ANNOUNCING Mission Pie’s 13th Annual PIE CONTEST! Saturday August 17th, 2019 from 1:30 – 4:00pm Interested home bakers are invited to submit a sweet or savory pie to the 13th Annual Pie Baking Contest. Contestants will be the first 20 people to enter. Current and former professional bakers are not eligible. If you would like…
Every day, we are awed and deeply moved by your love for Mission Pie as well as your sustained presence here at the shop: the morning coffee, the weekly meetings, the Wednesday knitters, the Friday morning banana cream pie date, the afternoon bowl of soup. There’s so many more; it’s tempting to list them all.…
Crop of the Week: Apricots Apricot cultivation has been documented for centuries in the Middle East and Central Asia, though the fruit’s exact origin is disputed. The Scottish botanist John Claudius Loudon believed it had a wide native range, from Armenia to the Himalayas, China, and Japan. Almost all U.S. production takes place in California…
Rhubarb, eaten like a fruit in the US culinary culture, is botanically a vegetable. The crop – the stem of the plant – is extremely tart, however when it is cooked with sugar, it resembles stewed fruit. Rhubarb takes its name from the Latin rha barbarum. Rhubarb grew along the banks of the river Rha, the ancient…
Online ordering for Easter 2017 is now open! Pies are available to order for pick up on Saturday 4/15 and Sunday 4/16, during our regular business hours: Saturday from 8am – 10pm Sunday from 9am – 10pm Easter Menu: Strawberry Rhubarb, Rhubarb Chess, Shaker Lemon, Strawberry Apple, Walnut, Vegan Strawberry Apple, Banana Cream, Coconut Cream,…
During this first wintry winter in some time, we are offering a nutrient-rich kale salad daily that features dino kale, red cabbage and carrots, cara cara oranges, roasted delicata squash and garbanzo beans with a miso vinaigrette. So delicious and fortifying.
Ten years ago when we were preparing to open Mission Pie, we visited two local coffee roasters to choose a coffee partner for Mission Pie. We tasted their coffees and discussed our shared company values and priorities. We were so impressed with the dedication and coffees of each company, and it was hard to choose…
