Pie, mash and liquor
London's best pie and mash
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By Time Out Editors. Photography Rob Greig
Posted: Wed May 13 2009 -
The best places in London serving that great cockney comfort-food staple, pie and mash, plus the increasingly hard-to-find jellied eels
Castle’s
Imitation teak panels galore at this slice of ’70s retro heaven.
229 Royal College St, NW1 9LT (7485 2196). Camden Town tube or Camden Rd rail.
Clark’s
This pie shop sticks out like a sore thumb among its hipper neighbours, but it still has its regulars.
46 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QE (7837 1974). Farringdon tube/rail or 19, 38 bus.
Cockney’s Pie & Mash
Launched in the mid-’90s, this friendly, melamine-interiored mash house is a young gun on the London pie scene.
314 Portobello Rd, W10 5RU (8960 9409). Ladbroke Grove tube. Feature continuesAdvertisementF Cooke
Top liquor and an affable host at this final frontier of cockney London.
9 Broadway Market, E8 4PH (7254 6458). Liverpool St tube/rail then 26, 48, 55 bus or London Fields rail.
Harringtons
A beautiful art-deco sign and green-tiled frontage at Tooting’s only pie shop.
3 Selkirk Rd, SW17 OER (8672 1877). Tooting Broadway tube.
G Kelly
Pre-war scoffing instructions and a limited menu at this Bethnal Green eatery.
414 Bethnal Green Rd, E2 ODJ (7739 3603). Bethnal Green tube/rail.
L Manze
Marble tables and tiled interior located in a buzzy north London market.
74 Chapel Market, N1 9ER (7837 5270). Angel tube or 19, 38 bus.
M Manze
London’s oldest pie and mash shop (the original was established in 1902) is still going strong, with branches in pearly-king Peckham and suburban Sutton.
87 Tower Bridge Rd, SE1 4TW (7407 2985/www.manze.co.uk). 42, 188 bus.
Manze’s
The pies are monogrammed with the letter M at this lurid-green-fronted stalwart.
204 Deptford High St, SE8 3PR (8692 2375). Deptford rail.
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60 comments
If like me you don,t live near a pie and mash shop Sainsbury sells Cook,s pie and mash in the freezer department. Yummy when you havn,t had it for months.
goddards of greenwich serve on the weekends outside the market after selling their shop
how yearsabout berts in peckham park road served by lil used it for 40 years until it shut couple of years ago luvly proper pie and mash cheap an filling now using arments walworth
best pie shop ever was R Fortunes in hoxton street sadly it isnt there any more.But if i have to choice cooks is good in hoxton street out of the remaning pie and mash shops that are around today
My mother(god rest her soul), would take my brothers and I shopping to Shepherds bush market every saturday morning back in the 70's and this was the highlight of the week for us boys after shopping we would all go to cooke's for the best meal of the week(although I can't fault my mums cooking).I grew up working as a fishmonger in the market and can honestly say I have tried food from all around the world and am damned if anything beats the flavour of the pie and liquer from cookes.I now live in somerset as well as thousands of Londoners bought up on the food,I wish there was a cookes in my town,God I miss it soooooo much.
Since the age of 6.(old enough to cross the main road) I have been going to Cookes Goldhawk Road. Relatives lived in Sulgrave Road and I had to go to the pie and eel shop with a basin and jug, 4pence worth (1.5.pence in today's money) of pie mash and licker fed 4 of us. Now 74 still go there when the opportunity arises. CAN'T BEET IT. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I have eaten Pie and Mash all my life. I have eaten at Cockneys and Manzes, but the best by far was at Cookes, Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush before going to the football at Loftus Road.
Nice to see a few in agreement about the Noted, E11. There are some great ones out there but also some real stinkers! Dagenham spring to mind.
@Steve - What was the worst? Wow 8 Quid!
@ Leasha - What was you expecting?
@ Charlie Brook - The one near me in Wickford is £1.75! Now that is value!
@clifford Webb - Happy to send you some frozen if your happy to pay the carriage. I'd be facinated to see how well it would arrive. I believe Mr D Beckham has had some flow over to him!
** Off to hunt in the freezer for those 2 pies and liquor I save for a rainy day :) **
im surviving on photos of pie and mash as i live in perth australia,loved hoxton and broadway cookd pie and mash,yum.
need to win the lotto so i can have a weekl;y airlift of pie mash and liqour,
Goddards in Greenwich is the best. Shame they shut the shop but their van still sells it at Greenwich Market on a saturday. Once you have tasted theirs you know you've had the best
Deffo Noted Eel & Pie in Leytonstone, been going there since i was a teenager in the late 80's and its the best!
Luckily for me i know the pie maker and she brings me them home in Essex! Thanks Sonia!
Tonys in Waltham Abbey is worth a try but the liquor is too thick for me. Noted is where my pie and mash heart is.
For me and certainly all my family the best Pie n Mash ever is Maureens in Chrisp street market, Poplar. The mini pies are delicious as well. Worth a visit. They also do gravy for those who do not like liquor. Also sausage and mash or hot salt beef.
Sweeny Todds pie and mash van in Harlow, Edinburgh Way. Great new set up and does deliveries as well. Have a look at their website sweenytoddspieandmash.com
noted pie n mash leytonstone the best around by far,same as lediards in west ham lane from years ago.....mmmmmmm.
I agree with P&M fan that Noted is the best, I have a problem now though as I have migrated to Perth Australia and miss pie & mash like mad. I have been trying to cook it at home and although not bad I just can't get the pies to burn on the top. can anyone offer any suggestions?
I went back to England last year and my highlight was the 3&2 that i had at Noted.