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We’ve tried to get to Gardner Pie a couple of
times, but they seem to know when we’re coming and quickly turn off
the lights and lock the doors. We could probably look up their hours
but we have never made a trip for pie, just ended up there for some
reason or other and thought we would check it out. Headed to the
airport with some time to spare we pulled in to find lines of
expectant Easter feasters waiting to reduce their prep time for next
Sunday.
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The building is huge, I don’t know if all of
it is theirs but they could make pies for the entire west coast on
any holiday. Up front there is a little storefront loaded with pies
and boxes. We went overboard to add some sweetness to our holiday,
Pecan, Peach Melba, Red Raspberry Lime, and Lemon Blueberry. We also
picked up a Cinnamon Pumpkin we couldn’t fit for Easter and haven’t
tried yet. The crust on all the pies is well done, flaky, just
enough salt to stand out, brown crunchiness, that’ll do. The pecan
isn’t as good as the version from The Rail
but it is loaded with salty nuts and has thick rich custard. The
Melba was alright but really needed the almonds and raspberries to
pull up a middling peach pie. The real stand out for me were the two
berry/citrus combos. If they have pies like this all the time, we
might start checking their hours and making special trips for pies.
Blackberry and lime, blueberry and lemon, both are nicely sweet with
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 The Melba Features |
 Peaches, Raspberries & Almonds |
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Oh, BTW, the pumpkin might have sat too long, or it could be exactly as they intended. I hope we ruined it. It was thick as modeling clay, studded with weird little orbs of suspicious density, and nowhere as good as my mothers. I'm going to stick with the berry/citrus combos and maybe a cream pie when they aren’t completely sold out for a spring holiday. What ever combos they might come up with...
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