Fresh Fish: Based On a True Story 

The surrounding tables will become they got dinner and a show.

​@@katmartindale8049 i was thinking that too 😂

That's why she got put up in Aaron's table

Tips are overrated. Just be glad she paid at all.

​@@annaburns2865 are you that Karen jeez

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Unless you live close to an ocean or a fish farm, the fish is usually frozen. It can only be so fresh. There is a difference between bought fresh and froze from the start

@@JohnSmith-yd5wq Even living close to the ocean doesn't guarantee never frozen. Most commercial fishing vessels keep the catches in what are basically giant freezers Since many are out for days if not weeks at a time, they have to freeze them to keep it "fresh"

what did iowa have to do with this?

@@crushbent find a lot of salmon streams in Iowa?

I'm loving this character development!

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I want to see Aaron slowly adapt bridget's jaded personality due to the Karens devouring his joy.

​@@FedSmoker64 I think you might mean Nicole hehe

@@hazeldeleon6243 I think you're right

This is sooooo good!

It's not like anyone could tell...

I live in Idaho and they have alligator farms in a town nearby that has a lot of hot springs.

@@andreabradley5837Really?! That’s odd! Is there a big market for it there? Or do they just supply restaurants.

@@AzathothTheTrueGod I'm not really sure, I would imagine they would use the meat and the skin. Some of the restaurants in town have it on the menu. It's quite tasty.

He's picking up a little bit of Nicole's attitude. Just a little tiny bit. Instead of asking Joey if it's fresh, he says, "This lady doesn't think our salmon is fresh" and tone when he says, "Oh no, she hasn't even ordered it yet" Both things said with a Nicole vibe that shows AARON thinks this person is an idiot. I'm ordering the salmon, I'll let you know if it's fresh. Aaron- "Ookayy" nodding, like Nicole would do thinking, "whatever, eat what you don't want, I don't care"

Yeah, Aaron is doing better because he is surrounded by great staff. Not just Nicole. Brad and Bridgett and the kitchen staff do a great job too. He’s learning not to put of up with the BS if certain customers. And that’s so good for him.

We all do my brother half the comments are about his improvement

I KNOW RIGHT!

​@annaburns2865 im glad I'm not the only one invested cuz I was starting to think maybe im a herion addict and I should call someone's sponsor before I care more about the bistro than real life 😂😂😂😂

Noooooooo 😭 I worked in a restaurant with an open kitchen once. Never again. Customers be nasty 🥴

@@LexKaiNix I always feel sorry for the sous chefs and line cooks who didn't sign up to be stared at whilst doing their job. I mean, I swear, like A LOT. That would be a fucking problem.

I don't ever want to see the cook staff! It's so awkward, I feel bad for them.

Oh man, an open kitchen must be a nightmare! I was a waitress long ago (not fine dining by any stretch) and the pass bar and line behind it were rough enough 🤣

@@deannad9105 I totally agree. I feel like saying, "It OK if you swear around me or if you need a smoke, go for it!"

That joke would be too expensive 😂

@@DrewTalbert so now we're worried about our food costs?

I'm not familiar with ass salmon

​​@@DrewTalbert oh I see. Ordinary Sausage spends $72,000 on lobster, but you wont buy one salmon?

​@@michaelo.1320 It's a close relative to the Brown Trout.

This made me chuckle.

I have never related to a comment more

"Burn humanity down?" Never heard it quite expressed that way before.

That was probably my father in law (we don’t talk to him anymore). He’s the kind of guy who would claim he has allergies to ensure people make food from scratch for him or ask the kitchen to remake his order because they forgot an additional side of sauce he ordered.

What was your experience like working in a Michelin restaurant?

😄😄😄, if I were a chef that is definitely something I would do... but I'm generally pretty blunt about things.

Some twat on Kitchen Nightmares: "It's fresh-frozen".

"*gasp* You just thawed that out (to embarrass me!)"

@@TotalMusicJunkie Most chefs are...that is why we work in the back and not with the guests XD

​@@ouroboros_on_the_orange If I were a chef and someone asked for a well done steak I'd probably just throw beef jerky at them, or maybe a shoe

I think he's just happy that she gets to pay

so true, hes a pure soul

I love these people as guests, because I just become so blunt. "These ribs are awful" "If you say so" I stopped getting my managers for every little thing because they're spineless and comp whatever, I see how far I can push a guest before they insist on seeing a manager

“Then what the hell are you doing eating here lady?”

"Tell your kitchen manager..." She hasn't eaten at fancy restaurants. She's eaten at _corporate_ restaurants.

I mean most people are.

It's usually a pricing issue. Frozen is cheaper than fresh, and a lot of places sell frozen as fresh to bump the price up. Most people can't tell the difference in taste, unless it's freezer burnt

not just the bacteria but the parasites that 1 in 13 salmon have. you *want* your salmon to be flash frozen. Unless you like rolling the dice on eating some very nasty parasites. Thankfully, in fact, most salmon in the US is flashfrozen.

Almost all fish is glass frozen on the boat when caught. These boat clean the fish, discarding the waste, and filleted, and flash frozen. It kills parasites and preserves the fish. Over 85% of the fish that is imported for sale is flash frozen.

Well flash frozen isn’t the same as frozen

@@DeathnoteBB can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

Always keep the receipt

Not sure why she shocked, chefs wake up before 5:00

Hell yeah that undie line. Definitely stealing that.

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Now THAT would've been something to see! 😂

Agree he is so good and you can tel the difference

Me too! My boyfriend and I were servers for 10 years and I'm so glad I found this channel 😂

Yeah, he has so many distinct characters. I often forget they're all just this one guy. He's really talented.

I know!

If you’re preparing it sashimi or ceviche or tartare style. Monkfish is riddled with worms

Also basically all shrimp is frozen on the boat immediately after being caught, unless youre buying from some fancy pants fisherman right off the boat.

@@antonnola I used to work at a seafood market and all of the shrimp are frozen and it’s totally fine. We get headless raw shrimp in from the Mediterranean in 50+ lbs. orders, and we defrost as needed for daily sales or raw orders. If we received that much shrimp in fresh, we would have to sell all of it the day we received it AND tell customers they have to cook them by the end of the day or they will go sour.

​@@antonnola I've bought shrimp straight off the boat before and those people are NOT fancy. Lol

am i the only one who feels more safe if fish/seafood are flash frozen when caught, than otherwise?

Was that the Michelin star restaurant where Anton Nola also used to work!? 🤔

Sounds like subway! Where almost everything is frozen!

​@@sailormoonnerd_ there's nowhere to cook at a Subway. So they have to bring everything in pre made

​@@Pogouldangeliwitz i appreciate you referencing another comment

Really does seem like it should be illegal for places to make claims like that.

Definitely

@Drew Talbert Drew, I love your content!! Keep it up man!! 😆🤣🤩

Why bother? They'll just get sweaty. That's what the extra box of corn starch under the line is for.

Between his cigarette habbit, drinking, and gambling debts he had to cut expenses somewhere.

Wait wait…guys you’re missing the point! Joey’s undies are fresh…he’s making the point that the salmon is SO fresh, that it’s fresher than his undies…Joey, you keep rock’n your fresh undies bruh, don’t listen to these guys😂😂😂

Lol, but as a server I've definitely lied about my name before. Had a problem customer that wasn't banned for some reason but would always accuse us of getting her food wrong when she ordered delivery from us. Had somehow finagled the owner's phone number a while ago so would always call the owner to complain too. Anyways, she would always memorise the server's name and talk shit about them to the owner and the next server to take her order, two months later. She would claim to have worked every position in the kitchen and that she was very nearly the co-owner of a high class restaurant. Which I all highly doubt, because she also said she was a professor and that and some other things were easily verifiable as false, so I suspect she was a serial liar.

@@Krossfyre I split my job between doing dispatch working from home and working in our office. A client came to the office and bent my supervisors ear for literally 45 minutes about how I had "lied" about availability of my field staff (she called right after I had finished taking another call. I got a voicemail as I was finishing the last call and listened and called back immediately. As I only had one staff person to dispatch in the middle of the night, client had to wait until that was finished. Client got it in their head that I had arbitrarily decided to send the staffer to another client first even though, somehow, voicemail client felt they should be prioritized! Fortunately, I had been proactive and texted supervisor that there was a complaint, and he had listened to the calls and voicemails and could check time stamps. "I will speak to (Me) about it," Supervisor told the client. The he walked over to my desk (which isn't within view from the front of the office) and said "I'm speaking to you. You handled it fine."

@@Krossfyre I REALLY love when they demand my last name and get mad when I say "I'm the only (Me) here!" I'm not going to let them stalk my Facebook or whatever to have another outlet to harass me! It's bad enough that some of them figured out my office hours.

pathological liars believe others will lie because they can even though they have nothing to gain by doing so and will probably hurt them... just like cheaters in relationships

Hi, Beth!!

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I remember this one time I got what was basically a two-bite check back (not a fancy restaurant far as I care, by any means) and the soup was pretty damn oversalted but oh well, I'd already gotten set on eating so it was very awkward when the waitress came back telling me the kitchen will redo it. I felt bad about that food and time being wasted because it would need to be near inedible or relatively expensive for me to get in a fuss about it.

@@chukyuniqul don't. Soup costs almost nothing for the kitchen to replace.

@@williamyt6174 is that still the case for cream broccoli soup? Either way its still wasted food and I really don't like that :(

​@@chukyuniqul I feel the same way as you BUT you're paying good money at a restaurant usually, you shouldn't settle for food you don't enjoy just because food waste is bad.

Oh. My favorite was, "I know the chef..." I know the chef too, I work here.

"Thank you for explaining that pronunciation, much appreciated. Can I get you anything else today to go with the Brush Cheetah?"

You shouldave made them repeat "Kominowski" until they got it right... 🤷‍♂️

@@Pogouldangeliwitz hah! Perfect!

"Red Bruschetta" was a great song by Rush!!!! Just like, "Wye, Wye, Zee"!

@@Pogouldangeliwitz hahaha that would have been great

*then there are the ones you know are supposed to be Pretty or Older, so they are. Even though they are all Drew. and we are all Drew. Drew is All of Us. A planet of Drew. ("Malkovitch, Malkovitchhh...Malkovitch MAL!-kovitch...")

THIS!

There’s a Japanese restaurant where you fish for your dinner

@@themagicknightress7132 I’m sure that restaurant is right off or on the water. Bistro Huddy isn’t.

Thats what people dont get. Fish and seafood in most of the country is flash frozen because its fresher that way. You wouldn't want it never frozen.

Tbf you were never going to get tipped with them to begin with.

@@dragonkingf3that’s probably true

Lol, "You can eat him, but you gotta fight em first!'

Thank you!

Amazing! Tell ‘em hello!

The GM at the restaurant where I work introduced me to Drew. I never really used youtube before. Now several of us will walk in to work and be like "did you see the new one"?😂😂

hmmm... i'm thinking since it was a sent in bit, he can't actually share it. though i'd love to know what went down myself!

Flash frozen on the boat is the best for preserving the freshness ironically

Benefit of living in LA