"We have prepared for you not-so-traditional fish and chips. We have made seaweed battered cod, minted peas, mint and tahina velouté. And the fries are malt vinegar fries."

Judging, but Gail Simmons, Padma Lakshi, Tom Colicchio, Brett Graham and James Cochran

" I love that they made the vinegar chips instead of putting vinegar on."

"They moved it away from traditional fish and chips. Not too far away. But the big problem with this dish, I find, is that the batter is not crispy. It's not crispy at all. 

"The batter's not light enough."

"Yeah, it's not."

"Feels a bit cakey, sort of."  

"If the batter is not better than the original, I guess that's the foundation of trying to improve something that is a Classic." 

"It's the main part of the dish that they completely failed on. The whole thing becomes disappointing."