Paired with a nice cup of coffee or topped with a scoop of ice cream, pie is unbeatable comfort food. And yet it faces stiff competition from cupcakes as the city’s dessert of choice. Well, pie is fighting back with old fashioned deliciousness as well as new and tantalizing flavours.
Why go to all the trouble of baking your own pie when you can hop in the car and head to Pies Plus at Avenida Shopping Centre. With over 80 pies to choose from, if you can’t find one you want, you aren’t trying hard enough. My favourite? The Merry Berry made with blueberry, raspberry and cranberry (and no it wasn’t named after me).
Dessert house Bliss & Co serves excellent cupcakes and pies. Individual fruit pies are available daily while they last. Visit their Bow Valley Square or Northmount location on Thursdays and Fridays for decadent cream pies. All Bliss & Co goodies are nut-free.
While this southwest bakery is best known for its cheese buns, Glamorgan Bakery also makes fantastic pies.
With a huge selection of savoury and sweet pies, it is impossible to walk away from one of Simple Simon’s farmers’ market kiosks without taking one or more home. Individual and family size fruit pies and cheesecakes are available with special seasonally available pies featured during the holiday season.