limits of this data up front than have you discover them.
Who publishes this site
Fish and Chips Near Me is published by Ryan, in Adelaide, South Australia. It is not owned by, affiliated with, or endorsed by any listed business, and it is not a franchise or a chain’s marketing site.
To reach a person about anything on this site, email hello@fishandchipsnearme.au or use the contact form. Both reach the same inbox.
Where the listing data comes from
Every shop listed here was found in publicly available Google Business Profile data, collected in May 2026. For each shop that gave us one we hold the trading name, address and suburb, phone number, website, opening hours, Google’s own category labels, its star rating and review count, and up to eight review excerpts.
We did not phone or visit these businesses. Nothing on this site should be read as a recommendation, an inspection, or a guarantee that a shop is currently trading.
Menus and prices. Where a shop published a menu we could read, we collected it and extracted the items and prices. That worked for a minority of shops: many Australian takeaways publish menus as photographs, on Facebook only, through an ordering platform, or not at all. Every price on this site is what a menu showed when we collected it in May 2026. Prices change. Treat them as a guide to the sort of money involved, never as the price you will be charged.
Photographs. Listing photographs come from the shop’s own Google Business Profile. About one listing in eight has no usable photograph and shows a placeholder instead. We screened the photographs automatically and removed images that were clearly not of the business, but that screening was done by software, not by a person looking at every image.
Ratings and reviews. The star rating and review count shown on a listing are Google’s aggregate at collection time, not our opinion of the shop. We reproduce a sample of the review text: up to eight excerpts per shop, which is the sample Google surfaces as most relevant. That is a cap rather than a shop’s review history, so anything we say about what customers mention is a floor and does not scale with how many reviews a shop has. We do not edit review text and we do not remove negative reviews.
Separately from that, this site does host a review form of its own. Anyone can leave a rating and a comment on a listing page. Those are visitors’ words, not ours, and a shop cannot pay to have one removed.
What we add, and what is written by software
This is the part most directories will not tell you, so we will.
Listing descriptions and the summary text on suburb and state pages are drafted by an AI language model working only from the data described above, and then put through automated checks for accuracy against the source record, banned filler phrasing, Australian spelling, and claims the data does not support. A person sets the rules, reviews samples, and reads the exceptions. A person does not read all of them individually. We think saying so is more useful than implying an editorial process we do not run at that scale.
The model is instructed never to invent a dish, a service or a quality that the shop’s own record does not carry. Where we hold nothing meaningful about a shop’s food, we deliberately publish a short entry or none at all rather than pad it out. A thin entry is honest; an entry padded with car-parking facts is not.
We deliberately do not print counts of shops, suburbs or reviews in our written summaries. Those numbers change every time the directory is updated, and text quoting yesterday’s figure ends up contradicting the page it sits on. Where a figure appears in our articles it carries the date it was measured.
Our articles are a different thing again. Each one reports original analysis of the whole dataset, on regional naming, species and pricing spreads, and states its sample size and the date of collection. They are researched and checked by a person before publication and they carry a byline.
What we know is imperfect
- Some shops have closed since collection. Others have moved or changed hands.
- Google’s own category for a business is often wrong for our purposes. Some shops that sell fish and chips are filed by Google as a kebab shop or a chicken shop, and some businesses filed as fish and chips are really something else. We audit for this and remove the clear mismatches, but the boundary is genuinely blurry and we will not always draw it where you would.
- Opening hours are Google’s and go stale, particularly around public holidays.
- Where a shop is closed on a given day, that day does not appear in its hours at all, rather than showing as closed.
- Suburb boundaries follow the locality Google recorded, which does not always match how locals describe the area.
How we handle corrections
If something about your shop is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. There is no charge for a correction and you do not need to buy anything.
Use the contact form or email hello@fishandchipsnearme.au, and tell us the shop name and suburb plus what is wrong. Corrections to hours, phone numbers, addresses, menus and photographs are all free. Every listing page carries a “Something wrong with this listing? Tell us” link that opens that form.
If you want your business removed from the directory entirely, say so and we will remove it. We will not argue with you about it and we will not ask you to buy anything first. So that a listing cannot be pulled by someone else, we ask that the request comes from a phone number or email address that matches the listing, or that you confirm in some other simple way that the business is yours.
Where we get something materially wrong in an article, we correct it in place and say what changed at the foot of the piece. We do not quietly edit a figure and move on.
Paid listings, and what money does not buy
Shops can pay for a fuller listing page. You can see what that costs on our advertise page. At the time of writing, no shop on this site is paying for anything.
Paying buys a richer page: more photographs, your own description in place of the software-drafted one, your menu published, and links and action buttons you choose. It does not buy:
- whether a shop appears in the directory at all
- where a shop appears on a suburb or state page
- the star rating or review count shown, which are Google’s
- the removal of a review or of a competitor
No position on this site is for sale. A small number of listings are highlighted on the homepage and sort first on their state and suburb pages. Those were chosen by us on their Google rating alone, no money was involved, and that position cannot be bought. If we ever sell placement, it will appear in a box labelled as paid and it will say so on the page.
This site is set up to carry third-party advertising, and any ads that appear are served by an advertising network rather than sold by us. Advertisers have no say in what we list or what we write.
Last reviewed: 23 August 2026.