The family business in Union Road recently won East Lancashire Bakery of the Year as decided by Lancashire Telegraph readers. We decided to try a few of their baked goods. And by a few, I mean a modest total of three jellied meat pies, an egg custard, a Manchester tart, and a meat and potato pie.
Makes for a small lunch. Martins' sweet treats (Image: NQ) All of these delicious treats, plus a carrier bag, cost just £10.35, which I think is beyond reasonable.
At around 10.30am when I visited to collect my light lunch, it was absolutely heaving, we're talking a chippy at 6pm on a Friday level of busy. When it came to chowing down I chose to eat the three jellied meat pies in succession, which cost £1.
75 each. I've had plenty before with me being local to the town, and what makes them so great is how every bit of the inside is filled with meat, there's no airspace. Some pies you buy feel like an old-fashioned whistle with a little pea-sized crumb of meat rattling about in the middle - not what you want.
But Martins, as our readers agree, is at the top of the pie game. Next up I tucked into an egg custard, priced at £1.40, always a fantastic delicacy to have for afters, and Martins' one is packed with that brilliant sweet and 'custardy' flavour.
The Manchester tart (Image: NQ) Not wanting to overindulge I generously passed on my Manchester tart to a colleague, who seemed to enjoy it and described it as "very sweet". Meat and potato pie (Image: NQ) The final beast on my Martins .