When Alyssa Lewis and her husband Patrick opened the Seattle Pie Company in Magnolia in mid-July, they had no idea it would take off the way it has in just a few short months.

By August Seattle Weekly had renamed the neighborhood “Pie City.” By November the new neighborhood business struck a big deal with Metropolitan Market, providing pies for their six Seattle-area locations. And now they’re so busy, they’re expanding into a 1,000 square foot retail space next door to accommodate their fast-growing success. In four months they went from baking an estimated 30 pies a day, to a few hundred.

So when Thanksgiving rolled around, the folks at Seattle Pie Company knew they were in for some late nights. In fact, Alyssa, Patrick, and a rotation of employees and family members (Patrick’s older brother Darren came from Port Orchard to help with the holiday rush), spent the days leading up to Thanksgiving baking pies. All night long.

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The Seattle Weekly says that Magnolia is becoming Pie City with the addition of new restaurant Seattle Pie Company and pie classes taught by Magnolia resident Kate McDermott who launched the Art of the Pie baking classes in her Magnolia kitchen recently. 

(photo courtesy of Jon Rowley)

McDermott’s pie classes are limited to three people so everyone gets lots of personal attention. The cost is $125 per person for the four hour class that includes hands on instruction, ingredients and recipes.  She also holds classes on request. Here is the schedule for upcoming classes.  Mcdermott is going to be featured teaching Ruth Reichl how to make pie in an upcoming episode of Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, and food writers in town already praise her pies. 

The Weekly also throws some love to Seattle Pie Company calling their pie’s full-flake crust and ripe, not-too-sweet fruit fillings excellent.  The Weekly says that West Seattle’s Shoofly , a lont time pie favorite, has some serious competition.

We are up for a pie showdown for sure.