I challenge you to find the best egg custard tart

[cleo333]

Hello

Me and my husband love an egg custard tart and so far love the sainsburys ones but what ones do you prefer ?

Well this is where we go when in Lisbon.

https://pasteisdebelem.pt/en/

Lovely

Sainsbury’s are better than Waitrose (tasteless, milky custard), M&S (dry), Co-op (dry and tasteless).

Fellow custard tart lover watching with interest! 😋

The Chinese bakery if you have one nearby.

This was my first thought when I saw the title too!!! Failing that Ah Toots bakery in Bristol do a wonderful one.

Very niche but Hulson's in North Wales makes the very best.

M&S are by far the best!

We have a genuine Portuguese bakery in the city centre. Soz.

The ones you find in Lidl are also very very good ( I am Portuguese living in south London)

But are we talking about egg custard tart or pastel de nata? Because whilst they are obviously similar, they’re not quite the same thing (I love both, fwiw).

Another niche one, there’s a chain of three called ‘Staple’ on the Kent coast. Traditional British custard tart rather than the (also delicious) Portuguese ones. It was so tasty I’d consider a day trip just for another one.

Morrisons are my favourite custard tarts. I don’t like pastel de nata, the flaky pastry kind with weird custard!

Marks and Sparks for the best English custard tarts.

Or make a South African one which is like an English one but more solid. Delicious.

I disliked the English ones, but then I went to Portugal !
Waitrose have frozen pasteis de nata, which are handy to have in the freezer when my local Tesco in-store bakery has run out.

Im late to the show -
But the BEST custard Tart is making it at home following the fabulous Marcus Wareing recipe. It’s the one he won ‘Great British Menu’ with about 100 years ago (or so it seems) which launched his career. He cooked it for the Queen (Birthday or maybe Golden Jubilee meal) and it’s one of the best recipes I have ever come across.
It’s so fabulous that when I cook it I don’t want to share it and I wonder why I am fat.
https://www.marcuswareing.com/recipes/marcus-wareings-custard-tart

if we’re talking supermarkets than I’ve only had the Sainsburys and Aldi ones. Quality wise they’re the same.

Neither compete with ones you get from a proper baker.

Probably Macau!

I used to make one but can’t remember whose recipe. It had 8 egg yolks in it and was lush.

I love an egg custard. That is all.