Food from Every Stall on Norwich Market (2025 Edition) – Week 2 and Lucy’s Chips

The second visit on this 2025 set of visits to all the food stalls on Norwich Market was to Lucy’s Chips, which is also known as the mushy peas stall. Here’s the exterior of the stall and also a reminder to my two loyal blog readers of when James and I visited in 2023. There is a sister outlet at the market called Lucy’s Fish & Chips and here’s that blog post from when we visited in 2023.

The menu and I remember going for the Steak & Kidney pie last time. I tried to go for the Cornish pasty this time, but they didn’t have any available, although I’m always partial to some southern fried chicken fillets and I was tempted by those. I didn’t ever say that I was classy…. I have to confess that I forgot that the stall sells mushy peas, as I really should have ordered that given the provenance of that here, but maybe on our third visit here. There’s no seating area, but there is a little place to stand and we were able to have that space this time as the stall wasn’t very busy when we were there.

Remembering the quality, I really wanted another steak pie like last time, but I’m trying to always order something different on this second run of visits (that’s how professional I am), so after my first choice wasn’t available I went for the rather similar meal of chicken & mushroom pie. The price has gone up from £5.50 two years ago to £6 today, which is one of the smaller price increases that we’ve seen on the market. The quality was OK, it wasn’t overly decadent and it had a pleasant taste but it wasn’t overrun with pieces of chicken. Fortunately, it wasn’t much overrun with mushrooms either as I’m not overly keen on them. The gravy was very thick, which is fortunately as I like it, with the chips being suitably fluffy on the interior and firm on the exterior. Given that I treat my body as a temple, albeit as a slightly large temple, this was quite a stodgy meal to have at lunchtime and I did need a little recovery lie down after it.

James went for the cheesy chips and regretted not going for chips and curry sauce as he did before. I think he would rather the cheese had been melted more, although if I have to have cheesy chips, I prefer the cheese to be raw (or whatever term you want to use for non melted cheese).

And the photo that James took of his food and I’m not sure if that ‘Mushy P’ was deliberate or not. Everything at the stall was clean and tidy, with cutlery pro-actively provided and I was given the chance to add salt and vinegar to the chips before they put the gravy on the top.

I remember that this was a contender last time for being the best stall, but I’m not sure that there was anything exceptional enough here to surprise and delight me, but such is the high standard of Norwich Market. As usual, James has declared the winner of this year’s market visits even before we visited one, but I’m very professional and I remain open minded…..