A member of staff serves a plate of pie and mash in M.Manze, the oldest trading eel and pie house in London. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Other British delicacies given the Traditional Speciality ...

Any discussion of what British food is — or at least was — must have at its heart the pie and mash shop (or “eel and pie house” as they were originally known). This sentiment is no truer than during ...

Original pie and mash was an eel pie but when the Thames was polluted during the industrial revolution basically eels were no longer there so they switched to having mince in it. “The crucial ...

Stewed eel water The first pie and mash eateries began to crop up in London in the 1800s, when street hawkers selling pies teamed up with eel vendors and set up shop near the city's docks.

He also described how it used to be made with eel but when the Thames river suffered ... The MP appeared confident he would win in his cause to get pie and mash a protected status as he said ...

And it’s so much more than just pie and mash. You have chilli vinegar, you have jellied eels — they’re East End delicacies that you can’t find anywhere else. My grandmother used to love ...

Harringtons Harringtons Eel and Pie House on Tooting's Selkirk Road has confirmed on social media that it will close its doors after over a century of serving traditional food. The pie and mash ...

Original pie and mash was an eel pie but when the Thames was polluted during the industrial revolution basically eels were no longer there so they switched to having mince in it. “The crucial ...

"I just want more," the 39-year-old electrician chuckled, eating the meal with a traditional accompaniment of jellied eels. The first pie and mash eateries began to crop up in London in the 1800s ...