Pie Minister

Definitely try this place out! These pies are creative, amazing and very ,very tasty! Plus, they are hot and ready to eat with excellent pastry. This has to be a Tradie “smoko” favourite. 😊 Also customer service was excellent, I was happily greeted, served and out within 3 minutes. Excellent Pies, truly well done. So lets break it down As it was my first time, it was hard to choose as the range is so large it is almost overwhelming. 😊 So I ordered the Original (traditional) gravy mince beef pie and the chicken parma pie. (Refer to Photos) Price: Pies start from $5.50 and go up from there. Very reasonable for the food. Food: You have to give credit to amazing well-cooked pastry – sometimes that light crackle of thin flaked pastry really tops off every good pie. The Original Beef Mince pie: no more or less the traditional meat pie – the beef and gravy were great as it didn’t taste like they added a lot of salt or sugar to pick up the flavour – it was naturally savoury within it’s own right which was excellent. The Chicken Parma: Was blown away! So Good! They don’t skip on ingredients, the chicken pieces alone are worth it! But there is every flavour you would expect from traditional pub parma but in this pie. Highly recommend you take the challenge and tell me I’m wrong. Range: There would have to be 30 types, I didn’t really count as I was in and out so quickly! Customer Service: Service with a smile is always appreciated, thank you for that! Apart from the service person having to deal with my gobsmacked shock at the variety I was presented with; they had a secondary board to show you what was available – which was very helpful. Had my pies and paid within a few minutes. Outstanding. Would highly recommend this shop to everyone – I will be back – if only to try that beef stroganoff pie, which was sadly unavailable at the time.

The pies I bought from this bakery the first time were below average. I decided to hold off writing a review until coming back for more (in case this was a once off experience). Today I returned to try the chunky beef pie, and unfortunately, there was no improvement. The meat tasted like processed corned beef. On each of these occassions, the pies were shared with others and they had the same impression. Having said all of that, the service was great! It's just the pies that are not for me.

We drove over an hour to here because of all the great reviews and were not disappointed. As a pie lover who's tried many of the best bakery's around Melbourne these pies were 10 out of 10. The chunky steak pies were packed with tender juicy meat and more filling than I've ever had in a pie. Will be back soon.