| The big announcement | You can find out if Mark won the BBC Food & Farming Best Takeaway award during BBC Radio 4's Food Programme, on Sunday 26th November, and again on Monday 27th. |
After travelling the world and widening his culinary experience, trained chef Mark Innes returned to Britain and took over an old fish and chip shop at the end of a terraced street in Acomb. Bemused by the lack of good take away food, and fuelled further by the poor quality Sunday lunches on offer in the pubs he'd tried, Mark had decided it was time someone served some good quality traditional Sunday lunches.  | | At the dark end of the street... |
After serving 19 hungry people on his first day, word soon got around, and he now regularly serves up to 50 people on a Sunday, and offers a variety of dishes throughout the week too. Customers will often ask for certain ingredients to be included - or taken out - according to what they like or are allergic to, and Mark would be the first to admit he gets some of his ideas for the tea time dishes from his customers! Mark would like to expand the business, but not in the usual sense (why start being conventional now?!). He'd like to do a similar thing, but in a different location: "The whole franchise bubble is to keep it in corner shops like this, which have disappeared, and keep the end of the street alive" Sounds like you've cooked up a nifty plan there, Mark. Good luck! | 
