Ploughman's lunch
Photo: Clothahump (talk) · Public domain

Ploughman's lunch is a signature dish of United Kingdom; we have verified places to eat it in London. Pub plate of three cheeses (a hard, a blue, a soft), crusty bread, butter, Branston pickle, pickled onions, pork pie, an apple. Start with where to eat Ploughman's lunch in London.

Ploughman's lunch · London

Pub plate of three cheeses (a hard, a blue, a soft), crusty bread, butter, Branston pickle, pickled onions, pork pie, an apple. Eaten cold with cask ale.

While bread-cheese-pickle lunches have been farmworker's fare for centuries, the formal ploughman's lunch as a named pub dish was a 1950s invention of the English Country Cheese Council, who promoted it to drive cheese sales after the end of WWII rationing in 1954. By the 1960s every pub in the country had it on the menu, and London's Victorian pubs adopted it as the signature cold lunch option. The modern London ploughman's leans heavily into artisan British cheeses (Stichelton, Cornish Yarg, Stilton, Westcombe Cheddar) and small-producer pickles; pubs like The French House and Andrew Edmunds keep the format alive.

Where to eat in London:

Where to eat Ploughman's lunch in London: the editor picks

Book food experiences in London

See all 801 bookable experiences in London

More dishes across United Kingdom