A Good Bakery / A good Pie

[Flemo]

Anyone travelling the PAC hwy north of Grafton drop into my mates new pie shop at tynedale 20 mins north of Grafton, plantation pies. Recommend the corned beef and white sauce pie, bloody good! Or big eaters have a crack at the man v food style pie mountain! Finnish in 45 mins, free t shirt and name on the still blank wall of fame.

[RayMc]

Here in WA, the Coral Bay Bakery does a fantastic Chilli Pie ... chunks of chilli, lots of meat and a gravy to keep it all together.  It's always hard to stop at one.
Cheers

[Bill]

Meldrums Bakery in Grafton St Cairns City........ yummo

They are the best I have had...
Bill and Morag

[Pipeliner]

In response to Duchess:

I judge a pie on both the quality of the pastry and the taste and quality of the filling, with the pastry slightly more important (there are many different fillings but only one pastry).  The pastry case should be short, but not so short that it breaks and crumbles when you try to eat the pie, and the top should be flakey (but preferably not so flakey that you get little flakes all over your shirt.  The filling should be good quality (nothing worse than finding chunks of gristle in a pie), well cooked, and the gravy should be tasty and just thick enough to ensure it stays inside the case when you eat it.  I don't care whether the filling is chunky or minced as long as it matches what I expect from the menu, and the top may also be potato rather than pastry.

Any pie that needs tomato sauce injected into it to make it eatable has already failed the test, as has any pie where the base of the case is shiny and undercooked (a baker would describe it differently, but you know what I mean).  For factory pies, Beefy's is the best I've found with Vili's second (but from their 24 hour factory cafe in Adelaide, not from a corner store).  I've also had good pies from various country bakeries but haven't ever kept a list of them!  Ones that have disappointed me as not living up to the hype have been Fredos and Yatala.

[Wodewick]

For some strange reason I feel like a pie for lunch   Rod.

[Marschy]

Mannum Bakery, best curry pie I've ever eaten.

[RobM]

PHELAN'S - AYR
(couple of outlets in Townsville now too.)

Pies are ok but their pasties (meat)  are to die for.
Had my first in 1961 and still not sick of them.

The pie cart on the foreshore at Cardwell is good too, but you have to be early, he often runs out.

[camperd4d]

Orange bakery cafe,just across from aldi,best curry pies ever.

[gunna]

We travel the Hume a bit
last wk we called into Marulan
we like to call into the towns & spend a few dollars to support the locals found a nice little bakery there had a great stout & stk pie
took a couple of coldies home had them with mash spuds , peas & gravey
also Barneys @ bookham just south of Yass on the hume great pies & coffee
sheeds

[Pipeliner]

took a couple of coldies home had them with mash spuds , pees & gravey

Oh dear, doesn't sound either appetising or hygenic

[Marschy]

Hey RobM,

My good lady wife is from Ayr. Question, do all women from that neck of the woods swear like truck drivers, or did I just get lucky. 

Cheers Marshy.

[RobM]

Marshy,
I haven't lived there for 40 years (just visit often) and my wife grew up in Townsville so I'm probably not qualified to answer that. 

[gunna]

lol good spelling from me lollollolol
sheeds

[JU5T1N]

Very surprised no ones mentioned the Yarck pies.

It's been a while for me but they used to be top notch.

6595 Maroondah Highway YARCK VIC 3719 (2hrs North of Melbourne)

[Paul Mac]

It's been a while since I've been home but Bellerive Bakery used to make a magnificent Scallop mournay pie. To any Tasmanians' does the Bellerive Bakery still operate and make them?

[BernieS]

Had a great curried scallop and veg pie, somewhere in Tasmania.... can't recall where. It was so good that now I make this type of pie myself. yummm

[spargo]

PHELAN'S - AYR
(couple of outlets in Townsville now too.)

Pies are ok but their pasties (meat)  are to die for.
Had my first in 1961 and still not sick of them.

The pie cart on the foreshore at Cardwell is good too, but you have to be early, he often runs out.

Phelans are the king of Pasties.. A variation on a traditional hard party cornish pasty, but they're the best I've had in oz. Am back there next week to double-check and reconfirm opinion.

I'm from Ayr. Yes, we're weird.

[champin]

 From a bit of a pie connoisseur, you can't beat Yarragon bakery in Vic.

[doc evil]

In Victoria a big vote for the Avoca bakery.

WA, toss up between Pinjara Bakery and Bindoon Bakery...........Hmmmm I feel a drive coming up........

[Jeepers Creepers]

Maaaate, ol Arthur from the TCB bakery does a wicked pie with a nice cheese and bacon topper on it.

Anything with bacon is always a winner........... hmmmm...............bacon..............arrrrrrrghhhh

[kiwipete]

Jimmy's Pies Roxburgh NZ    anyone that has had one of these will agree that they are the best pie in the World.   

[JU5T1N]

Jimmy's Pies Roxburgh NZ    anyone that has had one of these will agree that they are the best pie in the World.

just wouldn't get their "the X" pie
its a Lamb pie with a cheesy sauce marinade 

[Mallory Black]

Blackbutt bakery, next door to Butt-Art

[alnjan]

A bit surprised no one who travels the Pacific Goat track has mentioned Freddo pies at Fredrickton. Always busy anytime we have been there, not bad either.

Very over rated

Are they still making pies at Lanitza?   best damn pies I have ever had

[crackacoldie]

The old Stonehut bakery in the southern Flinders makes a nice pie

Cracka