Wisey's Pies

I’m not sure why there’s this sudden interest in Aussie meat pies.  Are they even that big of a thing in Australia?  My cousin who lives in Australia says not really.  When my cousin visited last year, and he saw a sign that said Aussie meat pies, he actually laughed and took a picture of the sign.  Yes these Aussie meat pies have more flavours than your normal frozen meat pies that you pick up from your grocery store, and they taste much better.  But they also cost a lot more. 

We kinda went crazy at Wiseys (they’re technically New Zealand meat pies), we ordered quite a bit of food.  I was surprised at the total in the end.  Drink wise, we ordered a flat white (to go with the theme down under), and an almond coconut non-caffeinated tea.  The coffee came with a chocolate covered short bread cookie that was shaped like a fish, and the tea came with a mini oatmeal raisin cookie.  The fish cookie was delicious, I didn’t get to try the oatmeal raisin since I don’t like raisins, and I can’t eat dried fruit anyways.

Flat White & Almond Coconut Tea

Pie wise, our first pies were a ‘normal’ meat pie, steak and kidney pie, and a vegetable quiche.  The pie crust wasn’t a butter flour ‘tart’ like shell, it was more of a puff pastry shell, which was nice and buttery.  Filling was good, good, flavour, and good amount of filling.  The normal meat pie was minced meat.  The steak and kidney pie had large chunks of steak and kidney.  The vegetable quiche had peppers, broccoli and mushroom.  My biggest complaint was the temperature of the pies.  Prior to ordering, I asked them if the pies were heated before serving since we were eating in.  They said the pies are kept in a ‘heat box’ and that would be hot enough.  Boy, were they WRONG.  I hate room temperature food.  HATE.  The pies were served at room temperature.  No matter how good food is, hot food should not be served at room temperature.

Meat Pie, Steak & Kidney Pie, Vegetable Quiche

I only ate the equivalent of one pie, so I was still a bit peckish.  So I asked the hubby to grab me an Afghan cookie.  He for some reason ended up buying six.  Something got lost in communication there.  And don’t ask me why it’s named what its named.  I tried finding out, the internet didn’t return much.   I did find some recipes, mostly saying that it’s heavy on the butter, there’s corn flakes, nuts and cocoa powder. 

Afghan Cookie

After that, the hubby was still hungry so he went and ordered another pie.  I forget the name of this, maybe it’s a Shepard’s pie?  There was minced meat and mashed potato on top.    Flavours were good, but again, the temperature really annoyed me.  This one was the worst out of them all, the centre was actually cold. 

Shepards Pie?

We ordered a full sized apple pie to take home.  Full size doesn’t mean that big though.  I would say its at most 8”?  Crust again was puff pastry.  The filling tasted good, but the texture I wasn’t a fan of.  I like apple pies to have copious amounts of apple.  This one had apple, but was mostly goopy ‘sauce’.  Think McD’s apple pie filling.  Not very satisfying.  Not sure I would buy it again.

Apple Pie

Wisey's Pies

874 Eglinton Ave. East,

Toronto, ON

M4G 2L1

Phone: 416-423-9473

Hours:  Monday - Friday 7am - 6pm

             Saturday 7am - 5pm

             Sunday 8am - 4pm

http://wiseyspies.com