How pubs are marking British Pie Week

Pubs celebrate British Pie Week
Staple dish: pies are a classic item on many pub menus (Getty Images)

Special menus and guest chefs are just two ways in which pubs are celebrating this year’s British Pie Week.

Running from today (Monday 3 March) until Sunday 9 March, the week-long celebration started in 2007.

We’ve looked at how pubs are marking this year’s British Pie Week:

The Audley Public House, Mayfair, central London

London’s Audley Public House is offering a ‘posh pork pie’, available for a limited time only.

Cubitt House

Multiple operator Cubitt House puts the week at the heart of its DNA and this year is inviting top chefs to curate guest pies.

Three Cheers Pub Co

Fellow multi-site business Three Cheers Pub Co is offering two homemade pies with mash and greens alongside two pints o draught lager, ale or a 175ml glass of house wine for £35.

The offer will also be extended to every Monday throughout this year across the estate.

The Three Horseshoes, Batcombe, Somerset

Guest chefs have been invited to the Somerset gastropub to create a bespoke pie for each day of the week.

Brunning and Price

A variety of Brunning and Price pubs are offering special pie menus to champion the dish.

Joseph Holt

Manchester-based firm Joseph Holt has joined forces with local bakery H.M. Pasties to serve two pies made with a good cause.

The bakery, which is based in Bolton, is a social enterprise that helps ex-offenders find employment.

Joseph Holt’s food pubs will host offers throughout the week where diners can choose from a Steak and Joseph Holt Ale Pie as well as a Cheese and Onion Pie.

The Newdigate, Ilkeston, Derbyshire

There are variety of flavours available at the Newdigate for this week, using local supplier Derbyshire Pie & Co pies on the pub’s specials board.

With pies a popular pub classic, the Lock In podcast team previously looked at what makes the perfect pie.

A variety of pie experts revealed the secrets including PieMinster co-founder Tristan Hogg, Paul Capener of Paul’s Proper Pies and British Pie Awards chairman Dr Matthew O’Callaghan.