Comments on: Jake Green’s Pie & Mash Shops

By: stephen Jackson

stephen Jackson — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:57:21 +0000

I believe Cooke’s in Broadway market is shutting down in march 2019, apparently their kids don’t want to take it over, and the market is now full of tourists and hipster types who don’t know what pie and mash is. Surely someone could have took it over and marketed it as authentic Victorian fast food, can’t help feel someone has missed a trick here !

By: David Hucker

David Hucker — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 10:12:11 +0000

The 3rd Pic which is Cockneys is Portobello Road.

By: Georgina Briody

Georgina Briody — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:15:34 +0000

Lovely memories of long ago. I was never allowed to eat pie and mash in the shop but took it home with the liquor in a carton or jug. I have been known to order pie and mash with stewed eels on top!!

Bert’s has long gone in the Old Kent Road but I hope the one remains in Tower Bridge Road.

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:04:16 +0000

Also as a child,colllected live eels in a sack, from a stall in Bethnal Green Road, and bought them home to the pub, and was shown how to kill them, chop up, and cook them, we also did that with live lobsters in a boiling pot, not forgetting skinning rabbits, all in a small boys Education, in the 1950s, eat to survive was the motto.

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:36:54 +0000

Two of my former Pie and Mash shops featured here today,when we lived and worked in the East End, Cookes Broadway, and Robins Wanstead High Street, always enjoyed our visits, Broadway lost me when it was inpossible to find a car parking spot, and Robins, when it got burned out, twice, although it re opened, was never the same, but still they carried on regardless, can’t keep cockneys down,tough old race, now sadly dying out.

By: Maureen McGowan

Maureen McGowan — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:25:34 +0000

As a youngster growing up in Bethnal Green I can also remember the live eels. In answer to a couple of the questions: the meat in the pie used to be mutton and the crust was made up of a suet base and hot water pastry top, although this may have changed since the 1950’s! The meat may now be minced beef. The mash is ordinary mash but is always served with a green liquor (gravy). This used to be similar to parsley sauce but was made with the juice from the cooked eels and had quite a distinctive flavour. It was always eaten with a dash or three of vinegar. It sounds a pretty awful combination but was delicious….or maybe it’s just us cockney’s became used to the flavour! I haven’t lived in London for well over 50 years but still miss pie and mash.

By: Ria

Ria — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 15:24:26 +0000

Manze’s pies are sold at the Preston Brewery Tap in Preston, Brighton advertised as sent down from London.

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 11:03:27 +0000

The dark side of pie and mash is to see the butcher knife slash and the poor eel thrash. I remember the one at Dalston Junction and had an occasional one but left it at that .

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 10:09:48 +0000

I am sure that you will find this hard to believe but I, as the granddaughter of a true cockney, have no idea what pie and mash is, I gather that the pie is a hot meat pie but what sort of meat, is it beef, lamb or pork and is the mash mashed potato? Do tell please.

I assume that Sweeney Todd did not have a pie and mash shop? Sorry couldn’t resist that.

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 09:30:25 +0000

My Local one, L Manze’s in High Street Walthamstow ( Listed, of course ) is there … good.