Dish · 9 kitchens in 2 cities
Pies and suet puddings
London's pie-and-mash and pub classics: meat under suet or shortcrust, fish under mash.
Nobody paid to be here. Each kitchen is described from its own menu where it publishes one, unranked, so each note says how that kitchen makes it.
In London
Pie mash and liquor
M. Manze · Bermondsey · ~£12 pp
A minced-beef pie under suet pastry, with mash and liquor, the green parsley sauce, poured at the counter. The plate this shop exists for: one pie, or two if you came hungry.
Homemade Pie
E. Pellicci · Bethnal Green · ~£14 pp
A shortcrust pie made in the house, steak or chicken and mushroom, with hand-cut chips cooked twice. Our lunch.
Fish pie
Sweetings · City of London · ~£48 pp
Fish in a sauce, baked under mashed potato. The main to settle on.
Porter Cottage Pie
Simpson's in the Strand · Covent Garden · ~£75 pp
Minced beef braised in porter, under mashed potato
Cottage pie, minced beef braised with porter, dark beer, under mash. The pie of the day.
Beef Cheek and Guinness Suet Pudding
The Devonshire · Soho · ~£45 pp
Beef cheek braised with Guinness under a steamed suet crust. The pub classic, one each.
Suet crust lamb haggis & chorizo pie
The Drapers Arms · Islington · ~£35 pp
Lamb haggis and chorizo baked under a suet crust, with a pound of each going to Action Against Hunger. It takes a while, so order it as you sit down.
Braised lamb shepherd's pie
The Windmill · Mayfair · ~£35 pp
Shepherd's pie, lamb braised slowly under mashed potato, with braised leeks. Our plate.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Famous Steak & kidney Suet Pudding
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese · Fleet Street · ~£38 pp
Steak and kidney steamed inside a suet crust, with gravy. The house's named dish, and our first choice.
In Edinburgh
The Scran & Scallie fish pie
The Scran & Scallie · Stockbridge (Comely Bank)
The house's own fish pie, one of the two pies named for the pub. The one we'd pick for a long Stockbridge lunch.