Reviews

Pimblett's Meat and Potato Pie

The pastry is close to perfection. Fine soft shortcrust with only the crunchy crust lip providing a bit of solitary resistance. The pie is served a touch lukewarm unfortunately, th...

Clifton Street Bakery Meat and Potato Pie

There is a quintessentially Northern manner, the hot pots look huge but I opt for the meat and potato. The sticky top crust appears to be independent from the rest of the pie but s...

Ellison's of Redcar

Ellisons has a big blue canopy next to the Standard pub and as I saunter in, a woman with close cropped hair picks up on me immediately. She enthusiastically goes through the full...

Blackwell's Pork Pie

Product: Blackwell's Pork Pie

Shop: Blackwell's of Norton

Blackwell’s produce a solid Smoggie growler which doesn't look that deep from the top but from the cross section there seems adequate volume to it. The pork is chewy in texture off...

Higgidy Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie

Product: Higgidy Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie

Shop: Higgidy Pies

I’m not sure of the wisdom of including the word POT in the pie description, as it very often has negative connotations in the pie world. A pie should not be made in a pot, it shou...

Gent's Hot Pot

Product: Gent's Hot Pot

Shop: Gents Pie Shop

Look, this is primarily a pie site but there is still room for at least one example of an individually portioned Lancashire hot pot and there is no place better than Gents to get i...

Gent's Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Gent's Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: Gents Pie Shop

Gents doesn't look much of a place, you wouldn't even know it was there unless you were looking for it. There's no signs or advertisements, just a few cakes and loaves stacked in r...

Plested Steak and Kidney Pie

Product: Plested Steak and Kidney Pie

Shop: Plested Pies

Plesteds is Southampton's Premier Pie Shop: traditional savoury and fruit pies. For a shop which seems so big on pies, they don't seem to have an awful lot of variety. They've got...

Green's Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Green's Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: Green's Pie Shop

Greens sell nothing else other than pies, cakes and a few bottles of pop and it really is like a step back in time as working class Barrovians wait for their lunch. There's a polit...

Hall's Potato and Meat Pie

Product: Hall's Potato and Meat Pie

Shop: Halls Bakers

The Hall’s potato and meat is another great pie where the meat juices fusion perfectly with the potato, and there's possibly a bit of swede in there for good measure. Perhaps room...

Bowen Meat and Potato Pie

Product: Bowen Meat and Potato Pie

Shop: Bowen Pies

Bowen Pies are not in Wigan but they may as well be given the volume of Wigan Pies they send to shops and pubs in the area. They do a full range but their meat and potato is one of...

Helen's Steak and Potato Pie

Product: Helen's Steak and Potato Pie

Shop: Helen's Bakery

Helen’s bakery in Sheffield produces a steak and potato pie where the crust disintegrates when removed from the tray. It expires in my fingers into a dozen pieces. Just as well it...

Staniforth's Steak and Potato Pie

Product: Staniforth's Steak and Potato Pie

Shop: Staniforth's Bakery

During my visit to Sheffield, Staniforths (of Rotherham incidentally) are the only purveyor to supply me with a hot pie all day. It again has a high meat ratio, sweet gravy and a d...

Sean's Bakery Steak and Potato Pie

Product: Sean's Bakery Steak and Potato Pie

Shop: Sean's Steak and Potato Pie

I’m served by a cheery Irish chap whom I don’t know if he’s Sean himself but like everything else he's also totally green or at least wearing a big green apron to match the big Iri...

West Cornwall Pasty Company Steak Pasty

Traditional or not, I can't say I’m a huge fan of the large roll of pastry with nothing in it brought on by a side crimp. Anyway, it contains ample chunks of chuck steak and lots o...

M.Manze Minced Beef Pie

The pie itself is full flavoured and is essentially mince, mince and more mince, not that the descriptor in the shop described it as anything other than just PIE. The crust is dens...

Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe Meat and Potato Pastie

This is a triumph which shoots straight to the top of the pasty leaderboard! There may be pasties in Cornwall which can kick it's arse but I doubt you'll get change for a quid. In...

Greenhalgh's Butter Pie

The best compliment I can give here is that it didn't feel like there was something missing......There is a solid shortcrust pastry with a soft almost lattice top crust. Big slabs...

Greenhalgh's Meat and Potato Pie

Consisting of generous slabs of soft yellowy potato interspersed with beads of mince, the pastry is soft but a tad heartburn inducing at times, nevertheless this is a large, satisf...

Coward's Meat and Potato Pie

A deep, oblong shaped pie populated with slide rule square cubes of potato and mince sprinkled with liberal amounts of gravy. The pastry is a little dry but the top crust is adorne...

Laine's Meat and Potato Pie

A big, shallow plate pie with a raised centre and exceedingly hot. There's some colossal spuds within - although as it's advertised as a potato and meat pie I can’t complain if the...

Kevin Barry's Meat and Potato Pie

Service with a smile and as soon as I tuck into this deep, sturdy handsome beast I, too am smiling as well. A lovely dark glaze on the top crust which possesses an outer crunch and...

Gigli's Pork and Apple Pie

Giglis came with a reputation and certainly lived up to it be it their standard fayre or something with a little twist to it. This particular pie is made with hot water based pastr...

Uppercrust Bakery Steak and Kidney Pie

I came across this place by accident and upon entering I can see that the hotplates are a little bare and perfunctory. I acquire a steak and kidney pie and the pastry is dark and c...