Crustees
Restaurant · Windsor Hills ·
Savory pot pies, chili, and flaky dessert pies with quality ingredients
Savory pot pies, chili, and flaky dessert pies with quality ingredients
"Crustees in View Park-Windsor Hills is known for comfort foods like chili, banana pudding, and miniature sweet or savory pies. The five-inch chicken pot pie is their signature, but you’ll also find sweet potato, key lime, and a peach pie topped with pecan crisp, to name a few." - Sylvio Martins
"Prepare to be overwhelmed when looking at Crustees’ display case in View Park-Windsor Hills. Peach and mixed berry cobbler, sweet potato pie, key lime, and lemon meringue are on deck. But the savory options are vast with chicken or beef pot pie, chili cheese pot pie, shepherd’s pot pie, and more. Sharon Washington leads the team and opened it in the same neighborhood she’s proud to call home." - Mona Holmes
"In View Park–Windsor Hills I found a small, bright quick-service bakery on Slauson that has built a strong reputation since 2014: Crustees. What began as Sharon’s Heavenly Cobblers, a cottage-food business selling fruit cobblers at farmers markets and festivals, became a brick-and-mortar in 2019 after a name change for branding; co-owner Steven Washington says his mother’s peach cobbler—made for more than 30 years and “required at every party”—is the dish the business is built on. Their peach cobbler isn’t a strict Southern cobbler (it isn’t topped with biscuit or dumpling batter) but instead stuffs big, sugar-and-spice–bathed peach slices between two layers of flaky pie crust whose namesake crust is made with vegetable shortening rather than butter or lard. The shop’s succinct menu highlights single-serving pies and the much-praised pot pies—flaky, rich, sized for one—with three chicken pot-pie varieties (classic, curry, and Buffalo) and popular chilis (white chicken and classic). Other standouts include a seafood gumbo with shrimp, crab, sausage, and chicken; a shepherd’s pie with lamb and turkey topped with mashed potatoes and a pie-crust bottom; and a sweet potato pie that balances warming spices in the same tender, toasty crust. The owners guard a few baking secrets—“might be a little bit of technique involved,” as Steven puts it—but extend their warmth through community outreach, wholesale partnerships (several markets and holiday outlets), and by featuring a locally baked pound cake from Catrina Smith. The shop celebrated five years in the neighborhood with a block-party–style gathering in November 2023, and it remains open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m." - Katherine Spiers
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