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Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Smoking hot pie at the Battersea Pie Station
Winstone (Steak and Kidney) Pie Review at Battersea Pie
Station, Covent Garden, London
When you need some fuel for the afternoon ahead, it's
good to station yourself at a top pie shop in town and get pie inside you! That
is exactly what I did when ready to combust with hunger on my Bank Holiday,
with a non-renewable pie in my sights! So as I was meeting a friend near Covent
Garden, I popped in to the Pie-er Plant that is Battersea Pie Station, ready
for some pie fuel!
I ordered two pies – one a hot pie to eat then and also a
cold pork pie to take away. Firstly I ate the Winstone pie, which was a Steak and
Kidney pie eaten hot while on the premises. And I’m pleased to say that the Winstone
was a winner. Inside the golden pastry were good tender chunks of steak. The kidney
tasted good to and not overpowering the taste of the pie. The gravy was nice,
not too runny and very flavoursome. While the pastry was quite crisp, it wasn’t
too thick and held the pie together well. The condition was top notch with a golden
crust topping. It was nice pastry, reasonably solid but didn’t weigh you down
like some thicker pastry can. I also very much liked the Battersea pie bowl it
was presented in. It was quite pricey for a pie at £5 to eat in (pie only,
trimmings are extra) but was in Central London and Covent Garden after all, so
can't get a much cooler place to eat pie! Pie fuel much appreciated!
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| Winstone Steak and Kidney Pie Review |
Battersea Pie Station Winstone (Steak and Kidney)
Score: 6/7
Chicken & Ham Pork Pie Review at Battersea Pie
Station, Covent Garden, London
Certainly not something I'd come across before, this pie
was pork pie by name but no pork by nature! However the nice ham made up for
the porkie in the title! The pie had a very pleasant crust which was quite
light and flaky on top and sides, a little thicker on the base. It was a lot
lighter and less strongly flavoured than your traditional pork pie.
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| Chicken and Ham Pork Pie |
The colour was good and the capacity quite strong, though
there were gaps where you would normally expect jelly (which was fortunately
absent, as I think this would have ruined the flavour). It was certainly an
interesting for a change but I wouldn't regularly go for it. Marks for novelty
though. There was the issue of the meat flavours not being split very evenly
throughout, with a large clump of ham off centre, and there was a bit of fat
within the chicken section, but certainly a positive meat experiment!
Would love to try a 'meat and gravy' version of this pie
though - reckon that would give me fuel for thought!
Battersea Pie Station Chicken & Ham Pork Pie
Score: 5.2/7
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