Mission Pie

What is Mission Pie?

Mission Pie is a corner café, bakery, and neighborhood gathering place in the Mission District that brings the flavors of local farms into the city and tells their stories. Mission Pie encourages urban folks toward intimacy with their food through live relationships with the people and places that grow our ingredients.

With pie as our ally, we create a warm environment that encourages exploration of our choices and values, and where, as neighbors,

we can find support and friendship in our pursuit of healthy and sustainable lives. We celebrate farmers, bakers, chefs, and all who work together toward a healthful food system.

Mission Pie is a business venture that collaborates with the non-profit Pie Ranch, a diversified small-scale educational farm one hour south of San Francisco. Through hands-on work and collective reflection at Pie Ranch, San Francisco teenagers discover new competencies and insights that benefit them as individuals and in community.

The idea of Mission Pie is rooted in a conversation with Mission High School youth during their first visit to Pie Ranch in 2005. They reminded us that many people in San Francisco don’t have the means to visit Pie Ranch to experience the personal connection with the farmland that sustains us. Mission Pie is an attempt to bridge that gap: If we cannot bring people to the land, we can bring the land to the people. Mission Pie is a tangible connection to Pie Ranch; a place, like the ranch, where people can gather with a sense of community purpose and belonging. Since our opening on January 3, 2007, Mission Pie has provided jobs and training for the youth we work with at the farm.

The Mission Pie-cayune

What is all that noise?!

January 29, 2008

We are excited to be expanding Mission Pie into the corner storefront. The construction in the corner storefront includes a seismic upgrade — we want this beautiful building to be standing for a long time — and a clean-up and conversion to house the retail part of our operation, that which you currently access from 25th Street. Soon, probably in early April, you will be able to sip your coffee while gazing at the happening scene on Mission St. Construction will continue in the back part of the building, and after another 4 or so months, we will unveil… drum roll please… a baking and cooking kitchen to offer pie and so much more. We appreciate all the input you offered about your hopes and desires for this growth, and are so pleased to be doing it with your support. Photo courtesy of D.S. Black

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The Mission Pie-cayune

What is all that noise?!