Walworth Pie Shop With £4.10 Pies Since 1914: Arments

Arments, at 7 and 9 Westmoreland Road, Walworth, SE17 2AX, sells a handmade minced beef pie for £4.10 and a portion of mash for £1.90, on its in-store price list dated 1 August 2026. The shop opens Tuesday to Friday 10:30am to 4pm and Saturday 10:30am to 5pm, and the family has been making pie, mash and liquor in Walworth since 1914. For a pie shop near me search south of Elephant and Castle, this is the cheapest proper lunch on the list.

William and Emily Arment bought their first pie shop on Walworth Road in 1914, the year the Great War began, taking it over from the Evans family. Emily's sister Liz had already worked there and joined them behind the counter. The room had glazed tiled walls, marble table tops, sash windows and a floor covered in sawdust, and everything, pies and potatoes alike, was prepared by hand.

William died in 1931, and Emily and her children kept the shop going through the Second World War, stretching scarce rations with soup and offering free meals to children from the nearby workhouse on Walworth Road. After Emily died in 1945 her son Bill took over, opening further shops on Walworth Road and Westmoreland Road. In 1979 the Westmoreland Road shop moved across the street to larger premises, and four generations on the family is still there.

Arments publishes its in-store prices, which is rare among London pie shops. As of 1 August 2026 a steak pie, which here means minced beef, is £4.10, a steak and kidney pie is £4.25 and a soya vegan pie is £4.10. Mash is £1.90 for about 200 grams, a carton of liquor is 70p, and a portion of eels is £5.30, or £6.00 with a container to take away.

There is also a mini steak pie at £3.00, available by pre-order only, which is handy for children or a light snack. For parties the shop sells a bucket of liquor at £10.00 that serves 30 pies, and a party bowl of about 90 pieces of jellied eels at £68.00 by special order. Chilli vinegar to take home costs £2.70 for 500ml, so you can recreate the table seasoning in your own kitchen.

Arments explains its method on its own website. The meat pies use 100% beef steak from Scotland and Ireland with no preservatives or fillers, set in a soft bottom pastry under a crisp, flaky top and trimmed by hand. Everything is baked fresh each day in the bakehouse on the premises, in ovens the family jokes are probably older than the current owner. The green liquor is no longer made with eel juice, but it is still a parsley sauce served the way it was in 1914.

The classic plate is a steak pie with mash and liquor, seasoned with salt, pepper and chilli vinegar at the bench. The family recipe has barely changed since 1914 and is still a secret. If you are torn between the two meat pies, the shop recently ran a social media poll on exactly that question, and the steak and kidney costs only 15p more.

Leave room for a fruit pie at £1.85. The shop's own posts pit apple against cherry, and in autumn either makes a cheap, warm finish to a cold-weather lunch. As for eels, they are bony and strongly flavoured, and most first-timers are happier spending £5.30 on another pie and a fruit pie instead. Try a forkful from a regular's bowl before committing.

Opening times are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10:30am to 4pm, and Saturday 10:30am to 5pm, with no Sunday or Monday trading listed. The shop takes family holidays, and its 2026 autumn break ran from 27 September to 6 October, so check the opening-times page for the next one. It opens on the Tuesday after bank holiday Mondays in April, May and August.

Christmas hours for 2026 are already posted. The shop is open on Christmas Eve, Thursday 24 December, until 4pm as usual, then closed from Friday 25 December through Monday 28 December. It reopens on 29, 30 and 31 December until 4pm and closes on New Year's Day. For postal orders, the last delivery date before Christmas is Friday 18 December 2026, and those pies can be frozen for the holiday.

The room keeps the long benches and simple decoration the family says let you feel what it was like generations ago. You order at the counter and eat at shared tables. Arments holds a five-star food hygiene rating, and on its 112th birthday, Tuesday 14 April 2026, it thanked the locals who queue after a shift and the families who have made pie and mash a Friday tradition.

If Arments is closed when you arrive, M. Manze on Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey keeps longer hours on Fridays and Saturdays and serves the same traditional menu. Arments also sells chilled postal pie boxes with an eight-day fridge life, so a Sunday or Monday craving can be planned for from your own kitchen.

Westmoreland Road runs off Walworth Road, and East Street Market, one of south London's long-running street markets, is a few minutes away for fruit, fabrics and household goods. Walk south to Burgess Park, where the lake and the restored lime kiln make an easy loop in autumn colour. Heading north, Walworth Road brings you to Elephant and Castle and its Tube station.

Address: W J Arment and Son, 7 and 9 Westmoreland Road, Walworth, London SE17 2AX. Email: mail@armentspieandmash.com. Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10:30am to 4pm, Saturday 10:30am to 5pm. Christmas 2026: open 24 December until 4pm, closed 25 to 28 December and 1 January. Prices from the August 2026 list: steak pie £4.10, steak and kidney £4.25, mash £1.90, liquor 70p, fruit pie £1.85.

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