Pie and Mash shop which, - in its leaflets claims it's not trying to be a London Pie and Mash Shop ( but hang on...it sells Pie and Liquer, thats what London Pie shops sell aint it?)
Anyhow - No matter
It's a pleasant enough restaurant, good standard of cleanliness, decor, attentiveness, and reasonable prices.
MENU
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pie & mash £6.50 ( prices as at October 2014 )
(choose liquor sauce or gravy )
minced beef & onion
steak & ale
chicken & mushroom
creamy vegetable
special of the week
bangers, mash & gravy £6.00
mushy peas £1.00
baked beans £1.00
jellied eels £4.00
extra gravy £1.00
extra liquor sauce £1.00
extra mash £1.00
This place serves an excellent pie and mash with extras as shown above. I didn't book but thats not to say you definitely don't need to.
My wife and I wanted to visit this shop/restaurant because we had heard how good the Steak and Ale Pie was ( from more than one person )....So a visit we must and did make!
Upon entering the shop/restaurant - we were shown to a table, given a menu, and asked what drinks we would like... a short while later the drinks arrived and we drank as we further perused the menu...short while again later the waitress enquired as to what we would like from the menu... My wife and I had already decided that we would like the much praised Steak and Ale Pie - ''unfortunately we don't have Steak and Ale Pie she told us. Disappointment hung in the air as this was really and truly the ONLY thing on the menu we would have normally chosen to order and to be fair WAS the only reason we were there.
OK - NOTE TO STAFF :-
When customers come into your restaurant please, please please do NOT seat them at a table, commit them to buying drinks, let them start enjoying said drinks...and then drop the bomb shell that the Steak and Ale Pie is OFF the menu.
This might sound a trifle petty, but i refer you back to my statement ''this was really and truly the ONLY thing on the menu we would have normally chosen to order and to be fair was the only reason we were really there''. I / we still stand by that.
I'm sure the correct way would have been was to have shown us to a table and informing us ''i'm so sorry, but i'm afraid the Steak and Ale or whatever is off the menu'', because then the customer can choose something else, or choose to leave and eat elsewhere with a view to coming back another day when your much raved about Steak and Ale Pie is actually ON the menu.
...Sigh, Rant over
Anyhow, because WE FELT committed to stay we went on to order a Chicken and Mushroom Pie and a Chicken Bacon and Leek Pie. These were both very nice and i am not complaining about these at all, great Creamy Mash with a nice Minty Mushy Peas side order....i don't think, personally the gravy was overly fantastic though and on a par with what i could do at home with a pot of Bisto granules, but hey ho...others might find it positively orgasmic! read more
