Castle’s Pie & Mash

This place has been serving up excellent pie and mash here since the 30s. I consider myself a bit of a pie and mash connoisseur and have always considered this to be one of better pie shops.
The Pie and mash is roughly about £3 but you can ask for double pie, double mash for a larger portion for roughly about £6
For those who have never been to a traditional London Pie n Mash shop please don’t start critiquing about the quality or the ambiance. It’s not about that. It’s about a tradition and more importantly London heritage and it’s something I feel all self respecting Londoners should try at least once and keep supporting so they don’t disappear all together.
It’s not too far from Camden Town station and is well worth a visit if up on a Saturday. This place is a bit of a locals secret but if your a tourist visiting Camden market defiantly come in and try some authentic Traditional London fare. Do note it isn’t open Sunday or Monday.

Terrible ! Just terrible.
We were walking around Camden area and walked by this place. As it had a fair amount of people (4 out of their 8 tables were full), we were excited and thinking that we discovered a secret new hole in the wall. Really, it’s just a hole in the wall.
Their thing is «traditional eel and mash.» I’ve been living in London for 2+ years now and I definitely didn’t know eel and mash was a thing, so we popped in to try it. We ordered «carton of eel,» 2 pies, and liquor sauce. The carton of eel was basically a small cup aka the «carton» filled about 10% with eel. It was literally maybe 5 tiny pieces of eel for £3.00. And it was fishy and gross. And I love eel. almost always ordering unagi this or unagi that at japanese restaurants. The pies were disgusting as well. And I’ve never complained about pies. I’m very happy with those frozen puka pies at Tescos or the Jumbucks aussie pies, they’re practically bursting with gourmet flavors compared to the pies at Castles. And the weird green liquor. just tasted like flour mixed with warm water with neon electric green dye added to it. Everything was so bland and disappointing.
We took a bite out of each and tossed it straight away. AVOID!!!