Jen K.
Yelp
Please don't take my sunshine away...
This is my plea to the owner of Pacific Pie Company.
Although I first experienced their Australian savory pies several years ago at their prior location, where I truly fell in love with the PPC experience was at the Milwaukie Farmers Market last summer. Almost every Sunday for months, I experienced a magnetic pull to the market where PPC served hot pies to eat at the market and frozen pies to take home. The ladies that worked the booth were lovely and it was one of the highlights of my weekend.
My family has definitely worked its way through the menu. Since both my husband and I periodically take meat breaks (oddly never at the same time), we've definitely enjoyed the hearty lamb, beef and chicken pies, but are equally impressed with the richness and spiciness of their vegetarian pasties, including Moroccan Chickpea and Curried Samosa. For awhile there I was slightly obsessed with the Sunday Roast Lamb. In part because each pie is topped with its own unique crust topper and the little lamb is almost painfully cute.
The gap in my experience is their Sweets Menu. I've never eaten a dessert here, which is pretty funny when you think about it. The category for this business listing is 'locked' and only mentions desserts. That is completely selling this business short, since my experience has been that this is savory entree heaven!
Once the farmers market closed for the season, I started visiting their expanded location in downtown Portland. They have almost their entire menu packaged and ready to go in the freezer, or you can eat a fresh pie or pastie on-site. They even have a Happy Hour.
Now on to the shameless begging...
On my last visit, I was chatting with the owner and told her how much I was looking forward to seeing them at the market again this summer. She told me that they were still trying to decide whether or not to be a vendor this year because sales (for many of the vendors) were a little slow last season. With my purchase of 3-4 pies a week, I was probably their #1 customer, but I can only do so much!
So I'd love to see them make the trip down to Milwaukie for my convenience, but you know what, driving to Portland for their wares isn't much of a hardship.
Pie, ftw!