4/387 Station Street
Thornbury
Victoria
After the dalliance with the (admittedly very good) fourteen dollar pie this week, I felt a bit wrong. The pie is meant to be “Andy Warhol’s Coke” wrapped in pastry — it’s a democratic food and it feels decidedly strange to be paying pub schnitzel prices, no matter how good it is.
The other shops in the area are a sketchy massage joint, a perpetually empty coin laundromat, and a shop that does a very brisk trade selling a wide variety of nangs fit for the discerning nitrous sommelier.
As it happens, there’s a bakery no more than a 10 minute walk from my house, and despite having lived here for about 5 years, I’d never been there (mostly because the other shops in the area are a sketchy massage joint, a perpetually empty coin laundromat, and a shop that does a very brisk trade selling a wide variety of nangs fit for the discerning nitrous sommelier). Turns out I’d been sleeping on a great little bakery just because of its neighbours.
The “plain” pie was everything you want from a $4.50 meal. Serviceable, portable, hot, and familiar. It’s what you conjure up in your mind when you think of a pie from a small high street bakery. For an extra 30 cents, you can level up to a steak and mushroom pie, which has some surprisingly large slices of mushroom in there, and the slightly woody taste you want from mushrooms (without being overpowering or oily).
Are these gourmet pies? Nope, absolutely not. What they are is good, serviceable, and portable. All this plus the happy fact that the bakery does a smashing eclair. That plus two pies runs you the same price as a single pie at Baker D. Chirico — a bargain in anyone’s book.
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