WARNING to all VISITORS of BONDI BEACH in AUSTRALIA - Do NOT make the same MISTAKE we did!
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- WARNING to all VISITORS of BONDI BEACH in AUSTRALIA - Do NOT make the same MISTAKE we did!
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The golden rule of travel. Don't buy food in touristy places.
Gday Lee, Australian here… Where you’re consistently going wrong with the Fish and Chip reviews is that the best fish and chips in Oz are found at cheap and cheerful family run Chippies in the suburbs and town’s frequented by loyal locals… Not at rather pricey beach side Seafood restaurants (who never get it quite right) which you’ve done at every stop 👍🏼
When I seen you walk into that place I immediately thought oh no, I'm a regular to Bondi and no local eats there, only tourists.
Not getting overly protective but during my years in the UK I had Fish and Chips all over London also at Cornwall, Brighton, Dover, Weymouth, Poole and Edinburgh. Probably more but that's what I can remember. They were all average to terrible. Greasy and bland. Australia stills wins hands down for variety and quality. Furthermore - Every tourist who comes here heads for Bondi Beach. (There's hundred of beaches in and around Sydney but Bondi is where they go.) 95% of the customers at Bondi are tourists. Hate to say this but I don't think they try too hard. Just charge a lot. Go to some of the other beaches where the locals swim and eat. I guarantee the F&Cs will be a lot better.
Englishman travels all the way to Australia determined to prove that British fish and chips are better than Australian fish and chips.
Ya whinging pom. 😉
You got that right, @68arclight
Bondi Icebergs is a normal Club in Australia and anyone can enter as a visitor (subject to standard dress rules for clubs and the NSW 5km resident exclusion). It has a separate upmarket restaurant but also has a standard club bistro with standard prices.
You could have gone in and had some lunch.
“Right!” “Fish & Chips” - rinse and repeat.
"Cobber"...Friend, mate, companion..Reference from
The Penguin Book of Australian Slang, a dinkum guide to Oz English.
Icebergs is a club under the New South Wales Registered & Licensed Club Act of 1976. So yes, members and their guests. So if you know a member, they can invite you. Or like you say, pay - $9 i think. They are under no obligation as far as allowing the public to use their facilities. Bondi is very popular with tourists because traditionally a lot of backpackers stayed in the area (back when it was cheaper), and it is the closest ocean beach to the Sydney CBD. Yeah, it can get very busy. As a beach, there is nothing wrong with Bondi though. If you don't like the surf, and don't want to pay to use the Icebergs facilities, there is a free ocean "rock" pool at the northern end to splash about in.
Not sure why you would go to Bondi and instead of walking to Coogee, you sit down for fish and chips, again! If the only thing that’s better about Britain than Australia is the fish and chips, I think we can live with that, I suppose though that the fish and chips in Britain are all Halal now.🤔🙄
Trust me, Aussie Fish and Chips are the superior product.
Lmao ppl get so mad.....
@@windyhillbomber bolx.
Australia a multi cultural society just the same as the UK so I suppose your chippies are halal as well , go figure 🤣
I'll take Hala over having being China's little pet dog 😂
Over 60 bucks for that? Ned Kelly is the patron saint of Australia. Never been to Bondi. Now likely never will. Onwards!
You haven't missed much 😂.
We took the metro and bus out to Bronte Beach then had a lovely coastal walk to Bondi, there we picked up the bus over to Watsons Bay - Doyle's Fish & Chips at Watsons Bay are superb (basic fish and chips or a bit more upscale Restaurant) then the Ferry back to Circular Quay - cheap day out as all the trains buses and boats were tap in / tap out and cheap
Thank you for this love it ❤
Thank you for sharing the vlog MacMaster. Thanks to Andrew too xx
When you're a foreign tourist in Sydney you have to go to Bondi Beach, because when you get home all your friends are going to ask "did you go to Bondi Beach?" and you don't want to have the same dull conversation each time about how you didn't go there because the locals told you it was nothing special. So what you ought to do is to go there either as the beginning or as the end of taking the Bondi-to-Coogee Coastal Walk. Look at the murals on the retaining wall. Look at the beach and surf. Look at the Icebergs Club. Head off on your scenic walk. You'll be able to say "yes" when people ask. And you can have a swim and a bite to eat in Coogee.
Bondi is not famous for being a good beach. It is famous for being famous. It originally got to be famous because it was the first ocean beach in Sydney that people could get to by public transport, starting back in the 1890s. Until a tram line was built to Cronulla in 1911 it was the only ocean beach that most people in Sydney could go to, so it was the one they did go to, so it got to be famous. It was still the easiest beach to get to until the trams got ripped out in the 1950s. Anyway, it's still famous. Tourists go there because it's famous. Everything there is overpriced because tourists buy it anyway.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Bondi is rubbish. It's quite a good beach. What I'm saying is that there are better beaches in Sydney. Hundreds of better beaches in New South Wales. Thousands of better beaches in Australia. It's quite a good beach. But nothing special.
You can safely remove cobber and sport from your “aussie” vocab . They are in the same category as hats with dangling corks i.e. appearing only in 1960’s british stereotypes of Australia. “Mate” is still good.
Cobber means mate. It’s just an old fashioned term that’s not used much any more.
Yes. My old work buddy still calls me cobber ❤.
Yep,only us oldies use it 😁
"Cobber" has been old-fashioned since the Sixties!
Lmao so many ppl getting upset over the whole fish and chips thing......Im Aussie and i find it hilarious 😂
what a really lovely chap andrew is !
To be honest, there's much nicer epicurean delights in Sydney than 'Fish & Chips' however, I do appreciate your commitment to discovery and comparison. It's all about bench marks. Here's my 'two bob' on the subject, should you be so inclined to explore some more on this 'fishy' story. Also, I'm enjoying your daily morning posts. Keep up the great work.
In my humble opinion, these are the best 'Fish & Chip' Joints in Sydney:
1. Saint Peter (Paddington)
2. Out Of The Blue (Clovelly)
3. Kiwi Fish Shop (Rosebery)
4. Fat Fish (Annandale)
5. Fich At Petersham (Petersham)
6. Fish Butchery (Paddington)
7. Fishmongers Bondi (Bondi)
8. The Rocks Café (The Rocks)
9. Mohr Fish (Surry Hills)
10. Costi’s Fish & Chips (Barangaroo)
11. The Boathouse (Palm Beach)
12. Doyles on the Beach Restaurant (Watsons Bay)
13. Love.Fish (Barangaroo)
14. Bottom of the Harbour (Balmoral Beach)
15. Ocean Foods (Drummoyne)
16. Bondi’s Best Seafood (Bondi)
17. Sydney Fish Market (Sydney)
18. Seafood At The Beach ( Dee Why)
Also, the attraction of Bondi for many I suppose is its proximity to the city and the coastal walk to the other city beaches. Having a choices of a so many beaches, including the many inner harbour beaches that are clean and only 15 from the CBD is rare in this world.
As a Sydneysider, I also find Bondi somewhat overrated and pretentious. It has become overrun lately by an army of pouting, augmented 'instagrammers' and that's enough to put anyone off their Fish & Chips, let alone greasy oil. You will find nicer 'city' beaches along the coastal walk. There are much more aesthetically pleasing beaches around Australia, being home to 11,761 recorded beaches, spread over 50,000+ kilometres of coastline. It would take you 27 years to visit every single beach in Australia. That's one beach every day.
Best beaches I've visited in Australia are Whitehaven Beach Whitsundays, Queensland, Hyams Beach Jervis Bay, NSW and Squeaky Beach Gippsland, Victoria but there are so, so many that I haven't been to, we are spoilt for choice. I hear the West Australian beaches are next level too.
Here's another list of Sydney better beaches if you're interested in no particular order:
Tamarama Beach, Eastern Suburbs (coastal walk), Bilgola Beach, Northern Beaches, Freshwater Beach, Northern Beaches (just up the way from Manly), Manly Beach, Northern Beaches, Bronte Beach, Eastern Suburbs (coastal walk), Avalon Beach, Northern Beaches, Shelly Beach, Northern Beaches, Palm Beach, Northern Beaches, Clovelly Beach, Eastern Suburbs (coastal walk), Coogee Beach, Eastern Suburbs (coastal walk) - 'Chish and Fips' right on the beach has pretty good fish & chips and only costs about $17.50 per serving, Whale Beach, Northern Beaches, Balmoral Beach Middle Head, Northern Beaches.
Shows how much crappy weather can even bogart a place like Bondi ,
local life-savers always know the best fish & chips .. it’s their patch.
Glad you said that Lee , I live near manly , from Newcastle originally, Bondi the most overrated beach in Sydney ,
Enjoy Australia m8
Great video Lee and great content as always 👏👏👍👍
Bondi Icebergs is part swimming club and part posh restaurant. The club decided to make a little extra money and rebuilt the top bit then rented it out as a restaurant. It is THE place to be seen in Sydney's east but don't bother unless you are OK with dropping $300 ( £150 ) on lunch for two.
Yeah like a lot of iconic dishes, the quality of Fish & chips varies widely from one establishment to another, even in the UK. I've had the best Fish & Chips in my life in the UK, and also the worst too (at a pub in Kent from memory). As you rightly pointed out, it's all in the consistency of the batter & the temperature (and cleanliness) of the oil it's cooked in, and there's something about busy kitchens that many people don't know regarding their deep fryers. Every time you drop a fresh load of chips, fish, chicken, etc into a vat it will slightly cool the oil (more so if it's a smaller-capacity fryer) and greatly so if the food is chilled or frozen. Depending on the design (gas/electric) and vat capacity it can take some time for the oil to heat back up to temperature, and if you're dumping load after load into it without a break during a busy period then the oil will often remain well under-temperature, resulting in longer cooking times and greater oil absorption. Just the colour, uniformity & greasiness of that batter in the video tells the story.
Lee, good to see you got it right between Bondi and Manly. I'm an Aussie and could never understand the hype with Bondi beach, not a patch on Manly or Sydney's northern beaches. Manly was my beach growing up as a kid, and I've always loved it. It's just as easy to get to as Bondi with a lovely ferry trip across the harbour thrown in. Very busy these days though, more touristy.
Specially when we in wa have better beaches
In western australia
Bondi Beach is full of poms and backpackers most of the time these days, Cronulla beach was my fave spot used to rent there years ago
ANDREW has been awesome. Very laid back but not afraid to hold to his opinions.
Thanks mate! Ive really enjoyed being the tourist again with Lee.
Fish n' Chips ~ 'Doyles on the Wharf Take Away' Watsons Bay
Looks like you’re having a ball Lee. Good on you! Loving all the vlogs! Happy weekend. 🥰☀️🥰xxx
Great video thank you
Where I live in Sydney I would pay $27.00 for 2 X fish chips and salad then add 2 drinks and the quality is top notch
The thing to remember the rent in the Eastern suburbs is crazy high I worked in that area for a couple of years
Until you’ve seen a Mankini or a single leg budgie smuggler then you’ve never seen the real Australia!
Great video. Loving this new style of video. Great banter.
It is called the Icebergers because at the start of winter they fill the pool with blocks of ice to make sure it is cold and then go for a swim.
When we first emigrated to Australia we first lived at bondi beach than moved to berowra waters
Also that lemon Lime and Bitters, was that made at the bar or poured from a bottle? Only it seems very uniform looking with nothing darker down the bottom. I don't care how posh they think they are, the bottle stuff is trash. Got to ask them, do you make your LL and B or use the bottled kind? World of difference between bottle stuff and a property made LL&B. Properly being the word as not every place can make it properly.
I have to say the fish looked very average suburban takeaway. And plenty of suburban takeaways would do a better job than that. In my suburban area, I can get fish and chips for less than $20. It's nothing amazing, but good for the price, and certainly not too oily. Surfish has a lot of ratings in the 3.5 to 4.5 range. So generally OK, although 3.5 is a bit low for such a prominent location where you are paying a fairly high price.
FYI on your next trip to the Icebergs, there are 2 locations to eat, the upmarket restaurants & then there is a bistro that’s part of the Icebergs Club, u could have had fish & chips in there with a great view for. Cheaper than on the tourist walk of Bondi 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Myself and two mates went to OZ back in 1999 for a year. We stayed in Kings Cross and the first day we went to Bondi. Three lads from the highlands of Scotland with our brilliant white complexions. I remember the bronzed Aussies having a right laugh. We must have been some sight.
Did you drink in the Kings Cross hotel. It was across the road from the Coke sign?
@@AlanTaylormusicI'm sure it was the first bar we went into. Was it a 24 hour bar? Kings Cross was some place back then. I asked for three pints of lager, luckily the barmaid was Scottish and educated me that it was a scooner. We also drank in a good Irish bar there but I forget the name.
Lee another relaxed sort of video great. Keep them coming.
Jammy git Lee, Bondi is way up on my bucket list. I know plenty people dismiss it saying it’s nowt special, but it’s the prestige of saying you’ve been to one of the most famous beaches in the world probably on par with the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro
Emerging from the sea more Ray Winston in Sexy Beast than Bond James Bond😮😢😂😮
Manly and the northern beaches are definitely the best beaches and some good fish n chips in Manly too…
Really enjoyed your videos in Australia, especially the ones with Andrew. Very informative and interesting 👍
A lot of fish n chips shops in Australia these days fry in "vegetable" oils like Canola, Sunflower, Cotton seed, Corn and Safflower oil instead of Lard.
Cotton seed oil is the preferred cooking oil by restaurants because it's the cheapest but not the healthiest.
These "Vegetable" oils have been found to be inflammatory on the human body. Traditionally Lard has been used for deep frying fish n chips it is a saturated animal fat and was incorrectly labelled by Heart Foundations to be unhealthy and the cause of increased cholesterol levels. Likewise, Margarine was marketed as a more healthy alternative to butter however Margarine is one molecule away from plastic.
Hi Lee i here your back in Perth now with some cooler weather (expect rain on Sunday from stormy weather) hope you get to see more of the coast down south around Margs/Dunsborough region & visit some wineries. Classic cars & coffee is back on tomorrow morning (Sunday) at the Uni (UWA) so hope to see you there
Great place Bondi Beach. You should one day come to my home town of Gorleston in Norfolk where we have the award winning Gorleston Beach, which Tripadvisor describes as “A stunning bay with a huge, wide curving, sandy beach with ramp access plus model yacht pond and children's splashpad, adjoining shops, cafes, amusements and amenity area, everything you need is close by”. Located just below Great Yarmouth.
Anyway awful looking fish & chips there Lee the grease that came off that fish batter was horrendous. Your right they look like Findus fish fillets. Probably one to completely forget.
Sounds ace David💫👍🤽♂️
@@barnowl. sounds good my friend will be over there one day
@@barnowl. '''....hardly surprising seeing as it's 31 times larger than the UK 🤣
Beautiful view of the beach.😊
Love the ambiance Lee😊❤
On positive the back drop as you were winding the blog up is beeeeeautifulllll❤
I've been to Bondi Beach nearly 40 years ago, we were visiting a family friend. It was an overcrowded beach back then, too.
Loving these Oz videos Lee. More please!
James Corden. LOL.
Thank you for the tour around.
The batter looks stretchy. LOL.
Great video. Have a lovely weekend. xx
It's a bit rough, when the tartar sauce and the lemon wedge, are the highlight of your fish & chips.
If that’s Bondi Beach, it must be a bitterly cold day because even the lifeguards are off duty, which means, DO NOT SWIM in the surf, no lifeguards, no swimming.
Wasn’t cold, it was very windy
You should of popped up to the lifeguard tower and said hello to the lovely famous lifeguards!
Bondi Icebergs is a swimming club, nothing more. Anyone can become a social member and it's $25 a year, hardly expensive or exclusive, if you want to become a swimming member you need to be proposed by a current swimming member but that's nothing unusual. As a tourist you could've gone in a for a drink or lunch, nothing stopping you.
Their commentary about Bondi Icebergs and snobbery was off the charts! This is why he needed to embrace a few locals so the info was correct.
So much misinformation and missed opportunities.
Not to mention the history of Bondi Life Savers and Icebergs that went untold.
I’m sure his UK viewers would have appreciated the info about Bondi’s history.
Instead we find ourselves comparing fish and bloody chips to some imaginary fish heaven back in the other side of the world. 😳
One of the most overrated places in Sydney would have to be bondi and its beach. Growing up in maroubra just a few beaches south of it i can tell you with some authority. It's got worse over the years as well.
They said cobber in the old days, who knows you might have brought it back.
The best fish&chips in NSW is at Pelican Rocks Shoalhaven. South of Sydney, closer to Canberra.
I hope you filmed the coastal walk from Bondi south to Coogee. The other beaches along it like Bronte and Clovelly are a lot nicer than Bondi which is just a tourist magnet and is really only so popular because it's close to public transport.
Wasn't fussed with Bondi tbh. Personally I thought Coogee or Manly was far better.
There was a massive RSL club near the beech and on its roof was a radio station that I spent a good time chilling there back in the mid 90s.
14:36 nice surfboard
Another pretty and lesser touristy beach in Sydney would be Camp Cove over at Watsons Bay, great views back to the city in one direction and of the heads from the nearby South Head walk and lookout - also its close to Doyles for your obligatory Fish And Chips. You need a local to show you the real good spots.
Never seen much in the way of a surf at Camp Cove, though! Best bet is to forget Bondi and its ilk, and head to somewhere like Newport or north from there.
I'm an Aussie and steer clear of battered fish that looks like that. Most fish & chips shops do it wrong here. Lucky for me, our local takeaway does excellent fish & chips.
Well done Lee. Keep showing the tourist spots and the crap places to eat. We will keep the good places hidden to ourselves. Even Andrew hasn't found them yet 😂😂 Quiet day at Bondi beach, not many around as usual. Anyway "Onwards my friends"🇦🇺🦘🪃🇦🇺🦘🪃. We do have good fish n chips but Lee can't find them. Get up to the Blue Mountains.
Best fish and chips in Sydney is Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River. This is North of Hornsby. Fresh fish from local fisherman at the small fish cooperative.
Don’t tell everyone about the best kept secret.
Bondi back in the seventies had a sewage outfall at the north head. There sometimes where "Bondi cigars" bobbing around in the surf luckily these days it gets pumped much further out to sea.
It's such a shame that the 'Traditional Chippy' shut down, the Cod and Chip was lovely and they had proper mushy peas. IIRC it was next to Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.
I am pleased we opted for other beaches to walk along. Go to Woolongong. Those fish & chips, a proper typical tourist trap.
Come back over to Manly and i will take you to the best fish and chips you can ever eat. The fish is so hot and the batter is so crisp and crunchy. Amazing chips as well.
When you get given the worst Fish & Chips you have to get a refund to make them improve otherwise they will carry on without changing what they serve their customers.
Google reviews speaks to more people 👍
Hear hear Peter totally agree❤
I always thought oily batter was because the oil has been over used and Im sticking to that
appreciated your interview with MGUY
A disapointing Fish restaurant... We have some great ones! The fish did remind me of Cape Birdseye :) That said, Great footage.
Bondi is twinned with Skegness 🤣 but the fish and chips is better in Skeggy 🤣🤣
Bondi as no comparison to Bognor Regies 😅😅great vlog Lee and great thumbs up 👍👍to Andrew at least the weather is better for you beetroot Lee all the best Richard and Tanya from Southampton uk ❤🕶👓1023🕶👓
That fish and chips was way over priced. Should of been no more than $40 with the drink. You go to the tourist hot spots you'll get stung with prices. If you had walked across the road theres other shops around that have much cheaper and better quality food.
Yup Lee... fish batter looked bad. :/ Thank god for the lemon and tartare sauce!
If you are back in Perth you should head out to Cottesloe beach again. Sculptures by the sea is on...but unfortunately the weather isn't going to be great for the next couple of days.
March 1-18, and thanks for the reminder
$24 for that poor excuse for fish & chips? You can find much better quality fish & chips for half the price just a short walk away on the main road.
I had Fish n chips in Manly. Coogee is my fave beach ❤
No excuse for greasy fish and chips , modern professional gas fryers of 90 to 120 mj have the power to keep the oil hot enough . Maybe they need to employ workers who know how to use a fryer correctly.
60 bucks ,I would be taking it back and getting a replacement meal
Should've gone in the RSL, Lee.
The best thing about that pla[i]ce where you had the fish and chips is the beer prices. $13AUD for a pint of beer is very reasonable, for Oz - and esp. for such an up-maket area.
Shalnt be ever going there then - thanks for the WARNING
Hi Lee great fun video.
Looked cold in Bindi beach nice place though.
Fish&chips looked Ok start with but too greasy see weren’t enjoying them.
Give it 3 out of 10 enjoyed video as always 👍
Bondi coastal walk is 12km in total, out and back. Be doing well to knock it over in an hour even if you didn't stop anywhere! Pick a sunny day though for best results.
You will literally get the best fish n chips as soon as you head out of any overseas touristy spot. If you have time head up or down the coast. The fish n chip shop off the bridge in Batemans Bay, you can’t go wrong. Doyle’s at Watson Bay (Sydney) is great. But the best I’ve had is in Forster Tuncurry. 3 hours north of Sydney.
I'm late watching this mate but catching up now. Onwards my friend let's go
What. No curry sauce and mushy peas!! Plus this wasn't an real fish and chips shop. More of an overpriced tourist trap.
Bondi is popular and on a nice day it’s pretty good, but honestly on the list of nice beaches in Sydney it’s not near the top. It somehow just got some international recognition, but there are so many more nicer beaches. Look further afield to Cronulla or beaches between the Royal National Park and Wollongong, then there’s the whole of the South Coast or try the Northern Beaches from Manly up. Then there’s the North Coast beaches. Just on another point, with the array of so much great food choices in Australia not many of us seek out fish n chips.
I agree with you that Manly Beach was better, much nicer and more vibrant. Bondi on the day you visited was a bit underwhelming for me, maybe it was the day, weather etc and it's normally different I don't know. Glad you visited it anyway and yes the fish and chips looked surprisingly bad considering the others you've already had there were quite good.
Bondi beach looks lovely . xx
do you smell the frying oil before you go in these places
Bondi looks like Waymouth beach 🏖️
Bondi beach is great. It’s a
Little better than Blackpool.
They only get sharks in the pool at high tide.
I tried ordering a lemon lime and bitters in a Herne Bay pub... and the staff looked blank as if they had never heard of it. In OZ I have it all the time