Merri and Bill Tyndall keep the dining room and bakery cases chock-full of baked goods and knickknacks in a 1950s-era former filling station now home to the Mountain Pie Company. They decorate each table with different colors and patterns of linens, china, and silver from their personal collection. A blue ribbon from the 2010 Western North Carolina Apple Festival hangs on the pie case — earned for one of Merri’s apple pies made with local Honeycrisps and adorned with a crust made with leaf-shaped cutouts. “The pace is good out here, and people can sit awhile,” Merri says of the store that’s a few miles outside of downtown Hendersonville on a hilly countryside stretch of U.S. Highway 25. Specialties include old-fashioned pie varieties like North Carolina tart cherry, buttermilk, and Amish shoo-fly pie. The Tyndalls bake daily, and they tested their pie mettle recently when a bride-to-be ordered 11 different pie flavors for her wedding reception, held on the 11th day of the month, on a North Carolina mountaintop.
Mountain Pie Company
3400 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville, N.C. 28791
(828) 693-0501
mountainpiecompany.com
Visit the rest of the delectable independent, local bakeries in Our State‘s North Carolina dessert tour:
The Sisters McMullen
Jimmie’s Sweets
Rosebriar
Hayes Barton Café & Dessertery
Bread of Heaven Bakery
Cheesecakes by Alex
Paul’s Pastry Shop
Seaside Cheesecake Dessert Shoppe
Savannah Red
Bailey Café
The Bakehouse
Sugar on Front Street
Mark our words: Whether they nod to North Carolina or were penned by its residents, these notable, quotable passages remind us of the power of speech inspired by our state.
When one stream flows into another, the two chart a new course for the future — together.
When the weather outside is frightful, one chef serves loved ones dishes so delightful.
A historic Rose Bowl pitted Duke University against Oregon State in Durham. Then, in the dark days of World War II, those same football players — and a legendary coach — joined forces to fight for freedom.
