Pies

  • The best London restaurants for great pies

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    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

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    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

    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

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    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

    Mayfair's The Windmill opens up for pies 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

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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

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

    The Rosewood 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

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    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

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    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

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    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

    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

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    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.

  • Piebury Corner closes both of its pie delis

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    Over the past few months we've reported on a lot of restaurant closures. But we're personally gutted to have heard the news last night that Piebury Corner will not be reopening either of its restaurants.

    We've been following Paul and Nicky Campbell's story ever since they first set up a pie stall around the corner from where we lived, back in

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  • Holborn Dining Room chefs team up with Drings Greenwich raising funds for the NHS

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    Over the past few weeks, we've been blown away by the many, many efforts from those in the hard hit restaurant community to help others. There have been folk from Michelin-starred restaurants and neighbourhood bistros making food for key workers and the isolated, raising money for the homeless and for those in their own industry and generally more than doing their bit.

    So we're not remotely surprised to hear that

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  • Holborn Dining Room's Calum Franklin is bringing out a pie book

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    File this under "now that's something good to look forward to".

    We (and many, many others) have often waxed lyrical about Calum Franklin and his preternaturally gifted skills at pie-making. But how - how? - could we ever hope to get to that level of pie crafting? It looks like the answer is on the way because he's about to release a book that's all about pie craft. 

    Called The Pie Room (after the Holborn Dining Room's own

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