The IVY - A POOR attempt at POSH Fish and Chips?

now then my friends no it's not an electric car video today it's a food video for all you food lovers out there and I want some fish and chips now I've been known to like fish and chips and I'm in leads in Yorkshire and Yorkshire make the best fish and chips in the world undoubtedly I've told you before many of times there is nowhere else that makes fishing chips like Yorkshire but today I want Posh fish and chips and you can't get much posher than the ivy now I've been to the ivy in London the original one and there's many of them now there's one in harri I believe one in Leeds they're all over the place there's one in Birmingham I think personally it's diluted the brand a little bit and made it less special but we're going to find that out today and we're going to have Posh fishing chips at the ivy in leads now I have been to the ivy Asia uh on the video before and they were superb and I've also had uh Posh fishing ships at the IV in London where the service wasn't great and that was at the canary Warf one so we're going to find out what it's like here in leads and it should be better because everything's better in Yorkshire isn't it if you're new to the channel make sure you hit the Subscribe button click the little bell for notifications every when I upload new videos now without further Ado my friends let's go [Music] [Music] [Music] can I just say and have a little moan before I start lead city council you've ruined this city you've basically pedestrianized everything made it really difficult for the motorist to get into town and next the shops are going to die just letting you know uh you're probably doing it on purpose so shame on you leads city council there we go I've said my peace now let's get down to business The Ivy originally it was one of the best places to go it was the place to be seen wasn't it where all the stars hung out I believe there was also one in Los Angeles as well you'd go there there'd be Simon cowl there'd be uh Paul Daniels when I went not the magician from years ago classic what a legend he was and you'd have like Ted Rogers probably uh probably a little bit name a few names that would be seen at the ivy maybe you've been to the ivy let me know in the comments section down below if You' seen anybody famous it is special I bet as well they're going to add a discretionary service charge which really winds me up if I want to leave a tip I'll leave a tip but it seems to be the thing nowadays doesn't it it spread from London out into other cities and I don't know how they get away with it up north how much come [Music] on tell you what these bike lanes that I'm walking in there jam-packed with bicycles I mean Cy can't move [Music] now I've always said you get two kinds of fish and chips you get your Posh fish and chips at a restaurant or you get your fish and chips at a chippy that are in newspaper or they used to be in newspaper but the Posh fish and chips are they really as good as a fish and chip shop and in Yorkshire a lot of the places here cook in beef dripping which makes it Mah these guys I'm guessing they won't and also they'll have crushed well so uh you want do you want to say that on camera yeah what right stop now allow it okay you want There You Go thinks he's being funny give him the camera had to beat that one out onwards my friends [Music] [Music] [Music] right so behind me there that's the ivy Asia did a review on that have a look back see if you can find it search The macmaster Ivy Asia it was fantastic but we're going to go around the corner to the normal ivy for fishing chips come on [Music] right okay so here we are inside the ivy now I've got different menus here I've chosen off the All Day menu and I've gone for the uh the ivy Classics which is the um traditional fish and chips here the IV 1917 batter with mushy peas thick cup chips and TARTA sauce which is $18.95 and I've also gone uh for a Diet Coke as well so uh kind of looking forward to this service is excellent I have to say and they brought water to the table as well uh got a nice little bottle of water there uh and ready ped for me as well and the diet coke with a paper straw here out of a knife nice little glass there so 1917 The Ivy was uh started at um a bell gandini uh opened a small restaurant in the heart of London's theater Land his aim was to provide fine cuisine uh for cultured pallets which is probably rules me out because I don't have a cultured pallets although I do know what fish and chips are like and what good fishing chips are like um amongst the famous figures of the of the 19 19 20s uh the IV was a synonym for Quality it became an exclusive meeting place and a friendly friendly rendevu but as I say has it actually diluted it bringing it into places like Leeds and harri Etc well we're about to find out don't forget we're going to mark this out of 10 you guys are going to mark it out of 10 as well on price and on Ambiance now I'm not going to get too many shots inside you because people are actually um having a it's very very busy and they're having a nice meal so they don't need a me sticking a camera in the face but we're here for the fishing chips and that is what we're going to review and take a look at before we do that have a closer look at the menu my friend [Music] [Music] [Music] right so the uh the goods have arrived now um they brought the fish which they said is hake so we've got hake we've got the mushy peas there in a little um Ramic in a pan and then the the chips there as well uh in a little tumbler there as well and we've also got um some SAA sauce some malt vinegar uh a lemon like and some there's the T sauce um so and a little bit of um uh grass cuttings anyway before we go any further take a closer look my friends [Music] right okay so I think we'll DeCamp the chips first there we go pop them out on there okay probably about 10 or 11 chips there um and then we'll uh DeCamp the peas as well I think pop these peas out here at least they're not crushed Peas I don't mind crushed peas but it's can be a little bit pretentious can't it so we'll get the peas out there as well nice Cutlery let's get some malt vinegar in there as well not coming out very well that okay get the uh that is not coming out very well at all I like my vinegar as well um and we'll cut the butter down the middle H not overly crispy a little bit soggy batter is not crispy okay um get that lemon in the middle there like that there we go a little bit of lemon in the middle actually I tell you what I'm going to do pop a little bit of lemon on my peas um and get some pepper on those peas as well mushy peas and mix that in and a little bit of salt on the chips as well there we go he not sure about hate have a look we go there's your fish what a strong taste to it going to go in for one of the chips there's your chip crispy on the out fluffy on the inner some of them a little bit golden and a little bit crispy I I have to say I'm disappointed with the butter on this it is very soggy no crispness to at all very flat as well let's take a close look at this fish in here is there any skin on the fish no skin on the fish though which is good and the fish is um as I say very strong taste but very flat extremely flat not very thick I think it was on a diet going for the mushy peas mushy peas are nice the chips just look a little bit some of them got um little I know a little overdone few little scrag ends in them as well like that but we'll eat it then Mark it out a 10 outside I think um I'm just not overly sure about that fish a little bit of crispness there but that's about it the rest of it very very soggy right we see you guys in a minute we'll get the bill um and then we'll mark it out of 10 but we'll Reserve judgment until we get outside I'll see you guys in a minute [Music] n [Music] right okay so there we go uh I'm going to D this outside I am going to say by the way Adam uh who's one of the servers here impeccable service probably some of the best service that I've ever had so uh shout out to Adam there well done right can get down to business on this one first of all Adam was fantastic I left him a tip there is a service charge added to the bill uh but I also left him a tip because do you know what he deserved it I think he was new in the job as well and I saw him around and I ploted what he was like with everybody else not just myself with a camera and he was spot on really really nice gentleman and he couldn't do enough for people so Adam shout out to Adam there spot on don't mind um leaving a bit of a because I'm making money out of these videos so share the love a little bit so there we go and the cost come to £526 that's including a service charge uh of £281 does annoy me the service charge if I wasn't filming it um I probably would have asked for that to be removed but I'm not going to put Adam in that predicament and uh the fish itself wasn't too bad to be fair and hke is on a par really with Cod Tad sweeter um very flaky as well uh personally I prefer Cod or hadock but there we go it's a good it's a good equivalent chips um a little bit uh sorry huge fan of you m oh thank you very much come in and say hi I'm gold M me brilliant the fishing chips at the ivy yeah I replied to one of your message was on calls Matthews oh brilliant calls Matthews thank you very much nice to meet you thank you I like your hat cheers thank you cheers uh there we go call Matthews shout out to Cole uh so um where are we uh schoolwise I'm going to go with well the chips were a little bit overdone in places um and um I'm going to go I'm going to take service into consideration the batter was a little bit soggy which was what ruined it really no skin on the fish the Ambiance was great and it was busy in there that's why I didn't get very many shots of the inside but you know with the ivy you actually pay for the ambian for the entire experience and the experience in there was Second To None uh so I'm going to give it a I'm going to go with a seven to be fair uh because i' have probably been a little bit more if the batter wasn't soggy but there we go so it's seven which is a good score that's the ivy in leads as I say service impeccable and uh but I recommend it yeah but don't just go for the fishing chips go through something else anyway that's all for me today do give us a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and if You' like to see this kind of content hit the Subscribe button lots more to come thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one bye-bye

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Length: 18min 17sec (1097 seconds)

Published: Thu May 09 2024