Photos and story by Stacie Joy
When I heard that neighborhood fave baker Ali Sahin of C&B Café was testing holiday pie recipes, I immediately ran over to the space on Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B to get a sneak peek. I love pie!
Ali is working with baker Daniel Villalobos (below left), who created the pumpkin pie that is now available for purchase.
These whole 9-inch pies are for sale up until the weekend before Thanksgiving. (This coming weekend!)
Ali says they "generously feed eight people." The
pies are $30 each, available with torched meringue or not — your call.
So... why pies, and why now?
"We needed a little change, I felt a bit stagnant," Ali said of his C&B offerings. "I wanted a change in our pace."
I noted that the crust appeared puffier than you'd see on a traditional pie. Daniel explained it was "not a laminated dough like puff pastry, but a flakier crust, made with all (high butterfat) butter, no lard."
He added that the pumpkin filling "had a bit of mascarpone cheese, plus spices like ginger."
The taste-testing went well...
After Thanksgiving, you can expect to see more pie options. Ali and Daniel are looking at an apple pie with oat crumble topping, a pecan
pie, and a chocolate French silk pie with heavy cream.
Also available soon (after the holiday rush): mini-pies with new flavor profiles, and
pies by the slice.
10 comments:
Outstanding!
It'd be nice if they were to offer a vegan pie of some sort—but I'm not holding my breath. (Vegan crust is easy and flavorful; I make a vegan mock mince that even hardcore omnivores ask for again and again.)
Props to Ali and team, they are great people!
But this:
"It'd be nice if they were to offer a vegan pie of some sort—but I'm not holding my breath."
What a shitty comment. No support to C&B. This local business, that does a ton for the community is expanding into a new arena for the first time - and hopefully it is profitable for them. We should celebrate that.
Alternative: instead of a vapid comment on EVGrieve, go start your own restaurant, and deal with the inventory and ingredients and staff and payroll to make your vegan mock mince that most people won't order anyway because who TF wants to eat vegan mock mince unless they're A) a vegan - which most people aren't, or B.) trapped at someone's shitty dinner party where there's no other option and as a matter of politeness you compliment the host.
Please.
Go C&B Go. I hope the pies make your holiday business season even better!
Easy on scuba diva there. No comment on ev grieve is shitty if it's a complaint. It's called ev grieve after all, not ev celebrate, ev joy, ev let's all get along. The angry assault on vegans is a bit Trumpian.
Wow, awesome news about the pies. But also nice to see 1 @ 7:18 cook scuba diva.
If people ask for it again and again, it's not a success. Nobody is supposed to like mince. That's the essence of mince-ness.
Pissy reaction (7:18) to shitty comment (3:08) about a food product (pumpkin pie) eaten once a year. Only on EV.......
These days even the holiday pies have to be diverse
https://x.com/JamesAHogg2/status/1812013529207050308 favorite poem about pie.
Did these pies vote?
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