Gluten-free fish and chips in Glasgow: 4 places
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Glasgow · gluten-free fish and chips
4 places in and around Glasgow say on their own websites that they serve gluten-free fish and chips (◐): Old Salty’s in the West End, two CATCH restaurants on the Southside and Buon Appetito in Clarkston. Only Old Salty’s says its gluten-free chippy dishes go into a separate fryer, so ask about the oil everywhere else. Updated October 2026.
How gluten-free fish and chips works in Glasgow
Gluten-free fish and chips in Glasgow is mostly outside the centre: one place on Byres Road in the West End and three on the Southside, in Netherlee, Giffnock and Clarkston. Only one describes a separate fryer, so the oil is the question to ask.
Coeliac UK’s advice on takeaways: chips, or fish in gluten-free batter, are not gluten-free if they’re fried in the same oil as battered food with gluten. Ask about the oil for the chips too, because shops often rotate it. Taking the batter off battered fish doesn’t help, because the fish has already picked up gluten. The NHS lists fish as naturally gluten-free, but not breaded or battered fish.
So ask three things when you order. Is the batter gluten-free? Do the gluten-free fish and the chips go into oil that never sees battered food? And is there a gluten-free night or a dedicated gluten-free fryer? Coeliac UK says some shops have one or the other. In the UK, “gluten-free” on a menu means 20 parts per million or less, also for food that isn’t prepacked. Coeliac UK’s Gluten Free Accreditation goes to venues that follow its standards, processes and training; we show it on a card only when the venue’s own site says so.
◐ Gluten-free fish and chips in Glasgow
What we write comes from their own websites; ask how they fry the gluten-free fish when you order.
Old Salty’s
◐ GF-serving Italian kitchen and chippy📍 337 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8UQ · Byres Road, West End · Open in Google Maps ↗
Serves: Italian dishes and fish and chips in the West End, with its own gluten-free menu: “Gluten Free Menu · Please inform your server of any allergies before ordering”.
How they handle it: On the gluten-free menu, the chippy section (haddock, cod, hake) is headed “Separate fryer · With chips”.
Watch out: Order from the gluten-free menu and say you have coeliac disease.
✓ Read on the venue’s own site · Oct 2026 · oldsaltys.co.uk ↗
CATCH Fish & Chips
◐ GF-serving Fish and chip restaurants · takeaway📍 Netherlee: 570 Clarkston Road, Glasgow G44 3SQ · Open in Google Maps ↗
◐ GF-serving Giffnock · 186 Fenwick Road, Giffnock G46 6XF · Open in Google Maps ↗
Serves: Two fish and chip restaurants on the Southside; the Netherlee menu offers “Gluten-free battered haddock served with twice-cooked chips and tartare sauce.”
How they handle it: Both menus have a gluten-free list headed “The flollowing dishes are suitable for a gluten free diet” (their spelling). They don’t say how the gluten-free fish is fried.
Watch out: Ask whether the gluten-free haddock and the chips go into oil used only for gluten-free food.
✓ Read on the venue’s own site · Oct 2026 · catchfishandchips.co.uk ↗
Buon Appetito
◐ GF-serving Italian takeaway and chippy📍 118 Busby Road, Clarkston G76 8BG · Clarkston · Open in Google Maps ↗
Serves: Fish suppers and pizza to take away; in its own words, “For more than 10 years we have perfected our gluten free batter and pizza dough for our coeliac customers.”
How they handle it: The site doesn’t say how the gluten-free fish is fried.
Watch out: Ask whether the gluten-free fish and the chips go into oil used only for gluten-free food.
✓ Read on the venue’s own site · Oct 2026 · buonappetitoclarkston.co.uk ↗
Map
The numbers on the map match the numbered places above (◐); CATCH has two pins, one per restaurant.
Questions
Is fish and chips in Glasgow gluten-free?
Not as standard: the NHS lists fish as naturally gluten-free, but not battered fish. The places on this page say on their own websites that they offer gluten-free fish and chips or gluten-free batter. Ask for it clearly when you order.
Is gluten-free fish and chips in Glasgow safe for coeliacs?
It depends on the oil, not the city. Coeliac UK says chips, or fish in gluten-free batter, are not gluten-free if they’re fried in the same oil as battered food with gluten. Only Old Salty’s on this page says its gluten-free chippy dishes go into a separate fryer, so ask about the oil everywhere, and say you have coeliac disease.
Which chippies in Glasgow have a separate gluten-free fryer?
Old Salty’s on Byres Road heads the chippy section of its gluten-free menu “Separate fryer”. The other places on this page don’t say how they fry gluten-free fish (read in October 2026), so ask them.
More on gluten-free in the UK
- Is fish and chips gluten-free? Our A-Z entry
- Gluten-free fish and chips in Edinburgh
- Gluten-free UK: the places we track
- All our gluten-free city guides
- Translation cards to show the kitchen, in 60+ languages
Sources: the numbered places’ own websites and menus, read on 3 October 2026; our Atlas entries, each symbol set from the venue’s own published words; Coeliac UK’s advice on gluten-free takeaways (section Fish and chips) and its page on the Gluten Free Accreditation scheme, read on 3 October 2026; the NHS page on treating coeliac disease, read on 3 October 2026; the UK gluten-free limit of 20 mg/kg (retained Regulation (EU) No 828/2014). Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited under each image. Last verified 03.10.2026.
Reviewed against the HTGF methodology: every claim sourced, every listing tiered and dated. This article is practical guidance, not medical advice.
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