A new branch of Australian chain Pie Face opened in our neighborhood recently. We have been to Pie Face before (remember when we wrote this after our first visit?) but over the past 1.5 years, have never actually reviewed any of the pies or rolls!
This past Tuesday, Pie Face introduced a new promotion for the first Tuesday of every month: pay with a tweet. (You can also use Instagram or Facebook.) If you mention them on social media, you get a free mini pie! Great deal. The mini pie on offer for this month was the BBQ pulled pork. We definitely wanted to try that.
The line moved a little too slowly considering it wasn't that long (it was so slow that we saw our tweets cycle on the wall more than once), but eventually we got our free mini pies as well as some other Australian treats.
We each got a free BBQ pulled pork mini pie, which contains pulled pork, onions and a sweet and tangy BBQ sauce.
The mini pies are pretty small (although M likes the small size better). M really liked this one. It was overflowing with sauce, but also had bits of onions and pork in it, and the sauce was really tasty. A didn't like the mini pie as much. His was almost all sauce, had very little pork, and he didn't notice any onions. The sauce was also a little tangier than he preferred.
In addition to our pulled pork mini pies, we got some other pies to split. A was really hungry and didn't think two pies would be enough for both of us, so he ordered a stack. A stack is a savory pie topped with mashed potatoes, peas and gravy, and packaged in a deep red box.
For his savory pie, A picked the mince beef with tomato pie, which had ground beef, a crushed tomato sauce (one menu says crushed tomato sauce, another says tomato chutney), onion, garlic, coriander and cumin. This pie was the best that we had that day. The flavors were rich, and the beef and tomato chutney combined to form a really tasty stew. Add that to potatoes and peas and you have a very hearty shepherd's pie-like combination. This would be really great in the fall or winter when the weather is cooler.
M ordered the Thai chicken curry pie, which A had tried on a fairly recent visit to a different branch of Pie Face. A really liked this pie last time, and we are both big fans of Thai curry, so M ordered one.
Poor pie's face got a little bit crushed in!
The Thai chicken curry pie has pieces of chicken, carrots, onion, garlic, coconut milk, and a mild green curry paste. Before M read the ingredient list, she thought it would be more like the curry chicken pies you can get in Chinatown, which have more of a yellow curry or curry powder flavor, but this sounded like it would be different.
Unfortunately, this just tasted like a chicken pot pie, and not a very flavorful one at that. It was kind of bland and didn't seem like it had any Thai curry. A was really disappointed since the one he had last time was so much better.
So far, we've only really been talking about the fillings. The shell of each pie is pretty much the same, is butter-based and baked until golden and flaky. It definitely isn't healthy, but it's tasty. We don't really have any other Australian pies to compare with (rolls are a different story) since we never get the pies at Tuck Shop, but since Pie Face has lots of Australian locations, we would guess it's authentic.
This "pay with a tweet" promotion is supposed to recur on the first Tuesday of every month. What a great excuse to go get a pie! If the promotion lasts awhile, maybe we'll be able to try every pie and roll on the menu. Looking forward to the challenge!
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