Adam F.
Yelp
I'm still sad, a few months later (our cruise was in June), that we only had a day and a half in Vancouver before the cruise - it was driving me crazy, there are just *so* many amazing-looking food options in the city! I'd love to come back sometime and try more, but I'm absolutely not regretting choosing this place as one of my meals that trip - the meat pies here are fantastic. I could even see coming back on a future Vancouver trip (though that'd be hard, there are so many great places we didn't try, too! If I lived in Vancouver, though, I'd be here all the time.)
We ordered a couple meat pies, one "peaked", and received them like 3 minutes later. Like faster than fast food half the time - which I suppose they technically are, since the pies are already baked, they just need to get plated and, potentially, peaked. So it's great if you're in a hurry, or just hungry! We were both, so I loved it!
Anyway, obviously, the pies were excellent. The "Hopper" didn't really taste notably different than if it had been made with a more traditional meat rather than kangaroo, but it was definitely rich and meaty, like 11/10 level delicious pie. The traditional "peaked" pie was exactly what you'd expect, a great meat pie, topped mashed potatoes, mush peas and gravy - totally lived up to the hype. We ended up sharing a third meat pie just cause they were so good, we're so infrequently in Vancouver (like never), and they had so many different flavors, all delicious-sounding. We weren't hungry enough to "peak" it, but the steak, bacon and cheese pie was also fantastic. Would have been even better peaked, though. (I imagine that's true of any of them, it's a great combo.) 2 pies would've been enough food for 2 people, though - but I wasn't sad about eating the third, either.
Drinks-wise, they have a handful of beers for reasonably reasonable prices, but at least at the time we were there, they were mostly IPAs, and I wasn't in an IPA mood. They also had $5 (nonalcoholic) craft kombuchas, though - had one, went great with the meat pies.
We also tried a couple of the desserts - the one we paid for, the vanilla cake, was just ok, the only real disappointment that lunch. It wasn't bad, but it was kinda overly sweet and rather one-dimensional, compared to the, again, extremely excellent meat pies. The free "minington" with yelp checkin, though, was great. (Even better, my wife hates shredded coconut, so I had it to myself! If you don't like shredded coconut, don't get it, it's covered in it. I thought it was great!)
Extra bonus tip: they've likely fixed their wifi by now, in which case they also likely have working guest wifi, but it was down when we were there... but fun fact, if their wifi happens to be down again, if you're sitting outside, you can definitely also get the unsecured guest wifi from the A&W next door. (Who would go to an A&W when you're right next to such a great meat pie place! Nothing against A&W, but it's not a meat pie.)