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Minced beef pie with mashed potato and a green parsley liquor, the working-class East End plate served at heavy ceramic counters like Manze's on Tower Bridge Road continuously since 1902.
Pie and mash shops opened in east and south London from the 1840s, serving cheap minced-beef pies with mash and a parsley liquor made from the cooking water of jellied eels. F. Cooke (1862), M. Manze (1902 at Tower Bridge Road) and Goddards in Greenwich kept the form unchanged through the twentieth century: heavy ceramic plates, a knife and fork, optional jellied eels on the side. The trade declined as Cockney London moved out post-war; the survivors (G. Kelly on Roman Road, F. Cooke in Hoxton, several Manze's branches) trade as heritage spots in 2026.
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Britain's first gastropub on Farringdon Road in Clerkenwell London, opened 1991 by Mike Belben and David Eyre, still serves Mediterranean-leaning.
OrderThe Bife Ana steak sandwich, on the menu since 1991, and a pint of bitter.
TipWalk-in only. The chalkboard menu rewrites every day at 12:00; the best dishes go by 14:00 on a busy lunch.
The 1869 Farringdon Road working-class dining room in Clerkenwell London, restored under Will Lander since 2012, runs daily-changing British cooking.
OrderThe famed confit potato, then mince and potatoes off the daily menu, with a bottle from the shop next door.
TipThe wine shop next door is corkage-free if you buy a bottle there. Lunch takes walk-ins at the counter Tue-Sat.
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