This popular Tower Grove Farmers’ Market bakery now has a corner of Shaw to call its own, and they make it count. It’s a cute little space, with a chessboard floor, a few leather stools to perch on by the window and a patio with candystriped umbrellas and colorful chairs.
The menu of baked-in-house items offers so much more than the eponymous pastries, but those pies are blessed with a crust so memorably rich and flaky that you won’t want to skip them. The hand pies offered change regularly, but we enjoyed a recent grilled summer veggie option with grilled yellow summer squash, zucchini, Marconi peppers, red onion, mozzarella and basil. The brown butter apple fritter is a decadent treat, oozing with diced apple and cinnamon filling. Sourdough brioche doughnuts and the market-favorite cake doughnuts only amplify the temptation. The Damn Fine BLT was our pick of the sandwiches, a brioche sandwich filled with thick bacon, fresh and flavorful tomatoes, iceberg lettuce and the shop’s creamy signature aioli.
4000 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, Instagram: @damnfinehandpies
This article appears in September 2024.
