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Pork Farms
21 February 2012 Legacy review

Pork Farms

Despite turning me down for summer work in 1995, I bear no grudge against Pork Farms. It’s dark and moody and mass produced but contains lots of fine, well seasoned pork meat insul...

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The Treacle Town Pie Company
16 February 2012 Legacy review

The Treacle Town Pie Company

It’s served red hot, pulled straight from the oven but the old adage of a good little 'un will always beat a good big 'un does not apply to the pie eater's prescription because thi...

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Marshall Spearing
16 February 2012 Legacy review

Marshall Spearing

Despite sounding like an American rapper, Marshall Spearing produces a divinely proficient pie. The pastry is crisp and glazed on the outside with a soft doughy interior and the fi...

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Square Pie
7 February 2012 Legacy review

Square Pie

Served in a box with mash and gravy for £6.80, it composes of semi melted cheese on top of a decent quantity of steak with two big dollops of potato on the OUTSIDE. It'll never cat...

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4 February 2012 Legacy review

Pound Bakery

A pie for a pound is a headline grabber. However, when you discover that it's actually TWO pies for a pound, or pasties, sausage rolls or whatever, well the cap is well and truly d...

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4 February 2012 Legacy review

Pound Bakery

The Pound Bakery meat and potato which is passable too. Large slabs of potato and juicy mincemeat. Again there is a heinous amount of airspace towards the roof of the pie and it ar...

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Philip Baker
3 February 2012 Legacy review

Philip Baker

Described as The ultimate pork pie, he may look like a bit of a toff on his website but this is a growler and a half. Philip has earned his stripes here with an enticing pork pie b...

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31 January 2012 Legacy review

Sextons

The temperature is powerful and the crust is sublime; a touch of puff pastry yet light and soft in the mouth. The filling, consisting of ringlets of pink meat and mushy slabs of po...

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The Crusty Cob
28 January 2012 Legacy review

The Crusty Cob

Situated near to the Etihad but also close to Newton Heath, these pies are equally as suitable for an Arab sheikh or a humble railway worker. A wonderful oval shaped shortcrust cas...

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Westwells
28 January 2012 Legacy review

Westwells

This pie cost EIGHTY FIVE PENCE and the delightful aroma of gravy coming from inside means that this pie is destined for a quick larruping. Intensely full inside, easy on the eye w...

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Slatterys
28 January 2012 Legacy review

Slatterys

An impressive pie and Slattery’s is an impressive place, think if Willy Wonka made pie shops. There’s a glazed top crust with a little porthole and a large crack running through th...

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Martins
28 January 2012 Legacy review

Martins

Organised chaos in this place, where I am constantly ignored in my attempts to get service. The pie is presented in a raging hot foil tray yet the ample serving of meat and veg is...

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Percy Ingles
24 January 2012 Legacy review

Percy Ingles

My fault this entirely. I mistaken thought that you could get a pie from a baker’s in London, only to return with a steak bake that had more air in it than Geordie celeb, Donna. De...

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Wrights Pies
23 January 2012 Legacy review

Wrights Pies

An above average size pie with a crust which had a lovely feel to it but wasted no time introducing me to Mr Heartburn. A delightful, powerful aroma came off it which veritably stu...

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Muffin Man
21 January 2012 Legacy review

Muffin Man

The pastry is softer than the dulcet tones of the Cadbury's Caramel bunny, like an angel crying on my tongue, the mince meat filling is slightly pinkish in colour and encased in a...

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Sayers
16 January 2012 Legacy review

Sayers

The pie possesses perfect portability and holds together throughout. The crust edge is a tad thick which often sets the heartburn alarm bells ringing but the whole pie is eaten by...

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