{"id":127812,"date":"2026-02-09T18:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127812\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:24:46","slug":"londons-willys-pies-returns-to-nyc-for-a-one-day-pop-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127812\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s Willy\u2019s Pies Returns to NYC For a One-Day Pop-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

British food jokes tend to travel faster than British food itself, but Willy\u2019s Pies<\/a> is betting New Yorkers are ready to rethink the punchline.<\/p>\n

The London-based, chef-founded pie shop is returning to Brooklyn for a one-day-only pop-up at Layla<\/a> on Sunday, February 22, bringing the proper, gravy-forward comfort food that has quietly been winning converts on the other side of the Atlantic. Founders Will Lewis and Josh Barnard will both be in town for the event to defend their British cuisine on American soil.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t Willy\u2019s first New York City rodeo. Last year\u2019s pop-up sold out within 24 hours, a strong showing for a food category many Americans still associate with soggy pastry and questionable fillings. This year\u2019s menu sticks to a single, focused offering: a chicken, pancetta and tarragon pie, served the correct way\u2014with mash, gravy and buttered greens. It\u2019s classic British comfort food, made with restaurant-level technique.<\/p>\n

Willy\u2019s Pies got its start as a lockdown project in London, launched after Lewis was furloughed from his chef job and decided to channel his frustration into pastry. What started as a delivery-only operation has since grown into a full-scale, chef-led business producing around 10,000 pies a week, all still hand-pressed, made with in-house stock and filled with high-quality British and Irish meat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But while the company\u2019s scale has increased, the standards haven\u2019t dropped. Part of the brand\u2019s mission is pushing back against the idea that pies should be cheap, anonymous and beige. Willy\u2019s makes the case that a good pie<\/a>\u2014properly seasoned, carefully filled and wrapped in crisp pastry\u2014doesn\u2019t need to be humble food at all. When done right, it\u2019s comforting without being boring, rich without being sloppy and deeply satisfying.<\/p>\n

Willy\u2019s doesn\u2019t have a permanent U.S. presence and this is a rare chance to try the pies without booking a flight to London Fields. Bookings open this Wednesday, February 11, and if last year is any indication, they won\u2019t hang around long.<\/p>\n

British food redemption arc? Consider this your edible evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British food jokes tend to travel faster than British food itself, but Willy\u2019s Pies is betting New Yorkers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2590,9,2591,56,63,65,64,821],"class_list":["post-127812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-categories-restaurants","tag-new-york","tag-news-eating","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}