Scotland's BEST RATED FISH 'N' CHIPS Hole in the Wall! SALVATORE'S 

I live in Edinburgh! So glad you avoided Bertie’s and went to a real chippy! Salvatore’s is my local, I live on that street you kept showing 😂

A fun fact. Fish from colder waters, like the north, will have fish with more fat content and marbling. That might be why spots up north are more reputable for fish and chips.

Listen UA, I feel absolutely proud watching this video haha!! at 8:17 gonna watch the rest but you have done Scotland proud! even know the slang for quid and stuff haha! really enjoyable happy vibe Video, Love it! From Fife Scotland

Your content rules UA, appreciate how you roll bud. Don’t ever change 👊

Lmao..that’s my local chippy. Been going there since I was a kid and still do. The area is called Marchmont and I lived there for 20 plus years. So the thumbnail and thought that can’t be my local chippy…..and it was lol. Keep up with vids man..

We loved our time in Edinburgh and you're correct! The fish and chips back here in the States just don't compare to those in the UK. Hope you have as good a time there as we did!

I always feel better after watching your videos. And with Tina twice as much!

Calling that pizza mid is really generous, Edinburgh looks amazing, hope to visit Scotland in the next years.

Some people hate your music, but I LOVE IT!!! IT'S YOU!!

He’s pulling your leg, this was called Fernarndos, i went to school here and we used to get our lunch for £1. 1995-2001 at James Gillespie’s, he definitely didn’t own it then. Glad you liked it though

The pizza shown in the glass is just frozen pizzas which are deep fried. Its a cheap option for when you're drunk. That chippy also does fresh pizzas, there's a pizza oven in the wall to the left of the counter bro. I used to go there for lunch when I was at school.

And don't underestimate the pizza, you need to remember the pizza gets deep fried so a regular toppings heavy or gooey cheese pizza wouldn't really work. But also don't get the regular pizza from a Scottish chippie, get a Pizza Crunch which isn't just deep fried but is also covered in batter.

So thrilled to see you in Europe. Most welcome, UA! Rest assured you will do well here. Greetings from Scandinavia!

That pizza almost made me put on my "Boycott Sal's" T shirt!!🤣🤣

Hi UA. Another great video. Welcome to the UK. Fish fried in beer is the main reason the fish fry’s so well & gives it such a great flavour. Enjoy your travels!

I want to try the fish and chips. Great review!

The original Elephant House actually burned down recently and the one on Victoria Street is a new venue (JK Rowling almost certainly has never been there). Also, the building you were standing in front of is the National Museum of Scotland, not the University of Edinburgh.

So looking forward to a ton of videos from your international series! I've already rewatched so many of your videos, need more!

Hey UA. Glad you found n liked a great place. Looks awesome. You can find plenty of similar buildings like this in Bay Ridge. Safe trip. 👋🏽

Great video! Reminds me of my youth travelling the UK. Thanks for not videoing inside where the 50Hz lights don't match the shutter speed of your camera.

Whitby for fish and chips 😊. Love your channel hope you enjoy my beautiful country love from England 🎉😊

Your show is great.😊

I love this place so much

Fantastic!! Having been to Edinburgh in 2018 for a trip, the fish and chips is excellent pretty much wherever you go. I had Haddock and chips at The Pear Tree in Edinburgh, the day after a wedding and it was magical!! Thanks for reminding me of really awesome memories. Edinburgh is so beautiful! The fish and chips looked amazing, glad you enjoyed them!

Calling that pizza mid is a bit generous lol

A few London recommendations: 40 Maltby Street, Govindas, Wong Kei, Bar Bruno, Paul Rothe and Son, AmruthaLounge If you have time get a 40 min train from Paddington to Oxford, architecture like you've never seen and a great indoor market called Covered /Market

Tbh I dont even know how i find your channel but now I have follow you for a week and I love your content. You seem like such a nice and genuine person :). Big up and keep up the good work, love from Sweden.

Love the music - never change the choices you’ve made - your real audience loves the quirks.

Great your in the uk! We have these fish and chip shops all over the county in every town and village please try all the other foods...roast dinner etc think youll be pleasantly surprised. We have great food here from all over the world 🌎. We are very lucky.

Try half way down to London at Whitby. Nice seaside town. Dracula and fish and chips. Haddock not Cod

Hi UA! Great video as always - I really love watching your reviews. I actually live in London if you would like some recommendations or someone to go to some of the restaurants with!

Has Edinburgh changed? I always had salt and sauce with my f&c and loved it

Haddock is fairly popular in New England, but I rarely see it in other parts of the country.

That pizza looked terminal

Looks so good! Love your videos. Thanks for making them😊

Ok this looks great and your friend Tina seemed to enjoy it also great video have a great time ❤

Interesting fact for you perhaps: curry sauce is renown more on the west coast with chip shop products. In Edinburgh and fife a sauce ubiquitously named 'chippy sauce' is popular, it's made of vinegar and hp brown sauce and each store has it's own mix.

Finally someone who does research on an city before turning up and trying all the wrong places 👌🏻 well done man

I hope your channel continues to grow so we can see you travel the world like mark weins

Great to see you in my home country....Have fun...

Enjoyed seeing Edinburgh. Enjoy your trip. Looking forward to seeing your content.

I was in Edinburgh last summer for my cousins wedding. We had the deep friend Mars Bar and pizza…exquisite ❤❤❤

Another great video. I especially your reviews of steaks, Philly cheese steaks, and fish and chips because the way you discuss them reveals a deep knowledge based on love and familiarity. I've heard the best fish and chips were from Yorkshire, even though other histories say it was popularized as a cheap food in Victorian London. Of course the quality of the fish is important, but the skill of the frying, and the textures and mouth feel they produce ultimately make the difference. Here in the US we regularly see fish and chips served with tartar sauce but that is thinking of it as if it were just fried whiting or catfish or lake perch here. When I see that I think, come on--I asked for fish and chips!! It's got to be with vinegar, and the fish and the chips (not fries) have to be fried with that in mind. There could easily be a disaster where the crust just melts or completely separates from the fish even before vinegar is applied. Just as bad, a hard, aggressively crunchy crust, potatoes fried to the point the inside shrivels and sticks to a once crunchy but now rubbery exterior, leaving a gummy and porous mess. Personally I love mushy peas, they used to serve them at an Irish pub on the upper west side near me but that was purchased by a Mexican place, which actually serves decent food and even continued to serve the fish and chips for a few months after they took over. For fish and chips, much better you go to a specialty shop, because although the recipe is simple, it's something nobody however talented or educated can really do well without experience.

It may already have been mentioned that Edinburgh chippy sauce is not found in most other areas of Scotland let along Scotland. It’s brown sauce and vinegar and is great. As an Edinburgh local I miss that when I go elsewhere. P.S. the deep fried half pizza looks mid but is really crunchy and way cheaper than fish. However it will be much less nutritious than fish. I hope you enjoyed your trip to Edinburgh and “haste ye back” ❤

Local chippies are always gonna be better in the UK for this and looks like you lucked out! That fish looked sound. I live in the South East of England and on the coastal areas like Whitstable and Dover you will still get just as good fish and chips, and also Whitstable is world-renowned for its oysters! Have a great holiday!

Love your videos but this background music sounds like those pizzas probably taste lol

so much respect reviewing a propper chippy, you did well.

Your absolutely right. Fish and chips are different all over the UK and gets better the further north you go from London. In the Midlands we have battered fish and chips which are to die for.

“Nothin to it but to consume it!

Will go here one day! Thanks UA! You rock.

Those pizzas in the display are for “pizza crunch” battered pizza, got to try

Please try Bleeker burger when your in London. Would love to see how our burgers hold up to the ones you have in the states. Hope you enjoy your trip UA!

That music is so annoying but I still love you lol :)

Crunch of the batter on the fish just made me hungry!

I'm from Australia and we have fish and chips descended from the UK style but it's all a bit different because of local ingredients. When I visited the UK, I really liked some of the sidelight foods that we don't really do here. Scampi is wonderful. It's texturally like prawn or shrimp but tastes more like the much more expensive scallop. A battered sausage is simple but delightful. It's the normal pork sausage fried in batter. We do battered saveloys but I don't think they are as good. I even went to Major's in Wolverhampton to try the "red chips". They are normal chips that are dipped in the fish batter and deep fried. They are every bit as good as they sound.

Chip shop chips aren't boiled first. They are soaked in water, then blanched in oil at a low temp and then a high temp for a slight crisp.

Look really good

This would be a great review of the UK. I plan to do a bucket list trip there. I want to avoid the tourist traps when it comes to dining.

Those pizza slices are there for people who want deep fried pizza. The cheese side is submerged in batter and then friend. Sounds disgusting but trust me - you HAVE to try it.

Good on you for finding a local place ❤

It’s one of Edinburgh’s best chippies; gutted they no longer deliver to my house. The Elephant House Cafe featured isn’t the original one, which was on George IV Bridge and gutted by fire in 2021.

In general, the fish and chip/pizza place combo are the best place for fish n chips.

Salvatore's is great, their actual pizza (not the fried one) is actually really really good!

Great video as always keep up the good work.

The further north you go the better it is. Best I ever had was from a local chippy in Peterhead, a small town near Aberdeen. I live south of Glasgow and let me tell you, the difference even then, is night and day!

I’m sorry but if you’re going to a chippy in Edinburgh it’s sacrilegious to get Salt and Vinegar over Salt and Sauce !!

If you go up the stairs between the buildings where you were panning and the lady walked up in the beginning, you'll find Scott's kitchen. Really good breakfast spot! And go up a little more and it's the royal mile. I was in that area in march! I wanted to try Bertie's but I was too full from breakfast! I loved the food at fiddler's arms so much (around the corner in grassmarket) that I had dinner there twice and I was only three for two nights. Mary's milk bar is across the street from it and they have amazing gelato!

The pizza you described as mid is deep fried - I think those are frozen then deep fried - fun fact, when Scotland played Italy at football (soccer) the Scotland fans were singing "we're going to deep fry your pizzas" 🤣 - Anyway, the deep fried pizza is awesome with some chippy sauce although is like a gazillion calories. I'm sure you can get it battered too, "Pizza Crunch" if you're really chasing that early 30s heart attack! 😅

Hey 👋 UA great video I do have to go let you and Tina know the vinegar used for chip and fish is molt vinegar not regular vinegar here in America to many places used apples sider vinegar so make sure is mult and fun facts if you go to a five guy's they always have mult vinegar for their fries 🍟 😋

The Judge and Scott RULE!

I love your videos but that background music was so out of place here

You'll have to review Haggis whilst in Edinburgh. I had a speck when I was there in 1985.

UA: nice off-the-beaten-track stop! Yea, for£7.50 it's a great value😅

Didn't think I'd see you in Edinburgh!

That price includes a 20% VAT tax. Actual price 6.3 pounds!

My pet hate is fish and chip places that don't put the vinegar on. The dish doesn't work without the vinegar. That's what cuts through all the stodge and fat. You're 100% right.

Hi UA! When you visit London you should visit the Guinnea Grill, its an amazing London steakhouse!

another banger ua 💛

I live in Edinburgh, I've heard Salvatore's has great fish and chips, there's a lot of great food places to check out in Edinburgh just avoid the tourist hotspots if you want the best, the locals say "Edin-burra" if you don't want to make them upset btw

You have to be the most polite Iggles fan ever.

Much love from the Bay Area

Well the where u start is not the original place for jkrowling cafe “elephant house” that was around the corner.

Poppies in London is amazing BTW. They are in SOHO and have longer operating hours than most. They have the best home made tartar sauce there. Poppies is as as good or better from the look of the video. They give a huge piece of fish in London. They have Haddock or COD. Its 19 pounds (I looked it up) The portion is huge and could split between two people. I always order COD because it has a very neutral taste as you mention. Poppies is at least twice the size of those portions. BRITS never use tomato sauce (ketchup) on chips. Its always malt vinegar. Wow one person working alone for 40 years is UNBELIEVABLE!!! If he is sick or doesnt feel well, then the store cant open. I cant wait to see your London videos since I go there often. One of the places I go alot is Wagamama becuase they have alot of locations and do takeaway. Many places in London do not do takeaway. Some say they do and when you try to order they claim to have not to go containers and such. (I am not joking). In London places near the tourist peak areas like Leicester Square, Picadilly, generally suck. You have to do some research. You are right that Google reviews on some places can be all touists. In London and other places in Europe Yelp reviews has almost nothing. Google reviews or in some cases Tripadvisor (although Tripadvisor tends to be 100% tourists) that can be ok if you read between the lines. For Italian food in London Bizarro in Paddington, Leon is healthy fast food (somewhat) they can be ok, Itsu for sushi (half price 1 hour before closing) (Note I am not a sushi expert. Some people may say its not good enough. In London any restaurant that uses the word American (RUN) all thourist traps with lousy food. Anything that says american style or has the US flag, RUN dont walk. Garfunkels sucks also. Patesserie Valerie is good for pastries and coffee. I avoid US chain places there since they are fairly expensive in London. I heard Dishoom is great for Indian food or Nandos (chain). Patty and Bun not a bad burger. Glad you are covering London. Sometimes I will grab a sanwich and soup in Pret which can be tasty. Best bagel is Beigel Bake in East London. Prices rock bottom, salted beef and mustard is amazing (the mustard is spicy) take a small bite first or you will clean ourt your sinuses in one bite. Borough Market is amazing. The main issue crowd are crushing on weekends. Weekdays can be less. The coffee place Monouth s the best in London. The cappuccinois a must! Order a regular cup not to go or you have to pay an extra 5 bucks for a takeaway cup. (recycle issue or something) Also good foor can be found at Spitalfields. Tons of great international foods. Smaller crowd than Borough but less hours.

Aye , believe me , all fries are called chips in the UK , regardless of whether they're thick or thin. I love chips ( they're my favourite food ) . I live near Edinburgh. Its a beautiful city :)

I’m from the North of England (Manchester) and you’re correct the best fish and chips are Northern.

Chip shop vinegar is apparently non brewed condiment and not actually proper vinegar as such. Possibly why it tastes unique to chippy's? Also not a massive fan myself but in Edinburgh it's salt n sauce instead of salt n vinegar.

did you drink 10 pints of ale before getting that fish and chips? Standard night out :) :)

I'm pretty sure that chippy used to be called Fernandos when I was younger. You could have tried another popular place called #fish which is only a stones throw away.

The pizza and sausage all the weird stuff not fish or chips from these places is usually garbage, it's meant to be garbage because that's specifically the tradition customers want xD If they sell pies from a local baker though, those will be proper.

The pizza in salvatores also looks like that because its meant to be deep fried. LOoks about the same in most traditional fish and chips places.

Point 1. St Andrews and Anstruther are the best places for fish and chips in the UK. Point 2. You need to have haddock. Much better and more flavoursome than cod. Enjoy your travels

I’m a big fan of you UA, I’m really chuffed you’re here in my country. Are you gonna be in Sheffield on your way to London?

Haha that’s crazy, I lived literally a few minutes away from Salvatores. It’s strange seeing you recording the streets and shops I used to pass by every day. I didn’t ever go there though cos I’m Vegan and doubt I could get anything, but there was a chippy just around the corner that also done Vegan food which I’d frequent. You could get ‘fish’ ‘sausage’ ‘crab cakes’ etc and the mushy peas were very good too. It was a little pricey though, and the prices would seemingly keep rising every few months. It is called #fish for anyone interested. Also you pronounce Edinburgh like Edinb- burra. At least you didn’t call it Edin-burg though like a lot of tourists do 😅

What's with this background music?

The worst fish and chips I have had were from the most unlikely locations, in fact, next to where fish are landed, ie Ulapool, Kyle of Lochalsh Aberdeen. It seems that some of those places find the very cheapest fish.

St. John in London is a fantastic restaurant. You need to get there early without a reservation.

ua you gonna eat a spice bag while youre there? always wanted to try that

Great video. Thanks for bring us with you. GOD bless you in JESUS name.

So first it was cod then haddock? Thank god you were standing and not able to fondle the food with your fingers!!

Just got robbed outside of restaurant😢😮