Best hot chips in Adelaide – reviewed, and have your say

After a vote found the best hot chips in Australia were from an Adelaide chicken shop, we decided to taste-test SA’s top 10. Read the reviews, then vote.

Whether you’re on a beach in summer or curled up at home in winter, it’s hard to imagine anything more enjoyable than tucking into a bag of hot chips.

But where can you find the best crispy-on-the-outside, deliciously-soft-on-the-inside chips in Adelaide?

That question has divided the city for years, with parochial South Australians split between their local shops around town.

If you ask nine-year-old Mitchell, he’ll tell you the chips at The Golden Wishbone on Marion Rd are “delicious” and “the best hot chips I have ever eaten”.

“Chips are my fave fast food because hot chips on cold days warm my tummy up – and I love the flavour of them,” he said.

Mitchell, 9, Cameron, 7, and Seb, 9, enjoying the hot chips from the Golden Wishbone in Mitchell Park. Picture Emma Brasier.

A recent national poll by travel site Wotif rated the offering from Chicken Chef shop in Blair Athol as the country’s best.

Not far behind were Sotos Fish Shop, in Semaphore, and Chicken Cave, in Fulham Gardens, who also made the national top 10.

The Advertiser is on the hunt to find Adelaide’s best and, with the help of our readers, we’ve narrowed it down to ten eateries in the metropolitan area.

From Port Noarlunga’s famous fish and chip shop down south to Chicken Night in Elizabeth and Stanley’s Chickens in Paralowie, our reviewers have gone far and wide to taste-test the most popular hot chips in SA.

We’ve also asked the people behind the counter to share the secrets behind making the perfect chip, from the type of potatoes, to the oil, or the all-important chicken salt.

Read our reviews and vote for your favourite below.