Eating at The WORST RATED STEAKHOUSE in Britain. I WAS VIOLENTLY SICK!
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- Eating at The WORST RATED STEAKHOUSE in Britain. I WAS VIOLENTLY SICK after eating at The Angus Steakhouse Restaurant in London for a review of their Steaks. Online it's the worst reviewed Steakhouse Restaurant in London England. Here's my Review of The Worst Reviewed Steakhouse Restaurant in Great Britain.
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You're brave for trying this place out. The first and last time-in fact my only time-to the same place, was back in 1991 when it was The Aberdeen Steakhouse!! Went in there with friends for a pre-theatre dinner. About 10 years later there was a programme on the telly showing off the kitchens of these places-rat and mouse droppings everywhere🤢. The Slug and Lettuce nearby is a bit cleaner but their steaks aren't that great either. Glad you're feeling a bit better 👍
I remember that program on TV about that steak house.
Most of London places to eat are very poor!
If you want quality food don't eat in London.
OMG! I went to an Aberdeen Stake house in Paddington around that time. We walked out because of the filth. The waiter’s uniform was filthy, the cutlery and table cloth absolute dirt. Some years later it featured on a documentary tv programme about rat infested restaurants. I wonder if it’s the same one as yours?
English Country Life
OMG-I completely forgot about the one in Paddington! And for a reason-I ended up with gastroenteritis after visiting the one in Paddington and it was a long time ago....around 1986/87. Went there with my mother and late step-father. Could've been Garfunkles, but I think it was an Aberdeen steak house. Seems redundant to me to re-brand it as an Angus Steak House (nearly spelled it 'Anus'🤣!!). The one I was initially talking about was the one on Charing Cross Road. I find it quite concerning when the reviews on Tripadvisor etc are 4 out of 5 stars. TOURIST TRAPS!!
Saw the same ITV programme yeaaars ago, about mice droppings where they kept the plates and mugs in the kitchen!
The prawn cocktail is the most likely suspect for your illness in my opinion. Seafood is notorious for food poisoning.
Not from M+S
Shitole that is London
True, but I highly doubt it was the prawn cocktail unless it was stored incorrectly for extended time after purchase as he said it was in date, also it was from M&S - enough said. I would bet it was that restaurant
@@matthew6994 To be fair, this restaurant probably gets through meat really quickly so doubt it's old food.
Why think M&S have better hygiene than anyone else? Humans are humans!
@@karlos543 I know someone who works in a M&S factory and their standards are second to none
Okay London prices aside - I am a catering butcher in leeds, and i sell to restaurants and hotels (better places than that shithole) and rarely would you find an 8oz fillet steak for less than what you paid there. They would, however, have much more flavour, and be cooked better. Those fillets of beef you ate are almost certainly imported from Brazil or Venezuela. That's not what made you ill, what made you ill was them using beef past its best.
Probably the prawns in reality. Beef would stink if it was off. Prawns and seafood get bacteria early that affect you before they start to stink.
@@rodhuy01 yeah this is also true
Hope you're feeling better now, Lee. Those fries and onion rings looked pre-frozen and dumped in the frier as required.
As a Chef at the 5* level, sorry to hear you were sick first of all. In my opinion the sickness could either be the Prawn Cocktail or the peppercorn sauce as it contains dairy products. With the steak itself very unlikely as the bacteria tends to be on the outside. And both the chips and sad onion rings are deep fried so again unlikely. From looking at the fillet when you cut into it, it did look dry so maybe a " reheated " steak ???. Anyway a place I would never go to .
Being sick in under 2 hours after eating strongly suggests to me Staohylococcus aureus thermostable enterotoxin. It was the pepper sauce that did for you (in my opinion). (Medical Microbiologist). I bet it was reheated from a batch made yesterday.
That’s precisely what I was thinking.
Straight out the freezer that Fillet, it looked a very old piece of meat, no meat juices flowing from it. Chips and onion rings, frozen. Not a good experience for you. Good Vlog again thank you 👏👍🍺
That's got to be one of the most lack luster meals I've seen 😂
£40 for a lump of tasteless meat, chips, onion rings and a beer, excluding the tip? Enough to feed a family of 4 from my local chippie with change.
A MENU CARD WITH PICTURES FROM THE MEAL GIVES ME A MACDONALD FEELING.
The meal looked fine. The chips looked golden and crispy, as did the onion rings.
The portion sizes were okay for an expensive restaurant. The steak came exactly as you ordered it (medium, slightly pink in the middle). It looked juicy enough as you cut into it and there were juices on the plate as you were doing the thumbnail......Why on earth there are low scores and negative comments by the viewers is beyond me, they were obviously jumping on the negative bandwagon without really being honest and were marking it influenced by your comments. We can ONLY judge by looks and as i say, it looked fine.....I agree about the garnish, it looked an afterthought. So i'd give it an 8.5 on looks.
Fillet steak, although the most expensive cut, is in fact one of the least tastiest due to lack of fat content, so that may account for lack of flavour. It may also be the case of the restaurant buying cheaper quality meat which may have affected the flavour and came across as dry.
However, the chips are just fried potatoes and the onion rings just onion in batter. No fancy marinades or rubs to influence the taste in any way......so i'm not sure you can blame the restaurant for that, they can't physically "remove" any of those vegetables flavours by the cooking methods used. Perhaps, although unlikely, it was again due to the quality of the veg used.
All in all, the meal looked visually okay, and whether you can blame the restaurant for lack of flavour is up for debate.....so let's not be unduly harsh i say :) x
Steak looked repulsive PERIOD.
I thought for that price, you would have got, mushrooms, garden peas+grilled 🍅. Hate being ripped off 😡😂. Anyway take care 👍. Will look forward to the next one, that's iff you are still alive 🙏🤞😜
Bloody expensive...£23.95 for a bit of steak.
Very expensive for a small burnt steak, beer was also expensive.
Why didn’t the steak have some vegetables on the plate instead of that strange greenery.
If you buy a steak in Australia it automatically comes with either chips or salad or both, you don't have to pay extra for that. that is a rip off, did they charge you for the use of a knife and fork as well.
Why do you think there was a cover charge?
I ate here years ago before I knew it was a tourist trap. Most UK residents know not to eat there. Even though Miller and Carter are a glorified Harvester, they are miles better than the Angus Steakhouse.
Once walked by one of those places - the bulb had gone in the 'G' in its sign - you've never seen an electrician move that fast..
Lol. 😂
Them onion rings looked remarkably like Aunt Bessies frozen onion rings and they are tasteless and the frozen chips £1.29 for 5 kilo's from Farmfoods the fillet steak did it state it was from a cow or perhaps it was from an old Buffalo from the wild west you never know it is london after all
I wonder if restaurants are trying to circumvent the new Laws for sharing tips. Call it a 'cover charge'. Just Eat have done this with CARD charges Law change.
Hahaha that garnish made me chuckle. Are you sure the wind didn't just blow it onto your plate?
The steak can't be the issue, but you said you ate prawns earlier in the day, if I ever felt sick and looked back what I ate and got to prawns, that's the culprit!!!? In fact last time I got food poisoning It was after a Chinese, special egg foo young 🤮🤮🤮🤮
To be honest I’m ‘apprehensive’ that you considered going medium well for a fillet…the fillet is prized for its tenderness, at med well it’s not going to be tender. It has no fat present to render and help retain moisture and most fillets are ‘barrel cut’ meaning they are deep and narrow. Therefore to get med - med/well takes a good while on the grill too. I think you should try med rare next time and ask the chef to give it a ‘heavy rest’ so that juices don’t run. Or if you like med - med/well go with a ribeye!
Hi lee glad you waited for the bill to arrive before you marked it, my score would have been 3 before and 1 after it came, stay safe.
Sounds like you could have had a dodgy prawn. Hope you’re feeling better Lee.
This fella is a legend . He has a cool sense of humour and is honest in all his reviews. I hope his channel keeps doing very well and look forward to more content from him . Best of luck from Dublin bro.
I have passed this place a couple times when I've visited London, contemplated eating there, looks so nice from the outside! Nope, looks like I've had a lucky escape!
Once went to a pizza hut in Central London. Not long after leaving i felt like i was dying and was sick in the cab .My mum paid the driver for the inconvenience. I was only young at the time.
Not long after visiting i read about that restaurant i had been in and there was mention of hygiene issues such as rat droppings. Put me off pizza for a good while.
I have been back in pizza hut since but not that same restaurant.
The hygiene rating is only as good as the day the place is inspected and ratings don't have to be placed on the door in England.
You will always take a risk when you eat out.
Fillet steak shouldn't be chewy at all it should melt in the mouth and fall apart. Sounds like you got a pre frozen rump
Chips look like they are from the cheapest frozen bag of chips you can buy
I walk past this every other day and I have never thought I will go in there to eat. I definitely will never eat there after seeing this.
Braver man than me. Anyone who lives or works in London avoids the Angus Steakhouses because they’re expensive tourist trash. Poor quality, badly cooked and overpriced.
Never visit a restaurant that has photos of the food on the menu 👍🏼
Exception is Chinese restaurants
£50 a lb for crap 💩 If you cut into any steak and find that feathery, tearing consistency despite it being medium rare, it’s off a sh17 cheap breed of cow and is dry as a bone and chewy. Your knife should slide through fillet leaving a clean face
Seen these steakhouses all over the place. Never once been in one. After watching this, I never will either.
I am amazed that the chain is still going. I remember it was seen as a bit naff around the late 1990s, as The Evening Standard did a bad review of the franchise at the time. It's especially strange as to how it's still going now, as there's other really good steakhouse chains now(Goodman's and Hawksmoor spring to mind).
Hello, MacMaster Angus Steak House is Still in Existence 🤣🤣🤣 Fries & Onion Rings Pre-Frozen from Iceland 😒
Reason they use No Seasoning is That they Use Frozen Donkey Meat for their Fillet Steaks & Famous Stock Cube
MSG Mushroom Flavour Pepper Sauce 🤔😒🥴😢🤢👎
You never go into central tourist places for food unless its a cafe.
They have to churn out food constantly for droves and droves of tourists.
Its always busy so can you imagine they don't take time to cook food or clean etc because they are always tending to more people.
I always ate on the slight outskirts of London in the more quieter places that were still somewhat "Central Londony"
Places like Chalk Farm/Primrose Hill, Hamstead Heath or Angel.
Looks like a fire damaged Hockey Puck on an over sized plate.
How long does it take to get sick from food poisoning?
Symptoms begin 30 minutes to 8 hours after exposure
Ive got to say that i absolutely just love the English accent👌😊
My wife had prawns from M&S she was going to the toilet every 30 mins for 24 hrs will never get them again
Listen, Man United might not thank me but get the contract out, put it on the table. Let him sign it, let him write whatever numbers he wants to put on there, given what he's done since he's come in. Ole's at the wheel, man. He's doing it. He's doing his thing. MAN UNITED ARE BACK!!!!
Thank you for that. I'm so glad I sold up in Canary Wharf in 2003 and moved to France.
In comparison I can get a four course meal at my local restaurant... e.g. charcuterie starter, steak frites main, cheese board, sweet, carafe of red wine and coffee.
For 13€.
And it's perfect.
And no projectile vomiting.... 😨
well UK has nothing apart from beans and fishcips.
Worst meal we had in London 1996. Never ordered beef in UK rest of our 14 day tour. Loved UK!
Almost 24 quid for the steak on its own.
What a swizz!
Nothing looked appetising except the lager.
Hope you are feeling better now Lee.
I went there years ago on a family treat and it was a treat because in those days steak was a rarity. I was just impressed to go up town and to young to know what was a good steak and what was a bad steak. I could probably count on one hand the times Mum and dad went to a restaurant in those days , just didn’t have the money . I’m talking in the 60 s . Restaurants have to be good these days because if they’re not they get found out.
Slug and lettuce haven’t got the best steaks. They also have a drink callled a boobtini🤣😂.But, Miller and Carter is the king we can all agree.
No way troll
I’m staggered that Angus Steak House is still in existence. I went to one in Soho in about 1975 and even though I was a naive teenager I could tell it was crap.
I suspect they survive on custom from the least discerning type of American tourist. Of which there are plenty in that part of London.
Just remembered there’s one right opposite Paddington station, to entrap the poor saps the moment they step off the train from Heathrow.
It's an embarrassing tourist trap, always has been for decades. I've managed to avoid that restaurant and others in the chain for 50+ years thank heavens!
So Lee as a chef I went under a lot of training for food hygiene and poisoning.if it was the prawns you would have been ill within a short period of time depending if they were on the turn, poorly refrigerated and badly stored. Now the steak meal was a low hazard meal. My bet is on the prawns being incorrectly stored. Your bad stomach started after steak meal but you didn't get violently ill till later in the night. Basically the shit steak meal didn't sit well on top of bad prawns mate. You are now better off not eating much clear yourself out and then only eat a light meal to give your stomach time to heal. Best of luck. Please let me know how you are ok
Nice to see a fellow chef here in the comments. Didn’t see he had prawns when making my comment. Depending what the conditions of the kitchen where like it could of been a factor of things. Yes steak is a low risk food but if things where cross contaminated.
Tourist restaurants are notoriously poor Lee.
If you don't see a cab driver in them, stay well clear..😃
That steak looked as dry as camel's flip flop .
That Stella would have been necked rapid to keep my taste buds refreshed.
Great review mate, keep em coming.
20 minutes is a bit quick for a dodgy belly to develop.
As soon as you said you’d had prawns for lunch I thought “oh...”
I know which one I’d suspect no matter how poor the steak was.
The amount of times I walked past that place and it was full to the rafters I met thinking I should pop in. THANK GOD I DIDN'T!!
More likely to be the prawns for your sickness. Although the steak didn't look very appetizing.
My money would be on the peppercorn sauce. Looked congealed to me so wouldn’t be surprised if reheated a few times.
I'm amazed at the price, I'm in Australia and you get a great steak dinner for aus$40. I wouldn't dream of paying aus$90 for that
To be honest theres more chance of it being the prawns than the steak
I looked at that steak and I thought AAAAAArrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh. I would have been too ashamed to serve this and I would have thrown it at the chef.
OLD MILKING COW MEAT WITHOUT FLAVOUR, DRY AND CHEWING GUM LIKELY.
ONION RINGS TASTING LIKE HOSPITAL MEAL.
TO THIN DRY FRIES POTATOAS..............MAC DONALD QUALITY
I've not eaten in London before. What exactly is a service charge paying for? And why isn't it encoporated within the food price.
Is it advertised anywhere that they add a service fee?
A service charge is an optional addition (usually about 12.5%) to your bill which is for the service you’ve received. You can ask to have it removed and not pay it, but generally speaking you should only request that if your service has been bad. It’s normally mentioned somewhere on the menu and it replaces the tip.
I've passed this place on my trips around London and wondered what it was like so thanks for sharing 👍. There is nothing like a good steak and it seems this was nothing like a good steak ! 😋
I got thrown out of here in the mid 00s for complaining that the bread was stale and someone was smoking in the non smoking area. They tried to make us pay for drinks, when I refused he snatched it out my hand and said "I'll have the fucker then"
Although It's a shadow of its former self the Angus/Aberdeen/American steakhouses still make a mint. The Germans love them and they're always packed to the rafters. The former owner was a Turkish chap a personal friend of the late Paul Raymond - the famous racketeering soho property magnate and a friend of Michael heseltine.
The pampas fed beef was usually imported from Argentina but I doubt that it is the same today but there is no restaurant chain in the UK that makes as much money as this group - which in the Seventies, were also owners of a wimpy style of chains known as the Golden Egg.
For the Scandinavians, Dutch and Germans It's the place to be when visiting London. It's their resthaven since NE's do not trust the exotic cuisines on offer in the neighbouring Chinatown. Whenever I pass their restaurants I go berserk because they're the only places where the clientèle are always s 100% white Anglo Saxons - which was the same for another chain of restaurants named Garfunkles.
It's not about Racism it's just that the NE's do the same things year after year. Windsor Castle during the day, afternoon tea at the Waldorf and a pre-theatre slap-up at an Angus. Then off they would go to the talk of the town or the Whitehall theatre so see "No sex please we're British" - They can't help but they love each others company!
30yrs ago the steak would have arrived with grilled tomatoes and mushrooms, watercress, Hollandaise sauce and guarfrette potatoes before one even ordered a side dish - creamed spinach, French fries, ratatouille or cauliflower cheese- thats all. The onion rings would have definitely been a no-no in those days.
Both the brothers that originally owned the chain have probably passed by now - if they're still alive they'd probably be spending their days sitting in a chair dribbling at both ends. But a meal in a Aberdeen steakhouse in the Seventies was mist certainly a treat!
The MacMaster - I hope your feeling a bit better now ! I had some great fish and chips at the Anchor Inn , Seatown yesterday evening . With best wishes from Dorset
You cleaned the plate, it couldn’t have been that bad. I’ve had a lot worse, inedible worse.
Loved the video Lee,having an early night watching from my comfy bed 😊really looking forward to your adventures in Oz ❤
Crazy it’s next to the top rated steakhouse in London aswell
I’ve never had a Stella last that long.
Thats what I thought. Macmaster is obviously no wife beater.
As a Brit, I've always wondered who on Earth eats at that place. I figured it existed purely to be a tax dodge.
Is it just me who was disappointed to not see footage of him violently vomiting? 🤣
I went here and was shocked that I had to pay a cover charge of £1, which when queried with the waiter it is £1 to be taken to your table. I got my own back by not leaving a tip.
Lee you're a real trooper! I used to always go to the 5th Quarter Steak house in Louisville, KY on every visit. Then one time two of the three of us got terribly I'll. Never have returned to that restaurant. I hope all your viewers take note and make the smart decision. Wish you better health soon. Motown Mike
Coming to USA in November. Keep an eye out. 👀 😊
Definitely the prawns. I’ve had some bad experiences with M And S sandwiches. Found a caterpillar in one once. As for the Angus steak house. Went in the 90s. It was so bad we refused to pay. Couldn’t eat it . They tried to stop us leaving and threatened to call the police. Didn’t end well for them! We left! I believe they changed the name because Aberdeen Angus is a recognised seal of quality for beef from Aberdeen Angus cattle. Clearly not sold in this steak house therefore fraudulent.
Sorry to hear of your upset tum hope you feel better hope to go to Tenerife in January might see you.👍😎👍😎👍😎
Prawn cocktail ? You are more likely to get sick from seafood than from a steak. A girlfriend ate some scampi in a restaurant, 2 weeks really sick, almost a month before she could eat normally again.
No salt on the chips…we’re you too traumatised to add salt yourself….that’s why they put seasoning on a table..appears everything lacked seasoning..something you could have rectified very easily.
Couldn't rectify the bad steak and stale sauce. 🤢
@@TheMacMaster Oh..thats odd you claim the sauce was stale ..could’ve sworn you said ‘’Thank heaven for the peppercorn sauce”…in fact if I recall correctly I you said that twice?
Cover charge is an admission fee for a restaurant or club.
The moment you CUT that thing
It's STEAK HORROR SHOW.
These Angus Steak Houses have too much competition nowadays from the likes of Gaucho and Hawksmoor who cook steaks so much better. £24 for a tasteless filet steak is a rip off!!
Onion rings are frozen same with the chips and the steak is cheap 2 for 10 pub steak served it for years when I was younger vile food.
As a Londoner I'd rather go to a local cafe or even Wetherspoons than an Angus Steakhouse for a steak. They've always looked grim and must survive on tourism alone. I'd give it a 2 for the service you got.
Lol, I’ve eaten there in the past when it was the Aberdeen steakhouse. The steak you ate probably dated back to 1968 when it was established. Great content as always and yipppeeeee. The states have reopened, we will now get some amazing restaurant reviews. I’m off to California over Xmas. Enjoy your trip my friend.
Thanks. I'm off to LA also. Might see you there. 👍🏼
That’ll be the prawn cocktail! … steak , chips Onion rings washed down with alcohol is highly unlikely
I know what I'm going to say is heresy,but filet is the most tasteless cut
If your gonna rate a steak house ,ribeye or strip steak
40 quid for oven chips, frozen onion rings, tasteless steak and packet sauce. Jings man.
That steak had been under a heat lamp. For med-rare there should have been a lot more juice when you cut it.
Coming from a Chef that steak looked raw in the middle the garnish was disgraceful the onion rings were frozen not fresh and the chips were cheap frozen crap and the sauce !! Omg looked like it was gone off by the consistency of it 😳. 1/10 from me 🤮
I'd give it 5 less 1 for the "Cover charge". I'm not keen on chips served having been sprinkled with salt. If they put on too much it clearly spoils them.
He didn't actually mention being 'violently' sick (or even sick at all) once in the video, just said he had stomach ache. Pretty sure he wasn't even sick at all.. Clickbait title.
You my friend didn't watch until the end!!! Watch again and learn not to comment until you've gathered all the information.
@@TheMacMaster Eh? I did watch it right to the end! And at the end you say you were up most of the night with stomach ache, feeling really ill. I'd assume that if you'd been 'VIOLENTLY SICK' as the title suggested, that's what you'd have said at the end of the video with sweat pouring off your head in a vomit splattered bathroom. If the title of the video said "I GOT STOMACH ACHE !", then that'd probably be more accurate. But apart from that, good video, I probably wouldn't have clicked on it without the VIOLENTLY ILL title so fair play - you sucked me in and I watched to the end!
More likely to be the seafood mate. As it may be in date but depends if kept cold enough in storage. Seafood is the worst for causing sickness. The steak looked cooked ok, only thing on the steak meal would be if the meat was off to cause sickness. More likely to be the prawns.
Very expensive if you take in the chips, sauce and onion rings as extras
Only eaten there once years ago and never fancied eating there again but one of the best chain steak restaurant is flat iron and my favourite restaurant is the Covent Garden one because you get a free ice cream at the end. Also free beef dripping popcorn at the beginning of the meal.
Lee enjoyed your vlog at Angus steakhouse does any of your watchers know there was an Angus steakhouse in Los Christanos in Tenerife near the blue station.
I was there in '95. It was awful. A woman was beheaded at Los Christianos market about 10 years later...probably not linked though...
Fillet steak isn't the most flavoursome of steaks as there isn't the same fat marbling as other steaks due to the nature of it .
Fillet steaks hence need a good robust sauce to compliment it.
I have a cowboy peppercorn sauce that is quick to make and tastes good.
I would lean toward the prawn cocktail that made you sick. When you cook into your steak it did look a little tough. Maybe some A1 steak sauce would have helped. Give them another go with DJ. See what DJ thinks of this steak house. I hope your feeling better.
From what has been said it has poor hygiene. If the chef used say tongues on raw chicken then picked up your steak cross contamination would occur. It does sound like this is what happened!!
Anyone considering a well-done steak needs their head examined. Also Stella, seriously?
Very surprised you didn’t complain to waitress that the food was tasteless,instead giving her a £5 tip, this is the reason these restaurants are still in business
The waitress didn’t cook it so why shouldn’t she get £5 if she’s had good customer service, yes he should have complained but only if he felt like he wanted to
I have ALWAYS wanted to eat at an Angus Steakhouse ever since my first visit to London Town in the 90s. It has always been on my to do list, I don’t know what it was that drew me to them…
But after this video, not any more! I am so sorry to hear that you experienced illness (whether the fault of the steakhouse or not) but that has put paid to that for me, and fair play to you for going through what you do in the name of vlogging.
Try hawksmoor if you visit London. Just if regent street and pre-theatre menu about £24
@@xxlairdy1106 I’ll make a note of that, thank you
On my little Caribbean island we would say “you life lang but you careless wid it”! 🤣🤣
Before you said where it was , I knew what you was going to say, it's staff are mainly illegal immigrants who all live in digs the restaurant owns, it's only for silly tourist with no idea.
You can tell the bubbles are from the laser imperfections from the bottom to maintain head
Silly tourist? You mean the ones that bring revenue into the country and aid businesses to stay afloat. You should pick your words wisely
I went to one of these in the late nineties (I think it was in the Leicester Square area but couldn't swear to it) and I could have sworn it was called Angus Steak House then. It wasn't cheap and the portions were so small myself and my mate went to the nearest chippy straight afterwards because we were still starving. When you cut through that steak I thought it looked a bit form for a fillet, and the fact that there was pool of juice on your plate before you started clearly indicates that it had not been rested before serving.