Merri Tyndall loves pie, and now Henderson County can love it, too, with the opening of the Mountain Pie Co., a new business that caters to your sweet tooth.
The business, at 3400 Asheville Highway next door to Monte's Sub Shop, opened two months ago after Tyndall spent six months researching possible ideas for a business.
Mountain Pie Company:
If real men flinch at quiche, as the early 1980s bestseller had it, they positively flee from sweets. So says Mountain Pie Company owner Merri Tyndall, who last month switched her Hendersonville bakery's name from the Front Porch Sweetery.
"It seemed like men weren't too crazy about coming in with the old name," Tyndall says. "We changed the name and they just run in, jumping up and down."
Tyndall and her husband, Bill, opened the shop at 3400 Asheville Highway last December. Although Merri Tyndall had operated numerous flower and antique shops, the Sweetery marked her first foray into the restaurant business.
"We knew we were going to make a lot of changes after we'd been open awhile," she says.
The Mountain Pie Company now offers more than a dozen varieties of homemade pies — "Today we have coconut cream, two kinds of apple, strawberry and bumbleberry," Tyndall reported when reached by phone last month — cakes and breakfast. To inaugurate its breakfast service, which includes strawberry crepes, blueberry blintzes, pancakes and waffles, Tyndall offered a free breakfast in early August. More than 130 people took advantage of the promotion.
"It was fun," Tyndall says. "There were four of us working, and we managed to make everyone happy."
Tyndall plans to hold more free breakfasts and a chili cookoff later in the fall.
Mountain Pie Company is open Tues.-Fri., 7 a.m.-2 p.m., and Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The bakery's closed on Mondays.
To learn more, call 693-0501 or visit www.mountainpiecompany.com.
Reviews and Media Coverage
"Open the door and you're on the, well, front porch. Keep going and you find yourself in a warm and cozy space that makes you feel as if you've been transported to a countryside cottage in England."
- Hendersonville Epicurean, Dec 2009
MOUNTAIN HOME – Merri Margaret Tyndall has been
baking since the age of 8. She still uses her mother's
“Household Searchlight” cookbook. Recently, she opened
Front Porch Sweetery and Coffee Shop.
- Pisgah Mountain News, Feb 2009
The Voice: Volumn 1 Issue 9 , May 2009
Jennifer Duran, Vice President
Chocolate ganache, orange chiffon pie, chocolate peanut butter cake, custard pie, cherry turnovers...Have I got your attention? Is your stomach growling? Will nothing but baked goodness save you?
http://bpwhendersonville.org/files/index.php?id=1
Mountain Xpress...Small Bites
Asheville-area food and restaurant news
by Hanna Rachel Raskin in Vol. 16 / Iss. 6 on 09/02/2009
Times-News
Blue Ridge Now
Leigh Kelley, News Reporter
A Journey to Find America's Best Slices of Pie (American Pieways)The adventure of searching for America's Best Pies.
"Some of us come to pie baking, and our pie eating, through nostalgia. We associate the aromas that slip out of the oven with family picnics in summer or cozy nights by the fire at Thanksgiving. More than just fruity delicacies swaddled in crème and sugar, they evoke home, comfort, even joy." Read more..
John Forsyth is a book author and world traveler with discriminating tastes and a storyteller's heart. He and his wife, Jennifer, are traipsing along America's backroads and "pieways" in search of good desserts by the slice and sweet stories. You can find all of their reviews linked from the home page above.
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Times-News Names
Hendersonville Chef of the Week at Mountain Pie Company
Mountain Pie Company 828-693-0501
3400 Asheville Highway Hendersonville, NC 28791
February 2012
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