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Four and Twenty Blackbirds’ Apple Rose Pie

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 in Best Of, Dessert

Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a favorite among curious customers who aren’t afraid to try something new. The menu changes daily, allowing for ample experimentation in the kitchen from Melissa and Emily Elsen, a team of sisters. With only one oven in a small rustic looking pie shop, Melissa and Emily pump out each pie by hand every day for one customer at a time.

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Pies ‘N’ Thighs Concord Grape Pie

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 in Best Of, Dessert

Pies n Thighs’ fried chicken is so good you might forget that they are also all about pies. You can purchase the Apple, Banana Cream, Key Lime, Choco Peanut Butter Crunch, Sour Cherry, and Smores Pies whole or by the slice.

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First Prize Pies’ Apple Cider Cream Pie

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 in Best Of, Dessert

Ever since Allison Kave won the 1st Annual Brooklyn Pie-Off back in 2009, her pies have been getting tons of attention from New Yorkers. It’s not just the quality of the pies that makes us love this place, but the innovative offerings on their menu.  Kave dreams up everything from Greek Honey pie, with a consistency somewhere between custard and cheesecake, to Mexican Chocolate Cream pie dusted with a kick of cayenne and chile, and Apple Brandy.   Even her apple pies are different, like Apple Brandy or Apple Cheddar.  Still, there’s something about her Sweet Potato Pie that soothes our comfort food cravings like nothing else.  It’s the combination of luscious sweet potato, maple syrup, molasses and rum.    Though they don’t have a shop yet, you can pick up orders from Roni-Sue’s Chocolates on the Lower East...

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Momofuku Milk Bar’s Crack Pie

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 in Best Of, Dessert

Momofuku Milk Bar Pastry Chef Christina Tosi’s Crack Pie is the ultimate holy grail of pies. Many have tried to replicate this pie (especially now that Milk Bar has a cookbook out) to no avail. Why is it called the Crack Pie? Well, it’s so good that it’s the only fitting description is that it’s “as good as crack.”

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Hill Country Chicken’s Maker’s Mark Bourbon Pecan Pie

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 in Best Of, Dessert

Made with fresh pecans, brown sugar and Maker’s Mark whiskey, this pie adds something sweet (with a boozy kick) to enjoy with their amazing fried chicken and biscuits.

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Westville’s Pumpkin Pie A la Mode

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 in Best Of, Dessert

Since Apple Pie is the pie to which all others are compared, it’s difficult to say which version is the absolute best. We’re always looking for that one slice of apple pie where the apples aren’t too limp or too crisp. We’ve found what may be the perfect, simple apple pie at Westville.

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Bubby’s Sour Cherry Pie

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 in Best Of, Dessert

Stuffed to the brim with four pounds of sour Michigan cherries and flavored with a hint of almond and lemon, just thinking about a slice of this could bring a smile to anyone’s face, but particularly to those cherry pie connoisseurs.

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