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How we read reviews →Forest Hill's old-school pie shop serving chunky, generously filled pies and pastries that regulars drive across town for.
Classic suburban Australian bakery. unpretentious, friendly and nostalgic. Counter service, traditional fitout, no-fuss setting. The kind of place where the same customers have been coming weekly for years and the staff know their orders.
Made fresh daily (not frozen); weekly specials including family-sized pies; wide range of sweet pastries (vanilla slice, neenish tarts, custard tarts, shortbread, jam and cream donuts); coffee on offer; some customers travel interstate specifically for the pastries.
Quintessentially Australian bakery tradition. old-fashioned, chunky-fill pies, proper pastry work, neenish tarts and vanilla slices that represent the heritage of Australian bakehouse culture.
Exceptional value by Melbourne standards. one reviewer notes you would pay double for equivalent quality in the city or the Dandenong Ranges. No price gouging for the quality delivered.
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