Pie reviews

Pieminister Shamrock Pie

Product: Pieminister Shamrock Pie

Shop: Pieminister

As I’m sure everyone knows, Pieminster are two blokes from Bristol who love pies and have built up a cult following with restaurant stockists and stores, publishing books with reci...

Cranston's Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Cranston's Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: Cranstons

Sunday morning. In Keswick. Hung over and need petrol. Even the natural beauty of the Borrowdale pass and the invigorating calm of Derwent Water isn't clearing my head. There's a p...

Pooles Pies

Purchased from Asda, Pooles Pies are not what they were when I was growing up. At a mere 84 pence though it’s hard to complain. The pastry is crumbly and heartburn inducing but the...

Reids

The staff are attentive and courteous and hand me an oblong shaped pie with a soft, supple crust. Unfortunately, despite it’s £1.10 price tag, it is terribly small and half of it s...

Mhor Bakery Minced Steak Bridie

Product: Mhor Bakery Minced Steak Bridie

Shop: Mhor Bakery

The filling doesn’t extend all the way across, but what there is possesses a higher meat content than your average English pasty, with fewer random root vegetables. The mincemeat i...

Mhor Bakery Steak & Black Pudding Pie

Product: Mhor Bakery Steak & Black Pudding Pie

Shop: Mhor Bakery

The soft texture of the black pudding compliments the tougher steak, perfectly wrapped up in a thick juicy gravy, leaving you in no doubt who’s the boss here. A very Mhor’ish pie i...

Main Street Bakery Scotch Pie

Product: Main Street Bakery Scotch Pie

Shop: Main Street Bakery

It’s already a bit dark before it goes in the oven and the egg glaze permeates through whilst it’s warming. The crunch of the crust marries perfectly with the delicate fluffy light...

Bennett's Steak & Pepper Pie

Product: Bennett's Steak & Pepper Pie

Shop: Bennett's Deli

An ever so slightly soft, lardy pastry with a bit of give on the sides moulded in the traditional Scottish tin shape. It is chockful of stringy braised steak, which thankfully isn’...

Parkside Farm Shop Rabbit & Red Onion Pie

Product: Parkside Farm Shop Rabbit & Red Onion Pie

Shop: Parkside Farm Shop

The pie is solid but cracks up a little when I cut into it. Nice touch with the cute bunny ears on the top crust. Elmer Fudd wholeheartedly approves. There are plenty slices of chi...

Percy's Pork Pie

Product: Percy's Pork Pie

Shop: Percy Turner & Son Butchers

A simply amazing melt in the mouth pie at a stunning price. It is slightly unusual in that it seems a little bit more shortcrust rather than hot water pastry yet it is tender, cris...

Lord of the Pies Stockport Pie

Product: Lord of the Pies Stockport Pie

Shop: Lord of the Pies

This is a late addition to the party but the magnificent Stockport pie has gatecrashed in every sense. This is a pie beyond parallel to satisfy even the most demanding of appetites...

Hollingworth Bakery Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Hollingworth Bakery Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: Hollingworth Bakery

The smell emanating from this little cracker is overwhelming and it has that almost perfect cheesy, buttery taste to it, with a strong well textured crust, encasing generously stoc...

Parkside Farm Shop Pork Pie

Product: Parkside Farm Shop Pork Pie

Shop: Parkside Farm Shop

Firm texture and again slightly shortcrust, scored twice across the top. Hint of unevenness but not enough to make it fall to pieces. It was eaten hot out of the oven on recommenda...

Parkside Farm Shop Minted Lamb Hot Pot Pie

Product: Parkside Farm Shop Minted Lamb Hot Pot Pie

Shop: Parkside Farm Shop

An intriguing effort, which is almost wholly meat, with a handful of peas and a tiny bit of potato spilling out. After 25 minutes in the oven, it's supremely crisp but not too hard...

Tesco Chicken Balti Pie

This microwaved pie is damp and soggy but at least it smells authentic. Upon severing the beast in half, I am hit with slithers of pepper which I swiftly jettison off to a corner o...

Yorkes Steak and Peppercorn Pie

Product: Yorkes Steak and Peppercorn Pie

Shop: Yorkes of Dundee

A little flaky on top but sturdy and sublimely soft pastry. It is not the deepest but what lies inside is the finest quality steak, wrapped in a sumptuous peppercorn sauce. We all...

G.Simpson Pork & Stilton Pie

Product: G.Simpson Pork & Stilton Pie

Shop: G.Simpson Butchers

A supremely squared off growler with pockets of Stilton, jelly and bountiful coarse quantities of sausage meat within its dark mysterious crust.

Thomas' Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Thomas' Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: Thomas' Bakery

It’s got a little porthole in the middle, which has cracked a bit like an egg waiting to hatch but it's sumptuously soft and perfectly portable. It is an exceptionally packed to ca...

Diggle's Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Diggle's Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: Diggle's Bakery

It comes in a solid golden casing with a crisp and crunchy crust lid, it is steaming hot and smells stunning. There is a low meat to potato ratio, as is often the way around these...

Mcley's Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Mcley's Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: McLey's Bakery

Delicately soft pastry, with a crisp crunchy casing underneath, it smoulders like hot lava in my hands and smells divine. There is a very lucid mix of hot meat and veg which has me...

Morrison's Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Morrison's Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: Morrison's Supermarket

This has the potential to score very, very highly with its unique embroidered, oh alright then STAMPED crust rim but I feel it’s a touch crumbly and hard to manage and it nearly fa...

Deacon's Game Pie

Product: Deacon's Game Pie

Shop: BW Deacon Butchers

The phrase “I’m game if you are” is maybe not appropriate here. By all intents it’s the same as the steak pie but with different texture and colour pigments in the meat. There coul...

Child's Chicken & Veg Pasty

Product: Child's Chicken & Veg Pasty

Shop: Child's Family Bakery

Fluffy puff pastry, hardly any filling and a bland, greasy offering.

Elliott's Butcher's Pork Pie

Product: Elliott's Butcher's Pork Pie

Shop: Elliott's Butchers

Intensely coarse and tough with diverse colour pigments in there, reflecting the different parts of the pig I’m chomping on, all encased by a good half inch of jelly, with just eno...