Joke's over for Jester's Civic

Erindale Bakery. Good range. Good stuff. People who think about pastry.

I reckon ALDI’s frozen pies are great. Who cares what it is made out of as long as it tastes good and doesn’t make you physically ill. Can’t be any worse than eating haggis.

Damn it, I got a 2 for 1 voucher for Jesters that I never used. (though from the sounds of it I guess I’m not missing out on so much anyway)

I’ll put another vote in for Cornucopia though

“To find a quality pie with chunks of real meat, and no arteries, gristle and other offal, with pastry that doesn’t flake all over the place is a rare thing indeed.”
Not just pies.
Woolies is selling Italian Pork sausages that are only 15% Pork. What is the rest?
4in20 Pies are about 19% Meat.
Even the humble hash brown is often less than 90% potato.

Now I want a pie. No, three pies. With peas.

Agreed – Jesters dish up very average pies, at extraordinarily high prices. I guess that’s the so-called “invisible hand” of the market at work…

On the subject of pies, Villies are always the ones being sold at the various public events – and an overpriced runny-everywhere pie is *exactly* what you need at a public event NOT.
People have also raved over Dobinsons (Bunda St) and Bryants (from Goulburn) pies, but I’ve found both quite average.

To find a quality pie with chunks of real meat, and no arteries, gristle and other offal, with pastry that doesn’t flake all over the place is a rare thing indeed. Unfortunately the main place to get same reliably is a certain brand in the supermarket freezers of all places.

I like the vegetarian pies at Elaine’s – Fyshwick is just as good as Dickson. Possibly they just taste so good because they’re drowned in cheese.

Cornucopia has the most outstanding pastry (or anything from a bakery) that I’ve ever eaten. The pumpkin pillow is great (although too big for me to get through on my own).

Bruno’s in Mawson has excellent quiches. They don’t make a vegie pie so I don’t know about that.

I tend to avoid the local pies – just haven’t been impressed over the last two decades or so.

I do enjoy a beef pie from the bakery at Nuggets Crossing in Jindabyne and the mushy pea pies at the Gunnadoo (sp?) bakery in Bungendore are pretty good.

The bakery in Kippers for their Guinness Pie. Apparently it’s won awards, but I’ve never bothered to read the sign.

I’m glad Jester’s Civic has failed. Not because their pies were especially bad – I had a spinach roll at the Brand Depot store today and it was all right – but because the service at Civic was appalling. It was as if the whole place was run by 14-year-old schoolgirls. Everything was extremely unprofessional and there was always a lot of giggling from behind the counter, and zero attention to customer service.

I went in there one night because they were the only place in the area I could get a coffee that time, and some weirdo who was trying to chat up the girls working there decided to come behind the counter and show the girls how to make a coffee. This guy didn’t work there, and I didn’t want some Civic random making my coffee, so I could give my money to the useless shop assistants… I walked away and never went back.

Good riddance, support your local bakery, not some franchised fat American shite. Cornucopia’s just up the road and it’s world class.

Silly me, Villis Pies are the pies they have at the Parliament House and National Museum cafes. At both places with a side of chips or salad, quite good value and great taste.

Best Pies, any place that sells Villis Pies. No one can match the pastry and the spice in the filling. Very good. The Zoo and a couple of places in Deakin sell them.
Worst Pie, sadly the plain pies at Michelles. They taste like raw meat.

Second nomination for Cornucopia.

Used to get great pies from Hughes and Yarralumla bakeries, too (good quality mince without the gristle!)

Cornucopia in Braddon for their Kangaroo and Beer pies. Elaine’s at Dickson (NOT Fyshwick) for their steak and mushroom.

Both places offer big chunks of meat in the pies. Elaines wins on price, but Cornucopia has slightly better pastry.

And that said, let’s hear the words up on where to go for a good pie! I LOVE pies. They are ART. Robert Macklin did a pie thing in the CT some years back. When I’m in the US, I just drool for pies (they don’t have them). so, who in Canberra and surrounds is making excellent pies right now? (drooling).

Yep, agreed ant. Overrated *and* overpriced. Never a good combination.

Stick with the local bakeries for a good pie.

There’s one out at Brand Depot too. I don’t know what the fuss is about though, they were very average. Pies at Kingston bakery, just for example, were better, and I bet there’s lots of other better pie floggers too. Bryants were always good, and they’re still around.