The Summer 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine — our 20th Anniversary issue — is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
We visited A. Cooke’s Pie & Mash shop in Shepherd’s Bush, London, during a brief stay in the city in 2013.
It was coincidence that D found a hotel owned by the Young’s pub chain in the very neighborhood where members of the Who grew up, just down the way from Goldhawk Road and A. Cooke’s Pie & Mash Shop, and equidistant from the Thames. But she did, and so lunch was taken at A. Cooke’s … which is to say, she watched me eat pie (steak & kidney); mash (potatoes); eel (stewed); and liquor (parsley sauce made from stewed eel broth).
In short, it was a bucket list sort of meal for an Anglophile who has been a fan of The Who for a half-century (A. Cooke’s shop featured in the band’s masterpiece, Quadrophenia) and also a traveler thirsty for a pint of cask-conditioned Young’s Special bitter, which was gloriously available at the nearby pub/hotel of our residence.
And, it’s a good thing we took advantage of the occasion, as A. Cooke’s was not long for this world, closing in 2015 after more t …
