As a 66 year old Brit I can say that I have NEVER been served SALAD with fish and chips !! If someone served me that pretentious rubbish from Bonnie Gull I'd throw it at them !!
Agreed about the salad. Another thing is this mushy peas business. It seems like sometime over the last couple of decades somebody decided that mushy peas were traditional with fish and chips and the chain restaurants jumped on the bandwagon. I am very slightly younger than you (the original commenter) and I don't think growing up in south London or as a young adult I had ever even heard of mushy peas.
On dish 1 for me its a 'Salad WTF' wheres the rest of the chips that should be in that space. Dish 2 'Salad WTF?. Not enough chips. 3) WTF. 4) What I'd expect in most places in NW England. 5) Nope. A more accurate statement would be we have a vague hint of mushy peas as well plus a hint of chips.
Plate one was so far from traditional fish & chips. They were what we call chunky chips, not fish shop chips. Fish has to be in batter, the batter seals the fish in so it steams inside perfectly. And you don't get a big plate of salad, you get tartar sauce and maybe a pickled gherkin or egg. Ooopp North you'd get mushy peas as well.
The hipsters are back. Oh no! Most fish & chip places are takeaways commonly called Chippies or Chip Shops. They usually have long lines outside on Friday nights starting at around 6pm. The majority of people choose Cod when ordering fish & chips even though they offer a full range of fish. Often, the server will ask “Open or Closed?” meaning are you eating it as you walk (so the wrapper is open) or do you want to keep your food wrapped up until you get home (so the wrapper is closed). The server will sprinkle salt, pepper & vinegar on your food & you have to tell them when to stop or if you don’t want any condiments at all. A segment of lemon is usually included. Added extras are gherkin, tartar sauce & tomato ketchup (often in sachets but some serve fresh little pots), mushy peas, pickled eggs & sodas. No salad at all. Portions (even the small ones) are usually larger than shown in this video & cost less but in less tourist traps. In my humble opinion, the best fish & chips are served up North or in Cornwall at the seaside with freshly caught fish.
This looks like nouvelle cuisine posh fish & chips for tourists ...... you need to go to a back street chip ship in a working class area for authenticity !
Haha I love the visible excitement we see in you as you see something that you want to eat. And you being "me-ish" is why people keep coming back to your reactions. Keep up the good work.
Agreed. He picks interesting things to review and i enjoy the comments. So far it was Traditional cod/chips and different Takes on it which is fine on its' own terms.
Mushy peas are made from marrowfat peas, not garden peas. They are left late on the plant until dry before harvesting. Then soaked with bicarb soda to soften then skins. I love 'em.
Best fish and chips. Are from chippies , Or chip shops,. You can't beat them , Fish and chips from a restaurant no. Has to be from a a chip shop, Has to have curry sauce and mushy peas 😋
I feared you'd find this video and react, because it's quite staggering that those two wet wipes were paid to host it. "It comes on this nice, circular display." "It tastes of potato." "It's flakey, just melts in the mouth." "It just melts in the mouth." "It just melts in the mouth." "It's flakey, just melts in the mouth, like butter." "It tastes of potato, very soft and just melts in the mouth, it's like butter." The food review equivalent of having powdered glass blown repeatedly into your eyes.
@@Someloke8895 Oh, but she found it had multiple uses - waving it about as if she's shoo-ing flies away from the food; using it like a metal lolly stick, or pretending it's a real fork-lift. Ah, bless her little cotton socks.
I'm from a SW England port & my wife a NW England port. None of these establishments on quality and or price would last a week where we come from. We now live in SW France, our marina has a fish n chip shop. It has no fixed closing time, "when the fish is sold we close up" is their mantra.
yep get rid of the salad. Those flatter chips look a bit like oven chips, which may explain the absence of oil.🤢 The golden chippy looks about right. That fish is perfect If you go to a chippy and they serve oven chips, walk out.
I reallise that the days of buying fish and chips in London for half a crown is long gone, but I couldn't, in all conscience, spend £18 for a meal. Buy a deep fat fryer for £28 instead and make your own
Connor, the 'mushy' peas are a north of England concoction, not to everyone's taste, and a releatively new addition to the dish which was, traditionally, eaten directly out of newspaper with salt and vinegar sprinkled liberally over it and accompanied with a large pickled onion.
Yes, I was born in Yorkshire in the 1950s - we had plenty of homemade mushy peas with pies, sausage and mash, Sunday roasts etc.. But mushy peas with fish and chips was unheard of.
Hiya Conor, These prices are London Prices, you wouldn't pay £20 for fish and chips everywhere, If you do come to London have fish and chips in a fish and chip restaurant not a pub, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
To all Americans - please believe me! The fish should be COD, nothing else! I'm English. If you are buying it in the north of England you might be able to ask for free 'scraps' which is crispy, fat-sodden bits of batter from the fish (they do it in Yorkshire).
Go anywhere outside London and there's a decent independent chippy. It's rare to find a bad one. Your biggest problem "In London" is avoiding the brand-name chains, who are selling you an experience - not food.
With the exception of Super Fish in Surrey who have 4 or 5 branches. All fish cooked fresh to order in beef dripping. If you eat in you get complimentary prawns and crusty bread for starters and a choice of sauces and pickles with your meal. Easiest branch to go is Morden, it's the last stop on the Northern Line.
They should have found out what oil each chippy used , because if it ain't cooked in beef dripping it ain't fish and chips. Also the only green stuff from a proper chippy is mushy peas and a can of limeade.
I'm sure London has some excellent chippys, and every town and city will have it's own best, but the ultimate fish and chip experience will always be at the seaside (better still if it's where the fish was landed fresh that day). The best I ever had was at Whitby, a busy, mid-price, no fuss chippy, eaten outside while still steaming hot. Glorious.
@@gavingiant6900 I've never been to Cleethorpes. I'm from the Midlands, so it was either Skegness or Great Yarmouth for us as kids. I went to Whitby as an adult, and my chip shop experience there has never been matched, not even close. Wherever it is, fish and chips by the sea cannot be beaten.
@@JustMe-ks8qc skeggy/skeg vagas yep. Great Yarmouth only been a couple of times. Cleethorpes ain't what it used to be but it it was decent fish and chips.
Proper fish and chips = No cardboard or polystyrene trays, no mushy pease (unless you live north of Watford!), no sauces-(just seasoned with salt and vinegar only), no lemon slices and no bloody salad! Fish has to be fresh and properly battered, fully covering the fish and crispy. Chips need to be properly cooked, crisp on the outside white and fluffy on the inside. All deep fried in good quality oil or dripping. None of it should be swimming in oil or grease, it should be reasonably dry. Wrapped in white paper only. We have a fish and chip supper most Fridays.
Need to find a video from a proper chippy, my hometown probably has 10+ chippys. It’s meant to be a cheap treat I’d say, memories of Friday nights growing up being sent along for 4 fish lots, curry sauce loads of salt and vinegar and a few stotties to make butties
if your eating fish and chips with mushy peas , tartare sauce , tomato sauce in londons tourist traps, you wont have much change out of twenty quid , best place to go is yorkshire in the north of england , far more quality for a fraction of the price .
Do you have scraps in the States? They are basically the bits of batter that falls off, and are free. If not ask for chips and scraps the next time you go to the chippy.
I agree with your fears about a chain restaurant, I'm not sure chips are that crunchy in a chippy. If you come back to the UK, wherever you are go to proper chippy, if you want traditional and don't want to pay a fortune. People may go to a chippy for lunch and wouldn't pay £14, at least not in Wales. Mushy peas are popular yes, I prefer mine unmolested🙂
Lol, I wouldn't say any of these are decent chip shops. Far better ones in Waterloo, Bethnal Green and other places in general. They seem to go for the touristy choices that the average person would.never go to. Tbh somewhere like Wetherspoons do a lovely fish and chips for £8 for most.
I haven't lived in London for a long time Robert, but there used to be a fish and chip shop outside Waterloo Station called Fish-co-theque. Can't speak for the quality of the fish and chips, but the name made me laugh.
I'd guess that the Billingsgate Cafe is mornings only. But it obviously will be the best fish in London because the fish traders aren't going to accept anything less than the best. Likewise with breakfast at the cafes around Smithfield meat market. You'll get the best ingredients because the meat market traders won't accept less.
not bad huh, i guess currency difference won't affect american's as the USD is always artificially valuable due to oil trade, 10 pounds or 13 USD is like equivalent to like RM60/ 60 bucks in my local currency, enough for 6 meals, always frustrated with supposed cheap food in other countries encroach on restaurant level prices despite being fast food elsewhere
The 2nd one, the Golden Chippy, is definitely my idea of a classic proper chippy fish and chips, the others are either trying to add or change things unnecessarily, like adding salad for some reason, or making the chips "block" shaped. But also you really don't need to spend so much money for a decent fish and chips and quite frankly, i don't think that London set's the standard in this video for it. Up north seems to be better value because you simply get what you ask for. A good chippy gives you good food, and doesn't charge for the so called "experience"!
None of them look like traditional fish and chips, go to a proper chippy, London would not be where I’d expect find good fish and chips, coastal towns is more likely.
Best fish and chips in London in my opinion - Fryer's Delight in Holborn. They used to use beef dripping but that might have changed now. Unbelievably good F&C.
The thing is that for many the traditional fish n' chips is a heart-attack waiting to happen. But it's that fish/potato combo that appeals to everyone. So I would imagine that those places that take notice of these trends and still need to provide the fish/potato combo include a salad. Everyone breaks their diet if there's a salad involved.They can entertain everyone else by telling them about which, and how, the various salad ingredients break down the oil!
Salad?? Eh?? What?? Sa La dddd?? You mean lettuce n bits of green stuff that rabbits eat?? On a plate with fish n chips?? No…you are having a bit of a bubble with me! ‘Does not and should not happen, it is against the law, probably….’
Chips made from potatoes and crispy batter is good. Add salt and vinegar if required. If eating out of your hands, then wrapped in paper, none of this cone nonsense. No 'fluffy' inside chips which means they are probably not potatoes, but bought in frozen rubbish.. Up North mushy peas, if eating on a plate, and possibly a slice of buttered bread. Salad, no way. A lot of ponsy fish and chips in London methinks. A local lad used to work in a chippy and he joked he would take the eyes out of potatoes, so they couldn't see what was going to happen them.
London, so the fish will usually be Cod (excepting the place that does "Bass 'n Chips" which tbh seems a bit extravagant; I can think of better things to do wiih Bass.... & less said about the pretentious N. London pseuds with Sea Bream, the better). As a picky Northerner, though, I'd want the deep fried, battered Haddock with my chips and mushy peas. Though NOT at 18 quid a pop! That being said, some of the other meals here looked pretty good. The S London Bubble for eg, whose mouth-watering Cod 'n Chips was accompanied by equally enticing mushy peas that (inevitably. ALL Americans do on 1st sight) Connor mistook for guacamole.
IMO you're wrong about the chips not being the star. From what I can see that's the different between Irish chippers and American chains. The chips are treated as an afterthought, in Ireland at least they are the main event.
You should really eat before you watch these videos, Connor. Also, if you eat fish and chips here, give mushy peas or curry sauce a try before you go to the tartare sauce. They are game changers.
Scotland Invented Chips but they were twice cooked thick, chunky Chips. Because Scotland was friendly with France while the English were fighting them we introduced them to Chips which they loved and took back to France. Later on during the French Revolution the People were starving. As an answer they cut the Thick Chunky Chips into much thinner Chips so it looked like a lot more to eat. Many years later, to defraud the American People, instead of giving the People proper Chips they would give them the French version and call them French Fries. That way the People would be paying more money for less and Businesses would make a lot of money.
I did have some very good chips in Edinburgh and they came with something called a "minute steak". I thought it would be a tiny steak, but it turned out to be a thin piece of steak cooked for one minute. You funny Scots people love to embarrass us Sassenachs! 😃
Actually a lot more at Poppies - a total tourist rip-off place ! Average spend is about £22 (they charge £2.95 just for mushy peas + soft drinks cost £2.60 average) PLUS add on 12.5% to 'eat in' to the bill total... My sister & brother-in-law went into Spitalfields branch and ended up getting a bill for over £48.00 - SMH
wow what awful fish and chips. come to Yorkshire and try proper fish and chips cooked in dripping and definitely no rabbit food...the coast is the best, Whitby for definite, wow amazing, London is worst place to review proper British food as it lost its way years ago... the full English was another eye opener..and the price omg ....and they left the skin on the fish aswell.......
The chips are more important than the fish to me. A chippy can have great fish but if their chips are rubbish then I'm not going back there. I want a decent portion of chips that are chunky and don't have any grease. The quantity of fish is not as important to me as long as it is reasonable. Also never choose cod, it is the most overrated fish ever, it has no flavour and a really awful texture. If you're serving veg with fish and chips then you're not a chippy. The judges here were wrong as well, they kept complimenting the fish on being "buttery"; if the fish is "buttery" then something is wrong and I would be asking for my money back. No one should need tartar sauce at a chippy, that's just weird. Salt and vinegar only.
1) Half a plate of salad, no thanks. Sea bass is great but not battered for fish and chips. Should be Cod or Haddock. 2) This looks excellent except for salad, mushy peas are only green thing required thanks. 3) Pretentious crap. 4) Anaemic chips 5) Pretentious Crap. Number 2 gets my vote.
Probably the worse comparison of ‘Fish n Chips’ you could ever have. Number 2 was the nearest to traditional and 90% of chip shops offer similar with a large variation in taste & quality even down to the frying range they’re cooked in. Give me 6 local plates of chips and I could probably guess which was which blindfolded.
#1 - Trying too hard. Why cold salad with hot food? No! (I love salads) #2 - Same salad... Why? Mushy peas are enough. The fish looks really good, nice batter. #3 - Trendy, not really Fish n Chips. Freshwater fish. Garlic butter doesn't sit well with Sarsons vinegar. #4 - Bog standard. Find somewhere else. #5 - Looks great, Nice batter but overpriced.
When she said in relation to the first serving that it came in a “Wonderful circular display”, that is what is sometimes known as a plate. These two are very irritating. Second serving - not guacamole but mushy peas, the only permitted accompaniment to fish and chips.Third serving ‘new school vibe’….gave up at that point.
Except for Billingsgate & The Golden Chippy. Poppies is SO expensive, I feel sorry for the tourists because that's who are the main customers (all three branches located in three 'tourist traps'! Plus they ADD on a service charge for eating in. I saw they had mushy peas on the table too... which is an extra £2.95 and they had a 'regular' fish supper (£13.95), for a large, they charge £17.95 + £2.65 for soft drinks + 12.5% to the bill - The actual price without anything else will cost you £22.00 average.
pay anything more than £10, then it will be a pretentious abomination of fish and chips, however in saying that, I'd eat the last one as a one off treat, but needs more chips....my local chippy does the best I've ever tasted at £7.95, but that because we are outside rip off central London...but they did pick the best 2 out of the 5
Golden chippy was proper fish and chips. Not sure they are the best in London though. Best fish And chips is cooked in beef fat not sure anywhere does that in London nowadays.
As a 66 year old Brit I can say that I have NEVER been served SALAD with fish and chips !!
If someone served me that pretentious rubbish from Bonnie Gull I'd throw it at them !!
Agreed about the salad. Another thing is this mushy peas business. It seems like sometime over the last couple of decades somebody decided that mushy peas were traditional with fish and chips and the chain restaurants jumped on the bandwagon. I am very slightly younger than you (the original commenter) and I don't think growing up in south London or as a young adult I had ever even heard of mushy peas.
Must be a regional thing, to my knowledge mushy peas have always been sold in chippies.
@@upthesock1 agreed I’m 34 and I’ve always remember mushy peas with fish and chips wrapped in newspaper or newspaper cones 🤣.
@@Ben-xe8ps We've had mushy peas in the Midlands forever.
Can't beat fish and chips with mushy peas and curry sauce, food of the gods
On dish 1 for me its a 'Salad WTF' wheres the rest of the chips that should be in that space. Dish 2 'Salad WTF?. Not enough chips. 3) WTF. 4) What I'd expect in most places in NW England. 5) Nope. A more accurate statement would be we have a vague hint of mushy peas as well plus a hint of chips.
Exactly right, what the hell is salad doing in fish & chips. Blasphemy & where was the vinegar ??
Same....WTF 🤪
Yeah I prefer veg over meat but fish and chips should be just fish and chips.
Plate one was so far from traditional fish & chips. They were what we call chunky chips, not fish shop chips. Fish has to be in batter, the batter seals the fish in so it steams inside perfectly. And you don't get a big plate of salad, you get tartar sauce and maybe a pickled gherkin or egg. Ooopp North you'd get mushy peas as well.
And curry sauce 😋
The hipsters are back. Oh no! Most fish & chip places are takeaways commonly called Chippies or Chip Shops. They usually have long lines outside on Friday nights starting at around 6pm. The majority of people choose Cod when ordering fish & chips even though they offer a full range of fish. Often, the server will ask “Open or Closed?” meaning are you eating it as you walk (so the wrapper is open) or do you want to keep your food wrapped up until you get home (so the wrapper is closed). The server will sprinkle salt, pepper & vinegar on your food & you have to tell them when to stop or if you don’t want any condiments at all. A segment of lemon is usually included. Added extras are gherkin, tartar sauce & tomato ketchup (often in sachets but some serve fresh little pots), mushy peas, pickled eggs & sodas. No salad at all. Portions (even the small ones) are usually larger than shown in this video & cost less but in less tourist traps. In my humble opinion, the best fish & chips are served up North or in Cornwall at the seaside with freshly caught fish.
Other optional extras include saveloys & pickled onions.
The best fish and chips is the one nearby.
And tubs of curry sauce you can't go wrong
With fish and chips with mushy peas and curry sauce 😋 food of the gods
Salad has. No place with fish and chips,
Mushy peas and curry sauce,
Can't beat that combo
This looks like nouvelle cuisine posh fish & chips for tourists ...... you need to go to a back street chip ship in a working class area for authenticity !
Haha I love the visible excitement we see in you as you see something that you want to eat. And you being "me-ish" is why people keep coming back to your reactions. Keep up the good work.
Agreed. He picks interesting things to review and i enjoy the comments. So far it was Traditional cod/chips and different Takes on it which is fine on its' own terms.
Mushy peas are made from marrowfat peas, not garden peas. They are left late on the plant until dry before harvesting. Then soaked with bicarb soda to soften then skins. I love 'em.
I make them at least once every week.
And there's no place for salad, anywhere, in a fish'n chip meal.😀
I love mushy peas from the tin. If there's nothing left in the cupboard, a tin of mushy peas hits the spot.
Fish and chips with mushy peas and curry sauce food of the gods
The best fish and chips are not in London.
Correct
@@lumpyfishgravy I have to agree, this is a really lazy video.
Best fish and chips. Are from chippies ,
Or chip shops,. You can't beat them ,
Fish and chips from a restaurant no. Has to be from a a chip shop,
Has to have curry sauce and mushy peas 😋
"Is that guacamole?" highlight for me! It's mushy peas mate!
That killed me too……..😂😂😂
every time
I feared you'd find this video and react, because it's quite staggering that those two wet wipes were paid to host it.
"It comes on this nice, circular display."
"It tastes of potato."
"It's flakey, just melts in the mouth."
"It just melts in the mouth."
"It just melts in the mouth."
"It's flakey, just melts in the mouth, like butter."
"It tastes of potato, very soft and just melts in the mouth, it's like butter."
The food review equivalent of having powdered glass blown repeatedly into your eyes.
Don't get me started on her inability to use a fork.
well said
@@Someloke8895 Oh, but she found it had multiple uses - waving it about as if she's shoo-ing flies away from the food; using it like a metal lolly stick, or pretending it's a real fork-lift.
Ah, bless her little cotton socks.
I don’t think these 2 could find the best plate of any food, even if you gave them a Michelin guide.
For some reason the pair of them grind my gears. I can't warm to them at all.
Food insider does a much better job when the presenter is an Italian lady they have working for them.
I'm from a SW England port & my wife a NW England port. None of these establishments on quality and or price would last a week where we come from. We now live in SW France, our marina has a fish n chip shop. It has no fixed closing time, "when the fish is sold we close up" is their mantra.
"Hope I wasn't being too me ish" if people don't like it they can watch something else. nothing wrong with being who you are. Keep up the great work.
yep get rid of the salad.
Those flatter chips look a bit like oven chips, which may explain the absence of oil.🤢
The golden chippy looks about right. That fish is perfect
If you go to a chippy and they serve oven chips, walk out.
I reallise that the days of buying fish and chips in London for half a crown is long gone, but I couldn't, in all conscience, spend £18 for a meal. Buy a deep fat fryer for £28 instead and make your own
Right....so if we're tired of cooking for ourselves and want to have a nice meal in a nice place for a treat, can we call round to your place?
@@2eleven48 I'm about 170 miles from London now, so with petrol prices the way they are at the moment, the meal for £18 would be cheaper
Connor, the 'mushy' peas are a north of England concoction, not to everyone's taste, and a releatively new addition to the dish which was, traditionally, eaten directly out of newspaper with salt and vinegar sprinkled liberally over it and accompanied with a large pickled onion.
Yes, I was born in Yorkshire in the 1950s - we had plenty of homemade mushy peas with pies, sausage and mash, Sunday roasts etc.. But mushy peas with fish and chips was unheard of.
I mean mushy peas are a southern thing too, it just sounds better said in a northern accent.
"relatively new" ? WTF planet are you from mate?
I'm 64 and had mushy peas since forever ! New 'thing' DUH !?
What is it with salad on everything in London? Guacamole? 😬😲😧🤭🤣🤣🤣
Hiya Conor, These prices are London Prices, you wouldn't pay £20 for fish and chips everywhere, If you do come to London have fish and chips in a fish and chip restaurant not a pub, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
To all Americans - please believe me! The fish should be COD, nothing else! I'm English. If you are buying it in the north of England you might be able to ask for free 'scraps' which is crispy, fat-sodden bits of batter from the fish (they do it in Yorkshire).
In Yorkshire they'll give you a right funny look if you ask for cod
in London i could not make up my mind, fish & chips in a london restorant, or a house in sandbanks.
I totally agree mate. The one to the rite of the left was my favourite as well.
Go anywhere outside London and there's a decent independent chippy. It's rare to find a bad one. Your biggest problem "In London" is avoiding the brand-name chains, who are selling you an experience - not food.
With the exception of Super Fish in Surrey who have 4 or 5 branches. All fish cooked fresh to order in beef dripping. If you eat in you get complimentary prawns and crusty bread for starters and a choice of sauces and pickles with your meal. Easiest branch to go is Morden, it's the last stop on the Northern Line.
They should have found out what oil each chippy used , because if it ain't cooked in beef dripping it ain't fish and chips. Also the only green stuff from a proper chippy is mushy peas and a can of limeade.
gherkins dude dont for get the wallys
@@MrNathanDJNGGiles yeah I slipped up there , probably because I don't like em . But I'm happy to throw on a pickled onion or two and a pickled egg.
I'll raise you a saveloy in a paper wrap, to munch on at the counter, while waiting for the fish to fry... Yum! Yum! 😁 👍 🇬🇧
I'm sure London has some excellent chippys, and every town and city will have it's own best, but the ultimate fish and chip experience will always be at the seaside (better still if it's where the fish was landed fresh that day). The best I ever had was at Whitby, a busy, mid-price, no fuss chippy, eaten outside while still steaming hot. Glorious.
Cleethorpes was my favourite seaside place to go to the chippy.
@@gavingiant6900 I've never been to Cleethorpes. I'm from the Midlands, so it was either Skegness or Great Yarmouth for us as kids. I went to Whitby as an adult, and my chip shop experience there has never been matched, not even close. Wherever it is, fish and chips by the sea cannot be beaten.
@@JustMe-ks8qc skeggy/skeg vagas yep. Great Yarmouth only been a couple of times. Cleethorpes ain't what it used to be but it it was decent fish and chips.
Proper fish and chips = No cardboard or polystyrene trays, no mushy pease (unless you live north of Watford!), no sauces-(just seasoned with salt and vinegar only), no lemon slices and no bloody salad!
Fish has to be fresh and properly battered, fully covering the fish and crispy. Chips need to be properly cooked, crisp on the outside white and fluffy on the inside. All deep fried in good quality oil or dripping. None of it should be swimming in oil or grease, it should be reasonably dry. Wrapped in white paper only.
We have a fish and chip supper most Fridays.
Need to find a video from a proper chippy, my hometown probably has 10+ chippys. It’s meant to be a cheap treat I’d say, memories of Friday nights growing up being sent along for 4 fish lots, curry sauce loads of salt and vinegar and a few stotties to make butties
Hiya Craig are you from Newcastle?
if your eating fish and chips with mushy peas , tartare sauce , tomato sauce in londons tourist traps, you wont have much change out of twenty quid , best place to go is yorkshire in the north of england , far more quality for a fraction of the price .
Binley Mega Chippy. People drive for hundreds of mile to just be photographed outside it. S1 level for sure.
Do you have scraps in the States? They are basically the bits of batter that falls off, and are free. If not ask for chips and scraps the next time you go to the chippy.
I agree with your fears about a chain restaurant, I'm not sure chips are that crunchy in a chippy.
If you come back to the UK, wherever you are go to proper chippy, if you want traditional and don't want to pay a fortune.
People may go to a chippy for lunch and wouldn't pay £14, at least not in Wales.
Mushy peas are popular yes, I prefer mine unmolested🙂
Lol, I wouldn't say any of these are decent chip shops. Far better ones in Waterloo, Bethnal Green and other places in general. They seem to go for the touristy choices that the average person would.never go to. Tbh somewhere like Wetherspoons do a lovely fish and chips for £8 for most.
I haven't lived in London for a long time Robert, but there used to be a fish and chip shop outside Waterloo Station called Fish-co-theque. Can't speak for the quality of the fish and chips, but the name made me laugh.
@@kernow9324 it's still there, not great though. There's a much better one on the same road going towards Elephant and Castle though.
The green slurp is mushy peas
Baby food.
Love it !
I'd guess that the Billingsgate Cafe is mornings only. But it obviously will be the best fish in London because the fish traders aren't going to accept anything less than the best.
Likewise with breakfast at the cafes around Smithfield meat market. You'll get the best ingredients because the meat market traders won't accept less.
The best fish & chips are made and sold here in Whitby 🇬🇧
Fish chips and mushy peas 😋😋😋 eaten while sat on a bench on the pier looking out to sea
The prices are astronomical down south. But technically they are going to the posh ones.
not bad huh, i guess currency difference won't affect american's as the USD is always artificially valuable due to oil trade, 10 pounds or 13 USD is like equivalent to like RM60/ 60 bucks in my local currency, enough for 6 meals, always frustrated with supposed cheap food in other countries encroach on restaurant level prices despite being fast food elsewhere
Peas not gucamolé..
You will never see quacamolè in a uk fish shop...and salad ? Lol lol lol
Northerners would throw it at the server...
I love Golden Chippy - only ten minutes from my house!
The 2nd one, the Golden Chippy, is definitely my idea of a classic proper chippy fish and chips, the others are either trying to add or change things unnecessarily, like adding salad for some reason, or making the chips "block" shaped. But also you really don't need to spend so much money for a decent fish and chips and quite frankly, i don't think that London set's the standard in this video for it. Up north seems to be better value because you simply get what you ask for. A good chippy gives you good food, and doesn't charge for the so called "experience"!
The lady presenter seems to say the word 'like' at least half a dozen times during most of her sentences...I can't unhear it now that I've noticed :/
If it's not broke don't fix it leave Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas alone!
Whitby is the place for Cod/chips and peas but ,you must have tea and bread and butter.
Fun fact: The UK once went to war with Iceland over fish and chips. No joke. And it happened 3 times.
The price you missed was £14
Probably about right for that area but looked a bit of a stingey portion size.
None of them look like traditional fish and chips, go to a proper chippy, London would not be where I’d expect find good fish and chips, coastal towns is more likely.
Haha, it's like food porn for you! The look of hippieness when you see the food :D Can't beat some nice fish and chips though!
Yup, just ate, now I'm starving
Best fish and chips in London in my opinion - Fryer's Delight in Holborn. They used to use beef dripping but that might have changed now. Unbelievably good F&C.
salad on fish and chips with gherkins... im going dizzy the rooms spinning
Best fish and chips I have ever had was in Hastings on the coast. Fresh caught fish so much I couldn't eat it all . No salad or mushy peas though
The thing is that for many the traditional fish n' chips is a heart-attack waiting to happen. But it's that fish/potato combo that appeals to everyone. So I would imagine that those places that take notice of these trends and still need to provide the fish/potato combo include a salad. Everyone breaks their diet if there's a salad involved.They can entertain everyone else by telling them about which, and how, the various salad ingredients break down the oil!
@@cireenasimcox1081 it's not a diet staple it's a treat . A luxury these days ..
I always make home made chips ,never frozen chips
Chips and gravy, or chip shop curry in the States? I heard its only really a northern thing here in England.
Salad?? Eh?? What?? Sa La dddd?? You mean lettuce n bits of green stuff that rabbits eat?? On a plate with fish n chips?? No…you are having a bit of a bubble with me! ‘Does not and should not happen, it is against the law, probably….’
£14 oof. I'll stick to my local chippy.
Chips made from potatoes and crispy batter is good. Add salt and vinegar if required. If eating out of your hands, then wrapped in paper, none of this cone nonsense. No 'fluffy' inside chips which means they are probably not potatoes, but bought in frozen rubbish.. Up North mushy peas, if eating on a plate, and possibly a slice of buttered bread. Salad, no way. A lot of ponsy fish and chips in London methinks.
A local lad used to work in a chippy and he joked he would take the eyes out of potatoes, so they couldn't see what was going to happen them.
Fish and chips was always wrapped in news paper
I'd recommend Golden Union in Soho.
London, so the fish will usually be Cod (excepting the place that does "Bass 'n Chips" which tbh seems a bit extravagant; I can think of better things to do wiih Bass.... & less said about the pretentious N. London pseuds with Sea Bream, the better). As a picky Northerner, though, I'd want the deep fried, battered Haddock with my chips and mushy peas. Though NOT at 18 quid a pop! That being said, some of the other meals here looked pretty good. The S London Bubble for eg, whose mouth-watering Cod 'n Chips was accompanied by equally enticing mushy peas that (inevitably. ALL Americans do on 1st sight) Connor mistook for guacamole.
Fish and chips always tastes better outside
IMO you're wrong about the chips not being the star. From what I can see that's the different between Irish chippers and American chains. The chips are treated as an afterthought, in Ireland at least they are the main event.
Well they are potatoes! 🤪
@@anglosaxon5874 The chips or the Irish? ;)
1st one looked awful, certainly oven chips or at least frozen by the look of them.
You should really eat before you watch these videos, Connor. Also, if you eat fish and chips here, give mushy peas or curry sauce a try before you go to the tartare sauce. They are game changers.
Binley Mega Chippy
i dont get this meme
Can't eat fish and chips without a gallon of curry sauce and swimming in vinegar.
Scotland Invented Chips but they were twice cooked thick, chunky Chips. Because Scotland was friendly with France while the English were fighting them we introduced them to Chips which they loved and took back to France. Later on during the French Revolution the People were starving. As an answer they cut the Thick Chunky Chips into much thinner Chips so it looked like a lot more to eat. Many years later, to defraud the American People, instead of giving the People proper Chips they would give them the French version and call them French Fries. That way the People would be paying more money for less and Businesses would make a lot of money.
I did have some very good chips in Edinburgh and they came with something called a "minute steak". I thought it would be a tiny steak, but it turned out to be a thin piece of steak cooked for one minute. You funny Scots people love to embarrass us Sassenachs! 😃
@@kernow9324 You should try a deep fried mars bar. The majority of us like the English People. It's the Government we don't like.
London's got gummy fish and chips the best fish and chips is Yorkshire fish and chips golden butter and the fish fishes fresh
Hook was £14
The Gummy fish and chips the best one to send Yorkshire The Shambles in York little fish and chip shop
13:20 £8.27 for British people and £13.95 for Americans. lol [Joke].
Actually a lot more at Poppies - a total tourist rip-off place ! Average spend is about £22 (they charge £2.95 just for mushy peas + soft drinks cost £2.60 average) PLUS add on 12.5% to 'eat in' to the bill total... My sister & brother-in-law went into Spitalfields branch and ended up getting a bill for over £48.00 - SMH
wow what awful fish and chips. come to Yorkshire and try proper fish and chips cooked in dripping and definitely no rabbit food...the coast is the best, Whitby for definite, wow amazing, London is worst place to review proper British food as it lost its way years ago... the full English was another eye opener..and the price omg ....and they left the skin on the fish aswell.......
The chips are more important than the fish to me. A chippy can have great fish but if their chips are rubbish then I'm not going back there. I want a decent portion of chips that are chunky and don't have any grease. The quantity of fish is not as important to me as long as it is reasonable. Also never choose cod, it is the most overrated fish ever, it has no flavour and a really awful texture. If you're serving veg with fish and chips then you're not a chippy. The judges here were wrong as well, they kept complimenting the fish on being "buttery"; if the fish is "buttery" then something is wrong and I would be asking for my money back. No one should need tartar sauce at a chippy, that's just weird. Salt and vinegar only.
1) Half a plate of salad, no thanks. Sea bass is great but not battered for fish and chips. Should be Cod or Haddock. 2) This looks excellent except for salad, mushy peas are only green thing required thanks. 3) Pretentious crap. 4) Anaemic chips 5) Pretentious Crap. Number 2 gets my vote.
Nowhere near the best in London, in fact pretty crap tbh.
And it's chips not fries. It's called fish & chips, not fish & fries 😉
Where's the curry sauce and a teacake
It's mushy peas not guacamole
It was £14 😊
I'm sorry but this video you're reacting to made me irrationally angry haha. I can't take this video seriously
No thanks. Over priced London rubbish. Salad, no just no.
Your reaction to food is kind of how I imagine people reacting to porn.
the Harry character is wrong about the 'fishy taste' on his chips. Fresh fish does not smell or taste fishy...
What does fresh fish taste of?
When are you going to visit?
If you want the best fish and chips don't go anywhere near London
I think that once the best one
Probably the worse comparison of ‘Fish n Chips’ you could ever have. Number 2 was the nearest to traditional and 90% of chip shops offer similar with a large variation in taste & quality even down to the frying range they’re cooked in. Give me 6 local plates of chips and I could probably guess which was which blindfolded.
#1 - Trying too hard. Why cold salad with hot food? No! (I love salads)
#2 - Same salad... Why? Mushy peas are enough. The fish looks really good, nice batter.
#3 - Trendy, not really Fish n Chips. Freshwater fish. Garlic butter doesn't sit well with Sarsons vinegar.
#4 - Bog standard. Find somewhere else.
#5 - Looks great, Nice batter but overpriced.
Wouldn’t want salad with my fish n chips, didn’t like the look of Hooks chips, more like sliced potatoes.. and that green batter,, no thanks..
When she said in relation to the first serving that it came in a “Wonderful circular display”, that is what is sometimes known as a plate. These two are very irritating. Second serving - not guacamole but mushy peas, the only permitted accompaniment to fish and chips.Third serving ‘new school vibe’….gave up at that point.
Some dear af fee n chee oh my days London 😲😳
I know what Marjory Dawes would say 😁
The salad! Why?
Fish in fish and chips is haddock for me, and everything fried in beef dripping.
Also, no skin on the fish!
This was all tourist crap.
Except for Billingsgate & The Golden Chippy. Poppies is SO expensive, I feel sorry for the tourists because that's who are the main customers (all three branches located in three 'tourist traps'! Plus they ADD on a service charge for eating in. I saw they had mushy peas on the table too... which is an extra £2.95 and they had a 'regular' fish supper (£13.95), for a large, they charge £17.95 + £2.65 for soft drinks + 12.5% to the bill - The actual price without anything else will cost you £22.00 average.
pay anything more than £10, then it will be a pretentious abomination of fish and chips, however in saying that, I'd eat the last one as a one off treat, but needs more chips....my local chippy does the best I've ever tasted at £7.95, but that because we are outside rip off central London...but they did pick the best 2 out of the 5
Skin-on fish should be made a crime.
Mushy peas
Dish 1 is trying hard to justify £10. Ubattered fish, sea bass? salad why? I don't see this as typical fish and chips.
Have eaten there superb
Mushy peas tasty
None of these are true fish n chips that locals eat. Biggest red flag? NO GRAVY!!
Not fries butchips
Golden chippy was proper fish and chips. Not sure they are the best in London though. Best fish And chips is cooked in beef fat not sure anywhere does that in London nowadays.