Chef Nick Serves Up Spanish and Argentine Cuisine Ahead of 2026 FIFA World Cup™ Final 👨‍🍳

And it is a huge welcome in real life to Chef Nick joining us for our free game show. Done some cooking as well. Nick, Nick, it's so lovely to have you. Before the guys try some of your delicious looking food, 730 million views on social media. I mean, how much have you enjoyed this whole collaboration? Well, here's the thing. I have the best team in the world, and I also have the easiest job in the world because everyone loves food, right? So I'm sad that it's ending. You know, I wish we could just do this whole thing back the rest of the summer, but let's enjoy some food together. Okay, so the mashups have been a real theme over this World Cup, where you've brought two countries together, whoever's playing on the day. So today, explain the food you've got. Wait, hang on. You know how to swim? I know how to swim. Why is that? Because if this is not good, you're going to swim in the river. Oh, that'll be good. Okay. Okay, so Spain, Argentina. Yep. When I think of Spain, I think of the ocean. When I think of Argentina, I think of open fire, open flame, cooking with meats. And so I've tried to combine a couple different elements here with these dishes. Where should we start? Oh my goodness, you choose. I think everybody get a fork. Get stuck in, please. Yeah, why don't we start on the manchego milanesa? So classic Argentinian milanesa with manchego, instead of the most famous cheese in all of Spain, instead of mozzarella. Give a big squeeze with the lemon too on that one. Patagonia paella. That's another great one because paella, of course, is such an iconic dish in Spain. But then you've got that lamb from Patagonia, which is the most famous meat region in all of Argentina. The octopus empanada. That one's fun. That one kind of speaks for itself. I love octopus. Right? Nick, what do we have here? Chorizo? Chorizo croquette. How is that? That's dry like my elbow when I don't put cream on it. I hope I don't go swimming here. Did you put the lemon? We did. To be fair, you've had to make four dishes and leave them for what it was. That's a lot of food. We've got octopus over there. What do we think, Lex? Yeah, the octopus is good. What about, this is the paella? So the paella, Patagonian paella, yeah. Patagonia is a very famous meat region in Argentina and lamb, a lot of lamb comes from there. So combining paella with lamb. So chef, you asked... Let me go ahead. Okay, get stuck in, guys. Give it a try. Chef Nick, you asked a lot of superstars for their favorite foods. Did anybody surprise you from the ones you spoke to? Or were they all quite standard? Dembele had a great one, it was called chep. And it was kind of a one pot rice dish with a whole fish and you've got kind of a tomato base and then all these vegetables. That one blew me away. Yes, same thing, right? Delicious. Unbelievably good. Exactly. You had a lot of good dishes too. Chef Nick, do you... But you never met them. I tried the lambi. You know that's difficult to cook. It was hard to cook. Thank you. That conch is hard to get in a tender way, you know. Chef Nick, do you think that Thierry could be part of your team? He's got a lot of opinions about the food. He does, he does. And I asked... I just know my food, that's different. Thierry didn't follow the rules. I asked him for one dish, he gave me three dishes. And I couldn't cook that much. So I just got to one. I'll get to the two others when I get time, you know. My king of the jungle, get some meat in. I need to know something though. Yeah. Why do you compare sometimes a croissant... Yes, I know. ...with the meat? I mean, it's tough. What do you want me to say? Sometimes you have to compare a croissant. No, how can you? Like sometimes you want a croissant, sometimes you want a meat. So I didn't always understand. I know. I mean, Zlatan's getting stuck right in it. He doesn't compare anything, he eats. That's what the lion does. Where I come from, we're just happy to get food. Where's the kebab? When the lion is hungry, he eats. Okay. I know, I know. I know his favorite's the kebab. You know... Oh yeah. I know you were getting frustrated with some of those comparisons. No, no, no, no, no. I was just telling you what's the name of the dish. Nick, we are so grateful for everything, this entire tournament. Absolutely delicious. Thank you for coming today. Congratulations, by the way, on a hugely successful last few weeks. Check him out. Check him out on social media. Well done, well done. Chef Nick, the number one food YouTuber in the world. Thank you, Nick Giovanni.