Local Cuisine:

• Beef wellington: beef cooked in a pastry crust

• Pie and mash: minced meat pies in a potato crust, usually served with mushy peas. I found the BEST place in town for pie and mash – Pie Minister. Read more about my recommendations for the best places to eat in London.

• Bangers and mash: mashed potatoes and sausages

• Black pudding: blood sausage

• English breakfast:, beans, mushrooms, blood sausage, bacon, eggs, and toast

• Liver and onions

• Sticky toffee pudding: a steamed dessert made with sponge cake and chopped dates, topped with toffee sauce

• Fish and chips (Check out Poppie’s Fish and Chips for the best in town! – and read more about our trip)

• Cockles: small shell fish

• Eton mess: dessert with whipped cream, pieces of meringue, and fruit – usually strawberries

• Sunday roast with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, and vegetables

• Yorkshire pudding: soufflé batter baked in a hot oven

• Pound cake: a rich cake made with flour, butter, eggs, and sugar

• All sorts of Ethnic street food

• Salt beef: corned beef, usually served in a sandwich

• Scotch eggs: hard boiled eggs covered in sausage, breaded, then deep fried

• Chicken tikka masala: chicken in a spiced cream sauced –from when the English occupied India

• Cobbler: fruit or savory filling, covered in a scone mixture and baked

Before your adventure to London, read more about What to Know Before You Go and all about London’s eventful history.