Dinkum Pies

In my traipsing through the city in my lunch-hour running various errands, I have often found myself rushing through the Block Arcade and passing this nondescript, slightly worse for wear canteen-style pie joint. So one day, when I found myself with a serious case of pie hankering, I could hear this place calling to me.

‘Come to us little Radish, come to us!’  So off I traipsed, dragging along a friend for company.

There’s a reason this place is packed from about 12:30pm until 2pm. It makes pies. Good, old-fashioned pies. In almost every flavour you can imagine. Plus, to top it off, they have all the pastry yummies of yester-year – caramel slices, custard tarts and lots more.

My order was for a steak pie and can of coke ($4.90), but unfortunately I ended up with a breakfast pie (filled with an egg, bacon and other bits and bobs). I can’t say it was massively enjoyable, but once I took it back to the counter and they apologetically replaced it with a good ol’ meat pie, I tucked it and it was, simply put, gorgeous. Hot and fresh, meaty with the perfect flaky pastry, and at $5 for lunch, what a bargain!