So we did a quick (cheese) straw poll of the Proper York office and came up with a definitive list of the best pies made by York bakers and butchers.

So, in no particular order, and without a word of a pork pie, have a butchers at this, our (sausage) roll of honour:

• Best pork pie in York: Tony Neary Butchers, 65A Clifton, York
• Best mince & onion pie in York: Tony Neary Butchers
• Best steak pie in York: Tony Neary Butchers
• Best sausage roll in York: Thomas the Baker, various locations throughout the city
• Best cheese straws: Cooplands, 17a Davygate, York and 65-71 York Road, Acomb
• Best Cornish pasty: the Cornish Pasty Bakery, 29-30 Colliergate
• Best mince pies in York: Thomas the Baker
• Best yum-yums in York:* Cooplands

A runaway success by Tony Nearys, it would seem: largely because Scott’s Butchers on Low Petergate has closed and M&K Butchers on Bishopthorpe Road is too far away from our office.

Anybody disagree? Got any other York pies that you want to add to the list? Let us know below – but we believe these are the best pies in York!

* Not technically a pie but so nice they just HAD to be included in our list. The cornerstone of any great civilisation: it’s rumoured the Vikings invented the longboat just so they could ship up to York and try a Cooplands yum-yum. Although, frankly, yum-yums wouldn’t have been quite right until the discovery of sugar in the West Indies some 600 years later.

York's city walls and the Minster

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