Good pie places

[AD345]

Following on from the other thread this is the place to list your local good pie maker.

I'll start the ball rolling with a list of the winners from last years pie awards. This ia a good competition and produces some outstanding entries (plus its on again this month)
These are last years winners (Supreme Award Winner first followed by various other catagory winners and place getters))

Jackson's Bakery & Cafe
15 Middle Road
Havelock North

Ten O' Clock Cookie Bakery Cafe
180 Queen Street
Masterton

Elite Bakery & Cafe
175 Victoria Street
Wellington

Pie Mania
36 Wellesley Street
Auckland City

Greenland Bakery
3 Market Square
Botany Town Centre

Oslers Bakery Wairoa
116 Marine Parade
Wairoa

Beaut Bakery
179 Spa Road
Taupo

Putaruru Bakehouse & Café
44-46 Tirau Street
Putaruru

Paetiki Bakery
199 Rifle Range Road
Taupo

Ma & Pa's Hi-Way Diner
74 Main South Road
R D 24
St Andrews

Gold Star Patrick's Pies & Bakery
Bethlehem Town Centre
89 Old Taupo Road
Rotorua

Hillmorton Bakery
2d Coppell Place
Hillmorton
Christchurch

Bernie's Bakery & Café
25 Clyde Road
Browns Bay
Auckland

Kidds Cakes & Bakery
244 Cranford Street
Christchurch

Food for Thought
574 Pollen Street
Thames

Richoux Patisserie
119 Main Highway
Ellerslie
Auckland

Express Bakehouse Ngongataha
212 Ngongataha Road
Rotorua

Golden Crust Bakery
254 Gladstone Road
Gisborne

Gourmet Foods
144 Birch Avenue
Tauranga

Oxford Pies
142 Maui Street
Hamilton

Maketu Pies
6 Little Waihi Road
Maketu

Jimmy's Pies Ltd
143 Scotland Street
Roxburgh

More about the awards here (http://www.nzbakels.co.nz/pie_awards.cfm)


Support your local pie maker!

[AllanB]

Hillmorton Bakery
2d Coppell Place
Hillmorton
Christchurch


Hmmm Smokey pork and watercress pie :niceone:


Any of the Hillyer's of Lincoln outlets make excellent pies. My fav is the Venison :niceone:

[Pussy]

Blagdon Bakery, New Plymouth.
Do a VERY good bacon and egg pie

[ynot slow]

Sadly closed down but for years in Hawera Frasers Cake Shop,recipe handed down over the years,and to new owners.

For the mass produced in Taranaki my pick Andersons Pies.

[PirateJafa]

Muzza's Pies
Howick, Auckland

Mmmm. Chicken curry. Or butter chicken. Or satay chicken. Or mince mexicana.

Mmmmmmm.

[Trudes]

I had a Tui pie yesterday, a Steak and Cheese one....

It was YUMMY!!!!!:drool:

[DMNTD]

Onerahi Bakery(Whangarei) make some bloody niiiiice pies!

[Highlander]

I had a Tui pie yesterday, a Steak and Cheese one....

It was YUMMY!!!!!:drool:

Yeah right!!!

[Trudes]

Yeah right!!!

hahahaha yeah yeah!! :laugh:


(No really it was yum!):msn-wink:

[Highlander]

I know it was a cheap shot but I'm too weak to resist. :rofl:

I can feel a Pie Run comming on. Plenty of sampling to work our way through this list.

Jimmy's Pies in Roxburgh are pretty good. When I'm down that way I make a point of sending my kids a photo of a half eaten Jimmy's Pie.

[JimO]

Steve Hotton, ex all black has a bakery in Kurow he makes a mean pie, i thinks its called Cafe Moke

[Manxman]

When we moved to NZ and lived in Mt Wellington, there was this great bakery in Pakuranga, that made the best ever mince & cheese pies.

Run by some Chinese folk, I have never tasted better.

Here, I think: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-36.899493,174.85414&z=17&t=h&hl=en

Turn left off Queens Road, into Pilkington. About 100m up the hill on the left.

(In best Homer Simpson voice) MMMMmmmmm. Pies.

[crazyhorse]

Jackson's Bakery & Cafe
15 Middle Road
Havelock North

Guess I am biased living in Havelock North, but honestly, they are the best :first: !

[Gareth51]

Jackson's Bakery & Cafe
15 Middle Road
Havelock North

Guess I am biased living in Havelock North, but honestly, they are the best :first: !

Been there a few times myself

[scracha]

Geek alert but this would be a good google maps mashup or Tom tom add-on.

"the nearest good pie shop is 46 km away"

[FROSTY]

Ponsonby pies --back in the days they were actually Ponsonby pies not the huge company they are now.

[Pedrostt500]

can't think of what its named just at the moment, but its by the Mobil on the Petone esplanade, only open through the week and bakes all his own on site,

[colonel]

Regency Pies. kamo Whangarei have to say have are the best I make them:niceone:

[Pussy]

Been over at Tauranga the last few days, visiting my recently widowed Mum.
Bought a ripper steak pie just round the corner from her place at the Cherrywood bakery.... best I've had for a while

[FLYMO]

Renwick bakery
they make the most awesome pies and they are reasonably priced too

[Maha]

Out of the bag?
On a plate (whole) with tomato sauce?
On a plate cut up with tomato sauce?

[Ocean1]

How do you eat pies?

Yes.

All of the above, depending on the establishment, (or lack thereof).

And whether my mum is present...

[Pussy]

Out of the bag?
On a plate (whole) with tomato sauce?
On a plate cut up with tomato sauce?
Definitely out of the bag

[Maha]

Yes.
All of the above, depending on the establishment, (or lack thereof).
And whether my mum is present...

I guess if you at a gas station then you have no option but to scoff it out of the bag.


Definitely out of the bag

Really?...I had an uncle who was like that, always out of the bag, even if he bought it and took it home to eat, out of the bag, no sauce that way?

[Blackbird]

Steak and oyster pie from Coromandel Pies (behind Golddigger's liquor store opposite Umu cafe).

[Fatt Max]

Bucklands Beach Bakery,
Bucklands Beach Road
Bucklands Beach

Blimmin' great mince and cheese, kicks any hangover into touch

[spacemonkey]

Regency Pies. kamo Whangarei have to say have are the best I make them:niceone:

Yeah I like those ones when I lived up in Whanga's for a few years. :yes:

Another good place in west auckland (been few years since I've been there though) is the lil asian bakery in the block of shops on Henderson valley rd near the intersection with Pine Ave, they get the gravy just right, I loved their steak and mushroom pies. :drool::drool::drool:

[Squiggles]

Any of the Pâtisseries in Motueka... absolutely delicious.

On another note, if there was a bakery on campus @ Auckland uni it would surely be a winner.

[Laava]

Regency Pies. kamo Whangarei have to say have are the best I make them:niceone:
Oh-hello! Fancy you popping up in here!
The Baker Man in Mangonui also makes good pies.

[McWild]

Hororata hotel/pub,
Hororata,
Canterbury.

Fan - bloody -tastic.

[BMWST?]

I can feel a Pie Run comming on. Plenty of sampling to work our way through this list.



hmmmmm yummmm hmmmm a different version of a poker run?

plate with sauce.......coffee...ride for 1 hour in cold...repeat.........

[Highlander]

hmmmmm yummmm hmmmm a different version of a poker run?

With not so Cryptic clues as to where you need to go.

Or perhaps this could turn into a Nationwide Tagorama - or should that be Open wide tagorama?

[Laava]

I'm in!!! *gobble, gobble smilie*

[Ocean1]

I guess if you at a gas station then you have no option but to scoff it out of the bag.

Oh no, you can eat half of it like that, then switch to the more advanced "searing hot mince and still-boiling cheese, (having extruding from soggy pastry and escaped the paper containment device) drops with uncanny precision down the front of the open jacket, requiring one to run screaming around in ever-widening circles divesting oneself of every stitch of clothing until one trips over a rail and pitches headlong into a handy stream" gourmand 102 method.

The serious epicurean adventurer wishing to specialise in the humble tiddy oggie, however, will have employed this method numerous times, before finally settling on the tried and proven expediency of maintaining in their possession at all times a small but quality collection of china crockery, silver cutlery and numerous assorted pie related condiments.

*And a handsome draught of... that certain beverage.*

[martybabe]

I bought a lovely looking pie from a little place in Ohope last summer, jammed it in the window of the fun bus to cool down whilst driving along and lost it on a left hander, the pie that is not the fun bus.

I can't tell you what it tasted like because it splattered deliciously all over the road, I really miss that pie, I just know it was the best pie ever in the world but it's gone now, gone gone. RIP the best pie that I ever almost had :bye:

P.S. Did you know it's possible to salivate and cry at the same time :mellow:

[Pussy]

I bought a lovely looking pie from a little place in Ohope last summer, jammed it in the window of the fun bus to cool down whilst driving along and lost it on a left hander, the pie that is not the fun bus.

I can't tell you what it tasted like because it splattered deliciously all over the road, I really miss that pie, I just know it was the best pie ever in the world but it's gone now, gone gone. RIP the best pie that I ever almost had :bye:
Sincere condolences, Mart! :bye:

[martybabe]

Sincere condolences, Mart! :bye:

Thanks Pussy, I knew I was amongst pie eating friends in this thread, it's the first time I've been able to talk about it without flashbacks, I tried to get it back John, really I did, I just smashed my hand up the window, so very sad. :no:

[allycatz]

Rays Pies & Fries, Kapiti Rd, Paraparaumu...yummy range including lambs fry & bacon pies

[cambridgedan]

im going to have to say georgie Pie :D sadly thats long gone :(

[spacemonkey]

I know its the "in thing" to yearn for the Georgie pie of old, but honestly they were pretty crap, mass produced, soggy, indifferent tasting things that the local Asian bakery could out do.
I don't miss them at all.

[martybabe]

Rays Pies & Fries, Kapiti Rd, Paraparaumu...yummy range including lambs fry & bacon pies

Ooh yes, I went there once, Second vote from me.

[Winston001]

Browsing the Georgie Pie thread reminded me not to ever look to McDonalds as a source of a decent pie.

But it did remind me of this thread.

So what is your favourite pie? Mine is Jimmys, made in Roxburgh and available from dairies all over the lower South Island. I also like the fact a historical town most people have never heard of has a vibrant business which has been going strong for over ten years.

No web page. No Wiki. Just damned good pies. What more does a biker need!

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g3574254-d3610545-Reviews-Jimmy_s_Pies-Roxburgh_South_Island.html

[Road kill]

Take away across the road from the pub in Patamahoe.

All their pies are awesome.

[Grumph]

Hororata hotel/pub,
Hororata,
Canterbury.

Fan - bloody -tastic.

When the pub was sold up post quake, the pie recipe went for around $5000........

Being made to almost the original recipe now at the Hororata cafe across the road from the old pub.

Still Fan - bloody - tastic.