pieminister

it’s 3.5/5 for me!
staff is really nice. location, ambience quite good for the money. unfortunately, the gravy is not tasty. might rather have my pie just by itself. £5 for just the pie? fine taste-wise. also, it’s sort of filling enough to the point where you want more but you should not eat more.
would i recommend? i guess so, for the variety.
till then, i’ll look for a better pie place.

great pies!

you wouldn’t go wrong trying the pies here! both my friend n i agreed that the beef pie was better. unique different sauces to pour over the pies. the side dish of salad was alright. nice, warm n crispy crusted! yummy!

first time to manchester and we were looking for somewhere close to city apartments, church street to eat. came across this place and so pleased we weren't put off by a few couples infront of us waiting to be seated. we were given a table very quickly by the friendly, super efficient staff.

we shared the pigs in blankets to start with and ordered 2 different pies to halve and share. absolutely delicious. thin, crispy pastry with plenty of filling and gravy to accompany them.

great value for money. the whole lot plus a bottle of wine was £37.

absolutely fantastic.. love this place. been visiting the restaurant since it opened and i has never disappointed. if you're a pie minister virgin then id suggest you try the mothership.. its a belter!

came here just before a concert in mid afternoon. it was fairly busy still but the staff were quick to get a table ready. there are so many pie flavours available but i had the generously sized steak and kidney in the mothership format and with the mash, mushy peas, gravy, crispy onions and cheese, every mouthful was an explosion of flavour. i was absolutely stuffed afterwards...kept me full for hours! i can't wait to come back again to try more of their pies!!

their chicken and mushroom pie is excellent and the gravy is out of this world. the place is really tiny though and you can almost miss it while passing by. so keep an eye out for it.

pieminister on church street, on the edge of manchester’s northern quarter, over the road from affleck’s palace, is a pie shop that sells pieminister pies.

there are a lot of choices for lunch around my workplace in the northern quarter, but i get so busy and generally just grab a sandwich and work and munch at the same time. a bad habit that i am trying to break and focus on enjoying lunch in the future. feeling rather more peckish than usual, i wanted a little treat, something different from sandwiches.  i decided on pieminister since it is literally about 2 minutes’ walk from work. once inside i chose the pietantic fish pie which consisted of smoked haddock, salmon, pollock and prawns with a side order of mash. as the pie was presented to me without any sauce i was worried that it would be too dry, and i didn’t fancy gravy with my fish pie. i don’t usually go for pies, but this was actually the best pie i have ever had. it was not dry as the filling was moreish, with just enough sauce so the pie wasn’t swimming in sauce, and enough bite in the chunks of fish. the pastry was perfect too, freshly made and not too thick, just how i like m

to begin we shared a few sausage rolls, both were tasty but for me the mr hot was the best. i started to imagine a sausage roll dressed as a chippendale and couldn’t work out if this was funny or sexy.

i've been a fan of pieminister pies since first sampling the matator pie at pi in chorlton some years ago. (that's a lot of pies!). the heidi pie with goats cheese and sweet potato takes some beating and i really like the chicken of aragon pie too, so i was excited to try out the restaurant on church street in the northern quarter. inside is casual. exposed brick, school chairs, wooden tables. a few essential condiments. i chose the deerstalker pie (venison, dry cured bacon, red wine and puy lentils) and turned this into 'the mothership' with the addition of mash, peas, cheese, crispy shallots and gravy for only £7.95. i'm not sure the grated cheese was necessary but it did not detract from the overall taste and my enjoyment. although, this was huge and i almost had a stitch when walking home afterwards! i must try pie & ale @ bakerie soon too for comparison. 

i was the very first customer at the brand new pieminister today, banging on the door shouting ; i need pie let me in! i know pieminister pies very well, first i think at the big chill festival years ago, then at chorlton and altrincham bars pi . the inside is as you'd expect; that modern clinical slightly industrial look. turns out they have another branch at trentham gardens , near my home town, so many of the staff are well experienced, although the northern quarter is a very different clientèle. they have a good visible position there as well, just down from the crossroads where vinyl exchange is, and not too far from the arndale. i had some gourmet pork scratchings with apple sauce whilst i was waiting. these were good, crunchy, not too salty and tasted proper home made. for £3 though, i'd expect a few more to be honest. i also had to drink a fentimans dandelion & burdock, a perfect old school accompaniment to a pie i think. they had beer, but the choice was fairly limited