Finding The Best Fish And Chips In London | Food Tours | Insider Food
Food Wars hosts @harrykersh and @JoeAvella travel across the city to find the best fish and chips in London. They'll be visiting the tourist favorite, the best rated fish and chip spot on Tripadvisor, Harry's expert pick, and a wild card location to see what the city has to offer. This is Food Tours.
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Poppies
06:15 - The Golden Chippy
12:52 - Fishcotheque
19:45 - The Mayflower
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Finding The Best Fish And Chips In London | Food Tours | Insider Food
I know this is specifically for London tourists but the best fish and chips are always at the seaside not in the cities.
Hastings has its own fishing fleet and I highly recommend any seaside town, with that or close to one, like Brighton is to Hastings. Your fish will be very fresh. 😋
@@julianaylor4351 As a Yorkshire lad I always recommend Whitby Cod but any seaside town is going to have the best fish and seafood! Just worry tourists will get some horrible food in the city and get the wrong impression!
Not true but ok
@@daemon5583 Have you ever eaten fresh fish, in a seaside chip shop? 🙄
Some seaside chippies are tourist traps, some will use frozen fish, being at the seaside doesn’t guarantee the best fish and chips
What I love from the fact that Joe has finally meet Harry irl is they actually shares different opinion but still managed to be respectful of each other. The contrast of the personality and how they have different palate of the food made the content so rich. I guess they both really destined to work for such content together~ Oh and I love how thorough their review is, not just saying "Oh it's good, it's not."
Sorry, when Joe meets Harry? What happen to Sally?
Lies again? Football Club
Spot on comment
Joe's a jerk with the superiorty complex of being an American
An American once recommended Long John Silver's to me for a 'taste of home', and I still sometimes wake up angry about the whole thing years later. I had done NOTHING to deserve that.
You poor soul...Bless you.
Yeah it's nowhere near close to that at all. I enjoy Long John Silvers but it's on rare occasions, but it's a grease pile that will clean you out pretty fast like 10 minutes after you finish eating, you're on the throne.
England went to war with spice and thats why their food is so bland
That’s Americans for you. They even told me i was saying my name wrong. I didn’t realize someone who didn’t speak my language knew better
Went there once, as I wanted to experience fish and chips. Never went back.
The thing about the vinegar is actually quite interesting. In the UK, it can only be called vinegar if it's made naturally by fermenting wine. Acetic acid (vinegar) that has been manufactured can't be called vinegar and is generally called non-brewed condiment.
Fermenting alcoholic drinks - not specifically wine. Most UK vinegar is malt vinegar made from fermenting beer (hence why the fake stuff is non-brewed).
NO NICETIES OBSERVED IN INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIES(WITHOUT R ETAINING THE ETHICS,GOOD MANNERS).👍👍👍
I don't think it's call anything just served in the fish shop in a non discript plastic bottle and no one questions it everyone uses jt
I prefer chip shop vinegar. Better than malt.
@@jonathanbowen3640totally with you, its the chip shop taste.
Joe: “An egg that’s been pickled in vinegar. That’s disgusting.” Joe at the next spot: “I think it’s impossible to over vinegar something.”
Yes! Thank you. Haha
Yeah what's my deal?
@@JoeAvella narrator voice: the world may never know 😉
@@JoeAvella acting like you’ve never had a corn dog too
Yeah, the American gets on my nerves… and I’m American. Pickled eggs are all across the southern US, especially at small, rural stores. I hate it when Americans try to speak for the entire country and think “since I’ve never seen it, we don’t have that in the US.”
Extremely glad a typical chippy was included. I feel like restaurant/pub style fish n' chip videos online have created a bit of a false narrative about how British chip shops actually make the food.
I agree ! I live in New Zealand and this is what I think of when I think of fish and chips. Except not on a plate with knife and fork! That’s more like pub meals here. Chip shops just sell it in paper parcels and you eat with your hands. 😅
I like the balance that Joe finds between roasting British stuff for being wacky, but also appreciating it
He's one to talk with how ridiculous America is
This was so much fun! I love seeing Harry and Joe interacting in person.
I'd love to see Harry come to the U.S. to try some fair food for a day
Or go to New Orleans and try the food there.
True and I believe joe daid if theses videos get enough views there a chance they will bring him out to the states
If it’s a fair it has to be the Minnesota or Iowa state fair, preferably Minnesota They have and would like to see them try: Deep fried alligator Deep fried candy bar in a stick Sweet Martha’s cookies
Definitely. He was right to call out the American guy for acting like deep frying everything in existence is some kind of UK thing. The US is insane for it (no shade, I've been so state fairs in the US and the food is insanely good).
Tbh they should try UK vs US fast food taste test, like bringing Harry to eat what UK are missing or something
I'm glad that Harry made the distinction between the dish in a pub and in a fish and chip shop. There are quite a lot of small regional differences around the UK, typically on the non-fish options, like the Yorkshire fish cake (as opposed to the typical mashed potato variety), savoury patties in Hull, pea fritters in various parts, orange chips in the West Midlands, deep fried pizza in Scotland etc. And all the different names for bread rolls (bap, barm, breadcake, cob etc). Also drinking tea and having bread and butter on the side (very Northern, seen as a bit old fashioned now I think).
Massive pot of tea and also a cold glass of coke is a must for me when I have fish n chips. Never turn down scraps and a tub of curry sauce and/or mushy peas too
@@Patriiiiick yes to scraps, always, but it's got to be a can of dandelion and burdock for me.
And frying in dripping in West Yorkshire! I never really ate beef growing up, then the first time I cooked a burger, I realised it smelt like fish and chips.
all of them should have been wrapped up like proper fish n chips
Pub fish is probably cooked from frozen, right?
When I thought that nothing could top the Food Wars, you suddenly came out with this. This is another level of awesome. It's like a dream come true that these two are together! Ingenious idea is all I can say. Well done to everyone.
I love that Joe went into it with an open mind. Yes he was initially hesitant against mushy peas but he tried it and that’s the battle won. Well done Joe!
I liked them on first encounter.
I live in London and this series still somehow makes me feel nostalgic about living in London.
Makes me feel hungry 🙂
we are literally so lucky to live in the best city ever :)
@@Nooticus Others would disagree.
@@Nooticus 100%
@@Nooticus Yeah ok mate. 😂🤡
You guys should do a series touring the USA and the UK trying the famous dishes of every region! 🇺🇲🇬🇧
what famous dishes have America got please tell me cos America has no food of there own
@@davidgomm6043 Rueben, Philly cheesesteak, jambalaya, Cubano sandwich, lobster roll, Italian Beef sandwiches, Buffalo wings, fried chicken, meatloaf, cioppino, chimichangas, just to name a few foods that were invented in the US. I am sure that you have heard of most of them. Sorry you are clueless.
@@jaklg7905 lol every dish you have said French, Cuban, Russian or European name me 1 original American dish an I'm clueless lol you'll be telling me that America invented the apple pie 🤣
@@davidgomm6043 Just because they have a foreign name, does not mean that they were not invented in the US. You can't truly be this stupid. Seriously, how do you function on a daily basis?
Scotland is not a region we are a country as is Wales and England soon we will be leaving the UK
I love watching these two just have fun, chat normally over a meal, it's all the fun of food wars but in person with chat involved, love it.
Nice work Joe. Enthusiasm is great but your honesty is what elevates you about the rest. A nice mix of fish & chips options that grandparents or drunks can be satisfied - well done Harry.
Took my boyfriend to Poppies to show him “traditional” British food…and it’s Turkish owned! He felt right at home! Personally best fish and chips are eaten on the beach or on a quay (not in a restaurant in central London). The sea air adds flavour!
Agreed. If I don't have to physically fight a seagull for my food the experience just isn't the same.
@@Lucysmom26 can confirm, ate Chips with Curry Sauce at the Seaside today and was nearly shat on by seagulls twice. Beware of this if you visit the UK
... and the thug seagulls!!!
@@websitesthatneedanem flying rats!!!!!
strongly disagree! beachside chips wrapped up in paper are ALWAYS soggy, not crispy
Thank cod there’s another episode of food tours! Do you approve of our favourite plaice? 👀🐠
Harry you’re the best!!!
At first I thought the thumbnail was a red herring but glad to see you two together, the vibes are on point. Good the conversation didn't flounder 😉
@Harry Kersh, why don't you go to the USA for an episode with Joe?
Good joke ! 😅
Enough with the fish puns, you’re giving me a haddock
These guys got such good banter, keep at it please
these two have the best chemistry
Really hope that you continue to do this series - absolutely love the format
Really love these videos, Joe and Harry are superb. Would love them to do a tour of different towns or areas, come to Devon , Cornwall etc and try the favourite spots. Thanks again chaps
I love these two men, such a chill, friendly vibe of a video. Brill
I am indian(south Indian), the banana fry is so common in southern India, we call it pazhum pori ( my native language is malayalam)
❤in Singapore and Malaysia we call it pisang goreng
@@claretheworm wait really, that's awesome.
Love this new Food Tours concept!! Can't wait for more episodes!! Hopefully Harry will be traveling to the USA for a food tour in the future with Joe!!!
So glad to see this kind of content come back! This, the best in town, Claudia's regional eats, and the old around the world series are great!
The wife and I went to Europe last year, London, Paris and Italy's Amalfi Coast, we ate at Fishcothque we had the cod fish and chips, we could not believe the size of cod we got and we picked the small of the 2 portions they offer, it was one of the best meals we had in Europe
Another brilliant episode, absolutely loving the food tours series so far, I hope it's successful so we can see Harry in the US!!
I’d say they should travel around nyc and go for the best pizza, or like best burger somewhere if they did.
I don’t know why he trashed Long John Silvers. The fish there is very crispy and fries are fine. You can get fried shrimp too.
Love that even though he doesn't like peas he still gives it a second go with everything on the plate
I’ve known the founder of poppies for years and he recently passed away. It’s so nice to see you start the journey off with his legacy ❤
Love this food tours series!
His expression when taking the egg was precious. Good taste bud you guys have. Thank you for sharing the experience.
Keep em coming! This was a phenomenal episode
The clash in their personalities makes the content even more enjoyable, as Harry provides informational content while Joe keeps it fun and refreshing. In a way, it’s sort of an influencer yin and yang, and it works perfectly
I love this series so much! More please! Have they done sausage rolls yet??
Really loved this episode, fantastic. Harry and Joe are great, would like to see more like this
I need more of these pronto!!! So good!! Would love for both Joe and Harry to go to India and Japan and do the same and all the guys to go to the States and Joe do the same
I loved how he was converted onto the mushy peas! I really don't like them myself 😏 Even though the guys didn't eat all of them at each place, i still think it was a fairly big task to get through the four - especially with the desserts 😆 I think that was a pretty good representative sample of what was on offer and each time it came steaming fresh out the fryer.... isn't it expensive now though??!! I EASILY remember paying a fiver for cod and chips really not all that long ago.....
Love these two’s chill chemistry. P.S.- Joe’s reaction to the cuckoo clock was golden. 👏🤣
Love this duo! Everything has to taste like insanity. 😂
Same
Idk why but Joes comment about the bitter shandy being a children’s drink cracked me up. It literally was the drink I used to have when I first started drinking (parents didn’t let me have a proper pint)
It's a very common drink to start drinking with.
The mayflower is one of my favourite pubs in London. Good selection of beers, and very good selection of wines, and their food is very good. We have actually had the slow-roasted pork belly, and it's doooo good!
originally from Plymouth MA, and the Mayflower is unquestionably my favourite pub in England. Feels like you’re on a ship and such fabulous staff. 10/10
These guys are both amazing and their chemistry together is awesome
I really like these episodes! And whaaaat, it’s never to early for a beer! Especially if Joe is on a little vacay/work
Haha these two have such a great vibe! I love how surprised Joe is all the time
Great series, the lads always great. Lets see the vice versa
Joe needs to come to Scotland and have deep-fried haggis, black pudding, pizza and chocolate bars. If he’s lucky he could find a chippy that will do him a battered Bounty.
Clocked the Irn-Bru on the table there
Battered Mars Bars especially. Completely different than having one normally.
The last video about the best burgers and now this video are bomb. Please do more video like this and this duo is just 🔥🔥
Joe's definition of a saveloy: "A sausage that's wrong" Simple and to the point.😂😂😂
Watched the fantastic London food series. Out of the four fish & chips locations, we chose one to visit this past February. The Golden Chippy is the best. The jar of homemade tartar sauce and the salad is a great addition. Thank you for the London foody videos!
Wow, you two make a perfect pair; honest, no bs... and fun! Make a series of food tours in UK & US. Now I've got a heavy feeling of " Must get to LONDON" growing within...
Exactly how I feel!
I'm italian and i remember my first fish and chips in London at Kings Arms pub in Greenwich, really tasty!
This is really helpful as I'm planning to visit London for the first time as a retirement present to my mother ❤️
Great stuff lads
Greets from the north. Tartar sauce isn't really a thing that you'll find in chippies here all that often, it's more of a 'fancy' restaurant/pub thing. You will find gravy in every single one though. No exceptions. Fish, Chips and Gravy is a combination that shouldn't work but does. And it owns extremely hard. If you go further north toward Scotland and the borders, you'll find something called 'chippy sauce' which is some weird concoction involving HP. It's very good. Those prices though... Just short of double what they are around the greater Manchester outskirts. It's kinda weird how Fish & Chips has gone from essentially 'poverty' food that cost very little, to what it's become now.
cmon with this comment! TOO LONG
Manchester? Dude I live in south London just 10 miles away and my local charges £8.50 with a buttered roll too for the food they got
My local chippy is 3.80 for fish, chips and peas in Greater Manchester! 10-14 is absurd!
There's a few North v South differences that get glossed over here. One is the use of beef dripping in the fryer which is more common oop north these days and makes a significant difference to taste. Both curry sauce and mushy peas are more of a northern thing in my view, and obviously gravy with fish and chips is pretty much unheard of down here. In the video he says the battered mars bar is a British thing, but really it's specifically a Scottish thing. The fact that all this stuff was available in a couple of those chippies says to me that for the most part, they are selling a fish and chips 'experience' encompassing a range of different traditions from around Britain, rather than a traditional local chippy doing things the way they always have been.
I started reading this comment a month ago and i just finished.
This series is great 👍
Another great episode.
The last joint, frozen chips and frozen peas.. Classy !!!! 😢
Fish and chips on a plate?! Got to be out of the paper guys 😉🤣 Love the show, great seeing Joe enjoying English cuisine!
never agreed more
@N S an excellent point, although they did use chip forks at one place which I'd say is acceptable 🤣
The restaurant's advantage is that they have salt... Joe is right that it's weird how Brits don't put salt on their "chips".
@nahor88 not sure about that one, generally salt and vinegar is put on chips as standard in the UK (well every chip shop I've ever been to has anyway!) The server will normally ask "salt and vinegar?" before they wrap them up
@nahor88 i dont know a single person who doesn't salt their chips. Even in chippies they ask do you wamt salt and vinegar
I could watch these two all day.
I love Joe's authenticity
Mmmmm I had a Mars bar for snack this evening, unbattered though XD all the fish looked tasty man, I really enjoyed this episode. I'm enjoying binge watching Food Wars and now Tours hahaha
My favourite part at 24:41 was brilliant 😄 fantastic show hope we get more soon.
love these food tours! Also can we see Harry going to the US or Joe going to India or Japan as part of these incredible food tours in future?
"Vinegar's taking care of it." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I always have cod it is just perfect. I’m lucky to live near a high quality fish ans chips restaurant/ takeaway. During covid they did fantastic deliveries with all the side dishes and alcohol 12 noon to 9pm. They won a national award. £12 fish chips and tartare sauce 😊 I can’t image eating so many times in a single day!
this was so great to watch part two should be joe showing harry his favourite spots to eat in the usa
I like how he immediately shut down the notion of a beer at the start
Love this.
Oohhhh snap another food tours ive been waiting for this one to come out but its crazy ive never had fish and chips before but im willing to try it
It's a very delicious meal. You just need the right fish, and the right kind of chip.
I hope you shared the left over food at each place with the crew! Long time UK vs US Food Wars fan so loving this spin off! Send Harry to the US for series 2 please!
I'm sure all food programs share the food.
I hope not. I hope they got their own food.
No staff person wants someone's half-eaten fish and picked-through chips. They're not starving. Even starving ppl deserve better.
@@MyAccountForCommenting I meant things like cakes and other large items.
There has always been a fish and chip place around the corner from where I grew up and back in the days they would wrap the fish and chips and newspaper. Always word sprinkle vinegar and salt on my cod. It was so great.
Really good video- thoroughly enjoyed it. Still can't believe the Irn Bru didn't get a mention
I hope this becomes a series where Joe goes on food finding tours with the other Food Wars hosts.
I'm 5 mins into this video and can't stop looking at Harry's sweater. So cozy! The texture
watching these 2 again, reminds me of my own paradigm. like praise the master.
That was one great vlog what a breakfast it looked fantastic the ride through London on the harley brilliant. Without doubt you are number 1 vloggeron KZhead. My so in Australia says the same his name is Lee.😊
This series is fantastic.. This needs to be done fully like Harry go over to USA also
This is about to be my favorite counterpart to Food Wars.
I love these ❤
I remember having a fish finger sandwich in a pub in The Lakes District, it was AMAZING. Pubs do some great fish and chips
Joe and Harry have such a great dynamic! Hope there are lots more vids in the series!
I am obsessed with watching these men eat and converse. I'm so happy that Joe and his beautiful hair was in London! Should've taken him to a local chippy though, those are the best. And if he likes London fish and chips, up North would've blown his mind.
All those fish looked amazing. I love cod with crispy batter, with the works. Tartare sauce, mushy peas, vinegar, salt, curry sauce, brown sauce, Colman's mustard... But to be fair have it on just about everything! Keep up with the superb videos
My grandad owns a chip shop on the Kent seaside and it has won many awards. It’s a very busy chip shop and if you arrive after rush hour Friday and Saturday, you will struggle to get a seat in the restaurant and there is a wait for the takeaway with the queue sometimes stretching down the street. The shop isn’t even right be the seaside and you have to go around a 5 minute drive from the seaside to get there. His chip shop is constantly in the chip shop awards and I believe it is in the top 3 in Kent again this year. I wish you guys would come down and try it! He also includes salad on his restaurant plating haha
Well go on then, give us the name
@@BabyDingo ikr mans got me hungry but didnt give a name
@@BabyDingo sorry guys it’s called Newington fish bar.. it’s in ramsgate. A couple just done a review of it on here 😊
I'm glad Joe's English adventure is still going! 💯
Love you joeand harry love all your food wars vids👍🥳😍
😀
Great episode plus a delightful view of the Thames as sun sets as an added bonus. The Great thing about the Great British fish and chips is that you will travel the country and taste the best fish and chips you have ever eaten almost every time you eat fish and chips. Especially on the coast of which there is a lot of.
As a mayonnaise lover, I was quite pleased to see the Hellman’s on the table @ spot # 2. Those chips & mayo would be heaven.
The bust staring at Joe in the pub made my day. 😄 He should have gotten the beer matching the batter. Great episode, please visit a state fair together!
Oh goodness! Joe and Harry together?! more please!
Mayflower, been there a few times. Thanks for the memories. Overall the chippies looked decent!
I love my fish with lemon. So wish I could go to London and eat this amazing food
Very disappointed they didn't go to Seashell of Lisson Grove in Marylebone. Ask any cabbie, it's the best fish and chips joint in London hands down! The takeaway section is just epic.
I love how open Joe is to trying things. My first pickled egg was also my last!
it's literally just a hard-boiled egg though
Pickled onions and gherkins are great
Best chippies I've ever had around UK are from the Welsh Italian chippies. Swansea and the west coast. Golden chips, crispy but not saturated in fat batter. Absolutely amazing. Micheline stared chefs can't re-produce a good chippy. Generations of secrets focusing on one thing. It's engineering prefection.
I liked the last one you went to. The fish looked the best there.
I can literally feel my veins clogging just by watching that video. And I live right next to Mayflower, not that far from the Golden Chippy either ^^
Gotta say, Those fish and chips looked pretty good. After leaving London, The Mayflower went to Southampton and then Plymouth before setting off for America.