More than any other Cubitts location, our Broadway Market store strives to preserve the original features and spirit of its historic past.

The façade is graced with the original signage of F. Cooke, who served pie, mash, and eels for over a century in this building. Begun by Robert Cooke in 1862, the shop was amongst those that established this signature dish as a staple for East Londoners in the late 19th century. In 1939, the store was fitted out with its signature blue and yellow patterned tiling, terrazzo flooring, inset mirror panels, and unique Art Deco stained glass window, part of F. Cooke’s cultivation of an aesthetic unique to that peculiar breed of the London pie and mash shop. Today these features remain preserved, a testament to the enduring legacy of F. Cooke.

Bespoke shelving units transform the marble-topped dining tables into intuitive spectacle displays, a reinterpretation of the space in the spirit of repair and renewal. A repairs desk in the front window marks Broadway Market as a centre for our REDUX circularity initiatives. Downstairs, a former kitchen has been transformed into a testing room, trading eel preparation with eye examination.

Regretfully, hot and jellied eels are not available as advertised. We recommend F. Cooke’s newest establishment in Chelmsford.