While we were strolling around Epcot for the first day of the 2019 Epcot Food and Wine Festival we stopped by one of our favorite places for a quick bite in World Showcase, Yorkshire County Fish Shop in the UK Pavillion.
Yorkshire County Fish Shop
While the most popular food is in the name (and they do have some crazy good fish and chips here!), every so often they change it up and offer other traditional fares. We saw a chicken and mushroom pie here not too long ago, and now it looks like a new rendition of that pie has emerged in the form of the Cornish Pasty.
You won’t find the Cornish Pasty on the permanent menu, rather it’s listed on a small menu on the counter where you place your order.
Cornish Pasty Menu
A pasty, for those unaware, is simply a meat pie. Traditional Cornish pasties are made with beef, potatoes, turnips, and onions in a pastry crust. We didn’t pick up on much in the way of turnips or onions in ours, but otherwise, this pasty doesn’t seem to veer too far from tradition.
Cornish Pasty and Chips
The pastry was delicious — it was really flaky and buttery. The pie is also a good size. You won’t likely be hungry after finishing this!
Cornish Pasty
The filling though…wasn’t our favorite. Ours was full of ground beef and LARGE chunks of potato but was in serious need of some seasoning. Some more salt and pepper would have helped this tremendously. It was still generously stuffed and the filling ingredients all tasted freshly made.
Cornish Pasty Inside
The real MVP award here goes to those crispy, perfectly fried chips. Just look at these and tell us you don’t want to reach for some ketchup (or malt vinegar if you’re feeling authentic!) Please don’t lick your screen. That’s gross.
Chips
For $11.49 or a counter service credit on the Disney Dining Plan, this is a decent deal. The pasty is quite large and filling and the chips are a great salty counterpart. This is great for those non-fish eaters in your group or if you’re looking for something more unique, but if given the choice we’re still going for those fish and chips next time!
If you want to see some of our other favorites in the UK Pavilion, check out our DFB video below!
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Such a shame as the traditional Cornish Pasty is usually full of ground pepper giving it an almost spicy taste.
I always avoid the UK offerings as we are British and can get fish and chips any day of the week (with mushy peas).
Agree with the previous comment, traditionally the meat in a pasty is seasoned with plenty of ground black pepper but I’m pleased the traditional large pieces of potato are there.
I wish when Disney did things like this they’d put up a little sign to explain the cultural history. If other countries special items have as interesting as the Cornish pasty, I’d love to find out a bit about them.
As a Brit it seems I’m always happy to see a new food item offered in the U.K. and then always vaguely embarrassed by it and wailing that they mucked it up. This seems to continue the record, and yes I’m still huffing over the sorry excuse for a Victoria sponge cake offered at the same place. =P
I agree with Sarah, it would be nice to see a bit of background history, even a just little flier on the wall near the kiosk explaining why & how pasties evolved as a ‘portable meal’ in the West Country and what traditionally went into them (everyone had a family recipe.) Seems like the contents of this one could do with a bit of a re-jig. A Cornish pasty is a meal in itself & biting into a hot, fresh, savoury one is a joy!
Pasty, well the Cornish Pasty that is … has skirt steak, and potato, rutabaga (turnip in Cornish dialect) and onions. The potato and turnip are chipped into small flakes not in big chunks like that. The ingredients are cooked from raw in the pastry, which I suspect this one is not. It looks like the ingredients were cooked and then put into the pastry.
I am Cornish, well 50% Cornish the part that counts, and I live in Orlando. I have given up trying to find a good Cornish pasty here.
I hope they keep it around until our trip in January! We always stop here to share an order of the fish, but my husband will be excited to try this too. I think it looks delicious 😊
Hi DFB! Thanks for keeping the great content coming! My grandma was 100% Finnish, and made pastys often. She would make some without turnip just for me. Reading this brings back a lot of memories. I haven’t had one in years. They aren’t very prevalent in S. Florida-lol! Keep up the great work DFB!
As Rune said, pasties were portable meals. They were called “pocket pies” because the miners would wrap them in a napkin or handkerchief and carry them to work in their pockets. I have to thank you for this photo as it will keep me from buying one of these awful looking things. And while yes, the chips look heavenly, neither the appearance nor the size of this pasty is either appealing or worth $11.49.
Looks more like a Cornish Pasty than the pathetic excuse for one they have at WWoHP. Having lived in Cornwall for 13 years I know a little about Pasties and nothing could top the pasties from the Horse and Jockey bakery in Helston.
Nooooo. J K Rowling got fined and item naming taken off for selling pasties as Cornish. I don’t know how Disney is getting away with it. ITS NOT A CORNISH PASTY UNLESS MADE IN CORNWALL!!!!!