The Best Pies in Melbourne for a Cosy Winter Feed

Melbourne’s best pies can be found at North Fitzroy Arms in Fitzroy North, Falco Bakery in Collingwood, Wonder Pies in Coburg North and Builders Arms Hotel in Fitzroy. From Guinness-braised beef cheek pie floaters and cheeseburger-inspired bakery pies to Andrew McConnell’s long-running fish pie, the city’s pie scene is at its best when comfort comes with a bit of cleverness. Here are the Melbourne pies worth crossing town for this winter.

Country Cob Bakery

Country Cob Bakery in Boronia is one of Melbourne’s best pie stops, especially if you’re heading for the Dandenongs, Puffing Billy or a cold-weather ramble. The cult bakery has national titles behind it, and its latest flex is the Malaysian Prawn Pie, crowned Australia’s Best Pie for 2026. Loaded with prawns in a Malaysian-style curry of aromatic spices and coconut milk, it is available in-store and online, alongside favourites like seafood, pepper beef and mushroom.

951 Mountain Highway, Boronia

Udom House

Udom House in West Melbourne is what happens when a Thai cafe looks at the Aussie pie and decides it could use better ideas. The Victoria Street spot fills flaky pastry with Thai flavours like green curry chicken, made with curry paste worked up in-house rather than borrowed from a jar. The line-up changes, with Panang beef curry and jackfruit vegetarian pies among past cameos, while Thai sweets, kaya toast and playful iced coffees make the whole place feel like a lunch break every Melbournian needs to visit at least once.

Victoria Buildings, Unit 1/343 Victoria Street, West Melbourne 

Le Pub

Le Pub’s oxtail, snail and bone marrow pie is not here to behave. The Little Bourke Street pub from Con Christopoulos and Josh Brisbane takes the comfort of a meat pie and sends it somewhere darker, richer and much more interesting, with pulled oxtail, snails and a marrow bone rising through the crust like a dare. The handwritten menu shifts through the day, but this brilliant dish has become one of Le Pub’s most defining.

380 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne

Kiwi Steak & Cheese Pie

Kiwi Steak & Cheese Pie in Dandenong is the south-east pie stop with a name that tells you exactly why you’re there. The Lonsdale Street bakery has built a loyal following for New Zealand-style pies, led by its award-winning Kiwi steak and cheese, with chunky beef, gravy and melted cheese tucked into flaky pastry. The cabinet runs wider too, with chicken cheese creamy, steak and mushroom, mince and cheese, seafood pies, sausage rolls and even Vietnamese rolls for anyone making lunch a two-act affair.

242 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong

North Fitzroy Arms

North Fitzroy Arms has turned the pie floater into one of Melbourne’s great winter pub dishes. Its Victorian take on the South Australian classic sees a Guinness-braised O’Connor beef cheek pie set in vivid green pea soup, with silky mash and house-made tomato sauce on the side. It is rich and deeply comforting, especially on Tuesdays when the Pie Floater is served from 5pm for $25. Vegetarians are covered too, with a homemade vegetable curry pie served with greens, chips and house tomato sauce.

296 Rae Street, Fitzroy North

Luther’s Scoops

Luther’s Scoops may be famous for ice cream, but its seasonal sweet pies deserve their own cold-weather fan club. Available Tuesday to Saturday from 5pm, the $14 pies rotate through flavours like rhubarb and custard, classic apple, and pear and custard crumble, each wrapped in flaky house-made puff pastry and built for a scoop on the side. Pre-ordering is wise, with a few kept for walk-ins if luck is on your side.

528A Sydney Road, Brunswick 

938 High Street, Reservoir

796 High Street, Thornbury

Frankie’s Pie Shop

Frankie’s Pie Shop is the one to watch for Melbourne pie lovers who like their pastry with a chef’s brain behind it. Swiss-born chef Francesca Giorgi Monfort, formerly of Farmer’s Daughters, Marion and Noisy Ritual, turns out rectangular, low-waste pies with changing fillings and beautifully handled puff pastry. Past creations have included rainbow trout with leek and herbed béchamel, charred cauliflower with aged cheddar, pork scotch egg pies and nduja-laced sausage rolls. Check Frankie’s Instagram for the latest pop-up or residency before heading out.

Currently on pause, not gone

The Fitzroy Mills Market, 75 Rose Street, Fitzroy

Drom 

Dröm in Bayswater has made a destination out of an industrial pocket, turning out artisan bread, signature pastries, sandwiches and savoury bakes from its Scoresby Road flagship. The cabinet changes with the season, but the current pie line-up includes a vegan pastie, chicken, sweetcorn and basil pie, humble meat pie and a pork, onion and sage sausage roll. Come for the TikTok-famous croissants, stay because lunch looks just as good.

1/19 Scoresby Road, Bayswater 

Pieman’s Son

Pieman’s Son in Heidelberg Heights comes with serious pastry bloodlines. Founder Pat Cremean is the son of Boscastle Pastries founder Terry Cremean, and this Bell Street bakery carries that family legacy into a sharper north-east pie stop. The cabinet runs from Aussie beef and beef ragu to Moroccan lamb, Thai chicken, chicken, leek and Swiss cheese, and curried cauliflower and pea. Throw in a pork and fennel sausage roll, something sweet from the cake cabinet and a St Remio coffee, and you have a very good reason to cross town.

42 Bell Street, Heidelberg Heights

Falco Bakery

Falco Bakery’s golden-topped pies are pure temptation. This small-batch gem blends traditional baking with creative flair, and nowhere is that clearer than in their signature pie — a nod to Rockwell & Son’s iconic double patty smash burger, complete with a sauce that gives a certain fast food giant a run for its money. It’s easily one of Melbourne’s best. Also worth a bite? The roast chicken pie and the steak and pepper pie.

Sitchu Tip: Don’t leave without grabbing their miso-peanut butter cookie. Trust us.

288 Smith Street, Collingwood 

156-158 Langridge Street, Collingwood

266 Johnston Street, Abbotsford 

Mabel’s 

Mabel’s in Toorak is a cafe-bakery that makes the pie feel just as important as the cake. The Hawksburn Village favourite bakes its pies in-house daily, alongside colourful cakes, cupcakes, sandwiches and Coffee Supreme brews. The flavours rotate, but steak and cheese, butter chicken and chilli con carne have all had their time in the warmer, with flaky pastry and generous fillings doing exactly what a good lunch pie should.

525 Malvern Road, Toorak

The French Lettuce

The French Lettuce has been feeding Carlton’s pastry faithful for decades, and its beef and burgundy pie is exactly the sort of cold-day ballast this list needs. Slow-cooked beef sits inside handmade pastry, ready to be eaten hot from the pie oven or taken home for the sort of dinner that asks almost nothing of you. Best known for its vanilla slice, this family-run patisserie also knows its way around savoury comfort, with pies, sausage rolls and quiche rounding out the cabinet.

237 Nicholson Street, Carlton 

182 Bulleen Road, Bulleen 

Unit 2/794 Heidelberg – Kinglake Road, Hurstbridge

Zaatar

Zaatar in Coburg has been doing Middle Eastern comfort long before Melbourne started calling every good handheld snack a “must-try.” The Sydney Road bakery’s cheese pie is the move: a half-moon of golden pastry filled with hot haloumi, best eaten straight away while the cheese still stretches. It’s hands-down one of the best pies in Melbourne.

Sitchu Tip: Order the cheese pie first, then round it out with spinach, kafta or a zaatar flatbread for a quick, generous Sydney Road lunch that still feels like one of Coburg’s best bargains.

365 Sydney Road, Coburg 

Half Moon

Half Moon in Brighton gives a blustery Monday night one very good reason to leave the house: Pie & Pinot from 5pm. The weekly special pairs a beef bourguignon pie with butter mash, red wine jus and a glass of Pinot Noir or Pinot Grigio for $34, until sold out. It is the sort of pub dinner that understands winter: rich, warming, nicely priced and best approached before the Church Street locals get there first.

120 Church Street, Brighton

Wonder Pies

Wonder Pies in Coburg North is the HQ move for anyone who takes pastry seriously. You’ll find its pies stocked through Baketico, but the Newlands Road bakery gives you the full cabinet treatment, from chunky beef, lasagne, chicken parma and beef, cheese and pepper to plant-based takes on lamb and rosemary or chicken and vegetable.

Sitchu Tip: For dinner without the cold supermarket sadness, take home a family-size shepherd’s, chicken tandoori or beef and red wine pie.

113 Newlands Road, Coburg North

Builders Arms Hotel

The fish pie at Andrew McConnell’s Builders Arms Hotel is legendary — on the menu since 2012 and still stealing hearts. Packed with snapper, smoked rainbow trout, prawns, sorrel and dill under golden, flaky pastry, it’s rich, creamy, and just a little bit luxe. Save some pastry lid for mopping up sauce or dunk hot chips on the side. Pair it with a cold beer or crisp white wine for a cosy Sunday lunch you won’t forget.

Sitchu Tip: Watch for the lamb shank pie when it lands as a special. With mashed potato and jus, it is rich, wintery and absolutely worth timing your visit around.

211 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

Bread Club

Oh Bread Club, you never miss. When the weather turns grey and all you want is something warm and soul-soothing, their ever-changing pie line-up is the comfort you didn’t know you needed. One day it’s beef bourguignon or lasagne, the next it’s potato raclette or pulled pork — and every time, it’s perfect. Cosy, and always serving up something special, this cult-fave bakery knows exactly how to turn a dreary day into a delicious one.

558 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne

Cardigan Place, Albert Park

Babka

Babka has been holding its corner of Brunswick Street since 1993, long before Fitzroy became a weekend sport. The old-school bakery cafe still does the things people cross suburbs for: borscht, poached eggs, sandwiches, lemon tart and house-made pies with buttery, no-nonsense pastry. Recent flavours have included chicken korma and beef and mushroom, with pork and fennel sausage rolls, brownies and cinnamon scrolls waiting nearby for anyone pretending they only came in for lunch.

358 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Keith’s Pies 

Keith’s Pies have rightfully earned their rep as Melbourne’s OG pie legends — and it’s easy to see why. This family-run spot has been perfecting their craft since 1953, serving up pies packed with decades of love and tradition. Each pie bursts with flavour thanks to top-notch ingredients, making every bite feel like a little moment of joy. With over 15 varieties to choose from on any given day, Keith’s is your go-to for a quick, comforting feed in the heart of the city.

And honestly, if you haven’t tried their iconic steak and pepper pie, can you really call yourself a Melbourne pie devotee? Their steak curry and lamb rosemary pies are also absolute crowd-pleasers — trust us, you’ll be hooked.

119 Burnley Street, Richmond

Whether you’re a local pie enthusiast or a visitor seeking the ultimate comfort food, the best pies in Melbourne are sure to satisfy. Looking for more comforting treats? Be sure to check out the best sandwiches and donuts around the city. 

Writer

Kelsey Harrington

24 June 2026

Kelsey Harrington is a Melbourne-based writer with a sharp eye for the city's ever-evolving food, wine, arts, and culture scene. Her journey into the creative industry took the scenic route—what started as a passion for capturing Melbourne’s energy through a camera lens led her to Sitchu, where she worked her way up to Melbourne Editor. With over four years in the industry, she’s all about uncovering the best places to eat, drink, and explore. Off the clock? You’ll find her diving into a platter of fresh oysters and crudo, gallery-hopping, or sipping an extra dirty martini while plotting her next adventure.