Pies

• Test Driving The Georgian - Harrods puts on the glitz with classic British food

  

  It's all change at Harrods where their classic Grade II listed restaurant The Georgian has been given a suitably glamorous new look with the arrival of chef Calum Franklin.

• Calum Franklin to run the evening menu at Harrods' The Georgian revival (with pies)

  

  One of London's oldest dining rooms is about to reopen after a major makeover, and with a very well-known London chef to boot.

  The Georgian restaurant in Harrods has been welcoming guests for afternoon tea since it first opened way back in 1911. Since then it's played host to royalty and celebrities and had a number of refreshes over the years from the addition of Art Deco skylights in the 1920s to the most

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• Calum Franklin is coming back to London for a special menu at Cut at 45 Park Lane

  

  Since leaving the Holborn Dining Room, pie master Calum Franklin's main efforts have been at his new restaurant in Paris, Public House. Now he's bringing a taste of his Parisian adventures to London with a special menu at Cut at 45 Park Lane. Yes, there will be pies. 

  The Calum Franklin x CUT at 45 Park Lane pop-up is a team-up between Calum and

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• The best London restaurants for great pies

  

  We tell you where to go to find great pies in London...

• F Cooke are coming back to Broadway Market with a pie pop for one day only

  

  Three years after F Cooke closed its doors on Broadway Market after 120 years of trading, citing a lack of Eastenders, the iconic pie and mash shop is returning to its former home - for one day only.

  The Cooke family have been invited back by the current occupiers of the old pie shop, spectacle sellers Cubitts. Cubitts took over the site left vacant since F Cooke's departure this summer - the building's Grade II

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• Calum Franklin is delivering a special Coronation Pie

  

  If you've been missing some Calum Franklin pie action from the pie maker extraordinaire, then you'll be pleased to know that he's making a special return for the coronation with a brand-new pie delivery. 

  Top  Melton Mowbray pork pie producers Dickinson & Morris have teamed up with Franklin for a one-off King’s Coronation Pie, just in time for the upcoming

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• All we want for Christmas is Calum Franklin's Christmas pudding pork pie

  

  If you're not one of the hordes who've already escaped London for the holidays, you're about to be rewarded for your loyalty. Because there are only two places in the country that you can get one of these pork pie beauties and one is Selfridges on Oxford Street (you'll find it in their food hall).

  This pork pie Christmas pudding is a one-off special made by - you guessed it - pork pie king Calum Franklin along

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• Mayfair's The Windmill opens up for pies and more on the terrace

  

  We're getting ever nearer the hallowed day when we'll be able to eat inside again - but one London pub just can't wait any more. The Windmill in Mayfair is opening up its hidden away terrace space tomorrow for a preview launch of its new menu. 

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• Chef Mark Greenaway is opening Greenaway’s Pie & Mash in Charing Cross

  

  Top Scottish chef Mark Greenaway has taken advantage of the various lockdowns to expand his empire south of Hadrian's Wall. He's getting ready to open up a new takeaway pie and mash shop on Villiers Street, next door to Gordon's Wine Bar. And, cunningly, he picked British Pie Week to make his announcement.

  If it all sounds a bit coals to Newcastle - the idea of a Scottish chef showing Londoners

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• Rosewood London are delivering Calum Franklin pies from Holborn Dining Room

  

  If there's one thing that we've missed during this latest lockdown, it's the lack of pies from Calum Franklin and the Holborn Dining room team. But that's now changing with the launch of Rosewood London's at-home delivery services, which included three showstopping pies from their restaurant (just in time for National Pie Week). 

  The pies are larger sharing

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• Where to pick up or get great pies delivered in London

  

  Just in time for British Pie Week (1-7 March), here's our up to date guide on where to find these pastry masterpieces in London.

• St John are offering a new pie service during lockdown

  

  Updated 12/2/21 with more menu details

  If you're looking for silver linings in these incredibly uncertain times we're in, then we think we can provide you with some of that. St John may, like every other London restaurant, have shut up shop but they've got something rather special up their sleeve.

  They're now offering an at-home pie service during Lockdown. As they say "In these extraordinary times, we too are embarking on something a

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• London's new food and drink delivery-only businesses

  

  London's food and drink delivery scene has never been more innovative or interesting. We pick out some of the city's new delivery-only businesses you should know about.

• Black Axe Mangal returns to team up with Willy's Pies for a special pie delivery

  

  Like many Londoners we've been bereft since one of our favourite restaurants, Black Axe Mangal, closed its doors back at the start of Lockdown 1.0 and hasn't yet reopened. But, offering light at the end of a long tunnel, BAM's chef Lee Tiernan has joined forces with chef Will Lewis from Willy’s Pies and Tabasco for a one-off special pie kit.

  The Match Day Special

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• Test Driving The Windmill in Mayfair - so much more than (excellent) pies

  

  This Mayfair pub, best known for its pies, has been taken over by the team behind the Guinea Grill. We went down to see what changes they'd made.