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Australia + Aotearoa · Closed prototype PIES,
PIES,
PROPERLY
RATED.
The serious-but-never-precious home for Australian & New Zealand meat pies. Crust, filling, value, temperature — scored out of ten, from Legend to Compost. No servo mystery pie goes unjudged.
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The whole point
Pies deserve real criticism.
Somewhere between the servo warmer and the bakery queue, a cracking pie gets eaten with zero ceremony — and a dud gets forgiven because you were hungry. We reckon that's a crime.
Better Pies is built by people who'll argue for an hour about the right pastry-to-filling ratio, and want the receipts to prove who was right. The other options are either too sterile (a star rating tells you nothing) or too narrow. So we're building the one that takes pies seriously and itself lightly.
- 01 Rigorous, not precious. Four sub-scores and a written take. Real criticism, not vibes.
- 02 Local before global. Servo runs, mince & cheese, the bakery two towns over. AU/NZ first.
- 03 For the obsessed and the casual. Never gatekeeping the punters, never dumbing it down for the pie heads.
How it works
Four scores. One verdict.
Every pie gets judged on the things that actually matter — then a written take, a photo, and an overall out of ten. No blunt star ratings here.
Crust
Shatter or sog? Lamination matters. We're watching the base.
Filling
Gravy, gristle, ratio. Did it have soul or did it have sadness?
Value
Servo $7 vs bakery $9. What did you actually get for it?
Temperature
Molten lava or sad lukewarm? Served-temp is a real score.
The verdict scale — because 7 and "good" should mean the same thing to everyone.
- 10 Legend
- 9 Cracker
- 8 Solid
- 7 Good
- 6 Fine
- 5 Meh
- 4 Disappointing
- 3 Rough
- 2 Cooked
- 1 Compost
On the menu The flagship Road trip mode Discovery
It gets better.
The prototype nails the ratings. Here's what rolls out as we let more people in.
Pie Pilgrimage
Plot a trip by pastry. One pie per state, a whole windscreen of crumbs, the good bakeries pinned along the way.
The Map
Every bakery worth the detour, dropped on a map. Find the good ones before you're hungry and desperate.
Closed prototype right now — four founders deep. These land as we roll out.
Want in?
We're letting people in slowly, starting with the pie-obsessed. Drop your email and we'll give you a nudge when there's room at the table.