Pie Fight: Hand Pies (Salt Lake City, UT)

Dessert Profile

Flavor: Hand Pies

Ingredients: flour, salt, sugar, various fillings, butter, shortening

Price: $4-$8

Calories: 225-400 Calories

Three-word Review: Flakey, flavorful Persuasion

Score: 7.3

Pie Fight

Pie Fight is a hand pie bakery located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Owner and head pie maker Sarah Warner is the creative behind their unique pie flavors. Pie Fight is a single-location business, but has gained a loyal following from both tourists and locals alike. The idea for Pie Fight came from the desire to bring people a different spin on dessert, but still offer something of great quality and flavor. And as you’ll read below, keep their pies in a competition.

Pie Fight offers a variety of hand pies including their best seller Blueberry Lemon, Apple Crumble, Boston Cream Pie, Oreo Brownie, Strawberry Rhubarb, Classic Cherry, Mac and Cheese, Tomato Caprese and Mushroom, Bacon, Swiss to name a few. Each one of their hand-pie creations receives glowing reviews for their rich flavors and flakey crusts. Pies come in a small or large size, which sell for $4 or $8.

What sets Pie Fight apart is their unique ability to create fun-flavored pies. As the name explains, Pie Fight is in reference to the pies fighting each week to stay on the menu. Every 1-2 weeks the menu changes. The best selling pies stay on the menu, the pies that don’t sell well, lose, and get taken off the menu. Ladies and gentlemen, go check out Pie Fight and let’s get ready to rummmmbbbbble.

Chef's Note

All of the creations and flavors come from owner and lead baker Sarah Warner. She concocts her flavor ideas from her love for food and foodie appetite.

Experience

Our experiences at Pie Fight was great. There is a walk-up window to order your pies and plenty standing area to hang out and enjoy your Cheat Day dessert. The employee was great, very nice, polite, offered recommendations and pleasant. Our orders came out packaged in a little brown box with the words “Fight the Good Fight” on it.

Review

Appearance

Each hand pie looks ready to be devoured. The pies have a beautiful, perfectly brown pie color with different topping for each flavor. The crusts appear flakey and baked perfectly.

Touch

The pies are sized well. Outside of being a little messy, they are great for biting into with one hand … or two if you’re super serious, starving and need to focus (I’ve never done that…). They don’t have much weight, but enough to confirm the pie is full of goodness and made with quality.

Smell

The pies, as you would imagine, smell of sweet sugar and baked butter. Each flavor will have its own distinct aroma, but the smell of these little hand pies are somewhere between poetic boulevard and divine avenue.

Taste

At first bite, these pies are, in fact, very good. The flavor of the crust is of high quality and what I wanted from these little gems. They pies are soft and flakey on the outside with a nice burst of flavor from the gooey centers that really bring it all home. I think all the flavors were good, but some better than others on different accounts. I really loved the Apple Pie. The outside was sweet and delicious and the inside was fresh with good flavor. The problem was, the inside was fairly flat and a little void of filling. I wish there was more apple in the center so I could have gotten a nice mouth full of fresh apple pie. The Boston Cream Pie was also a little flat. It was good, not great. I’m not a Boston Cream Pie person, but the gal recommended it so I went with it. It’s probably good, just not for me.

All in all, the pies are done very well. I would totally go back the next time I’m in Salt Lake City and I would recommend others make this a target on their Cheat Day.