Pie and chips is what you order when the table does not all want fish. One person has cod. One person has a pie. Everyone has chips. In a British chippy that is a normal ticket, not a special. The pie is the hot centre. The chips are the bulk. Salt and vinegar go on the chips. Peas or curry sauce sit in a pot if you ask for them.
Salt & Vinegar at 85 Stoats Nest Road does not print a single “pie and chips” price. It prints pies at £4.00 and chips from £3.00. You add them. That matters, because a search result that invents a combo price is not this board. Mushy peas are £2.00. Curry sauce is £2.40. A pickled onion is £1.00. Build the bag from those lines. The photograph is a fish supper in paper, used here as the shape of the meal — paper, chips, a hot thing — not as a picture of a pie from this warmer.
Not pie and mash
Pie and mash shops, mostly in London, serve a minced-beef pie, mashed potato, and parsley liquor. That is a different counter, a different pastry, and a different wet sauce. Coulsdon Salt & Vinegar is a fish-and-chip shop. If you ask for liquor here you may get a blank look, or you may get curry sauce. Say mushy peas if you want the green pot that is actually on the list.
Which pie, on this board
Three Pukka names: steak and kidney, chicken and mushroom, beef and onion. Same price. Different filling. Read the filling pages if you have not had them. For a mixed family order, write the filling next to each name. “Two pies” is how one person gets kidney they did not want.
Phone 020 8660 6990 if the walk from Coulsdon South is timed and you want the pie hot when you arrive. Monday to Saturday 12:00–21:45. Sunday the meal does not exist here, because the shop is closed. This is an independent guide. It does not wrap the paper and it does not take payment. Prices change; the person at the till is the live list.
If you wanted fish and arrived in a pie mood, you can still add a small cod or a fish cake. Nothing on this board forbids mixing. The only rule that matters on a Friday is to speak clearly and early. A pie that is not yet hot cannot be hurried by a website paragraph.
Questions
How much is pie and chips in Coulsdon?
The published pie is £4.00 and chips start at £3.00. That is two lines, not a set meal. Confirm in the shop.
Is pie and chips the same as pie and mash?
No. Pie and mash with liquor is a different London meal. This shop is a chippy: pie, chips, optional mushy peas or curry sauce.