Salut Pies — Local services in North Island

I was reserving 5 stars for the best pies I could find as I travelled around New Zealand tasting pies at highly recommended pie places.

These pies are absolutely outstanding, and hands down the best pies I have found. I love the size and shape of the pies, which look both gourmet, but also lovingly homemade. The pastry is cooked to perfection, and there is an amazing range of original flavours.

I tried the teriyaki pork belly, the meat was cooked perfect, the gravy/sauce was flavourful and not too salty. My son had a classic mince and cheese pie and it also looked amazing and he said it was “loaded” and the best mince and cheese pie he’s ever had.

The cafe itself is lovely and open where you can eat in if you want. What I love about this place is that they’ve kept it simple. They do pies, and they do pies extremely well. It is a true pie shop through and through. I would love to see a place like this become a franchise so long as it stayed true to the amazingly well done pies.

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Went to Salut Bakery in Otaki yesterday for the first time, because I’ve read so much about it. It’s all true…I think they serve the best pies in the Wellington Region, maybe even in the North Island.

We had 4 different pies to share… best of the bunch was “Beef Brisket & Cheese”…packed full of beef and flavour. And I never thought I would say this,…I loved the fish pie…”Lime Hoki & salsa verde”, the Korean Roast Pork and Tandoori Chicken pies rounded off our selection. Every other pie option was already sold out when we went at about 11am on a Saturday morning.

Thanks Salut for one complimentary pie,…the owner/baker was very friendly…and took time out to chat. Awesome small business deserving of every success. If only you had a store closer to Wellington CBD…we will be supporting...

Salut you're getting famous aye 🤠 Great little bakery with unique pie flavours. I got the gochujang (Korean pepper sauce) pork belly pie which was quite satisfactory. Pie pastry was buttery and flaky, firm enough to hold all the filling so the pie didn't turn into mush. Pork belly pieces were quite big and the sauce wasn't too spicy which is usually expected with gochujang. So don't be a wuss and come here because the service was also super friendly 👍

Update in CBD location: Made the kind staff choose a mystery number and I ended up with the Eggs Montreal which was great. Not exactly shy with the smoked salmon, eggs were yummos and the rest was fine. Great pie, great pastry, of course, it's Salut. Value for a...