Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie.
And I'm Jesse from Topjaw.
And we are here today because you are gonna introduce us to,
What I've heard is the best pub food in London.
This is not just the best pub food in London.
This is one of the best places in London.
Okay.
Full Stop.
Wow.
I have been coming here since like 2011 because I used to live nearby and I've since moved away.
Okay.
But I've always come back.
Like a salmon.
Like a boomerang.
Recently got engaged boys.
We're having our engagement party here.
I had my 30th here.
So this place is a part of you.
Yeah.
You're like a salmon that that swam away into the Atlantic.
Are you obsessed with salmon?
Can we make sure we have some salmon?
And this here is another Jesse.
He lives upstairs, his place, his menus awesome.
He seems very passionate about the food in here.
I can't tell you too much.
Yeah, I mean we walked in and he was like,
Is it okay if I just fill your table with food and I was like,
You're speaking my language. Yes, please.
I think he described it as a **** tsunami of food.
He did , that was verbatim what he said.
Your not even jazzing it up.
What on earth is happening.
We've got frozen margaritas.
But if you want to get it funky you can get it funky.
Or you have the grapefruit and the chilli and the squeezy bit and all that.
If you want the berry number, if you want extra lime, if you want Lavender,
Tastes like granny's knickers.
It's called a DIY margarita, let's go.
Fantastic.
Cheers Jesse.
This is like the pizza hut salad bar of margaritas.
I want some of this, what is this?
What is that?
It's like a chili.
Oh Dear Lord, give this a taste give this taste guys put on your finger.
Actually, just stick it straight in my gob.
Oh, okay.
There we go boom little droplet.
Three three droplets in there.
Actually I don't know that kind of gathers pace boys.
It’s spicy it’s really spicy.
That’s like Usain Bolt, on my gosh.
Oh that is lovely.
You guys have quite a lot of history.
You know, you've filmed an episode together.
Without you that's true.
You know without me.
A little birdie told me that you guys go back even further than that.
You guys were assigned to the same agency when you were modelling.
No.
Different agency, started with the same letter.
I must have been signed to a different agency as well.
May I say you both still got it.
Obviously.
Your both kind of entering the kind of Wellman Vitabiotics modelling phase I would say.
Excuse me?
Wow, excuse me.
You could model for vitamins, you know.
Okay, like look hasn't this specimen aged well.
Yeah exactly.
Doesn't he feel comfortable.
Yeah.
Wouldn't you like to show him to your nan?
Cheers guys, to good pub food.
Cheers.
Cheers, very good.
Right we’ve had enough fruit salad.
These margaritas are incredible Jesse.
Salmon.
Oh my gosh.
Guys this is a tsunami of food.
We have duck liver profiteroles with orange and pistachio nuts.
Traditional British brown food.
Today's bread we've got last week's bread.
No.
We've got chips because we thought you might still be hungry.
Okay, fair enough Ollie cannot resist some chips.
And then Jesse, being the king of the castle in the middle.
Is gonna get a cow pie.
Cow pie.
Now the cow pie is a whole cow and a whole pie inspired by this guy.
Desperate dan was a famous cowboy with a bristly chin.
And a well fed figure and a hat.
And desperate Dan used to have the same dinner every day.
It is a whole cow and a whole pie with horns coming out the top and the tail coming outside.
I'm very very excited for you guys to try this.
I am so overwhelmed.
Jesse, this is unreal.
To both Jesse’s.
Jesse is the plural term like a gaggle of swans.
When you text me saying.
Jesse, this is what I want to do.
Take us to your best pub food in London
There was zero question in my mind.
I love that.
I was like, we're gonna go Parlour.
This is so good, this has a lot of black treacle in it.
Black treacle.
Yeah which gives it a real chew and its super sweet.
Then that butter, it looks like we're at Michelin star restaurant now it’s ridiculous.
Yeah.
Oh that’s good.
You can taste the, is it treacle?
What's in the butter?
Ok, that’s happening.
But I really want you to try chestnut hummus.
Which is a bit of a paradox because.
Hummus is made with lentils right?
Hummus means chickpeas.
Oh, so in Arabic.
I didn’t know, I always thought it was lentils.
In place of chickpeas, there is chestnuts.
It’s not a mix it's all chestnuts.
Get a little bit of pita.
You've been doing this for a long time often people get a,
Little bit weirded out about how comfortable we are sharing food.
You okay with sharing?
Yeah, but when the camera stops Will and I make out.
We don't make out.
That's really sweet.
Oh my, almost tastes a bit like caramel caramelised oniony.
It does.
There’s a little bit of sourness in there.
That is so good.
Grace you need to try this.
I mean, it's definitely chestnut.
Yeah, chestnuts aren't just for Christmas boys.
Evidently not.
Texture is beautiful, Aiden go.
He gave a flat hand like he was feeding a horse a sugar cube.
That was interesting, he didn't use his opposable thumbs.
Plate me.
Now it’s duck liver profiterole time.
Duck liver profiteroles.
I'm just going in with my fingers, cos I'm a heathen.
So profiteroles are usually sold with cream, right?
Yeah, they're like a French dessert, right?
Yes, and it looks like pistachio or something on top, all in one.
Yeah.
Wow.
There's a lot of flavour in there.
Yeah.
I'm really glad I wasn't expecting that to be a profiterole.
Okay I think that may be.
Here we go.
You probably get in trouble as well for saying things are your favourite.
I've watched a whole bunch of jollies and most episodes you say.
No, not most.
I've seen you in like a Texas truck stop and you're gonna this is the best meal of my life.
Okay, Texas was great food.
Get your bingo cards out everyone.
I think it's my favourite thing I've had in a British pub.
Oh, that's fair enough.
That's not the highest bar in the world.
No, I may be famous for superlatives, but that is incredible Jesse.
That's amazing.
Yeah but you haven't tried any of this.
Yeah, we're working our way through it!
You need to give that it’s due.
Guys I think the volumes got quite high.
Duck liver pate, most of the reason my wife married me.
I'm almost ready to marry you Jesse, so I don't blame her.
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Back to the video.
So next up we're going for this.
So this is a desperate dan cowpie.
Always has been on the menu, always will be on the menu.
Look at that pastry.
Steak and ale and they put beef within the pastry.
And this is bone in the middle.
If I just take this little Moss this is a parsley and bone marrow crumb.
Hey what there's a literal bone in there.
Yeah. X3
So, you know he said he was inspired by the desperate Dan cowpie with the bones coming out.
What he's done is he's taken the bone marrow.
Combined it with bread crumbs and parsley and blitzed it up.
It's like a bone marrow Jacuzzi in the middle.
Yeah, my favourite type of Jacuzzi.
I'm excited about this.
Look at this.
Get some pastry on that kid.
It is rich innit.
That's good.
Oh my gosh. That's criminal.
Normally drinking Jacuzzi water that's green, isn’t advisable, but this stuff.
I know why you come back here.
Yeah, this is part of me.
How's it going?
Oh unbelievable.
That's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
We’ve still got 5 other dishes.
We’re working through.
This is insanely good.
I'm genuinely blown away.
You haven't even tried the salmon yet, and that's weeping in the corner.
Okay, so Ollie I have a question for you.
Hit me.
How are you with fishy flavours.
Yeah, I love it.
The deep sea.
Yeah sure.
You'd be surprised at the things I've eaten over the years.
I thought that was a cracker but that's a bit of fish skin isn't it.
This is crispy skin.
Crispy fish skin.
Where all the omega 3 is.
See I told you advertising vitamins and supplements.
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Cheers boys, crispy skin with caviar row and whatever.
It's an experience.
Oh that is an experience.
Do you know I mean?
One of the fishiest things I've ever eaten.
Yeah. X3
By a long way.
It gets more fishy.
It's not my favourite thing that we’ve had today.
What about this old bread just crispy?
Very crispy..
So that is basically that old bread rolled up.
It’s really good.
Is it fake?
You're gonna love that Ollie.
I guarantee you.
The blandest thing on the table Ollie absolutely loves.
That is incredible.
Old bread rolled out and made crispy.
I would take that over the pate.
Shut up, get out of here.
Ridiculous.
So how did you decide on Topjaw the name?
This is a question we get asked a lot and the real answer is.
We can’t really a hundred percent remember.
Okay.
I didn't see that coming.
Really I just remember Will and I one late night sat in,
This office like fudging loads of words together.
So we're like we like the word wax and we like the word flex.
We like the word jaw because JAW Jesse and Will.
And then top because I dunno.
It’s better than bottom.
I'm scared and excited as to what's coming next.
Yeah, he said there's more.
He said there’s pudding yeah.
Oh my gosh what is this?
So we've got a wagon wheel.
Those American viewers have this thing called a s'more,
Because they just love eating s'more and s'more and s'more.
Okay, now the difference between a wagon wheel and a smore, is fire ok.
So we do a toasted marshmallow wagon wheel.
So we make these beautiful homemade marshmallows.
Which then get wonderfully toasted with someone else's implements.
They're still on fire.
Yeah it’s good like that.
They’re gonna get smothered.
I just got a smell of that and it smells divine.
Now the other thing that we do.
Arctic roll is one of the classic supermarket freezer food successes from the 1970s.
Vanilla ice cream, Raspberry jam and sponge.
But we got a little bit bored of doing that.
So we went a bit more interesting, Terry's chocolate orange.
We started experimenting with all sorts of weird things including Apple.
Which goes very nicely with goat's cheese
Salty licorice, last month's soda bread.
You had todays, you had last week's, this is last month's.
Fantastic.
This one is your favourite takeaway that you've never had in an ice cream form.
So we've got a thai green curry.
No chicken no prawns because that really would be weird.
All the flavours of galangal, ginger, lemongrass, cafe, lime, coconut, hint of chilli,
All wrapped up into a beautiful arctic roll.
I kid you not. Start at the beginning and finish at the end.
Fantastic.
This one.
Massacre.
Oh my gosh did you see that implode.
Perfectly melted.
Rich dark chocolate, the biscuit.
What I like about the biscuit is that it’s really,
Really crackly yeah, it contrasts with marshmallows perfectly, right?
That is ridiculous.
That is insanely good.
For anyone I'm watching you come to a normal British pub order a,
Sticky toffee pudding, can't go wrong.
It's gonna be good.
You've come here, that, just put sticky toffee pudding to shame what was the point.
Also if you order a wagon wheel some pubs may give you one, but it’s not like that.
Right let's go on this Arctic journey.
That is the classic vanilla sponge arctic roll.
I like the ice cream to roll ratio .
It's my complaint with arctic rolls.
Too thick.
There’s just too much roll.
So this is Terry’s chocolate orange.
Cheers.
Cheers. Okay.
Chocolatey.
Chocolatey, not that orangy.
A little orange.
Apple and goat's cheese ladies and gents.
Yeah, very curious about how this one's gonna taste.
Are you more or less curious about this than the Thai green curry one?
Oh good point.
I’ve never had cheese flavoured ice cream.
Oh my gosh, it's cheesy boys.
Oh my gosh it’s so..
It is goats cheesy.
Odd. It is a very strong cheese flavour.
I really don't like that.
Are we doing alright?
Doing fantastic.
The goats cheese one really threw me.
These boys are not a fan of the goats cheese.
I thought it was gonna be inspired by goats cheese.
Whats this one?
Licorice, salted licorice.
I'm interested in this one, not usually a fan of licorice.
Salted licorice in general is like the most intense form of licorice.
That really works.
It’s minty.
Minty licorice is a lot better than salty licorice.
Yeah.
That's actually really nice.
I love that.
I think that’s my favourite so far.
The month old bread one.
That is awesome, I love that.
That is just like the crackers.
Your a weird bloke you know that.
That’s beautiful, just categorically.
It has been said.
That’s beautiful, I think that’s incredible.
It tastes like orange peel.
No, not overly.
Oh, that is so good.
That’s incredible, that's my favourite so far.
What!
Alright last up.
What was this one again?
Thai green curry. It looks like watermelon.
Thai green curry.
It's very pink for Thai green curry.
Why can't it possibly be worse than the last one?
Okay.
Very fragrant.
That is good.
It has just slight hints of the green curry.
Definitely like, that is the taste.
If someone asked you what that tasted like you'd say thai green curry.
Goats cheese one was very savoury.
Yeah I don’t enjoy that.
Weird for an ice cream.
That ones lovely.
Jesse this has been genuinely amazing.
This is actually like an unforgettable meal.
Massively surpassed my expectations.
Best pub meal I've ever had by a long way.
I’m very pleased but am I surprised?
No.
Can we raise a glass, an empty glass.
For the one that is not here.
My partner Will.
In the meantime.
We’ll see you jolly soon.
See you jolly soon guys.
Bye.