West Cornwall Pasty, Waterloo Station

You're rushing through Waterloo Station—late for a meeting, starving, skeptical about station food—and then you smell it. Buttery pastry, proper filling, the kind of thing that makes you question why you ever bothered with meal deals. West Cornwall Pasty does one thing and does it properly: hand-crimped Cornish pasties with golden, crumbly pastry and generously stuffed fillings. Whether you're grabbing a traditional beef and veg before your train or lingering over a steak and ale, this isn't some mass-produced attempt at authenticity. It's a proper bakery operating at pace, the sort of place locals recommend to visitors and actually eat at themselves.