I love pasties. There’s something so comforting in eating pastry dough stuffed with meat, which is why I also like calzones and empanadas.
Eating at–or actually, taking out from–Myles Teddywedgers reminds me of my childhood, when I would often get a pasty after a trip around Farmers’ Market. That’s why I was happy and relieved when the brother-sister duo of Anthony Rineer and Karima Berkani stepped up when Raymond Johnson put the business up for sale (if you recall, Ray took over when Miles Allen died).
Now called Teddywedgers, the restaurant has entered into modern times, jumping on Facebook and Twitter, and creating a new logo. The menu includes all the original pasties, including my favorites, steak and the Big Cheesy. Half-pies are $5.50, and whole pies are $9.75.
Let’s talk about that steak pie, which includes tender steak, bits of onion at the right texture (soft, but not too soft) and not an overwhelming amount of potatoes. Meanwhile, the Big Cheesy contains huge pieces of sausage, lots of cheese (of course!) and a perfect amount of sauce (enough so you can taste it uniformly but so it doesn’t spill out).
For breakfast, I ordered both the egg and bacon and egg and broccoli pies. Both were hearty and worthy of the first meal of the day, though I would have preferred more egg in both pies.
Teddywedgers is open for breakfast and lunch Monday to Saturday. A staff member told me the restaurant will eventually expand its hours. Make sure to call before you go–on one visit, I arrived at 2:15 p.m., and it was already closed, despite the 3 p.m. closing time listed on Facebook.


I was shopping at Copps the other day and noticed a display that promoted a bourbon called Cooper’s Mark. Both the display and an employee led me to believe that this was a Roundy’s product, meaning an imitation of the real thing at a lower price; in this case, $19.99 for a 750 ml bottle compared to $26.99 for a similar size bottle of Maker’s Mark.
Chips on a pizza? That’s exactly what you’ll get with the new Frito chili pizza at Papa John’s. My main concern in ordering it was whether the chips would still be crunchy by the time the pizza got to my house. Amazingly, they were.
