Guest Review - Pot Belly Pies, Glen Innes

This week, I'm waiting impatiantly for my IT guru (who happens to be a follower of the blog and has accompanied me on a pie-eating expitition) to come and de-flea my computer; which seems to have forgotten where to find the thousands of photos of pies that I've taken over the years.

In the meantime, Rosco has kindly sent in another guest review from a  recent visit to Pot Belly Pies in Glen Innes.

Hi pal,

 Always on the look out for a good pie on my travels and as I'm on another ski trip to Perisha with the family and traveling along our bike trails we came across the Pot Belly pie shop in Glen Innes.

The name itself was enough reason to give it a go and happy to say as soon as I walked in the door & saw the pies in the warmer I was starting to get my hopes up as the name Pot Belly matched the look of the pies in the warmer, yes, they had BIG FAT bellies.

They looked just like they would fit nicely in mine.

It was about now I noticed there was no one on the other side of the warmer to serve me and as I looked thru the kitchen door I saw the youngish local gal cowering in the kitchen. 

When I asked if I could order something she didn't speak and just pointed at the top of the warmer which had a big hairy, egg infested spider sitting on the top, hence the cowering shop assistant.

Now it became clear that I wasn't going to be able to see if these big fat pot belly pies were gunna taste as good as they looked, so I did what any red blooded Aussie male would do and asked my bride if she would get rid of it so I could get my laughing gear around a pie.

After a bit of discussion it became clear that wasn't gunna get me a pie so I manned up and picked up a pie bag off the counter and set about sneaking around the counter to get behind him and flick him toward the door. Just as I was about to give him the flick a tradie burst thru the door and nearly got to wear this ugly fella.

I managed to stop in time and the door way got cleared & now everyone is looking at me to get this done as the girl wasn't coming out of the kitchen until it was gone. Go number 2 saw me flick the spider & the bag towards the door, but it didn't quite make it though as I didn't plan on the spider being heavy & he dropped like a stone onto the floor & was no longer happy.

Long story short I managed to get him out the door and shut it to stop him coming back in, at least until I got my pie & got out of there. Now as the girl came back out of the kitchen she was so relieved with my heroics that she said my pie was on the house, getting better as I was pretty hungry after having to smell the hot pies at close range while I dealt with the intruder.

Now for the pie, the reward I chose was the mint Lamb and rosemary pie with the nice big fat belly.

 It was sensational, crust was firm and a bit crispy but the filling was great with the biggest pieces of tender lamb that I have experienced in all my pie eating years. It was priced at $6.50 but it was value for money as it was not only great to eat it was a little larger than the usual job due to its Pot belly.

As a rating I would give it a 9/10 as far as pies go it was Lovely.

Cheers Ross

 

Thanks very much for that Rosco - although I can't help but wonder whether the score was in any way influenced by the fact that the pie was free....we all know that they always taste better!

Until next time, take care.

The Pieologist