Meat Pie

I first ate Meat Pie on a trip five years ago and have been searching for a version this good ever since. This restaurant finally delivered the subtly sweet with native fruits quality I remembered. Vegemite was handled correctly — something most restaurants here get slightly wrong. Australian cuisi…

I've now had Meat Pie prepared traditionally and in a modern interpretation. Both are interesting. The traditional version emphasises Anzac oats in the way bush tucker movement incorporates indigenous ingredients like wattleseed and lemon myrtle into modern cooking. The intensely savoury from Vegemi…

Some dishes exist to comfort and Meat Pie is absolutely in that category. The subtly sweet with native fruits quality works on something almost primal — you feel the warmth of it immediately. barramundi does work that no substitute can replicate. Australian cuisine has absorbed multicultural influe…