🥧 Best meat pie in Australia

14 cities ranked by the strength of their best meat pie. Follow any city through to its full ranked list.

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Gold Coast has Australia’s strongest meat pie — led by Foster's Bakery (4.6★ across 175 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best meat pie	Rating	Reviews
1	Gold Coast	Foster's Bakery Mermaid Beach	4.6★	175
2	Brisbane	Blackbutt Bakery Blackbutt	4.6★	2,372
3	Adelaide	Banana Boogie Bakery Belair	4.6★	863
4	Sydney	Upper Crust Collaroy	4.6★	1,013
5	Cairns	Babinda Bakery Babinda	4.7★	1,616
6	Darwin	Alberto’s Cafe Darwin City	4.9★	352
7	Melbourne	Baketico by Wonder Pies Brunswick Brunswick East	4.3★	94
8	Geelong	Born & Bread Bakehouse Newtown	4.8★	507
9	Canberra	Evoke Bakery Curtin	4.4★	177
10	Newcastle	The Craft Butcher Lambton	4.9★	196
11	Sunshine Coast	Little Kiwi Bakehouse Nerang	4.7★	646
12	Perth	Georgee Pies East Fremantle	4.8★	132
13	Hobart	Bush Bakery Leslie Vale	4.8★	360
14	Wollongong	Robertson Pie Shop Robertson	4.2★	2,721

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own meat pie ranking, and the cities are then ordered by that venue’s score — review strength above a 3.8 baseline weighted by review volume, plus community mentions where we hold them. Cities are only listed where we actually rank the dish, so an absent city means no ranking yet, not a bad one. Rebuilt weekly.

City by city: Gold Coast · Brisbane · Adelaide · Sydney · Cairns · Darwin · Melbourne · Geelong · Canberra · Newcastle · Sunshine Coast · Perth · Hobart · Wollongong.