Short answer: Tre, Pol & Pen's farm shop and Proper Ansome both do genuinely good versions at fair prices. Look for a hand-crimped edge and chunked beef rather than minced.
Launceston's food scene serves a genuine year-round local population, not a summer rush — which tends to mean steadier quality and fairer prices.
A hand-crimped edge along the side rather than a crimp on top, and chunked beef with swede, potato and onion rather than a minced filling. That's the real marker.
A farm shop, butcher and café combined a few miles out, with genuinely good baked goods and an afternoon tea that gets specific praise. Note dogs stay outside here.
Attached to a farm shop on an industrial estate — easy to miss, genuinely good, and noticeably cheaper than the tourist towns.
The castle grounds give you somewhere to sit with a proper view over the town and out towards Devon.
Because Launceston isn't a purely seasonal town, you're far less likely to hit the peak-season sell-outs that catch people out in Padstow or St Ives.
Worth asking directly rather than scanning the counter — vegetarian versions are usually made but often kept behind. The Coffee Pot does a well-regarded gluten-free range if that's the constraint.
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