Pie Squared

Really good pies — will be coming back. The Guinness pie was really good. I would put it on par with pie commission in terms of quality.

I thought the concept of portable pies was great and the way they make their pies like the periodic table is very creative! I came here twice already to try a few different pies and while it’s a great concept, I didn’t find that the pies were beyond amazing. Don’t get me wrong, they tastes good, just not amazing. My coworker thought the same. Some pies are on the drier side but that’s the nature of portable pies — can’t leak fillings! The last pie I tried was the cheeseburger pie which was a bit disappointing. I was expecting ground beef with lots of gravy and cheese rather than a whole burger patty and minimal sauce. Taste wise, it was kind of plain but I could be biased since I had high expectations in this pie. The butter tart was delicious though.
The customer service is top notch. The cashier explained how everything works, the pie selection and gave me a coupon and a loyalty card to keep me coming back. Great marketing/​promotion there. It did bring me back several times.
If you’re looking for a place to grab a quick lunch, this place would be it. I think their sweet pies are their strengths though.

I first discovered this place by reading about it in a magazine and realizing it was relatively close to home. I waffled on giving it 3 or 4 stars, but ultimately decided it deserved the 4.
There are a few obvious good things about Pie Squared. Number 1 — it’s cheap, and remarkably so for this area of town. Two pies and a drink come in under $ 10 which is an excellent deal, especially since the pies are decent sizes. There are a few combos that you can have — all of them reasonable in price. Number 2 — all of the food is clearly homemade in the kitchen. In addition to their meat pies, their dessert pies aren’t to be missed!
While some pies are generally better than others (the cheeseburger one tasted a little too processed, but the steak and cheese one is excellent), most of the food here is quite good. I’ve seen a few different varieties rotate into their consistent menu.
Overall, if you are looking for a filling, cheap lunch or dinner I would recommend this place. The quality is good, the prices are great and I generally walk away quite satisfied.

Love the pies here. The crust is light and flaky with great texture. I highly recommend both the Guinness, Beef and Potato one as well as the Chicken, Mushroom, Onion one. And don’t skip the dessert pies! :)

My boyfriend and I really enjoy having a quick dinner or lunch here on the odd day!
They have great selection of both sweet and savory pies, and although they may look small, they definitely will fill you up. I find it hard to believe anyone would have a problem finding something to eat here!
Great for grabbing and go, but I personally like sitting in there. Music can be too loud sometimes but not enough to make me enjoy my time there any less.

As a filling snack on the go or a sit down chat food, this is a great option! The pie pastry is soft and delicious while tr contents are cooked well and seemingly with care. As a science advocate and former dabbler in science, places like these really make me excited (pun intended). I happened upon this place during my travels on Bloor street. The scientific sign outside drew me in and the periodic table menu sealed the deal to try this place out. I ordered the special (2 pies for $ 8.50); we had the steak and cheese and Cheeseburger pies. It was filling, tasty and definitely a place I will return.

My friend and I passed this little place a few weeks ago and commented on the name, and were interested enough to do some research. When we happened to be in the neighbourhood again shortly afterwards, we decided to check it out. The man behind the counter was friendly, the place was clean. I ordered the spinach and lentil pie. Oh. My. Gawd. So delicious. (Note: I’m not even a vegetarian, I just happen to be fond of both spinach and lentils.) I want another one and I want it soon.

Ate lunch here last week. The hot pies were tasty, but I took a mini blueberry square to go and when I got home I found mould spores on the bottom parts of the crust! They should be more careful with the items that they are keeping at room temperature.

Went for lunch today. Greeted nicely as I got in. Everything was explained to me as far as choices, combo options and specials. I got the chicken, cheddar and jalapeño pie with the apple crisp dessert pie. With a drink 7.25. Not bad. The portions were not big, but it was quality. And for lunch just the right size. The CCJ pie was flavourful with good size chicken. Some spice. The best part was the shell. Buttery. Flaky but not too flaky. The apple crisp was par. But again… that pastry. Yum.
Thinks I don’t care for. Plastic knife and fork. For staying in and sitting I want a real k and f. Same goes for paper plates. But not a deal breaker since it has no impact on the food.
Would I go back. Yes. There were many other pies that looked awesome.

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*r² is not an equation applicable to squares. Also finally a pie business in Toronto that wholeheartedly embraces International Pi Day (14^th 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.}

Fave would be the Guinness beef, but the steak and cheese was pretty good, although the cheese could have a stronger taste. Looking forward to trying the chicken options.

Pie squared is the result of somebody having far too much money and far too little knowledge of marketing and branding. Having a theme is one thing but these guys take it way too far and not in a good way. I absolutely love pie but I couldn’t even begin to like this place as hard as I tried.
Pie squared. The people who work there wear lab coats, get it? The menu is a periodic table of elements that is so intent on sticking to the theme of being a periodic table that it is nearly impossible to actually read it to place an order. The pies are square shaped, get it? I asked for a business card and guess what shape the card was in? Yeah a square.
The idea is good but the execution is terrible. It is in a dead space on Bloor street that hardly anybody walks by. The pie is dry and extremely small for the price you pay. It also sits under heat lamps for who knows how long while placing an order is far too reminiscent of trying to solve a high school math problem.
If pie is what you sell focus on making the best pie possible and leave the gimmicks to someone else.

The squared pies and the box it comes in makes it easy to eat on the go.
I tried the jalapeño chicken and chicken pot pies in the big size. They were filling but the small ones would’ve been a great snack.
There are about 15 – 20 seats inside and the décor is math (pi) and science themed. Each table also had a photo of famous mathematicians.

I didn’t really give this place a through review. This are like pies but more like a stuffed pocket sandwich, the crust is soft and good. The g filling is good, I really only had breakfast so far hence why I found this place
This trip was a to go order but the take home box was nice. Even gives you storing and heating instructions but I have eaten on and will eat the second one soon
Any geek will enjoy the science and fake element behind it but I think I they got the science of baking the perfect pie right. It’s in their slogan so I hope they would

A new addition to this particularly dreary section of Bloor, Pie Squared seems like they should be a lot more popular than it is right now. Similar to a dedicated crêpe place, they’ve got savoury and sweet selections for their pies.
As a lunch option, it’s quite affordable and filling (2 entrée pies for $ 8). I opted for the 1 entrée + 1 dessert + 1 drink option, which cost $ 7.75, since I didn’t want to be totally stuffed. They have savoury options like Guiness steak, pulled pork, sausage and egg, and quite a few others that all sounded delicious. I chose the pulled pork, and found the pie part was nice, flakey, perfectly baked. The filling itself has a good amount of meat, which is always a plus. Nothing is less satisfying than a meatless meat pie! The sauce was a bit too sweet for my liking — but the overall effect was yum!
Dessert pie, I chose the chocolate banana. The dessert pies are slightly smaller than the entrees, about 60% of the size, but that’s a perfect pick for me. It was just… alright. Tasted good, but nothing to go out of my way for.
The service was excellent — They have a stamp card, where if you get 6 pies, you get one free! On the flip side of the same card, if you get 6 coffees, you get one free. The owner (I think it’s the owner?) also gave $ 1 off any pie coupon, so definitely gave incentive to go back. He also threw in a «pi» sauce to go with the entrée pie, which tastes a bit like ranch dressing.
All in all, for less than $ 8, you can get a good size meal, including a dessert and drink. The packaging is consistently cool, and it’s all over the store, the bags, the coffee cups, AND the pies themselves. Will be back to keep trying those entrée pies!

Around the block and good for a quick in-​and-​out lunch.
The restaurant’s décor was interesting. It had a science concept where all the pies were squared in shape and the menu is written like chemical compound names.
They offer a variety pies, with or without combo. Since I was my first time there, I ordered a two-​pie combo to try more flavours. I picked the pulled pork pie and the steak with melted cheese pie. They both came in a box that had a nice divider in the center.
The steak pie didn’t have much flavour at all. It tasted slightly sour from its sauce alongside the cheese aroma. Not sure if that was supposed to be like that or had it gone bad. Moreover, there were only few little sliced steak pieces. Overall, I could taste more of the pie crust and layers than the actual filling. It was bland and not that good.
On the flip side, the pulled pork pie was quite good. The meat inside was quite filling to my stomach. It was soft yet not too hard to chew on. Likewise, the pulled pork meat was well sliced up and the content was saucy with a good mix of sweet and sour sauce.
The two-​pie combo to me was like ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ (one good one bad) and came up to $ 8 with tax included. I thought it was fairly pricey for its quality, even though I found the quantity just right.
As for the service, its mediocre especially since they are like a fast food pie store.
I wouldn’t really come here again because of its price vs. pie quality. It’s more of a gimmick food place to me.

I really wanted to love this place. Finally tried it after being tempted by the smells emanating from this place whenever I walked by. Got the pie, soup and drink combo and went with the chicken & mushroom pie. The soup was some Mediterranean veggie medley type thing.
I started with the soup. What a huge disappointment. It was one of the blandest things I’ve ever tasted from a restaurant. I tried putting two whole packets of salt and a packet of pepper to save it, but it was still really flat and tasteless. I ended up taking only a few sips of it and regretted wasting money on the combo.
The pie was okay, but nothing to shout about. I’ve tasted similar quality pies from the frozen food section of a supermarket.
I don’t think I’ll be coming back. I had high hopes for this place. Hopefully, I just happened to catch them on a bad day. Service was really friendly though, so at least there’s that.

Having the steak and cheese pie & the apple crisp. Having made pies for a living, way back when, I can be a harsh critic. The crush is not bad, but not great. The S&C filling is very nicely seasoned and has great flavors. The AC has a lovely light crust with a touch of salt in the pastry to balance off the sweet spiced apple filling. Nothing to return for though.
In the long run though, I would not go back. I ended up with a funny headache afterwards and the sweetener in the apple pie left and strange sugar film in my mouth that is unpleasant.

Finally this subway corner is getting some life in its restaurant/​food scene. I don’t know why it’s taken so long considering all of the large businesses in the area. Anyways this is a great addition to the neighborhood in that it’s a different kind of food to choose from.
Pie Squared is a brilliant piece of marketing. Each pie is given a fake periodic table name and is baked in the form of a square. Much like Kanga: Aussie Meat Pies, these pies can be easily held and are the perfect snack on the go.
As you can imagine with all that pastry, they’re surprisingly flling! Furthermore the prices are pretty fair (and cheaper than other pie places in Toronto). I grabbed a meat pie, a can of coke, and a sweet pie for 7.75 $ inc. tax. You can tell that they’re using fresh ingredients and they’re baked fresh each morning. Personally, I think the pies aren’t as tasty as other places in Toronto (and I would suggest that they make some sauces available for people), but for the price they’re very reasonable.
The servers are also really friendly and outgoing. I also quickly spoke to the owner Gino Amodio, who was also quite friendly and was clearly working hard to build up the restaurant.
I am really positive for the outlook of this restaurant and I think people will enjoy this place.

My co-​worker and I have been waiting a while for this place to open and we’re finally glad they did!
As soon as we walked in we could tell that this is a great place and they put a lot of thought into the branding if the company.
They’ve got pies coming out the Wa-​Zhou for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert. If pies aren’t what you fancy, there are salads and soups to whet your appetite.
The staff was knowledgeable and really were eager to get feedback on their product. It smelled heavenly in there and if I did work there I definitely gain a few pounds for sure.
The pies are well sized and much easier to eat than I had anticipated. Serious thought when into their packaging and how they present them selves. A great job for early marketing of this place.
The product speaks for itself here and tastes just as good as it smells. Pricing was spot on for what I ordered (2 entrée pies and 1 dessert) for $ 10.00 +tax (roughly). I’m definitely full after my meal! YUM! I found the pastry a bit dry and was hoping that maybe there was some kind of sauce or gravy one could use or be offered to create a more complete experience here.
I seriously can’t wait for the winter and going here to get a hearty meal to get me through those cold days/​night.
People of Toronto! You Pie G-​d has heard you and given us Pie Squared! Rejoice!