Pies

Hot on the heels of Bara Café opening in Peckham comes another fully-fledged Welsh food business, hoping to entice Londoners through its doors.

Anyone hailing from Cardiff will know about Donald's, which is actually a Kiwi-inspired pie and coffee shop that started life as a street food business, selling pies from a cricket club in the Cardiff suburb of Radyr. Now friends Gareth Owens and Harri Rees have opened their first place outside Wales, in Hackney Wick.

Right now it's a weekend-only affair serving up its core range of pies like Mince Beef & Cheddar, Butter

A classic pork pie is a thing of beauty and delight. But a good one can be hard to track down. Here's our meticulously researched guide to the places serving up London's best pork pies.  

You can find some exceptional pies all over London, from pubs to high-end restaurants. We tell you where to go to find the very best pies...

London's pub scene is thriving in 2025 and this latest news from Islington is very good indeed. If you're a north Londoner you'll probably know of The Southampton Arms in Kentish Town. It's a gorgeous, old-school (and tiny) spot up near Parliament Hill that specialises in ale and cider.

Well. the same team behind that are responsible for taking over a long-closed site on Canonbury Lane in Islington, where they're

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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.

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