Fish pie

Fish in a sauce, baked under mashed potato. The main to settle on.

From Sweetings's own menu and pages, as we read them in September 2026.

Pies and suet puddings at 8 more kitchens

Sweetings

British · fish and oyster · lunch-only · City of London

39 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4N 4SA

A Victorian fish room on Queen Victoria Street that has fed the City at lunch since the 1880s, taking no bookings. Fish pie at the counter is the City lunch.

We'd add

Potted shrimps

Potted shrimps, brown shrimp set in spiced butter, with toast. The starter while the pie comes.

Same plate, other kitchens

Pie: which one?

Sweetings and one other kitchen in London all lead with it. What sets each apart, and who it suits:

Sweetings
This kitchen
PottedCity of London · Menu checked Sep 2026
Fish pie — fish in sauce under mashed potato — in a City fish room serving lunch since 1889.
Pick it if you want a City fish lunch; no bookings. No menu online, so the card is unchecked.
E. Pellicci
Bethnal Green · Menu checked Sep 2026
The café's own pie at lunch, in a family room that has fed Bethnal Green for over a century.
Pick it if you want a meat pie lunch in Bethnal Green; walk-ins only.

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