Where to get meat pies in the USA?

Like many original dishes. The true Finland Pastie is pretty bland. Cheap meat, potatoes and lard :LOL:


But after being “Americanized” the U.P. Pastie is very good.
 
Green Chile said:
One of my fav foods from traveling in UK, Africa, etc are the savory meat pies and Cornish pasties. Are any of you ordering these online and shipping to yourselves in the USA? Which brands are the best? Have you found any in our restaurants that are good? I need to learn how to make them.
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My friend, if you are in Michigan on 15 February (fat chance...) for my Tally Ho Safaris open house, you can dine on my charming wife's venison and bison meat pastry pies! If you come early, you could even help her make them.

Mark A Ouellette

Thread 'Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS open house in Southeast Michigan 15 February 2026'

To all my African Hunting friends,

On 15 February 2026 my charming wife and I will hold an Open House with special guests Stuart Williams and his PH Rudi Nel of Talley-Ho Safaris, Limpopo South Africa. All are welcome even if you have no plans on ever hunting Limpopo. Come over and meet an exceptional gentleman Stuart and rock hard Rudi along with me and hopefully a couple dozen or more Africa hunters! We can tell stories of our hunts and adventures, and discuss rifles, loading ammunition, and shooting.

Location is 30 miles north of Detroit just outside a farming...
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I guess I am going to have to make up some venison Pasties.
Venison
Carots
Potato’s
Onion
Salt
Pepper.
 
Altitude sickness said:
Like many original dishes. The true Finland Pastie is pretty bland. Cheap meat, potatoes and lard :LOL:


But after being “Americanized” the U.P. Pastie is very good.
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Pasties followed the Cornish tin miners to American mining booms. We have the world's largest Finnish community outside of Finland and I've never seen pasties sold in the restaraunts here. The Upper Penninsula also is home to a large Finnish community that originally came for the mining and logging. Apparently many of our Finns emigrated from the UP during the labor strife at the end of the 19th century. The communist Finns were run out and came here (yes, Finland was a hotbed of communist radicals early on).

You are right, though. I find Finnish food generally very bland. They are not big on spices.
 
Just spent 10 days in Finland. Yep bland!

But these people cater to gluten free types. So my wife is happy.
 
R eight said:
I vaguely remember eating pies at your place one evening…..all I really remember was they tasted great and I didn’t go thirsty.
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I reckon you and Wato might even be responsible for the pies missing in the photo. :ROFLMAO:
 
@NIGHTHAWK Those Fairlie Bakery pies are outstanding. I've had the ones you mention. The Lamb and Mint was one of my favourites.
 
Green Chile said:
One of my fav foods from traveling in UK, Africa, etc are the savory meat pies and Cornish pasties. Are any of you ordering these online and shipping to yourselves in the USA? Which brands are the best? Have you found any in our restaurants that are good? I need to learn how to make them.
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My wife who is Vietnamese makes family sized " big" Kangaroo meat pies served with peas & mashed potato for family dinners when the kids come for dinner.
 
Tgood1 said:
Natchitoches, Louisiana. Famous for meat pies.
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You can order Natchitoches Meat Pies on Amazon. My neighbor owns the company.

BTW, it’s pronounced Nack ah tush.
 
We eat a fair amount of traditional foods like meat pies, but we always make them ourselves. Last time I had any in a restaurant was probably close to 10 years ago. We used to make Cornish pasties pretty regularly, but haven’t in quite a while.
 
Meat pies are certainly missing form most of the US. So are proper sausage rolls as you can get throughout the UK.

But I do love a savory kolache which you can get in a number of areas here in the US.
 
Kolaches are common in TX. They are good but a sausage roll is also good and I don't see those.
 
Green Chile said:
Kolaches are common in TX. They are good but a sausage roll is also good and I don't see those.
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Never see sausage rolls here. They are the standard fare at the turn on gold courses in England. I fell I’ve with them there. So much so I begged my fiancé to learn how to make them. She does a pretty good version.
 
NIGHTHAWK said:
The Fairlie Bakehouse is a bakery in Fairlie, New Zealand. The bakery is most famous for producing gourmet meat pies. Popular varieties include salmon and bacon, venison and cranberry, and steak. Their most popular variety is a pork belly and apple sauce pie, with a piece of crackling on the top.

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Bar none the best meat pies on earth…

We ate there 3 times in 3 days while in NZ earlier this year…

I’d take another trip to NZ just to visit that place again…
 
Green Chile said:
One of my fav foods from traveling in UK, Africa, etc are the savory meat pies and Cornish pasties. Are any of you ordering these online and shipping to yourselves in the USA? Which brands are the best? Have you found any in our restaurants that are good? I need to learn how to make them.
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The wife got inspired to figure out NZ style pies after we got back from our trip there earlier this year…

She’s got a creamy chicken pie and a venison and mushroom pie down to a science…

When you swing by for the TTHA party in January get her to share the recipe with you… they’re not that hard to do… and they are freaking delicious…
 
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you can make em at home.
 
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