8 Must Try British Meals! Eating London Food Tour | England Travel Food Vlog 150, 2018

I think we're six stops in and we've still got two more to go. So it's so crazy this is what we love about food tours like learning these like little facts and things that happen in history it's so interesting. In two or three different countries now we've done food tours and we've found them to be an awesome way to like learn a little bit of history see some of the culture like through the food and of course like eat some incredible food as well. So today we're going with Eating London tours they're also known as Eating Europe tours because they've got a few different tours around Europe. Other places in Europe as well yeah. And today we're doing the East End tour and it's going to be I think like three or four hours. Yeah there's eight different stops so I think it's everything from like typical like local British food to beer there's like desserts. There's cheese and bagels and all sorts fish and chips. We're excited but we're also like talking fast because we're cold it's eight degrees today which is very cold for us. Anyway we've just come to an area called Spittlefields. It's 10 o'clock in the morning and we're about to go and check out a market I think but we needed to find our find our tour guide. So we've met up with our host Nicole and we've just found out a little bit about the East End which was interesting that this place was like rejected years ago. Rejected. It was apparently like it was the slums it was a burial ground. Yeah that old Spittlefield market was on top of a cemetery. Yeah whereas now if you look around the streets here it is such an awesome area. It's like it's very new age like a lot of cool cafes like Daniel Wellington stores and there's like feels like there's a real culture here. Yeah. We're sitting on the street now because we're outside our first place St John Brenner Wine and we're going inside for a bacon butty which is like a bacon sandwich. Apparently rated number one by the Guardian so that's I'm excited that's something. So we've got our bacon sandwiches. They've got bacon in them that are um it's been cured for like three weeks I think and then the bread is so nice it's just I can't wait I'm going in. That's really good. So I forgot to mention that there's also a secret sauce in here and we've just been told that it's like what was it apple? Apples yeah. Yeah. Epic. It's kind of like smoky and sweet at the same time. It's so good. When you step inside you're going to notice a really nice beautiful wooden interior in there. All right it actually comes from a variety of sources. It's like quintessentially English as well. So it's come from like an old pub comes from a hospital and that church right there that you see Christ Church Spittlefields. It's K and Peter actually went in when it was flooded and damaged bought the wood second hand to design the interior of the English restaurant. The reason that we're here is to eat a bread and butter pudding which might sound really basic and the funny thing is that it actually was in the 13th century apparently that's when this meal or which is now a dessert sort of developed just basically out of poverty and since then it's like being developed and now they use like brioche bread and it's like caramelized and there's custard and all these like nice little sweet two things. So yeah we're just sitting down now gonna have a little bit of a walk around in this pub and then we're gonna have dessert as our second meal. There's so much flavor in that. It's like a mixture of like crispy around the outside but on the inside it's like I don't want to say soggy because that makes it seem like it's not like beautiful but it's really sweet really fluffy and then there's like sultanas and stuff in there as well. Just like a tiny little tray perfect amount and then the custard on top as well adds like a sweet creamy sort of mixture to it. It's awesome. Anybody could stay here regardless of race or religion it was even said that a victim of Jack the Ripper was to have spent one of her last nights here so it definitely saved her for one more night. It was also reported you were probably safer sleeping on the outside than the inside because of the poor hygiene conditions. We were just told that behind us is where a famous like murder scene happened where Jack the Ripper murdered somebody so it's so crazy this is what we love about food tours like learning these like little facts and things that happen in history it's so interesting. Because we would walk around this area and have no idea that Jack the Ripper was here. Yeah it's like Jack the Ripper one end and then go and have food out the other side. It's one of the most well-known English dishes I think perhaps a couple of you may have mentioned earlier this morning they do have national fish and chip awards in this country he was named the winner 2014 in the healthiest fish and chip shop in 2015 so we are officially stepping into the best chippy in town. It's one of the most famous fish and chip shops in the UK or in London anyway and fish and chips is like a massive thing here it's like a I don't know so the food might not look great on a plate but just to explain what we've got we've got some standard like french fry chips, codfish and mushy peas which is basically peas like peas like mashed together. I'm going to start with the peas because this is a very British thing. Solo peas it's really nice really yeah it's almost a little bit sweet which I didn't expect but it does taste exactly as you expect it's like it's mashed peas. The story behind this place is it's sort of been in the family for generations a guy called poppy which is why it's called poppies and he's kept it looking very similar to what it first was when he opened so all around the walls is like pictures of people that he used to watch on tv there's old music playing there's all of his little nostalgic pieces all over the walls as well yeah that's good fish and chips so and it's crumbed which is like definitely the way that they do it here they don't even do the fresh like the fresh grilled fish but the crumb is not it doesn't just taste like bready it tastes almost like flaky in a way which I didn't expect and the fish is as you'd expect absolutely delicious super fresh I'm not going to try the fries we know what they taste like. I forgot to mention one other fascinating thing about poppies actually is that it's now illegal apparently to use a newspaper for fish and chips which is normally the chips and the fish come wrapped in newspaper he spent £25,000 to keep it traditional £25,000 to get two tons worth of paper made with edible ink on it so that he could still keep it traditional we've just stopped off at a little cheese shop for a little quick taster didn't really get the chance to film much in there but now we're on the way to uh actually I'm not sure I think maybe the next stop is beer so we just finished up at a very local pub it's so nice and warm in here feels like somebody's like living room or lounge yeah and we just tried was it a pale pale ale yeah sort of similar to what a pale ale would be now but it's just like an ale it's an I don't really know the difference and then also a cider which is really nice yeah super like traditional and not sugary eh? Not sugary at all very very nice let's go in and try the traditional dishes are you ready you must be starving right now we're just wandering down an area around Brick Lane and checking out all the street art yeah it's really cool there's some really really awesome stuff around here there's uh it looks like very old and there's a lot of like a lot of graffiti as well as some really cool street art as well some of the places we've been in though have been quite difficult to film and like talk inside they're very loud very small like very echoey so um hopefully we'll still be able to show some of the awesome food that we've been having I think we're six stops in and we've still got two more to go but we're gonna go what have we got I think we've got bagels and something else bagels and then like some sort of a dessert as well we think so we're gonna go and check out some street art now hopefully the walking clears our stomach a little bit so this car here is actually from Banksy not the white one but this one here which is enclosed another awesome piece here is actually this bow and arrow what's quite cool about that is it's just sort of freestanding and you might not realize until you turn around the other side of the square and here's all the arrows it is a shame we don't have longer to explore this Brick Lane area if you're coming to London highly recommend take a walk around it's like an incredible area it's sort of hard to explain but it's like a cultural feel here there's a lot of like the graffiti influence a lot of cool little new shops and everything and apparently people absolutely love bagels so we've been the largest like crew walking around the streets here but none of these people are with this is our next spot right now oh that's spicy yeah i was just about to start talking and then i tasted some of the mustard it's very spicy this is not going to be pretty it's so big like salted beef uh hot mustard and gherkin i don't know how to tackle this these flavors just work so well together i can understand this place is open 24 7 apparently and there's a queue all hours of the day and night and morning and now i know why this is the last stop we've got some english tea and salted caramel chocolate pistachio nuts with like biscuit crumbs on the bottom oh almonds my bad not pistachio and it's really sticky and really thick the caramel layer so rich the caramel is like really really salted i know it's a food tour not a dessert tour but this is the favorite this is the highlight of the day for me so that's all eight stops done it was i think it was four hours yeah just over four hours yeah there was a lot of different stops so it was kind of hard to capture it all yeah but it was such a cool day and nicole our tour guide was awesome if you are coming to london we like we definitely can highly recommend these guys they actually run a couple of other tours as well with eating london tours i'll put the link in the description below also if you are coming to um to europe as a whole definitely check out um some of the other locations prague there's a couple of others as well soon to paris i think yeah yeah so there's some like amazing experience we're so full yeah it's a shame we couldn't capture all of the history and all of the comments and everything but this video would be like documentary length it'd be very long as always guys thank you so much for watching and we'll catch you in the comments