I’m a food writer who was born and raised in the UK. Here are 10 British dishes everyone should try in their lifetime.

• Everyone should try a Cornish pasty, cottage pie, and Sunday roast at least once.
• Beans on toast, fish and chips, and Yorkshire pudding are classics. 

I grew up in Cornwall, where eating pasties weekly, if not daily, is the norm for locals.

Visitors must try a sausage roll from Greggs.

This pudding is a sweet dish made with stale bread slices, which are buttered, then soaked in an egg-based custard before being baked with raisins and brown sugar.

It’s a lovely dish that can also be made with leftover non-British food, such as croissants or brioche.

This story was originally published on May 1, 2022, and most recently updated on August 24, 2026.