Watching these videos has me searching my local area looking for top notch shellfish creations. That seafood platter in your meal looked especially delicious! :) As far as the Maine style lobster, while I enjoy the whole thing it has been my experience that the claws provide the sweetest and tastiest meat.
Looks really delicious, thanks for the video! I recognized you like to order many different kinds of oysters. Since I only tried a few varieties, how would you say they differ in taste and/or texture?
Sushi-Liebhaber I'm with you!! I watch these videos to try & learn more about oysters. My husband & I just dined at Water Grill in Santa Monica, but I wish I had more knowledge/guidance to know exactly what I prefer. Don't get me wrong, I love trying new things, but I would love to know more.
Love this series of videos. I can't wrap my head around paying $25 for one stone crab claw. I remember visiting a Houston seafood restaurant in the mid-90s and attacking an all-you-can-eat stone crab claw meal for $49. I think I put away 25-30 claws.
+Jeremy Rule Haha, now you got me thinking back! As a kid we used to order a plate of steamers for about $3.00, and the thing was absolutely heaping. These days 12-15 dollars will get you about a dozen, if you're lucky.
They are small to medium size clams with long necks; the shell is generally a pale grayish white. The necks have a skin which you slide off before eating. They are delicious!
Love the video. Would gave only recommend crab claw in Florida from Joes stone crab restaurant. Next you should try Vietnamese Chinese lobster in Orange County California. Great to see a fellow Sydney travelling the world.
I live in New Zealand and am wondering if you have ever had pawa? It’s a sort of shell fish can be a bit tuff if not cooked properly. And also if you like lobster or crayfish better I think crayfish has more flavor
I always wondered if the whole crab could be eaten like the green stuff or just the legs? Two same for the lobsters..do you eat the whole thing digestive tract and all? I'm learning...
Not sure why the stone crab claws are so expensive. I think they shorted you a couple ounces on that lobster too. I'm sitting here having Rainbow Trout while watching you gorge on seafood, lol. Good times.
You're an animal! Impressive. Water Grill is generally pretty good but sounds like you may have gotten a few duds. Next time you go to Vegas I have a great place for you, Estiatorio Milos in the Cosmopolitan hotel . Basically a Mediterranean place but they have a little seafood market display where you pick your meal for the night. Impressive lobster, crab, stone crab claws.
can you explain to me why seafood by the coast cost as much as seafood somewhere that is landlock...... cause i see those prices and oysters and here in Minnesota same oysters and prices... what gives?
Hey! Thanks for another video. I am really enjoying these videos so far. So much more interesting than your photo channel. ;) . D500 20 megapixels 15 fps NOISE etc. Seafood is it were it is at. From fellow photographer and most importantly seafood lover from Norway.
Crazy how much restaurants charge for that lobster... I go freediving and grab about 3-4 that size per trip. A fishing licence is $45 and a lobster tag is an additional $9. I'm in Carlsbad btw just north of San Diego CA where the chef mentioned the lobster was caught...
+harrisric128 yea it's expensive but at it's probably because they have to cook it for you...and also shipping and all the other costs comes into play as well...but it's still really expensive..i personally wouldn't justify paying 90 bucks for a lobster myself...
dude you didnt show a lobster it is a langouste (big crayfish) and by the way you use pickled ginger to apply soy sauce onto the nigiri in high end bars, but you shouldnt want to do that anyway...
I dont like the color of the meat of the lobster. I am used to preparing South Australian spiny rock lobsters and their meat is very translucent and clean. Your lobster meat had a brownish look to it.
+Ronald dela Vega r u serious, shouldn't it be the other way round, unless you tell me his starves himself for the next few days just to save money to makes these videos once in awhile
what a rip!! $280.40?! Looks like US prices are going the way of UK prices...... greed as creed. This does not and will not pay off. Never forget.... good quality at fair prices keeps customers coming back. Everything is false economy.
You're never going to find the world's best seafood if all you do is complain. I've yet to see a video where you're not complaining. No food is perfect. You even complained about Jiro Ono's sushi.
Really enjoying these videos! Thanks Matt!
Thanks for showing us the menu! Great Video!
Watching these videos has me searching my local area looking for top notch shellfish creations. That seafood platter in your meal looked especially delicious! :) As far as the Maine style lobster, while I enjoy the whole thing it has been my experience that the claws provide the sweetest and tastiest meat.
Looks really delicious, thanks for the video!
I recognized you like to order many different kinds of oysters. Since I only tried a few varieties, how would you say they differ in taste and/or texture?
Sushi-Liebhaber I'm with you!! I watch these videos to try & learn more about oysters. My husband & I just dined at Water Grill in Santa Monica, but I wish I had more knowledge/guidance to know exactly what I prefer. Don't get me wrong, I love trying new things, but I would love to know more.
Love this series of videos. I can't wrap my head around paying $25 for one stone crab claw. I remember visiting a Houston seafood restaurant in the mid-90s and attacking an all-you-can-eat stone crab claw meal for $49. I think I put away 25-30 claws.
+Jeremy Rule Haha, now you got me thinking back! As a kid we used to order a plate of steamers for about $3.00, and the thing was absolutely heaping. These days 12-15 dollars will get you about a dozen, if you're lucky.
+pscully1969 what are steamers btw??
They are small to medium size clams with long necks; the shell is generally a pale grayish white. The necks have a skin which you slide off before eating. They are delicious!
Very amazing video, nice restaurant with delicious seafood.
Thank you for letting us know about the lobster. I looked away. I love lobster but I always feel bad lol.
It's not bad value you enjoyed it & it filled you up so good on ya.
death is part of life people its just a fact, we will all die so others will come after. it's food. nothing to be scared of.
Another great video.
Love the video. Would gave only recommend crab claw in Florida from Joes stone crab restaurant. Next you should try Vietnamese Chinese lobster in Orange County California. Great to see a fellow Sydney travelling the world.
JFC Mat how the hell do fit all that in!!?? Never cease to amaze me! I'd hate to be trying to feed you!!
Cool reviews .
I live in New Zealand and am wondering if you have ever had pawa? It’s a sort of shell fish can be a bit tuff if not cooked properly. And also if you like lobster or crayfish better I think crayfish has more flavor
Matisse Reid paua? That’s a species of abalone
OMG!!! I think i just heard it scream!!! @ 5:36
I always wondered if the whole crab could be eaten like the green stuff or just the legs? Two same for the lobsters..do you eat the whole thing digestive tract and all? I'm learning...
Right? Don't hold your breath. He won't reply, make excuses that his " soo busy" and then make you feel bad for all of it! Matt, what a stand up guy!
Not sure why the stone crab claws are so expensive. I think they shorted you a couple ounces on that lobster too. I'm sitting here having Rainbow Trout while watching you gorge on seafood, lol. Good times.
yummy, j.
No lobster in the Pacific. I think that was a Rock Lobster ! Hummm so good...
You're an animal! Impressive. Water Grill is generally pretty good but sounds like you may have gotten a few duds. Next time you go to Vegas I have a great place for you, Estiatorio Milos in the Cosmopolitan hotel . Basically a Mediterranean place but they have a little seafood market display where you pick your meal for the night. Impressive lobster, crab, stone crab claws.
can you explain to me why seafood by the coast cost as much as seafood somewhere that is landlock...... cause i see those prices and oysters and here in Minnesota same oysters and prices... what gives?
do you look for the exotic seafoods or the prices?
The slo-mo footage made the video.
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+Jonathan Stewart Was that your Sony again ?
I need to get invited to one of Matt's "platerthons"
Hey! Thanks for another video. I am really enjoying these videos so far. So much more interesting than your photo channel. ;) . D500 20 megapixels 15 fps NOISE etc. Seafood is it were it is at. From fellow photographer and most importantly seafood lover from Norway.
How would you rate stone crab claw with a NT or FNQ muddie?
By the look of it the fish was the most appetising
Crazy how much restaurants charge for that lobster... I go freediving and grab about 3-4 that size per trip. A fishing licence is $45 and a lobster tag is an additional $9. I'm in Carlsbad btw just north of San Diego CA where the chef mentioned the lobster was caught...
+harrisric128 yea it's expensive but at it's probably because they have to cook it for you...and also shipping and all the other costs comes into play as well...but it's still really expensive..i personally wouldn't justify paying 90 bucks for a lobster myself...
I wish I could eat as much as you :"0
+CrazyClara101 no i wished i could eat as good as him...
Question for Matt, are you a billionaire or something?
+Cara Institute of Advanced Hypnosis nah, you don't have to be a billionaire to be eating food like these once in awhile..
+Cara Institute of Advanced Hypnosis no - why can you help with that?
If you watch a lot of these videos in a row it probably seems that way lol. I doubt he's going out every night and dropping $200-300 on a meal.
***** yea, drinking and smoking are habits that can hurt your wallet quite abit...
fuck it we just go catch our own crabs, fish, oysters, clams and fish and feed 12 people for about $75
Its great form to wear a watch and a ring in a kitchen.
only recently found your channel, i enjoy seeing the food but what the hell is that annoying beeping at the start ?
$25 for just a claw?! I could've gotten a live lobster at the Asian supermarket for that price.
I enjoy Chinese seafood restaurants more than western seafood restaurants
+Edward Kim yes agreed.... or have'em raw like Japanese
+Edward Kim yes! like Shanghai Seafood Village #1 in san gabriel.
somehow steaming retains more flavour than boiling/simmering
The "Chef" is wearing a watch....
I'm sorry and the problem u have with this is?
Sea cow is actually a manatee. I hope you don't come to Florida and ask for a Sea cow ^^
haaa
dude you didnt show a lobster it is a langouste (big crayfish) and by the way you use pickled ginger to apply soy sauce onto the nigiri in high end bars, but you shouldnt want to do that anyway...
Knowing how much $$$ the stuff cost would make it hard to enjoy the food. Also I'd feel out place just wearing a t-shirt to a place like that.
Smaller the lobster the better quality.
ONE Spiny Lobster... $91 !??!??!?!?!
Go to Florida and you can have ALL YOU CAN EAT LOBSTER.... for TWO... at that price....
well, it's downtown Los Angels... considering the location, not bad.
wtf 25$ for that one fucking stone crab claw
lol can you please change up the intro and background music
I dont like the color of the meat of the lobster. I am used to preparing South Australian spiny rock lobsters and their meat is very translucent and clean. Your lobster meat had a brownish look to it.
hey matt you losing a lot of weight!
+Ronald dela Vega r u serious, shouldn't it be the other way round, unless you tell me his starves himself for the next few days just to save money to makes these videos once in awhile
Water Grill is a big let down. My only visit is my last. My money is better spent elsewhere.
Looking at the colour of the seafood it didnt look fresh to me!
Tokai Tokai it's very fresh. They freeze one fish and that's because of the high oil content.
what a rip!! $280.40?! Looks like US prices are going the way of UK prices...... greed as creed. This does not and will not pay off. Never forget.... good quality at fair prices keeps customers coming back. Everything is false economy.
Trump doesn't give a shit about climate change. You triggered Jake?
You're never going to find the world's best seafood if all you do is complain. I've yet to see a video where you're not complaining. No food is perfect. You even complained about Jiro Ono's sushi.
MEXICANCHUGGER do you see the prices he's paying? He's being reasonably critical.
there are at least a dozen better seafood restaurants in LA. water grill is good, not great.
What are they?
Coni, Sea Harbour, Son of a Gun, Connie & Ted's, Shanghai No. 1, Tan Cang Newport - just to name a few :)
***** Thanks!