Where We’re Getting Our Thanksgiving Pies This Year

A spread of pies from Caffe Destino, including its excellent key lime
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Don’t feel like peeling apples or piecing together a crumbly pie crust this year? One more thing to be thankful for in this city: Portland’s bakers are making some excellent pies, from classics to twists on favorites. Read on for our picks.

Banning's banana cream pie
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Banning’s Restaurant & Pie House
Tigard
It doesn’t get much more old school than Banning’s, a Tigard diner and pie shop that’s been in business for 42 years. Here, the pies and foot-tall cakes rotate in a slowly spinning case, tantalizing diners seated at booths nearby. The banana cream pie is a favorite, light as a cloud and delicately sweetened. Classics like pumpkin, French apple, and pecan are also on offer. These aren’t the fanciest pies out there, but they’re solid diner-style renditions of classics. Place orders by phone at (503) 244-2558 for pickup any time up to and including Thanksgiving Day. A limited number of pies will also be available for walk-in pickup on Thanksgiving Day.
1147 SW Pacific Hwy, Tigard

Caffe Destino's pie offerings
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Caffe Destino
Sabin
This hidden gem coffee shop near Irving Park makes killer pies. We’re huge fans of the key lime, which you can order this Thanksgiving, but you can also choose from classic apple, pecan, and pumpkin, or not-so-classic berry. Pick up your pies on November 21 or 22, or get delivery within a 7-mile radius for $10. Pies are $35, plus a $5 glass pie pan deposit. Order in person at the cafe, or via phone at (503) 284-9455.
1339 NE Fremont St

Holler Treats is offering apple pie, pumpkin pie, lemon meringue pie, and more.
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Holler Treats
Sellwood-Moreland
Order ahead for pies including bourbon pecan, apple streusel, lemon meringue, banana pudding, and pumpkin made with house-roasted squash. In case you’re a fan of pie a la mode, there are several options of house ice cream to add on, including maple pecan, vanilla bean, and malted milk chocolate. Preorder desserts online for pickup November 21–23.
7119 SE Milwaukie Ave

Keeper Coffee's apple and pumpkin pies
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Keeper Coffee Co.
Creston-Kenilworth
Don’t be misled by the name. This bakery-within-a-coffee-shop is doing pre-orders for pumpkin and old-fashioned apple lattice pies, which are $42 each. Place orders online by noon November 20 for pickup between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on November 22.
4515 SE 41st Ave

Lauretta Jean's tart cherry pie
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Lauretta Jean’s
Richmond
Lauretta Jean’s is the go-to pie shop for lots of Portlanders, thanks to its rich, buttery crust. Their pies are also some of the most difficult to snag in town. Apple and pumpkin pies are already sold out, but you can still get bourbon pecan pie, blackberry-raspberry streusel, tart cherry, chocolate cream, and key lime pies. Pies are $44 each. Order online for pickup November 21–23.
3402 SE Division St
Magna Kusina
Hosford-Abernethy
Baker Alexandria Guevarra of Allie G’s Pastries is making three Filipino-inspired desserts: a mango peach pie with mango curd and peach compote, an ube and buko (young coconut) pie, and a salted duck egg bibingka (rice cake) with brown butter and toasted coconut. Pies and bibingkas are $40 each. Order by November 19 by emailing [email protected], and pick up on November 22 from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
2525 SE Clinton St
Pacific Pie Company
Hosford-Abernethy
When’s the last time someone rolled into Thanksgiving dinner with a cherry-cardamom pie? Or chocolate bourbon hazelnut? Pacific Pie is offering those, plus pumpkin, whiskey apple and pecan, for pickup and delivery on November 22 and 23. Place orders online.
1520 SE Seventh Ave
The Pie Spot
Kerns, Montavilla
Portland’s maker of mini pies is serving not just petite desserts, but full-size ones for Thanksgiving. You can order personal-size pie spots by six or by the baker’s dozen and choose your flavor for each individual pie, with some less traditional flavors like s’mores and lemon vanilla bean as well as classic pumpkin, apple, pecan, and the very fall-appropriate pear-cranberry. You can also order them gluten-free or vegan. Place orders online by November 16 for pickup on November 21 or 22.
521 NE 24th Ave, 6935 NE Glisan St

Sebastiano's apple and fig crostata
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Sebastiano’s
Montavilla
Move over, apple pie; try Sebastiano’s Italian-inspired apple and dried fig crostata instead. Or, for folks who aren’t pie people, get the New York–style cheesecake, available in pumpkin or topped with cranberries and orange marmellata in a graham cracker crust. Order online via Tock for pickup on November 22.
411 SE 81st Ave