Meat Pie Lovers

Cupie · Guru

Meat Pie Lovers

Hylda&Jon · Guru

Funny! I lived in the Nthrn Beaches of Sydney half my life then travelled around Australia for a couple of years and tried many pies along the way and still believe the best are at Brooky Pie Shop in Brookvale.

I am the cook in our house and enjoy cooking but I have never tried using pastry and I know I will never match those Brooky Pie Shop ones I love which is a little discouraging. Even the pastry on them was the most amazing flaky pastry I've seen on a pie.

Cheers

Jon

-- Edited by Hylda&Jon on Thursday 19th of November 2015 03:27:53 PM

Bruce and Bev · Guru

We're staying near a country little town called Brookton in the Wheat belt, WA. They have a bakery which serves up terrible stuff, but the BP servo cooks all its own food and even does full meals - like meat/veg and other interesting "healthy" stuff. They do great coffee as well and I reckon they sell more food than fuel.

But their pies are amazing - light flaky pastry with real meat (no rubbish gravy) and the bacon and egg ones are my favourite. They have 3 staff working all day, constantly making fresh food. Well patronized by the truckies going through and the locals.

Dhutime · Senior Member

Usually good a good sign if truckies stop for a feed just love a good pie !!!

Hey Jim · Guru

Hi Bruce & Bev,

We will note that one in our travel log For next year. biggrin biggrin biggrin A good feed never hurts anyone.

Jim

Spydermann · Senior Member

Somewhere on the highway between Virginia & Port Wakefield, we stopped at a BP station run by some Indians. Wife went in to buy 2 sausage rolls. When we opened the bag it was 2 rectangular pies that we decided to eat anyway. It was a Mrs. Macs chunky beef pie and it was delicious. Better than the sausage rolls we were going to have. Also I like the Chill & Cheese Karnsky Rolls that seem to be available in SA as a result of the German Heritage there. Can't say I've seen them outside SA.

Casualkev · Senior Member

Ah the humble pie what a glorious thing years ago, now they only have to contain 25% meat the rest is cereal and offal! But having said that Darby's original pies in Darby St Newcastle in the early to mid 70's were astounding as were the sausage rolls, there still going in a few places, but I think they lost the recipe! St George Qld had a good bakery people would be lined up outside. I hear that Renmark also has a bakery that causes traffic chaos!

Kev

Radar · Guru

Dhutime wrote:
Usually good a good sign if truckies stop for a feed just love a good pie !!!

No quite right most times these days they have no taste and to top it off there isno old style road house left.

Dhutime · Senior Member

We have a few good road houses left over here in the south west WA, with some good home baked pies,sausage rolls and the cakes yum

kiwijims · Guru

While on our trip around the block a few years back, we tried many pies through every state and around Tassie,

Down in Tassie we came across the "Ned Kelly Pie" this pie was Fantastic, full of beef with bacon and topped off with an egg,

This was the "Pie of Pies" in our book, we also came across this pie while travelling through Colac in Victoria, unfortunately there are not many other states that have ever heard of this pie. they look at us pretty blank when we returned to the West and tried to buy a Ned Kelly here!!!

Has anyone ever tried or heard of a Ned Kelly ????

Up in central and North Queensland they make some great Beef pies, true beef and nice flake pastry no useless watery gravy either.

It seems the smaller the Bakery, the better the quality, these mass produced pies they make today taste like the pastry is cardboard and there is very little meat inside "UCK" bleh bleh bleh

K.J.

Dhutime · Senior Member

Jesters here in the West have a Ned Kelly beef pie not bad either

kiwijims · Guru

Dhutime wrote:
Jesters here in the West have a Ned Kelly beef pie not bad either

Thanks Dhutime, that's great news, I'll be sussing them out very shortly, lets hope they are as good as they were over the other side of the Sand-Patch.

K.J.

Felicia · Guru

What I really dislike is cafes that call themselves bakeries. The one at Katamatite used to be called a bakery but now under new ownership is now a cafe, very clean, friendly staff, interesting building. The bakery at Tumbarumba is a bakery, raisin bread is baked there and their apple slice is great. Didn't try any pies.

Lynda

TommyG · Senior Member

Thanks Cupie, I love Aussie pies and also rate towns on their bakery fare. Nothing beats a good pie & vanilla slice.

We have a Spud shed close by where they frequently have frozen, loose, Mrs Mac's pies $1.00 each. Not as good as fresh baked but good for a standby. The Cheese & Chilli are great.

TommyG · Senior Member

Radar,

No quite right most times these days they have no taste and to top it off there is no old style road house left.

Yea! thats about right, there used to be a great roadhouse half way down Greenmount that made marvellous Rabbit pies. All the truckies stopped there for years. Then the quality of the pies fell away to pretty terrible and people stopped going there. I asked him why he had changed his recipe.

He reckoned it was caused by Myxomatosis wiping out rabbits meaning he had to start adding other meat to the mix. What other meat? Horse meat. How much? 50% Gee 1 lb of horse to 1 lb of rabbit. Oh no, one rabbit, one horse.

Shortly after he closed, no more customers.

TommyG · Senior Member

Radar,

No quite right most times these days they have no taste and to top it off there is no old style road house left.

Yea! thats about right, there used to be a great roadhouse half way down Greenmount that made marvellous Rabbit pies. All the truckies stopped there for years. Then the quality of the pies fell away to pretty terrible and people stopped going there. I asked him why he had changed his recipe.

He reckoned it was caused by Myxomatosis wiping out rabbits meaning he had to start adding other meat to the mix. What other meat? Horse meat. How much? 50% Gee 1 lb of horse to 1 lb of rabbit. Oh no, one rabbit, one horse.

Shortly after he closed, no more customers.

aussietraveller · Guru

There is another fantastic pie shop in the Rivarena area at uranquinty (not sure of spelling) makes excellent range of real meat pies but don't go on Sunday morning as half of the population of Wagga is there having pies.

For those interested in Ned Kelly pies the main bakery in Orange does a great Negg Kelly pie

kiwijims · Guru

Dhutime wrote:
Jesters here in the West have a Ned Kelly beef pie not bad either

Well it's a sad day here in the West, because I've just Sussed out a Jesters NED KELLY PIE, &**$##@

THEY WOULD'NT KNOW WHAT A NED KELLY PIE WAS !!!!

Here is their ingredients for their version of this famous pie , exactly the same as all their other pies.............

Premium West Australian Black Angus Beef............................Prove it's black Angus !!!!

Jesters Unique Onion Enriched Gravy

Jesters Own Puff Pastry

Looks like I will have to head back to Victoria for a GOOD Pie. cry cry cry

K.J.

-- Edited by kiwijims on Saturday 21st of November 2015 08:50:23 PM

kiwijims · Guru

All may not be lost, I've just checked out the PINJARRA BAKERY, Now with an out-let here in Maddington,

And " YES " they do make a NED KELLY PIE,,,,,,,,,,,,it's listed at the bottom and it shows the contents that I recognised, as being a true NED KELLY PIE, "YIPPIE "

K.J.

Dhutime · Senior Member

Well done KJ you scored sorry about Jesters bought them here in Albany must check if they still have next week .

TommyG · Senior Member

KJ is right the Jesters pies are a joke and the Pinjarra pies are mediocre at best or rubbish if you take the price into consideration. same can be said for the self claimed "Famous" Miami Bakery.
The Brookton BP servo does make good pies. There are quite a few French bread shops around the country areas, mostly run by Asian staff, they usually have a very good range of better than average pies and a wonderful range of cakes, all at reasonable prices. Pies from around $4 to $5 and the very best of vanilla slices and cakes from around $3 to $4.
The shops at Merridin, Narrogin, Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Mandurah, are some of the ones I'm talking about.
Only a few years ago the bakery at Oakey in the Darling Downs region of Queensland sold pies & Pasties for $2.00ea They had signs out on the highway for a couple of K's advertising them. The pies were about as good as a Mrs Mac's but better value at half the price. We were glad that they had the signs out, otherwise we might have missed a really nice little town, with its statue of Bernborough outside the library.

Travel Bug · Guru

The Fernvale Bakery on the Brisbane Valley Highway in Fernvale QLD takes some beating. Yummm!!

Cupie · Guru

Travel Bug wrote:
The Fernvale Bakery on the Brisbane Valley Highway in Fernvale QLD takes some beating. Yummm!!

Spot on. We always stop there for a pie when on a trip up or back through the valley.

Umpie1 · Senior Member

My recommendation is Parkers Pie Shop @ Rutherglen Vic.

03_Troopy · Guru

Blakeney's Pies in East Maitland do a pretty good pie, their chilly pie is a tad warm though.