Humble Pie

After Maritime Pasty left the Seaport Market, there was a gaping whole in my savoury pastry diet. Having being away from the market for a month, I recently ventured around the whole place instead of just hitting my usual spots, and came across Humble Pie upstairs next to El Gallo. Humble Pie recently opened a permanent location in Dartmouth, so it was cool to see them making the trip over to this side of the harbour still.
Now I’ve never had a New Zealand meat pie before, but after the steak and cheese ($ 7) that I ordered, I definitely will again. Initially it might seem pricey, but these pies are meals unto themselves. At 5−6″ in diameter, they’re a decent size, and they’re jam packed with their respective filling. My steak was sliced and browned wonderfully, with a great beef flavour. I’m not sure what cheese they use, but it was a white cheese that packed a lot more flavour than your typical mozzarella or the like. The pie crust itself seems like it was made to withstand the ooey gooey deliciousness inside — not too thin and not too thick, and more like a slightly spongy dough than a flakey pastry, but not in a bad way.
Humble Pie definitely knows what they’re doing and using some top notch ingredients. Now that I know that they have a weekend location in Halifax, I can come get my meat pastry fix as I please.