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501, 2021

Sayers Meat and Potato Pie

Life of Pies2021-01-12T11:51:46+00:00January 5th, 2021|Tags: Crust, Knutsford, Meat and Potato Pie, Meat Pie, Pie, Sayers|0 Comments

Hampson’s Meat and Potato Pie

NB Now trading as Sayers

Today we go right back to the start. To be honest, we had been reviewing pies informally for years in the fanzines I was involved with but Monday 16th January 2012 was the first day that I consciously went out to buy a pie and review it.

It took place in one of

2412, 2020

Bowen’s Meat and Potato Pie

Life of Pies2020-12-24T12:37:28+00:00December 24th, 2020|Tags: Adlington, Bowen Pies, Chorley, Crust, Meat and Potato Pie, Meat Pie, wigan|0 Comments

Time for another North West fave, although as with Turners Pies, Bowens Pies now serve the whole country.

I didn’t know much about them, when I started my research in Life of Pies, just that they had supplied the pies for the annual Wigan Pie Eating awards. Little did I know that both then and now, they supply

2012, 2020

Turners Steak and Ale Pie (142)

Life of Pies2020-12-20T13:39:11+00:00December 20th, 2020|Tags: Bognor Regis, British Pie Awards, Crust, Pie, Steak and ale pie, Steak pie, Sussex, Turners|0 Comments

Time for another pie from the archives and today, I am going to move out of the North West all the way down to sunny Sussex. I don’t know how I first came across Turners’ Pies, but I am very glad I did. And they have been very hard to avoid since, given their meteoric rise up the pie charts.

They

1112, 2020

Galloways Meat and Potato Pie (107)

Life of Pies2020-12-11T11:48:40+00:00December 11th, 2020|Tags: Crust, galloways, Meat and Potato Pie, Pie, wigan|0 Comments

So as I move from the old to the new, I thought it might be useful to rehash, er, provide content to the site by putting my entire works of Life of Pies online. It’s not like I haven’t still got hundreds of copies in my shed to sell (nudge, nudge, on sale for a fiver HERE)

I

1012, 2020

Welcome to the Good Pie Guide!

Life of Pies2020-12-10T12:38:03+00:00December 10th, 2020|Tags: Crust, Gravy, Meat and Potato, Pastry, Pie Good Pie Guide|0 Comments

Let us try this again, shall we?

Welcome to the Good Pie Guide. We love pies and our mission is to celebrate them in print and digital form!

THE WEBSITE

This site contains thousands of listings and hundreds of reviews and we are adding to it all the time. Please feel free to have a browse around our virtual pie world and see

504, 2020

Welcome to the Good Pie Guide!

Life of Pies2020-04-05T21:13:55+01:00April 5th, 2020|Tags: Crust, Good Pie Guide, Meat Pie, Pie|0 Comments

Welcome indeed to the Good Pie Guide. We love pies and our mission is to celebrate them in print and digital form!

THE WEBSITE

This site contains thousands of listings and hundreds of reviews and we are adding to it all the time. Please feel free to have a browse around our virtual pie world and see what tickles your fancy.

We want