Alert: National Pie Day is this week. Here are some of the very best local favorites
National Pie Day is Thursday, and there’s more than one opportunity to celebrate.
You could have pie for lunch. And pie for dinner. If you go somewhere like Theresa’s Dixie House Cafe where the pies come out early, you could have pie three meals a day and sleep happy.
Since it’s Thursday, you’ll have to settle for the coconut meringue pie at Carshon’s Deli instead of chocolate. But the coconut is no slouch.
But the Paris Coffee Shop will have its regular meringue pies and maybe blueberry, and the new shops like Buttermilk Sky and JudyPie will be loaded with choices.
One reminder: Irving, Mansfield and Watauga, Texas, are some of the only towns in America where special pie dispensation is granted to diners.
At the Joe’s Coffee Shop locations in those cities, patrons ordering a plate lunch with vegetables can substitute “pie as a vegetable” for an upcharge.
I know of nowhere else where pie can become a vegetable. So enjoy.
(And yes, there’s also a National Pi Day March 14 — 3/14. Pie gets two holidays.)
Here’s a few pie stops in and around Fort Worth:
▪ Tennessee-based Buttermilk Sky Pie Shop has opened new Fort Worth and Arlington locations, spreading cherry pies, buttermilk pies and the pecan-chocolate-coconut “I-40” pie across Texas..
The newest location is at 6120 Camp Bowie Blvd., with 10 other stores throughout the Fort Worth and Dallas area; buttermilkskypie.com
▪ Carshon’s Delicatessen, a kosher-style deli and bakery near TCU, is best known for its chocolate meringue pie Wednesdays and Saturdays. Hint: The flavor of the day is usually gone by 12:30 p.m., but there’s still chocolate cake or whipped “strawberry delight.” 3133 Cleburne Road near West Berry Street, 817-923-1907, carshonsdeli.com.
▪ Vintage JudyPie in Grapevine has some stellar pies — blueberry-ginger, for one — and also has a Trinity Metro rail stop a block away to make it a fun trip; 520 S. Main St.., next to Jakes Burgers; 817-400-7437, judypie.com.
▪ Swiss Pastry Shop is known for Black Forest cake but sells excellent fruit and meringue pies; 3936 W. Vickery Blvd., 817-732-5661, swisspastryonline.com.
There are more great bakeries nearby: Black Rooster Bakery & Cafe, Blue Bonnet Bakery, McKinley’s Bakery, Stir Crazy Bakery and the California-based SusieCakes.
▪ The Paris Coffee Shop and Theresa’s Dixie House Cafes are two of several plate-lunch cafes known for pies. Theresa’s usually has about 10 meringue, cream and Splenda pies to choose from at several locations; dixiehousecafes.com
