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Yelp
The place is charming and the service is very good. The owner/pie baker is kind and pleasant and clearly likes her business. But I'm reviewing the $5 slice of apple pie.
Two stars for making it all by hand. The crust is, umm...I won't eat the crust. It's mushy and turns to glue in your mouth. No flakes here. The filling is earnestly made, but just doesn't have what I like in Apple pie. The apples are sliced pretty thin and wind up limp yet chewy, almost like dried apple. Not sure what variety but the flavor is not my favorite. Possibly Granny Smith.
The pie is a little bit dry overall, which can work with the right variety of apple, but not here. So there's very little sauce which is not quite sweet enough, nor much different in texture from the apples or the mushy crust around it. "Mushy crust," isn't that an oxymoron?
Just by way of comparison, in the frozen section at Trader Joe's, you'll find something called Apple Blossoms, a pair of little single-serving pies for $1.99, which get it mostly right for commercial pie. Though the crust is not flaky the way a true pastry crust is, it still has a little crumble and snap to it, and you want to eat it all together with the filling -- not separate it and toss it like I did with the Pie Whole crust.