2 for £10 pub - Steak and Ale pie!

Description: Steak and Ale Pie, served with mash, peas and gravy, with extra gravy on the side.

Cost: Whilst this is kind of included in the 2 for £10 offer, you have to pay an extra £2.75 to get this dish. So, technically its around £7.75 which isnt a bad price for the dish.

Cooking: Best thing about eating out is that you dont have to cook it! Ordered the food and there was around a 25minute wait, which was very reasonable.

Verdict: First impressions? Looking good. Nice sized pie, nice healthy amount of peas. Mash looked a bit non-descript - well its mash! Gravy smelt lovely and had a nice thick texture to it.


Inside the pie looked like this:

Now for the taste test. I was looking forward to this, as this was going to be the first non shop bought pie ive put on the blog. I was in 2 minds whether to put a review up of it or not, but because this is a chain of pubs, I figured there maybe a pub like this near you, so you`d want an experts view on their pies.


The mash was nice, hot, creamy and no lumps. Gravy was spot on. Very nice indeed, had a lovely meaty taste to it and was nice and thick - none of this runny thin bisto gravy here. Peas were a massive surprise to me as normally pub peas are tasteless and horrible things, but these tasted nice and fresh. And now for the pie. As you can see from the close up inside picture the contents didn't look too bad. Loads of gravy, very stodgy and filling pastry base and crust. The meat itself wasn't too bad. Nice sized lumps of meat, but whilst it was tender and cooked thoroughly, it felt like these were cheap cuts of fatty meat. The pastry was a bit too stodgy and soggy. It kinda reminded me of a shop bought pastie which you have heated up in the microwave. I was pleased the dish comes with extra gravy as you needed it just to force the pastry down. Another thing I noticed was that even though this claimed to be a steak and ale pie, I just could not taste any ale in it at all. In fact it was more like a Steak and Onion pie!


Final verdict? Not impressed. Ive had the Steak pie at the sizzling chain of pubs before and that was awesome, and I think cheaper! I certainly wouldn't recommend this pie as if you take your pies seriously like me, you will be sadly disappointed.

Calorie count? The only problem with eating out is your never really sure how many calories is in the grub. Judging by the size and contents of this pie, using my extensive experience, id say we were looking at about 800calories.

Rating?  3 out of 10.