At the beginning of this month, before everything shut down, I visited Battersea Pie in Covent Garden for lunch. Battersea Pie is located inside Covent Garden market in the lower ground floor archway and sign-posted simply as "The Pie Shop". There is adequate seating inside, under the arches that were formerly used for storage in the market's past, and outside the cafe.
Battersea Pie opened its doors in 2007 and uses fresh ingredients and home-made pastry. A selection of smaller pies and take-away pies can be enjoyed as well as standard-sized pies. Some of the flavours include chicken and mushroom, steak and stout, mince beef and onion, steak and kidney, and butternut squash and goat's cheese. Sides include creamy mashed potato, green beans, cole slaw, baked beans, salad, and rosemary potatoes.
I enjoyed a chicken and mushroom pie with creamy mash and baked beans. The pie and mash were delicious, but the green beans were a little over-cooked for my taste.
The pies are great quality, and as you can see in the photograph below, it was not short on meat and filling.
Unfortunately, Battersea Pie do not appear to be delivering, so you will just have to wait to this virus blows over before you can visit their restaurant in Covent Garden.
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