The sister pub to the Guinea Grill in Mayfair wears its heart on its sleeve. It serves pies. Well actually it serves other things but reading from the restaurant menu that devotes half of it's single page to pies and it's accompaniments you get the sense that no one ever really orders anything else. Even the website photo of the chef offers a look that suggests that if you utter the word gastropub, you will swiftly be asked to leave.
This Young's Public House has won a clutch of relevant awards and has a pie club led by Gregg Wallace, certainly someone who looks as if he ate all the pies though perhaps more famous for lambasting master chef hopefuls than crimping pastry.
And the pies are good. Decent pastry, tender meat with a good whack of savoury gravy only let down by the school dinnerish presentation of the side dishes. Hand pumped ales including Young's and Bombardier round out the traditional offering.
The restaurant decor is heavy on high backed dining chairs, red velour and and faded hunting watercolours. A refurb is in the offing though I suspect it won't extend further than replacing carpet and polishing the wood fittings.
Pie and mash is perhaps the British answer to burger and fries and here you will find a good example served in a traditional boozer. For a pie, a pint and a seat, look no further.
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