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| - I don't know if meat pies are becoming a new food trend in Toronto, but Pie Squared got their business concept down to a science.
The pies are square, yes. Too bad Pi*r^2 is not an equation applicable to squares. Also finally a pie business in Toronto that wholeheartedly embraces International Pi Day (14th of March), albeit by design and certainly a brilliant marketing ploy for its own thematic purpose when that day came.
Tucked in a drab building in an unremarkable part of Bloor East, the geeky science theme is everywhere, from the periodic table menu to the cheeky molecule models hanging off the ceiling. All their pies and many other stuff and combos they serve are all represented with made-up elemental symbols, which are even imprinted on the pies themselves. All that is missing is a chemistry teacher managing the place--unless a chem teacher is indeed running this place, and the business serves as a front disguising an underground industrial meth lab.
Maybe, maybe not, but lest I digress. No methamphetamine for sure, but absolutely a front producing fresh square shaped hand-held snack pies, served by friendly helpful folks. Handling these things kinda reminds me of a Jamaican patty, with a crisp and flaky crust enclosing the stuffing. The sweet and breakfast pies ($2.21-2.65) are much disappointingly smaller than their mains ($3.98-4.43), with prices reflecting that fact.
Pulled pork was good, the meat well-shredded and the flavours juicy and sweet like anything pulled pork should be. Moroccan Vegetable could use a bit more spice but generally happily filling. Chocolate banana however, holy smokes it's like heaven in a postage stamp!
Fun stuff. Smart little trick is if you order takeout, they'll throw your multiple pies in a double-decker carton. Dumb little trick is going to their website and finding it is still "under construction" (as of this writing).
{TTC: Sherbourne subway station; it's in a drab concrete building at the NW corner of Sherbourne/Bloor beside the TD bank.}
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