'A trip to Rip off Rick's!' Rick Stein Fish & Chips Takeaway, Padstow
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- Rick Stein's website claims that his fish and chips in Padstow, Cornwall are the best, with a beautiful view of the Camel Estuary, but recent Trip Advisor comments contradict his claim. The comments are numerous and review the service, quality and value of his offering, with some really scathing comments, all of which remain unanswered.
In addition, Rick Stein has been taking some flack in the press for his expensive condiments with mushy peas and tartare sauce at £2 per portion (sit down price). Have you visited this year? What were your thoughts? Drop us a comment and let us know.
To find out what we thought, join us in Padstow on a beautiful evening as we sample a portion.
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We were recently in Wrexham, had a pint then a sit down fish n' chips at a restaurant; the giant cod in batter came with tartare sauce, mushy peas, bread and butter and pot of tea or cold drink of choice. This magnificent feast was just £9 per head, and we praised the staff for their friendly approach, professional manner and great food. rating 10/10, cannot be beaten for temperature, quantity and service Daiawn pob.
Yep I remember when F/C and a pea fritter from the chippy was 12 pence
Love ur use of language"Pot of tea"... "Magnificent feast".... Maybe u could have rounded it all off with the words.... "the joy of life"
But you were still in Wrexham 😂😂😂
I'd love to try it except getting there and back at 20mph would stop me!
@@mrfrisky6501 We were based in Cheshire though and visited Nantwich, Chester, Liverpool and little Wrexham,....a real treat.
As an ex chippy owner i found it was at least £10 overcharged for what you got , the product and packaging was 1st class but very overpriced in anyone s book,
A few Channels have done reviews with them rarely ending with much praise
I would say more than 10 quid, more like 25 quid.
@@lizvickers7156 Food Review Club on here have done some cracking fish & chip reviews that ARE WORTH the money
But rick has door men now John dory got battered the other night
What century did you run your chippy in ? Certainly not this one if you feel it was overpriced by £10 ! It was overpriced by about £7 I think. Two reasons - Tourist 'tax'. You pay more for the fact that Rick Stein as he gets up each morning to go out fishing for the days cod......
My wife and I first went to Padstow almost fifty years ago, long before Rick Stein got his hands on it - it was delightful. We went back 15 years ago, and it was awful. We'll never go again.
Fish and chips for £40 for two people as a takeaway is insane. My local chippy is £15 for the same amount of cod and chips, fresh from Hastings beach every day. Rick's portion size is really toeing the line of the bare minimum, but definitely not at that price.
£40 for 2 lots of fish and chips isn't really warranted is it?
Cornwall has been ruined with all the money makers. They have ruined a beautiful part of the country with sheer greed.I have been going to Cornwall for over 63 year and it is so sad to see what it has become,the locals must be so upset.
Yes! We just watch too! Sarah :)
Had a family holiday in Cornwall before covid went for a week four of us and the dog we could have had two weeks in Cyprus for the same price but didn't want to leave the dog in kennels (another rip-off) but what makes me laugh is during covid all w heard was how it was all doom and gloom for the tourist industry in Cornwall and everywhere else in the UK and we were encouraged to stay cation but all I've heard this summer is the same people especially Cornwall pissing and whinging about the amount of tourists now, so bollocks to Cornwall this year we went to Scotland where the people are friendly and we didn't feel like we were being ripped off well worth the extra drive time and going back next year
Sheer greed - not just Cornwall but the whole of UK I would say!
@@CornishWalkingTrails You are lovely folks but surely you know whats going on with chippies ??? 30 years ago i was vegan living in Padstow .. i was vegan because we kneew then the seas were vastly overfished and it was causing colapse of the ecology. Vegan is a crap diet, its terrible, but the idea of wrecking the oceans or farming all the fish is like a picture of hell. Sadly its going to cost us a fortune to put right so these top notch shops try to do their bit at our expense. If you think that place is sad try visiting the totnes chippy which is now a very animal food minimal expensive restaurant. The days of cheap fish suppers are over :( Cornwall used to be like heaven but once it hits the open market and green legislation itll only be super rich chinese and arab folk living there i suspect. I feel so sad that we watched its decline and couldnt prevent it. I can at least say I tried :(
And that's not to mention all the building sites going on and more crappy houses and industrial estates . Resident of North Devon (just on edge of Cornwall)👋
I went for an interview in this fish and chip shop in summer 2018. There isn't anything different to a normal shop minus the scale. The chips are made off site, at Stein owned suppliers, and bought in frozen. In summer the place is queuing out the door all day and you're paid minimum wage so no wonder some of the comments mention staffing - they're rushed off their feet doing 12 hour shifts!
I delivered his chips that year and you are correct. They were made off site just up the road at one of his production facilities. But rather than freezing them they were instead vacuum packed for the short trip to the chippy. Definitely not frozen.
They are not frozen. I can tell just by looking at them
You didn't get the job then. Sour grapes?
They were crying out for staff but didn't fancy 12 hour shifts all week!
@@Gothicgarlic I don't blame you!
Not just Rick! I remember going to Cornwall with my parents. It was always a rip off and overpriced. There are other beautiful parts of Britain where people aren’t so shamelessly greedy.
A few years ago being from Australia on a trip to revisit the Uk,we went to Ricks shop and noted the price of fish and chips at his shop. We decided to give it a miss. Over the top prices. Rip Off Ricks is a good name.
Fair comment but have to say Melbourne frozen chips with fish (gummy shark)would cost around the same as Ricks and thats in the suburbs.
@@Enochthegreat71 Why is it called gummy shark, sounds most unappetising.
@@WaferBrik gums, no teeth lol.
@@Enochthegreat71 Ew!
Watch Gary eats!
The takeaway chippy in Padstow is a disgrace. Far better chip shops exist at half the price. Went in the Rick Stein food shop next door to the takeaway and looked at a shelf of home made chutney that was out of date. Pointed it out to the lady who looked at us with disgust. "It's obviously been labeled wrongly" she said. They were only made yesterday. Not a thank you for pointing it out. We didn't buy anything.
We are paying £12.50 for naff chips, over battered not even medium fish, we live in a dumpy little village in Lancashire where all the chippys are charging the same or more so if in posh padham you reckon you can get fish and chips for £7.50 you should let people know where it is
Dont ----in pay then
i agree he is a disgrace
@@chipbuttytime3396 In Yorkshire you can get far better quality fish and chips for around £8 than basically anywhere else but arguably Scotland in the UK. Papa's in Hull is pretty cheap and it's basically as good as anywhere in the country.
I had a look at Papa's and yes very good prices £9.58 for cod and chips, no doubt it being a port city the cost is less. I had some from Hartlepool recently and it was £9, bon appetite Dj@@Djsonley
That seemed a fair review and I can tell that the catering for gluten free was a big plus for you. From a price point of view, we had fish and chips in Hawes in Yorkshire last week, the fish was absolutely fabulous and we shared a portion of chips between us and still had more than Sarah did each and two pots of lovely tartare sauce for just under £20. The staff were lovely too.
Try Scalinis in Scunthorpe. Takeaway Haddock chips and mushy peas for £5.50p. Most times I have to throw away some of the chips, I'm too full. Eating in is less than £8, and you get a pot of tea, and two slices of bread and butter to boot. Plus serviettes and has much vinegar and other condiments has you need. Should cost you a tip though.
@@warptoad5168 Sounds good, sadly I am not a local or I would definitely try it out.
Big being the operative word!!! hahaha
Large haddock n chips £8.50 from Dundee Fisheries, Chanterlands Avenue, Hull - awesome place.
I had Ricks take out fish and chips when walking the Southwest Coast Path (630 miles).
Can’t say I was ‘ripped off ‘ at all with the food absolutely first class and would certainly recommend it.
I've just paid £7.50 for Haddock and Chips from the Chippy in my village cooked in beef dripping. They were fantastically crispy and tasty.
I've had fish and chips from Rick Stein's restaurant in Sandbanks, Poole. They weren't a patch on my local chippy in Yorkshire.
No one but no one does fish and chips better than in West Yorkshire, so long as beef dripping is used and the fryer knows their job.
The prices are very hard to beat too.
Tell us where please sounds worth a visit.
The Ferry Cafe in Fleetwood, fish and chips x3 , 3 cuppa's and bread, under £25 cannot go wrong.
@@davesmith2916 thanks Dave I'll add it to the list and try when I'm up there. If you are over the other side try the ocean fish bar and restaurant in Cleethorpes sits somewhere in between in terms of price but fantastic food.
the Scots do mate
@@gazza9463
He knows that his clientele are not poor and is actively using the cost of living 'crisis' as an excuse . £2 for salt and vinegar DISGUSTING GREED ! Drown him in a bath of the stuff !
They didn't mention £2 for salt and vinegar, a review which they showed mentioned £2.
@@stephengraham5099 Don't you have potatoes to chop ?
I'd personally love to throw him in the harbour ( when the tide was out ) so he wallowed in the ten foot deep mud then drag him on a line to puffin Island and banish him there for the rest of his life .
@terrymurphy2032 Excellent, “ Birthday” is one thing, “Aniverserry” quite another level!
You know what, I used to like stein on tv, I’ve now went completely of this greed bastard of a human being. As if he doesn’t make enough travelling all over the world. But he’s not any different from the majority of owners. Only wish people would boy cot.😤😤😤
My parents lived in Bodmin until their end in 1976, so were very well aware of who & what to avoid.
I'm posting this as about to pop to my local fish & chippy Venus in Coventry, for a small cod & chips for £5.60.
It's beautiful. It has to be, as I would be going a bit further to a competitor.
Friends had to take out a bank loan to buy fish & chips in Whitby, two weeks ago. If they were still in business, Cornish coach tours Julian coaches, would be running trips up here to Coventry.
I'm going back to the fifties to remember Julians.
Thank you for you fabulous video.
Is Fishy Moore's still in Cov? I remember going there as a child and a teenager.
Venus is my local
I have lived in Cornwall all my life, but i have never spent any money at Rick Steins
Great videos thanks, very informative. That price for a takeaway fish and chips was absolutely ridiculous even when factoring in the location (basically a car park by a harbour, a very pretty harbour!) and the quality...looked nice and as you said tasted great, nevertheless a totally ridiculous price based on the owners so called 'fame'.It's not as if he's in there frying is it? Sadly too often we Brits are saying 'well that price is ok really' when the truth is it's absolutely not!
I thought that price was a complete joke....£5 for a chip butty
Totally agree that RS is having a laugh with those prices, even more so considering the food quality seems to be very inconsistent.
I live in North London where wages, rent, rates etc are more expensive than Padstow. Had a superb large cod and chips recently for £10.95 and the cod was slightly bigger than the one eaten in the video. Even more impressive was the fact i bought the meal at 11.30 at night and both the quality and taste were both superb.
@@zigzung5569 Just goes to show don't it....Nothing but greed...RS should be ashamed of himself
Great report on fish and chips, but for me the bill would have left a nasty taste in my mouth.
That's what I was thinking: FORTY QUID FOR FISH 'N CHIPS - YOU MUST BE MAD!
I meant best part of 40. Imho £33 is still too much to pay for a pile of inedible crepe. This has happened to me twice at the wonderful Rick's, if you want some 'factual narrative',@@iqunknown786
Hmm... the fried cod looked rather dry, was it really fresh? or frozen.
Tight!
Overpriced……for sure ……..People can’t to afford these prices these days ……! 😮
That is a ridiculous amount of money for local fish. How could a family afford that? Great video I’ve just subscribed ❤
Enough stupid people exist to make his business profitable. No one is forced to eat there.
I don’t get it. Just don’t go there. If people didn’t go there he would have to close up. He must get enough custom to stay open. Just go elsewhere
Chip shop in Humberston N E Lincolnshire. Small fish and chips £4.80. Mushy peas 90p. The fish is haddock far superior to cod and actually looks quite a bit bigger than ricks . Mushy peas 50% bigger container and the best bit free salt n vinegar
No way I would pay that much for fish and chips
So don't.
@@elesse. he already said he wouldn’t !!
Really enjoyed your report, however as a lifetime fisherman I know what goes on,the profiteering is diabolical!
Everybodys at it now
Profiteering is your word, I would prefer to call it for what it really is........ Extortion !
@@carlboardman8301 It's not extortion because you have the option not to visit the restaurant.
@@hb1338 Hit a nerver there have I ? It very much is extortion and the vile Stein and many others like him are lapping it up . Have you also got a rip off chippy then ?
I heard there was a fight in there the other night fish got battered
It may appear to be expensive, especially given the current economic climate but, I just did a quick survey of our local fish & chips shops, checking their prices against what you were charged and, overall there really wasn't much in it. Some were perhaps £2 -£5 or so cheaper overall but the portion sizes for mushy peas and tartar sauce were smaller and they were not donating a meal to children in poverty. Everything has a cost. We are still generally hung up on prices from years ago when ordering fish & chips was a far more common thing than it is today and it was relatively much cheaper. Bear in mind inflation and the cost of everything going up. For example, £10 in 2015 is £13.30 in today's money. Or for an even starker contrast, that same £10 in the year 2000 is now the equivalent of £20.60 in 2023. Anyway, great video. Keep them coming 👍
Thank you Sarah and Andrew for sharing your honest and enjoyable review of Rik's in Padstow. I've never been there and getting a review from a happy, likeable and truthful couple like yourselves is very refreshing. Not only do we get a review of the food but we get a review of the surrounding environment. I have subscribed to your videos and I am looking forward to the next adventure. Many thanks.
There is a Stein restaurant near me - eat in Cod & chips are £21.95. Two doors away is an independent take away is £12 and eat in is £14 with a mushy peas/garden peas, pot of tea & homemade roll - all cooked to order. Huge portions + unlimited chips. Very nice restaurant, great waiting staff, excellent service.
Guess which is busiest & has a queue day & evenings? Clue is - it's not Stein.
He was fined for under paying his workers,,,,kids ...child labour...would never go there ,
Eat in a pub much better food
We used to go to places like Torquay, the English riviera once described! Paignton,and other little towns on that coast. This year we decided not to go back as they have become so ‘run down’ yet very expensive for food etc. Its quite sad really, and no wonder people choose to go abroad for the same price and have guaranteed sunshine! Recently we stayed at a Warner hotel and visited Lyme Regis, the hotel was distinctly average and Lyme Regis was again very ‘run down’. The local councils probably charge high council tax levels but seem to do very little in the up keep of their towns! Let’s face it, Britain’s becoming a bit of a ‘dump’! All empty shops, charity shops or mobile phone shops!!!
So if you don't like the prices don't eat at Rick's take away. 😳
I always like to take those Chip Advisor reviews with a pinch of salt 😅
And vinegar........
It will cost you. £2. 😉
Only if you can afford the salt!
There's a joke there somewhere. I'll keep looking. LOL
😂
Yeah, they're usually a load of pollocks. They're skate-ing on thin ice with some of those shell-fish comments. Someone should mussel in, they're on a roe to nowhere.
(I'm leaving the stage right now, don't worry...)
Hi, Sarah and Andrew. We have just walked around Padstow and out to Harbour Beach today, the same day as you uploaded this! We pondered over getting Rick Stein's fish and chips but knew they were expensive, so went with our usual *delicious* fish and chips from Cousin Jack's in Redruth! If you like good-sized fish, and chips with a *crunch* they can't be beaten! Two cod, one large chips, £17.90! Bloody 'ansum! (I'm not on commission!) 😄
That was a great review, I lived in Cornwall for many years and visited Padstow many times with my children. keep up the reviews, I have now subscribed and look forward to watching your previous videos.
My experience is that wherever a ‘celebrity ‘ chef takes over a pub and claims they are restoring traditional pub food, like fish and chips, you pay way over the odds for unexceptional food and normally smallish quantities. £15-16.00 is actually cheaper than the other places run by these rip-off merchants. Last menu I looked at in London, (before abandoning the idea of eating in the ‘pub’) was charging £27.00 for fish and chips.
My wife and I could never justify £40 for that meal. We would of gone to the local supermarket and got much more for our £40 there
Squeak!squeak!
Tight as a Ducks arse !!
Yes exactly cannot stand being ripped off@@teddybear9029
You really know how to treat a woman 😂
40 nicka wtf,i'd rather give my gf a sausage and she wouldn't have to pay a penny...And it'd fill her up😉😊
Enjoyable vlog as usual, thank you. We often have our fish and chips near our home on the Norfolk Broads and sit by the river Thurne to enjoy them. Cost around £14 total. Rick’s cost is excessive, in our view.
Would that be Potter Heigham, watching holiday boaters crash into the bridge?
Pea comparison: In these parts (Merseyside), we'd call that pot of peas a small. A large pot in my local chippy (twice the size of yours), is only £1.40.
Hi Both. My wife and I were in Padstow this Summer (we live in France) and considered buying f and c from Rick Stein's but eventually decided that we would probably be paying more for the name than for the food, so we went on our way. Pricewise that was a good decision, I think. I think we get better value from our local English fish and chip man (yes, here in France !) who comes around once a month. That's a treat.
I think £40. For a fish and chips twice is very expensive. He is obviously earning off his name. But I don't think this is acceptable.
Obviously it's f*cking absurd. $16 is the price for decent fish and chips.
Of course he is what would expect, he is an internationally known chef hence the reason no doubt you went there.
I've never been to Rick Steins and wouldn't just for the price. My end of Cornwall is Fowey. So, I've never been to Padstein. He has earned a great deal of money for Padstow. So I have nothing against him. Just against the prices recently. 😂
40 quid??? Not in a million yrs would I spend that kind of money on fish n chips twice.
Mr stein is having a laugh.
Do you watch Gary eats?
What you had there was less than the OAP Special at our local chippy. Chips, fish, tartar sauce and a mug of tea total for two people £17.80.
on a recent visit to Cornwall we visited both Padstow and Port Isaac, wouldn't rush back to either place - probably having a fish supper tonight, three fish, two bags of chips to share and two mushy peas, comes in at around £25, and knock spots off that
I moved to the Far East many years ago, just thanking Buddha that I did, as the prices there frighten me. 40 UK for a takeaway is everyone there made of money? EG of how it is here wife took the 3 of us out for an Alfresco meal the other week. 3 meals + drinks, Latte Coffee, iced Tea, an iced fruit Yogurt drink, and a bottle of water came to just under 10 UK. Oh, that was in a restaurant (NOT TA) Suggest it might be time to sell up and move.
Tourists and "food reviewers" pay that. I bet ya can count on one hand how many "locals" use it, b43.
Yes I spent £36 for four fish and ships in Lincolnshire, that was after we walked to a back street chip shop away from the town centre , may not seem a lot to some but Lincolnshire is a low wage area
A few years back I bought fish and chips from his Newquay restaurant. I also would not normally pay those prices but these fish and chips are going to be extra special thought I.
Very wrong! The chips were 90% scabby bits and the fish was just a pathetic mess!
I couldn’t help picture Ricks face laughing at me. I felt like such a mug!
Rick Stein ... descended from the East-Med country where they wear small hats. Profiteering with a crocodile-smile. QED.
Don't moan about that ! If they were that bad then you had every right to return them and get replacement meal or your money back. Why did you not do that ?
I hope you told the staff their food is sh*te.
'Baroness' Mone also made huge profits and is laughing at the British from her Caribbean luxury hotel. @@trevorsmith7753
not the staffs fault......@@JazzFunkNobby1964
Another brilliant video! And your rating and comments very interesting … Lots of everyday fish & chip shops are actually disappointing in quality now so this seems good for the money -as a treat, as you say! 🥳
Thanks! Sarah :)
Good marlin! This channel is brill. I think I’m hooked…
The last time we visited Padstow was around five years ago and, as much as I personally like Rick Stein, it did seem like some kind of Rick Stein theme park. At one point I turned around on a spot and managed to count nine separate Rick Stein businesses, including a patisserie ("oh no, not ANOTHER fishing village with a patisserie", I hear you cry...). Hundreds of people milled around carrying identikit Rick Stein bags.......it was all a bit much, really. It was also disappointing to see people queueing outside of his fish and chip takeaway while the other takeaways seemed empty. I found it all a bit much, and I say that as someone who actually likes the bloke. I'm glad the fish and chips you had were good (and I don't think the charges for condiments were excessive), but it does slightly annoy me that they're not exactly transparent when it comes to the origin of the cod and haddock they serve (which will be the vast majority of the fish they serve). "Our menu features a large range of locally sourced fish served battered or grilled....." OK, that's great, but neither the cod nor the haddock will be locally-sourced. While the spiel on the website isn't exactly false, it's definitely misleading. Cod and haddock will be from the North Atlantic, is frozen at sea and will come into the takeaway frozen, not fresh, and certainly not 'local'. To be fair to Rick Stein, few chippes go out of their way to let people know this, but it is absolutely the industry standard. Rant over!
I was thinking that. How is cod and haddock "local"? For a minute I considered they might be "migrating" to the UK for NHS benefits, but the water can't be deep enough. Go figure.
I like Rick aswell but I agree.
@@Another_taco.Yes_pleaseyou don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you think the Cornish boats are fishing in Mounts bay? The boats head into deep Atlantic waters
I ve caught cod and whiting and seen kits of haddock landed from fishing boats in Cornwall . I'm not a fan of Stein but facts are facts
Yes, you can of course catch cod and haddock in UK waters, but it is not caught in the kind of quantities the fish and chip trade requires. I can guarantee you that the cod and haddock Stein is selling is not fresh and certainly isn’t landed locally. There’s nothing wrong with that, and that’s absolutely the industry standard (I’ve owned a business in the field, so I’m not making it up). I’m sure he sells some fish that is local, but it won’t be the cod or haddock.
I reckon you were recognised and received more for your "rip off" than other less famous customers. I got ripped off last year in true Stein fashion £15 for a meal that doesn't come anywhere near our local "mobile" chip shop in Bodmin that provides a better meal for £6 (last years prices for both establishments) they've had to go mobile as no one can afford to park in Bodmin even if they could find a space!
I agree , that mobile Fish and chip shop in Bodmin is A1 quality,value and taste , in the car park leading to the A30....TOP NOTCH
yes but .. everyone knows by now the oceans are in big trouble with overfishing. We knew that in Newlyn decades ago. High profile shops like Steins will have to toe the line with the green legislation more than the little guys initially but over time the industry will be decimated. I love fish and chips and i hated being vegan (its dire) .. but we cant wreck the oceans anymore and we cant build anymore rotten fish farms. theres no nice way out of this.
Yes but a mobile chippy is a lot cheaper to run than bricks and mortar.
@@davepersich3035 Are you saying increased cost is the a reason for Mr. Stein's exorbitant prices?
You know the old adage "a fool and his money are soon .parted."? thank goodness Cornwall seems to attract them.
No pockets in a funeral shroud. @@ivanlyne4270
I find being a food business owner the more expensive food is the more negative
The reviews are , I’m glad you found it nice and put a video across that shows that places with reviews like that are still worth checking out
We had fish and chips there a couple of years ago and although it was more expensive I completely agree with your vlog. It’s a treat, the fish and chips were exceptional in my opinion. Padstow on the other hand we found a bit pretentious so wouldn’t visit again for this reason.
We visited Rick Stein‘s restaurant a few years ago in Padstow and used the car park at the front of the building on the quay. I believe they (RSR) use a slot system where you have an allocated timeslot to have your meal, but they were running late that evening and we received a parking ticket. We paid the fine, we went there as a family because of a family member loss and we gathered there as a family. More family cars were also going to get booked, but we managed to dash around to put additional parking tickets on. By early hours of the morning two of us developed food poisoning, we both had the same pudding. When we recovered from our bout of food poisoning I decided to look at the reviews for RSR and to my amazement there were others!! It was reported to RSR but the restaurant did not fully acknowledge the complaint nor took the issue seriously.
it takes at least AT LEAST 24hrs for any pathogen to progress to illness writhing your system, I'd suggest it was rather more a case of a customer had an illness and others touched the same door handle or something. it certainly wasn't food poisoning and if you knew anything about the subject you wouldn't have embarrassed yourself with that tripe.
No it doesn't, go and read about it. It can take as little as under an hour to 8 hours.
@@fraser5754 You need to do your homework, before making a ridiculous comment. 🤣🤣🤣 And really! We are not in the habit of licking door handles…
@@oldcrow4301 YOU need to do your homework. I'm fully qualified with three different qualifications in this field. you need to realise you only have to touch a contaminated surface not lick it! you're clearly naive and foolish. if it WAS a case of food poisoning then you'd have to give stool samples for analysis and the establishment would most certainly be investigated, don't talk about things you clearly have no knowledge of.
We tried the fish and chips there once and they were overpriced and not memorable at all (just rather ordinary). We have tried fancy triple fried fish and chips from pubs, cafes, restaurants etc but nothing beats our local Chinese that does the most amazing fish and chips at half the Rick Stein price, large portions too.
Chinese fish in a chippy is rank
I would be shocked if you have a good fish and chips from your local Chinese but nothing is impossible I suppose, what's the place called?
@@gomperhooblet Don't forget some people just have terrible taste lol.
@@Wysaw Aye, or just sadly don't know any better than their local 2* place!
Went there around 18 years ago, even then, similar prices, would never pay such prices to mr stein, passed the shop by.
Hi Sarah and Andrew! 🙂 The meal looked really yummy. A bit pricey, but I find that most food has become more expensive the last year. I visited Rick Stein's Fish & Chips Takeaway once in 2012 during a group trip, and the fish & chips were pre paid so I don't know the price at that time. I believe it was the first fish & chips takeaway meal I had ever had (being from Norway 😄) And I really loved it. It looked the same as it dit now, and we ate it sitting on the harbour side and really enjoying it 🙂 Thank you for the review 🙂
A lot has changed since 2012
We visited Padstow area earlier this year. As we had our dog with us we could not try his more upmarket restaurants but did visit his pub, The Cornish Arms, just outside the town.
Food was pretty decent and not too pricey at all but, as it is a Rick stein pub, we were disappointed by the lack of fish or shell fish on the menu. Perhaps they have found fish is not to the taste of pub food clientale.
But we were also disappointed by the choice of puds. It was an offer of stodge, stodge, or more stodge.
We had better meals at other pubs in and around Padstow.
Nice review folks. We went to his fish & chip shop last year. Like yourselves we thought it was expensive but also it was pretty decent quality. I think like you say it is a treat & fine to do every now & then. We live on the coast in Northumberland so we are pretty spoilt for good quality fish & chips. I would go back there if we were down that way. I don’t mind paying a little extra for quality ingredients, so it’s a yes from me.
I think the days of fish & chips being a cheap option are gone now. I tend to to buy my own sauces & drinks from the supermarket as that is what can really bump up the price. I'll stick to the fish and chip shop in Porthleven. Thing is now I've watched this, I fancy fish and chips for lunch !!!.
I've actually visited Padstow (we're from The Netherlands) but although we had a chance to visit Rick Stein's chippy we decided to visit a cosy pub that also offered some nice food.
20 quid each is around AUD$38.00 per person for fish, chips, condiments and a drink. That is outrageous as far as I am concerned. Good piece of flathead or blue grenadier fish with chips costs AUD$14.00 down in Tasmania. This is from a popular seafood shop well known for really fresh fish straight off the boat. In a general sense, Tasmania is expensive for take out food compared to the mainland.
I would say Cornwall (and probably other areas) have gone down the pan since 2016. I’ve been to St Ives & Padstow once in 20 years, and that was just to change buses. I live 20 minutes from St Ives and more than happy to be on the other side of the bay. As for your fish and chips, that piece of cod was a good size and all obviously enjoyed, however I steer clear of any with designer names.
Whoever said it was smaller than a goldfish was talking carp.
For the price I would have liked to sit at a table. The cost of a can of drink is outrageous. Come on Rick, you have to do better!
Were they not allowed to sit inside then
why didn't they?
Totally agree with your review. That is my experience of Rick Stein Fish and chips.
As a new local, I go here for a treat. It's probably the best quality I've had in the area (I'm sure there are some I haven't discovered yet). But it's consistently good and we usually take friends there to sit down inside. As with everything, you get what you pay for, and often you pay a premium just for the extra 10%. Of course fish and chips is excellent in Whitby, close to my hometown, but I'd still say Rick Steins is on par. I think the bad reviews are left by people who jsut want tons of chips you can't actually eat, at a low cost and paying more for an adequate portion is a rip-off. Each to their own but I think the bad reviews are unjustified.
That said, I was pleasantly surprised by Shipwrights on the other side of the Harbour. We went there when Steins had too long a que, and were pleasantly surprised by the quality and value.
I can believe this. I recently took my parents to his restaurant in Sandbanks, Poole. The food had very little flavour. It seemed to just be a restaurant people wanted to 'pose' in due to the famous name, but didn't really care about the food or what it tasted like. Was very dissapointing and overpriced. Waiter had an attitude problem too 😂
The let minnow really made me laugh out loud. To me the meals looked pretty ordinary and I definitely wouldn't buy it, I could make it from scratch myself.
Homemade is always best 😄👍
@@XXXSHARONOXXX You've never tasted my mothers cooking!
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Bit difficult to do, when you're on holiday.
Just because you are on holiday does not mean that you can't cook....Depends if you have cooking facilities@@FancyMcDancy
Me, in America, at 3 in the morning, watching townspeople in the UK debate about the cost of condiments at a local restaurant.
It doesn't get better than that lol.
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@purdysanchez Haha ikr? I'm British & right now I should be in Amsterdam with me best mate getting off our faces. But instead I'm sat at home with a broken foot & watching old episodes of Emmerdale (a British soap opera) & random people reviewing a chippy! 😂 Living the dream!
😂😂😂😂😂, ahh the Internet bringing folks together
Thank you Sarah & Andrew, I think it is like most things now, you are paying for the name. I thought it looked good if slightly pricey. 👍👍
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The mushy peas look like something akin to what comes out of the filter when I clean our dishwasher
Stumbled across you guys and it’s lovely to see todays Cornwall, such a different place to my memories of fifty years ago when tourist exploitation was embryonic.
My parents moved there in retirement and I got to know the ‘out of season’ Cornwall… beautiful place
We drove to holiday in Padstow for a week in mid September 2023, and had a great time. I don't recognise some of the reviews here. We paid £44 for 3 Cod n Chips, the chips were not from a frozen bag they were really good fresh cut cooked in beef fat. The cod was equally very good. We pay £36 in Edinburgh for 3 take away cod n chips from our local chippy believe me paying the extra £8 in Rick Stein's was well worth it, much better taste and quality.
I've never been to Padstow but I have been a massive Rick Stein fan for years. If I ever do make a visit I have no doubt that fish and chips would be a must and as a treat, Stein's fish and chips would be my choice. Of course there are other cheaper options but while in Padstow, as a one off, I would gladly pay the extra for the experience. Would I be a regular if I lived in the area? At that price, probably not but 25-30% extra to try the celebrity chef option at a tourist hot spot. Of course I would. The reports make it sound as if he's charging £1.75 for a sachet of tartar sauce but it's freshly made to his recipe. I'd be having that as well, along with mushy peas which is not a condiment. A very fair review here which also tells the truth about the extras, rather than the one star bandwagon reviewers. I wish I was in Padstow now: I'd be having Stein's fish and chips!
Try the fish and chips in Harrods, London. £37.00 plus 12.5% service charge. Outrageous price for what one gets. Had Morrison's supermarket cafe's "ultimate fish and chips with mushy peas" yesterday. Only £7.00 and it was really nice.
Fish & chips used to be the meal of the people. Cheap, fulfilling, nutritious. Not any more. In my hometown the local chippy is next door to a Domino's PIzza. The latter supply 4 x the amount of takeway food for the same price. Go figure why chips shops are closing and going out of business in droves.
In general, there is very little profiteering in ordinary chippies. Fish is expensive to buy and frying is an expensive way to cook it.
are you not aware we have overfished the oceans to almost collapse ?? we are having to farm tonnes of fish now and that wrecks the seabed. its a nightmare. the price of fish will go through the roof.
If people are still buying at those prices , they’ll keep charging them , it’s called supply and demand , you demand , they supply , don’t pay and the prices will fall , and too be honest the food looked yummy , quality costs .
We went to Padstow in June visited the restaurant loved all of it, great service, also went in the shop and bought a few things. Being an Aussie we were excited to be there. Also thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Pickwick inn.
The chips looked very disappointing. It looked cold. Thanks for sharing.
Great vlog. I always worked far too hard for my money. To pay that sort of cost for only slightly above bog standard fish & chips and then have to suffer sitting on a wooden picnic bench in the rain would leave a nasty taste in my mouth. When we visited Padstow, we decided not to line his pockets but found a clotted cream Cornish pasty that was well worth the cost.
It's bulk standard, not bog standard
No it isn't. @@marioncannon9924
Surely Cornish pasties are savoury. Clotted cream with that?
@@misterbonzoid5623 yes you are quite right. Google The Chough Bakery Padstow. In with the filling, they place a dollop of clotted cream and it really works. You have to watch your shirt front but it’s well worth it.
@@marioncannon9924Never heard of it!
Having worked in Hotel & Catering all my life I was disgusted to hear about the £2 charge. There is more than enough profit in the price of the fish and chips to not pass on this charge. My understanding though was that the £2 would be for any condiments (salt/pepper/vinegar sachets) but not the mushy peas you referred to as I would be expecting mushy peas / gravy / curry sauce to be chargeable items and not free as they are wherever I have been. I think you are right though about it being “treat” and that shouldn’t be the case, it should be more affordable. Rick Stein is out of touch with reality on this. I noticed the name on the vinegar sachet and it is one of the “bog-standard” cheap cheap products that actually cost 9p each!! Less if bought in bulk..
If as you say you have worked in Hotel and Catering all your life, then you will know all about overheads. A lot of people moaning here should also look into it.
British Airways, Ryanair and Finnair also charge if you want to choose where to sit in one of their aeroplanes. Finnair and Scandinavian Airlines charge for tea and coffee - all you get 'for free' on Finnair is 'blueberry juice' and water (in their 'Cheapskate Class).
I get the overheads but I don't see that many in this case, take-away, sat outside, not waiting for a table to arrive or spend an hour or two with guests eating their meal, no washing up, all disposables so no breakages. Very cheap overheads. If you were providing a full service restaurant a different matter.
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About 3 years ago I gave it a 50 miles trip from Bolventor to Padstow. Went for a lobster meal at the Sea Food Restaurant. Since I was driving I just took a bottle of mineral water and steamed lobster. The lobster came (£70!), but no bread or so, no sauces and no cutlery. While the lobster was cooling down at last I could put my complain and did get the missing. I cook home live lobsters, this one was soggy and definitively a Canadian frozen one. When settling the bill, I spoke about this experience with the waiter. He had difficulties understanding me, he was of Polish origine as most of the staff. Being a polyglot I tried in Russian and that worked. He claimed they were badly paid and know nothing about serving lobster. That was it, never again to Fartstein! All together € 90 and a 160km drive up and down.
The problem with review sites like Trip Advisor is that generally speaking, people are quicker to go on them and criticise when they aren’t happy, than they are to bother if they have a good experience. This always creates a natural imbalance and it explains why so many businesses pay dubious companies in places like India to write fake reviews. In addition you’re always going to get people with a chip on their shoulder (pun intended - you asked for them!) about something in their lives, leading to a tendency to stick the knife in no matter what their experience. Let’s be honest here - some of these people have probably never been to Cornwall, let alone Padstow. Mr “go to Whitby” has most likely never set a foot outside of Yorkshire! Thanks for putting the record straight. I’m sure Rick is very grateful.
I lived near Padstow for a while and at that time people tended not to use the restaurant because of the expense. Padstow is lovely for lots of reasons and i dont like how Stein has musseled his way into the area...using his name to make money, leave it to local people and bog off i say.
I never pay over the odds to eat at a ‘Celebrity’ venue. I once paid for chips at a Harry Ramsdens, and it was expensive, small portions and disappointingly ordinary.
I can back you up about Harry Ramsden fish and chips very poor not good value. AND in my experience they treat their waiting staff badly.I worked at the Restaurant a while back so have first hand experience.
I went there about 20 years ago when cod and chips was £20 (sit in). I found a perfectly spherical ball of what may have been granite in my meal. They tried to tell me it was a dried pea. I dropped it on my plate so the whole restaurant could hear it wasn't a dried pea. Very odd. A bizarre souvenir.
Brilliant video. We used to go to the sea food restaurant twice a year for birthday days. It’s now nearly doubled in price! So no more!!
Ah yes! We looked at the menu and lobster was £66, quite pricey! Sarah :)
Several years since we had fish and chips at this venue, which were delicious. We are visiting Padstow in a couple of weeks and I have to say I am pretty tempted to re-visit after seeing your meals. Thank you for the review. I enjoyed seeing glimpses of somewhere we love so much I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to seeing more of Cornwall.
Don't bother. There are better and tastier chippies in the village. Bigger portions and more reasonably priced.
He seemed to spend a lot of time abroad on cooking programmes at our expense!
Good to see this video here, thanks. All Fish n Chips in South West (Tourist areas) are expensive nowadays,not just Rick Steins, i think what you received was a fair deal in comparison to Truro,Plymouth or Exeter shops…… balanced report.
Cornish Walking Trails: One of those TH-cam sites that TH-cam was made for, nicely produced, lighthearted presentations that ask some very relevant questions and cheerfully provide the viewer with decent information....liked and subscribed! ❤
I watched the film on Public Rights of Way and Farm Animals. We have a large field that is crossed by a Public Right of Way and it is what it is. What do you do with a huge field, if you’re not a farmer? Our answer to that, is to “rent” it out to a local farmer on a peppercorn rent....he maintains all of the fencing (22 acres of) and rotates Sheep and Cattle on it, so the field is constantly “mowed” and maintained and a local farmer has a bit less to financially contend with? However......Cows......Whoever you are, beware the Cows.....a herd definitely has a “herd mentality” and if they take against you, you’re absolutely buggered! Cattle kill farmers and they can and will, kill you. So box clever around Cows.....Cows have to be out in the fields and it’s their space that you’re sharing with them....
Steinstow....loved this edition, as it was a fair and unbiased look at one venue. I thought that Sarah’s meal was a rip off...it was very much smaller all round, however Andrews meal wasn’t (given the current, nationwide, uplift in pricing)?
Sadly and across the UK, we are being fleeced....and always have been, ever since VAT arrived. As a nation, we don’t complain enough by “voting with our feet” and all we do is complain bitterly and carry on shopping.....the Bean Counters have done the maths and know, just about, how much they can skin us for and so they do....one day though, like the cows in the field, we’ll stampede....😎
Keep up the good work.....I’m about to put the kettle on and light my Pipe....😜
As I walk into town from the Camel trail, gawking into Stein's chippy is an essential stop along the route for my dog: he appreciates the smells while I look longingly at the menu. I was really hoping you would say the food was terrible as I could then stop drooling over that menu. 😂 Stein's is not what I've heard as most recommended, but it's open a lot vs the other one which has limited hours. If you're near Padstow and don't mind being outside the town proper, Trevisker garden center café is so friendly and make lovely fish and chips in addition to gobs of other (more) healthy stuff. Absolute best "with dogs" eating spot in the area! Thank you for the video - you two are delightful. 😊
I’ve been to his chippy in Newquay twice….why twice? Because the first time I had to queue for 40 mins to get a table, the service was slow and when the food did arrive it was luke warm. This was just after the Covid lockdown so I thought this was a one off and decided to give it another try so I went again in the past year. No queueing, service much better and the food was hot. However, if I was hoping for something special in terms of quality or quantity I was disappointed, especially for the high prices charged. In my opinion there’s nothing special about Rick Stein’s fish and chips except the price. Thinking about it, it’s not ‘posh’ fish and chips, whatever that might mean, it’s just fish and chips, but you are eating it at a table in a restaurant and not out of paper on a park bench. Perhaps the customer experience expectation associated with the Rick Stein brand doesn’t stretch to fish and chips - perhaps are expectations aren’t realistic?
I've been there many times and it's always been excellent. It is a bit pricey, but no one points out that you can spend a lot on totally crap fish and chips all over Cornwall. This isn’t crap.
I live near Alicante in Spain and you can still get a meal deal of Large Cod , chips peas and 2 slices of bread for 9€ which is less than £8 . And you get free salt & vinegar .
There a few good chipys in Tenerife costs about 10 euros for fish chips and mushy peas and they are very good cooked by Brits
Hi Sarah and Andrew. The food did look good, but very pricey. For us in South Africa that is very expensive. (921 Rands). Our local fish & chip shop sells 5 decent portions of hake and enough chips for a family of four, all wrapped in grease proof paper and newspaper like in the olden days. No charge for lemon and salt & vinegar. We also add a portion of fried onion rings (the container is about the size of the one your fish came in) for R157. Equivalent of 6.8 pounds. Very filling and delicious. I look forward to your videos every Friday, so keep up the good work.🙂
Thats expensive for anyone , you have to be a fool to go there - 7 quid for 4 X fish n chips - sounds like 1970s prices - maybe ill have to move there
Going to South Africa with pounds sterling is an absolute pleasure. Everything is so cheap that you keep asking "Are you sure?" 😂
Sarah & Andrew, try Seasmiths in Wadebridge, just down the estuary... much better AND lighter on the pocket.
As others have noted Padstein is one to avoid...Mum & Dad live in Wadebridge and we used to go to Padstow, for the fresh fish off the quay. Now we just avoid!
I’m writing here from Dublin. Arguably the most expensive place on the planet. But Steins is up there with most places here. But the drinks are the biggest shock. £6.25 for two small cans. Good god. The world has gone mad. Loved your video.
Thank you! We were a little shocked at the drinks! Sarah :)
HE REALLY PUT DOWN IRISH COFFEE ON ONE OF HIS SHOW
Love the Dad comment, How much? To be honest I would never own up to paying £40 if my dad was still with us, I would be grounded for a week even though I'm 61.
I live in St Ives and about 4 years ago Stein opened a restaurant in (fairly) nearby Porthleven. We had a flyer in our letter box offering local residents a special offer lunch. A mackerel “Simply grilled” for £25.
You can buy a mackerel on any quayside in Cornwall for 50p- a lot less if you buy a few boxes. How can anyone justify such a mark up ? Stein’s greed cost him dear as we stayed away in droves , the restaurant was soon sold to someone else and Stein scuttled back to Padstein.
Went to St Ives last week £9.99 beautiful haddock and chips
If people do not wish to pay for the celebrity value, they should go somewhere else. £40 for 2 meals is not unusual at all for restaurants where I live, in fact I would expect a bill to be about £50 for two people.
I loved how the clip started out all 'Watchdog'-esque... then you discovered the place was quite good ..lol.
the price seemed a tad OTT but fish n chips aren't cheap these days from what I hear .
Thanks for your review. The grilled fish did not look value for money and I was appalled at the amount of chips you received for the cost. However, the battered cod looked great, I loved the crunch test and there was a good amount of chips too. I rarely buy fish and chips now as it is too expensive. Personally speaking if I was in Padstow and came across that chippy accidentally I would walk out as it's too expensive. But as you said "It's a treat" and I think that is fair enough if you are willingly going there for the experience. Your video was great and I was wondering what the meal was going to be like after all those reviews. You did a good job of reviewing "Rip off Rick's."
Cheers!
It looks like a fun trip to Ricky's Chippy! with no queues, excellent service, and fresh crispy fish & chips (now getting hungry). Over all I think that was a good price for an occasional treat, and the gluten-free option. Though I think the canned drinks were overpriced. It's interesting to see how accompaniments vary across the country. I used to think mushy peas on the side was exclusively a Northern traditional until a Cornish friend ordered them with his fish & chips in Hayle. Here in London, the usual traditional accompaniment on offer always used to be a large pickled gherkin or large pickled onion (or both), and that's what I prefer. Though a number of London fish & chip shops are now offering mushy peas as an option. Great video ~ a really entertaining review, and I loved Andrew's fishy puns :)
No Queues for a good reason
Just paid £10 exactly for 2 battered haddock and chips plus curry sauce in Skegness...really good and a lot cheaper
A friend did a council house exchange and moved down to Cornwall.
He said it was lovely in the summer when the tourists were around ,as all the locals would talk to you as they thought you were just visiting.
But come the winter and no tourists, no one would talk to him . He stuck it there for a few years as he had his kids and job there, but was never excepted by the locals and always viewed as a outsider ,suffered verbal abuse or just ignored. The abuse got so bad he Eventually gave up and moved back to Gloucestershire.
For all those who buy second homes and think you’re welcome
You’re not!
Despite the smiles from the locals when they take your money.