Piecaramba!: ‘A bloody good pie shop’ – restaurant review | Jay Rayner

The restaurant may be filled with vintage comics, but the pies served up in this Winchester diner are no joke

Piecaramba!, 11a Parchment Street, Winchester SO23 8AT (01962 852 182). Meal for two, including service and drinks: £25 (if you really try)

Getting too analytical about our food is never a good idea. Eating is a visceral business, or at least should be. There is nothing better calculated to deaden the appetite and dry the tongue than attempting to intellectualise dinner. Then again, some culinary items can handle a little nerdy unpacking, and none more so than the pie.

I couldn’t stop muttering the word ‘pie’ under my breath, like some lusty adolescent