What time is it Marcus? It's chip time
Well hello and welcome and it's that time again for some more fish chips
it's fish and chip shop number four and we're trying Franco's traditional fish
and chips restaurant which is there
so what are you having? I think we'll have fish and chips and a curry sauce
just to point out where it is it's opposite
the main entrance to Griffin park right by the zebra crossing, there's been a
fish and chip shop there for years it used to be occupied by Sidolis but
now it's Franco's. They do have a dine in option a
restaurant but obviously that's closed at the
moment so we're gonna make the most of the last day of sun
before the storm rolls in and we're gonna eat them again
in Griffin park, last time we were here it was snowing wasn't it
it was very cold yeah it's a bit better today yeah nice and sunny but i think
the winter rain's gonna come in. let's point out in this area this is
fish and chip capital. As is there's Mansel's by the fair, the
world? yeah There's Mansel's then there's Beales
which we've done, Franco's which we're doing today and just
about 50 yards up the road is um Finnegans which we'll be trying in
the next couple of weeks as per usual we'll be judging the chips
on the portion size the price the presentation and of course the taste
and at the end we'll be giving a score out of 10.
last week there was a bit of discrepancy I thought it was better Mel thought it was
slightly worse but overall it was the same
so we'll see how we get on with Franco's so yeah before we go they do offers here
in Franco's, on the front they do a cone of chips and a sausage for £1.95
that's good, yeah Mel fancy's a sausage!
but we have to stick for consistency we have to
stick to fish until we finish this little survey.
so I think it's time, who's buying, for some
fish and chips
Watch Mel's eyes light up now.
Chippies! Well Mel, yes the time has come we asked for
plenty of salt and vinegar yeah so you can smell it can't you? You can
yeah. All right also the size, they didn't have
a standard portion of chips okay it was small or large and I asked
for a large chips because we're sharing yeah
and a small fish okay so this is the small
fish and large chips oh wow
that looks good go in for the kill oh okay those chips do look nice
it comes with lemon nice chips freshly cooked
you can taste the salt and vinegar how much was this Marcus
it was eight pounds 65 for small cod large chips and a curry sauce.
Good fish, very flaky I'll put the prices up so obviously if
you want a large fish and the fish is cooked to order
I'll show you the prices yeah that's why I had to wait it was
cooked to order.
Nice fish not too greasy, batter doesn't seem greasy.
Considering this is a small fish it's a reasonable size I think.
Curry sauce, the curry sauce is upside down.
Bringing out the ketchup, the usual
I want it, thank you.
oh smells nice, Irish curry again which is smooth
slightly smaller portion than some of the others
but saying that i did waste a lot of the others
I think the nicest chips we've had
they're not greasy at all are they, the curry sauce isn't
as spicy as last time, slightly sweeter now the curry sauce
isn't quite as good but the chips are definitely the best
we've had so far I think. You think so? Looking fatter
like i said i think the salt and vinegar is a very important part of it
hmm
Very good, are you enjoying that?
and you shaved your beard you can't get it all in your beard today. By accident!
Check the setting on your razor before you trim your beard
otherwise you shave a big stripe in it. We've been joined by a guest today
but he doesn't want to be on camera but i'll show him
what did you get, small cod and chips what's it like
how's the independent, very nice actually yeah
what do you think of the the chips? uh yeah fluffy inside.
Nice and crisp pretty much what I like.
Thank you from my guest contributor for this episode, oh thank you very much.
Do call again! As you can see Mel's got the tomato sauce
the fish is lovely
action shot, in the mouth hmm good
You know what you're saying, salt and vinegar. You're glad you had the extra.
Yeah definitely but it still didn't taste that strong.
As we mentioned in every video these are our own personal opinions on the food
as we find it on the day so obviously, you may have been to some
of these and not have the same experience as us.
But this is how we find them on the day
and so far Franco's is doing quite well.
Not much left Mel, you've eaten all the fish I see.
I like the fish.
Nice. I forgot to mention the service. They were young staff but they were
quite friendly yeah the service was very good.
All done, completely empty box that says it all really doesn't it
I think it does, I think it does. So that was Franco's, summing up again
the first of all, the price it was 8 pound 65 for a large portion of chips
and a small cod. The reason being I don't really eat the cod, you love
the cod and also the curry sauce, a portion of Irish curry sauce.
I'll show the prices okay and then the presentation again they
offered the lemon served in a box um staff very polite
inside which is good. So the taste, the overall taste.
The chips, a slightly drier chip that's not a criticism.
But it's definitely not greasy, the fish I thought was very good yeah and I think
the curry sauce they're very similar all the curry sauces are
I actually. prefer the chips, I really like those
chips. Listen to those seagulls by the way.
There's no leftovers this time and the curry sauce was okay.
I think it wasn't as good as last week or the Beales one
but it's like you said there's hardly anything in the curry sauce.
So it's that time again we'll do three two one
then the score okay. Three, Two, One. Eight and a half oh
Eight and a half again but that's the highest.
That's equalled my Mnasel's last week
but you're highest so far so and overall eight and a half, so it's the highest
rated one so far by half a point. I think it's good, it was good
value I think the extra salt and vinegar definitely did help yeah and
oh by the way our guest who shall be... He gave it a nine, our guest
gave it a nine, so his your score doesn't count.
You're not in their survey. So that was Franco's
definitely recommended. Remember don't forget to comment on your favourite
fish and chip shop leave your comments below and if you
haven't seen our other chip reviews they're coming up
next at the end of the video and we've still
got a couple more to do. So could they be better than the eight
and a half Franco's got overall? So until next time
that's a bye for me and a bye for me bye, goodbye.
All the empties.