The Local Bakery, Huon Village Huonville, TAS 7109 (03) 62642532
Beef & Guinness pie $3.95
The Local Bakery was formerly known as Trendy Bake. What a wonderfully evocative name
‘The Local Bakery’ is. If you image is of an old rickety wooden building, with an ancient, broad & shady veranda in which to shelter from the elements whilst queuing for their baked wares. This ‘aint it.
It is tacked onto the Huonville Safeway with a large coral of chairs & tables outside & usually filled with people who apparently can’t consume food without drawing heavily on cigarettes between mouthfuls. I mention this because I had to walk through wafts of smoke before getting into the door.
On to the pie. From a smallish range I chose the Beef & Guinness pie. I say smallish because this bakery has had a makeover. In its former incarnation it tried to do everything & not much came off well. This time they have consolidated their offer, in my opinion, a good thing.
The said pie was handsome in an evenly brown & nicely shaped kind of way. I liked the cut of its jib immediately. Oh dear! I’ll try not to sound like Uncle Monty from ‘Withnail & I?’
Anyway once bitten into, it released its very pleasant meaty perfume, tinged with a bit of acridness, a familiar calling card of stout aroma. This was a good start.
The flavour was rich, herby & long, the meat tender, though some pieces hadn’t quite become as unctuous as others, but I’m being picky. The tail end of the taste performed well, with a respectful hint of Guinness being quite evident. To clarify, it tasted like stout. I’d like to believe that it was Guinness. The consistency was quite wet, plenty of meat so I wasn’t complaining & a sauce that seemed not to be thickened quite enough. I imagine some would prefer this though.
The pastry was not a puff on top. It seemed to be a like a short crust with some gluten development to give it some strength. It reminded me of Polish Piroshki pastry & was very good. The only minor quibble I would have is that it wasn’t quite hot enough.
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4 comments:
PHWORRRRR! Mouth is watering.
it's black!
and I reckon something else will be too after eating one of these!
Looks delicious.
Unfortunately I will have to hide this one from someone or we'll be moving to Tasmania before you can say "who ate all the pies"!!!
I can just hear the duelling banjos in Huonville as you braved the smoko border, Gobbler.
This little frontier town is all a hustle and a bustle these days and if I can survive the suicide-roundabout on the main street I might buy me and the missus some of these.
(Didn't even know this place existed...pie shop that is).
I had same pie at said bakery and it was DISGUSTING!! The meat, I counted 3 pieces the gravy had an unpleasant sourness which I couldnt put my finger on. The pastry fell apart but tasted "ok"
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