The Crab & Lobster Fish Shack in South Queensferry is Best Restaurant at this year’s Forth Awards.
The award is made according to votes cast by Radio Forth listeners.
The awards ceremony at Usher Hall on Thursday is organised by Radio Forth in association with Saltire Hospitality.
All performers are a surprise on the day, and surprise sets from superstar singer Amy Macdonald, Scots band Wet Wet Wet, Claire Richards of Steps, and Highland folk pop band Tide Lines entertained the sell out crowd.
Forth 1 presenters recognised local heroes as well as celebrities. Presenters Boogie and Arlene, Garry Spence, Callum Gallacher and Steven Mill all made appearances onstage.
There was a charity auction to raise funds for Forth 1’s Cash for Kids, helping to make a difference across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and Falkirk.
Ten awards were made during the show, with hometown heroes such as Best Teacher, Best Restaurant, Best Workplace, and the all important Forth Local Hero Award.
The Crab & Lobster Fish Shack
The family run Crab & Lobster Fish Shack opened in June 2025. The business has already been named on the shortlist for the Top Three Best Newcomer section in the National Fish & Chip Awards, which takes place in London next February.
Both Bryan and Jack Coghill, the father and son duo who run the South Queensferry business are fans of Radio Forth. They immediately dedicated the award to their team, which includes Bryan’s wife Michelle, and Jack’s wife, Sarah.
Jack, who is 26 divides his time between The Crab & Lobster Fish Shack, and Jack ‘O’ Bryan’s in Dunfermline.
As a family, the Coghills have run multiple hospitality business in the UK, Spain and Portugal, over four decades and now run the South Queensferry business.
Bryan Coghill said: “We are most certainly ending the year on a high as to win this award for The Crab & Lobster Fish Shack is absolutely incredible. We are very grateful to Radio Forth, their listeners, and our own loyal customers. We’ve done the double now which is very, very special to us.
“We haven’t yet won quite as many awards as Ant and Dec, but we are getting there. It’s true that when you get Jack at an Awards Night, you usually get me too. Let’s just say we have the best working partnership we can have, although as father and son, there will be the odd disagreement!”
Labour of Love
Bryan said that he was “so pleased that everybody loves The Crab & Lobster Fish Shack, as it was a real labour of love to bring the restaurant to fruition.
“I first looked at the site back in 2021, and was keen to introduce a sit down Fish & Chip Restaurant to that location. My career has come full circle, as the first very first restaurant I worked in was a fish & chip one.
“Now we are onto the second generation with Jack, who’s doing an amazing job heading up this business.”
Jack Coghill said: “The Forth Awards is always the best experience, where, as winners, we get the opportunity to mingle with all the winners and celebrities. Radio Forth is to be commended for putting on such a great show, with so much entertainment and positivity. We really had a ball.
“It will be all hands to the pump, (or the fryer) this festive season but at the heart of it all, is our desire for our customers to enjoy our food and have the finest fish & chips we can give them.”
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