UPDATE: Apparently this has now moved to a shop opposite Woolworths. Not sure where that is!
Update on the update: Turns out the 'move' was actually another pasty chain opening... Cornish Bakehouse is still in the same place.
This is a tiny little shop with barely room for four or five customers to stand inside. And in fact there's often a queue right out the door. The reason is the delicious pasties, which really are the best I've ever tasted. Historically Cornish pasties were made with a thick crust along one edge: miners, covered in toxic dirt in the tin mines, held their dinner by the crust and then threw it away, and so avoided touching what they ate and poisoning themselves. Though we think of them with a stuffing of meat and vegetables, they could actually have contained many different fillings, savoury and sweet.
Anyway, there's no need to throw away the crust on these: even the pastry is delicious. There's an excellent range, including the conventional and a fair few vegetarian options. I never seem to be able to resist the spicy chicken: big hunks of real chicken breast (no reconstituting or water padding here), potatoes and a lovely sweet and mildly spicy sauce. Or you could have lamb and mint, beef and stilton, pork and apple, spicy vegetable, cheese and onion or more.
I hear they have branches in London too now will have to check them out! read more