![]() Humble will open at 9014 Garland Rd., in the same vicinity as other recent-ish hipster arrivals such as Lounge Here and Hypnotic Donut Emporium. The Garland Road corridor east of White Rock Lake gets a little more foodie with the opening of Humble Pies, a new pie shop opening in late March. Everybody has emotional memories attached to pie." You don't have that with cookies and cakes. "For me, it's my grandma's Alabama pecan pie. "Pie is special because it invokes memories," he says. And we've already talked to the guys at Hypnotic, we're going to trade products, maybe get some of their ice cream."įor Jett, pie occupies a unique place in the dessert realm. We do the same sort of things but we don't actually do the same thing. ![]() "But I've had conversations with them, and they're excited we're going to be there. "People have asked, 'How could you open a pie shop two doors down from the cheesecake place?'" he says. He's in the same center as Cheesecake Royale, but he says that won't be a problem. "I was driving down Garland Road and saw that the old Metro Barber shop was out of business. "Getting our location was happenstance," he says. Jett grew up in East Dallas being in the area was key. One of his pies is a homage to HOP's French blackbottom, with layers of chocolate and rum custard. More than once, they'd close out a night of partying at the pool hall with a midnight run, 100 miles one way, NBD, to get a slice of pie. A Houston native, she introduced him to House of Pies, Houston's incomparable pie shop chain, back in their college days at Texas A&M. He and his wife, Erin, have been thinking about opening a pie shop for more than 15 years. That's why we're Humble Pies - we're not pretentious." "And we're not making a bacon-jalapeno bourbon pie. "We're not doing fancy espresso drinks, just brewed," he says. They'll also serve coffee, sourced from a local roaster still to be named. He'll do local favorites like Key lime, and Southern classics such as pecan pie and his signature coconut cream. Jett will use whatever local ingredients are available, such as Texas blueberries when they come into season. They'll start out with 7-8 pies a day, and see how things unfold. "It has a splash of vinegar, and then I go old-school on the fat and use both lard and butter." "My pie dough is one I've used for years that came from a family-based recipe," Jett says. Just as the true star of pizza is the dough, so is crust the telltale element of real pie. The shop will be a proper pie shop whose pies have actual crust, not some home-ec concoction of ground-up graham crackers. Humble comes from Sean Jett, a Dallas native and El Centro College grad who has worked as a chef and community college cooking instructor. Humble will open at 9014 Garland Rd., joining other recent-ish hipster arrivals in the vicinity such as Lounge Here and Hypnotic Emporium Ice Cream. The Garland Road corridor east of White Rock Lake gets a little more foodie-esque with the arrival of Humble Pies, a new pie shop opening in late March.
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