The Cat & Fiddle Pub & Restaurant — Restaurant in Los Angeles

I ordered this place on Postmates and I got the vegetarian lentil shepherds pie, garlic brussels sprouts, and the veggie sausage roll with leek (I love leek), carrot, and mushroom. Omg everything was sooo good. I’m glad I went with the lentil shepherds pie instead of the impossible although I may try that next time. The serving size of the pie is huge! I’ll definitely have more for at least one more meal. The brussels are super flavorful just the way I make them and the sausage pie is super satisfying and savory. Good texture too. It a bit expensive but really for the amount of food you get and the quality of the food it’s not bad at all. I would splurge again for sure sometime even being on a tight budget atm. Super satisfied.

The only issue I had was that it wasn’t packed super well so there was sauce kinda all over and the bag was leaking some. But I am willing to overlook it since it was really good. But hopefully the store sees this and does a bit better in that regard in the future. I’d maybe take a half to a full star off for this but I’m feeling generous and full. lol

I’ll add a some pics but I forgot to take any until I ate already hah. It was one of those so hungry and so good that I just ate standing up at the counter kind of nights. It’s 10pm so the lighting isn’t the best either. But I assure you it...

EDITED to add: We went back after Christmas, we got our Scotch Eggs [with a gift certificate from the pub, thank you!], they were great and every bit as delicious as we remember. We also had actual pints of beer this time, of Guinness, which we did specifically have to ask for. It was terrific.

ORIGINAL review: We visited on 23rd December just because we were both craving Scotch Eggs…. and they didn’t have any. Which they blamed on the Christmas rush, needing to prepare for dine-in on the 24th and takeout orders for the next few days. Understandable. But we wish they’d found a way to communicate that somewhere online as we’d visited specifically for that. During our previous visits, we’d really loved their Scotch Egg and found it to be very nearly as good as you can get in the UK. Instead we settled for pints of Guinness, potato croquettes and Brussels Sprouts. A fine meal. Just not the one we’d hoped for. And the pint glasses weren’t full size pints. Which we found bizarre. Never seen anything like it. Larger than half pints. But very definitely smaller than a pint. The strangest thing! We’ll return. But this visit wasn’t the best...

I recently moved back from the UK, and some friends of mine really wanted to try this pub. One had never had beef Wellington. Well, this was a complete disappointment here. The meat was well done. Well done! In a beef Wellington. And there was like a cheese on top of the pastry? I told the server that this isn’t a beef Wellington, the meat is supposed to be no more than medium and he apologized of course and took it back. I asked if I can get a replacement hoping it’ll be different, but he advised against it, leading me to think that’s how they always cook the beef Wellington. So do not go here if you’re looking for a good one. It’ll be a piece of rubber wrapped in bread. We also had scotch eggs which were okay, somewhat flavorless (actually pretty authentic English food now that I think about it), and replaced our meals with fish and chips and corned beef. All in all, merely okay food, again, pretty flavorless. We also only had beers so I’m not rating drinks; can’t really mess a beer up. The server was great, especially considering it was a few weeks since lock down. He’s the only reason they’re getting two stars...