Fresh Fish: Based On a True Story
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- čas přidán 21. 04. 2023
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"Well she's somebody's ex"
Terry with absolutely zero chill.
Also Aaron handled that very well, Karen probably still won't tip though
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
I worked at an Applebee's, this lady was demanding to know if our salmon was fresh. Now I live in Iowa. I told the server to tell her that we have a bear swatting salmon out of the stream out back every morning. The server's face was priceless
🤣😂🤣
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?
Aaron is getting better at handling difficult customers and navigating the complex restaurant politics that's for sure! He didn't even get yelled at by his colleagues!
I'm loving this character development!
❤🎉😢😊
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
Truly thought Joey would pull a whole ass salmon out and slap her with 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.
Why do I feel so proud for Aaron for showing maturity and growth here
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 😂😂😂😂
I work in a Cajun restaurant in Wisconsin and we serve alligator. IN WISCONSIN of course it’s from, one time a customer demanded to know if the alligator was fresh, the server told her “yes we keep the alligators in the basement and feed them rude customers” we all died in the kitchen from laughter
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.
@@AmericaThePridefullySimple 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.
Joey is getting a lot of face time with customers lately. He is ready for an (cue music of doom) OPEN KITCHEN.
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!"
"She's somebody's ex that's for sure" what a stinger
I mean most people are.
I used to work at a Michelin star restaurant. Most people were really nice, just out spending good money to have a fun time. But every night, there would be that one that makes you want to burn humanity down.
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?
I was almost expecting him to come out with a whole salmon and plop it on the table, and question her "is this fresh or frozen?"
😄😄😄, 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 love that Aaron really believes everyone will be happy now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up
I think he's just happy that she gets to pay
so true, hes a pure soul
The moment Joey walks off Aaron shoves the bill into her hands.
I approve.
The “I should know, I ate at fancy restaurants” guests got me every time I was a server lol
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.
Wow that Chef's response was, well, *chef's kiss*
The undies line and her shock were the best bit! 😂
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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Also flash frozen from fresh is honestly probably best because it kills off bacteria. I don't care about anything being frozen one bit.
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.
It's crazy how amazing of an actor he is, there is no crossover at all, they are completely different characters. In so invested in bistro Huddy
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!
Absolutely one of the BEST of the Bistro Huddy's, and that's saying something!
As a former server at a restaurant on the Jersey shore (int'l readers: That means the coast of New Jersey, USA, specifically in this case Ocean City), I saw this same scenario play out over and over! Once, the chef brought out the actual carcass and threw it on the patrons' table. Ahhh.... fond memories.
Now THAT would've been something to see! 😂
Some fish had to be flash frozen to kill parasites.
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?
“It was fresh when it was frozen” is surprisingly effective when dealing with a Karen
On a side note, Joey should invest into some new undies. 😂😅
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😂😂😂
I used to work at a restaurant where they would print on the menus "Always Fresh, Never Frozen"....but almost everything was frozen, especially the fish!
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.
She probably pulls that nonsense at the 'very nice restaurants' she eats at, just to get a free meal.
For shame!
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.
As a Chef I LOVE watching Joey come into the dining room, like we all want to do.
Not a server, but I'm amazed at how easily people will accuse me of lying!
"What's your name?"
"Beth."
'Surrrrre is is! "
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!!
Karen's never need a reason to complain.
Certified fresh as this video!
😂
Her little 'Oh!' at the end sent me😆
Drew really sells the personality of these characters. Like, you get so immersed with their mannerisms and acting, you start actually seeing different faces… maybe that’s the LSD.
*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 man deserves an Oscar. You really do forget that he’s playing every part
Joey collects Ws every time he leaves the kitchen
I remember when someone corrected my pronouciation of bruschetta and then made me repeat it after them until I got it right...
"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
Recently started waiting tables again after 5 years and these skits are spot on lmao
Damn.....she was trying to get free food. Shame on her, and I love it when Chef Joey leaves the kitchen to speak to the guests. You know he'll Always have a great come back. ❤❤❤
Life lesson: don’t challenge a chef
You do such a good job immersing me in the story that I genuinely forget these are all the same person. I watch Bistro Huddy all the time and every once in a while I have to stop and remember that one guy is playing all these characters 😭
“Jerkin’ the fish right out of the ocean from some window in the kitchen” 😂 she would have then complained of animal cruelty or something. They’re never happy
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.
I was an owner for close to forty years...and you nail it every time...bravo DT!
The brilliance of this series is the absolute painstaking detail he puts into constructing these characters and keeping their personalities seperate and canonized.
I know how he feels, I work in a convenience and no matter what I do is never good enough. I do appreciate when a customer thanks me for being open for late night shift. Means a lot to hear kindness.
Terry 😂😂😂😂 "she's somebody's ex that's for sure"
I worked at a seafood restaurant for 5 years and had this fight on multiple occasions, our manager resorted to something similar pulling out the receipt. It always make me feel so awkward and yea never got tipped great on those lol
Tbf you were never going to get tipped with them to begin with.
@@dragonkingf3that’s probably true
I'll never understand people who go out to eat just to show out and act a fool with servers. Just stay home if you are that particular about your food. 🙄
Customer: "Is your Salmon 'fresh' or 'frozen'?"
Server: "Ma'am, we're in Tennessee"
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.
You ever wish you could forget some of your times as a server Drew? Your skits are so accurate I'm wondering if this is your form of therapy 😜
Aaron is an example of character development, he can now handle situations like these.
If more "Joeys" came out of the kitchen to discuss problems with their guests, there'd probably be a lot less "Karens" out there. 😂😂 There'd definitely be a lot less freaked-out waitstaff. I loved this one.
"she's somebody's ex that's for sure."
I fuckin dying.
We used to get folks like this all the time, back in the day. All they want is a comped check. They couldn’t care less about the fresh or frozen part.
Look at Aaron being assertive, and not being afraid of the lady 👏👏👏
Just throwing this out there but i thought all ocean fish had to be frozen to kill parasites before it could be served at a restaurant.
Your editing is so cool, it’s what makes these people feel like separate entities.
Had a bar customer one time say we were selling old frozen soft shell crabs because they weren't "in season yet".. the owner walked out with a live crab on a plate and shut him up quickly.
Lol, "You can eat him, but you gotta fight em first!'
Your videos make me wish that CZcams had a laugh react available! 😂
Thank you!
I live in Central Alabama and I have people constantly ask if our seafood is fresh or frozen and I'm like .... we are landlocked. It's frozen but it keeps its freshness when it's frozen that's like the whole point of freezing stuff. They throw fits when I say frozen.
Some customers deserve a push back like this. Joey is being too,too nice here.
These videos give me (any my whole work crew) LIFE!!
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"?😂😂
Your acting is so good I can't help watching every vid at least twice, the first time for the story and the second time just to appreciate the different characters
I'm also confused why some people think fresh is inherently batter tasting than frozen. I'll take flash frozen wild caught Alaskan Coho or Sockeye over "fresh" (and bland) Atlantic Salmon every time.
THIS!
In my experience the customer is always wrong.
This is so satisfying to watch, her being proved wrong about the freshness of the food and told off was so satisfying.
dude i know everyones saying it but aaron handled it EXTREMELY well, and terry appearing when he sees the trouble ??? man i love this video
😂😂😂😂 love that Joey yelled at her!
OH MAN hahahaha I love when Joey goes polite-berserk mode, seriously Drew you're an amazing actor, you forget that every character is the same person , amazingly done!!!
Drew, these are so brilliant. You get caught up enough that you just see the characters after a while…..perfections man.
Joey is the hero we all need.
They are always angling for a freebie.
nothing makes me happier than seeing a chef get so mad he leaves the back..
I would pay to witness confrontations like this
Now we have to know the REAL story! Story time with Drew!
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!
I love that Joey is being shown more and more. Most of his appearances thus far is duking it out with customers lol
I'M SO UPSET I JUST DISCOVERED YOUR CHANNEL, IT'S LITERALLY SO ENERTAINING (and eye opening)!!!
That last line definitely came out of the mouth of the real person Joey is based on.
This video is frozen, i demand a fresh one!
Quality chef line with the undies
How is this not a tv show yet?
Love the team work here.
That was golden 😂😂😂😂
Get em each time Joey
😂😂😂 Always loving the new content
"Well I'm glad we cleared that up here you go." 😂😂😂 It's the ending for me. Lol
It's amazing you get so many beautiful actors! Nice video!
Benefit of living in LA
As a former line cook the long hours in a hot fast pace kitchen
That fish is fresher than my undies
line hit home.
Sometimes the food in and out of the kitchen before you are
Aaron handled that perfectly imo!
By far my favorite video on this channel. Never had this problem in my restaurant I worked there for 4 years lol.
Keep the good stuff coming, Drew. This is great work!!
Sic her Joey 😂
Its worth pointing out, you absolutely want your fish to be frozen at some point - at the very least on the boat - many fish contain parasites which are killed upon freezing, but, depending on how they are cooked (if at all) they may not be killed - also, with modern flash freezing, it makes absolutely no difference to taste - the water in the fish/meat/whatever is frozen so efficiently that cell walls barely have any time to rupture from the expansion of water into ice as it is frozen.
Flash frozen on the boat is the best for preserving the freshness ironically
That was an amazing delivery from Aaron, I'm so proud.
I have yet to see a skit I didn't enjoy. Thank you for always making my day better!
God bless this man for spreading the good word and making servers feel understood all across America
I really believe all your characters are different people. It's extremely impressive!
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More with Joey/guest interactions please!
You got to give a heads up to the manager when you have customers like this so they are ready for them when they complain.
One of the reasons fish are flash-frozen after being caught is to kill any potential parasites …
always cracking me up with these skits
Its crazy to me how its all you but each character is so unique.. like i truly dont know how you make each one feel real.. anyway just wanted to give you your props..
Love these longer videos!
Dude the amount of offset this video took alone, man keep up the great work.
Aaron handled that so well! Good seeing him grow ❤
I would love to see something like that next time I go to a restaurant. Great video,Drew!
😂 Terry really grabbed Joey to yell at this woman