London's best chips - with a twist

You’d always rather have chips but even a classic can do with an update. Luckily, London’s top restaurants are frying theirs with a twist: here are five of the best alt chips.

The Marksman’s fried potatoes are drowned in burnt onion mayonnaise.

Find it: 254 Hackney Rd, E2, marksmanpublichouse.com

Chefs make tiny incisions in the chips then fry them in meat fat to create crispy, rectangles of puffy potato joy.

Find it: 88-94 Farringdon Road, EC1, thequalitychophouse.com

Craft London’s miniature Hasselback “fireplace potatoes” will be copied and copied: comforting and moreish (especially now summer has retreated).

Find it: 1 Green Pl, SE10, craft-london.co.uk

You can — and will — stuff whole handfuls of Rita’s crispy fried crushed potatoes into your mouth. Best served swimming in condiments.

Find it: 175 Mare Street, E8, ritasbaranddining.com/menus

Elliot’s in Borough Market serves up thick golden slices of Maris Piper taters: they’re par-boiled, shallow-fried and then flash-fried so the inners are meltingly soft.

Find it: 12 Stoney Street, Borough Market, SE1, elliotscafe.com

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