Pots & Pans Pie Co. — Restaurant in Indianapolis

Pots and Pans Pie Co. makes some stellar sweet and savory pies...as well as an awesome shortbread chocolate chip cookie. 5-stars because for rounding up - I'd say a 4.6 is fair.

This is my go to if I don't want to make a pie or don't have the time. It is not a big brand store bought pie - both in taste and in cost, but it's worth it. I recommend trying a slice first before committing to a full pie.

They rotate pie flavors once a month - keeping apple and creme brulee as standard pies throughout the year. Some flavors can be unique (miso) while others can be very straight forward (lemon). I haven't had a pie that's too sweet - a good thing since that's a pet peeve of mine. But sometimes you get pies that are missing their pucker/citric acid hit (key lime) or don't truly match up to the name (coconut lime - couldn't taste the lime) - it's not often that this happens.

Usually the dough/crust is good. I think their graham crusts are the best - right thickness, good texture, and always this touch of salt to balance things out. Their regular pie dough is flaky but it can sometimes be a little dense/thick at the back - you get less filling with these pies. But oddly, I've only noticed this issue with their dessert pies, not their savory pot pies.

Pot pies are amazing! I can't think of a bad one. Perfect for a no fuss meal if you're single or if you're feeding a family - everyone can get their own! I always noticed the minis take a bit longer to cook than what the packaging says - in my experience 60-75 min from frozen makes the center bubble.

Overall, a gem in the area - it's hard to find good pies. A few QC items to tighten up - challenge since they are all hand made. Can't wait to see what flavors they'll...

6/2023 2 🌟 Finally got around to trying the chicken pot pie. First I really enjoy the food here but the big, like almost whole potatoes in this pot pie has me not feeling it. It's not cut/cubed potatoes it's like a medium potato cut in half in the pot pie. Then there wasn't that much shredded chicken. It was mostly veggies that weren't cut small. Maybe call it a veggie pie.. 🤷‍♀️ Oh my goodness! Goodness it is. Yum, yum, yum. Yesterday was me and hubby's first time there. It's a quaint shop and as soon as you walk in the door your nose is hit with all these scrumptious scents. The young lady greeted us then went over the menu with us since it was our 1st time visiting. We ordered 2 shortbread chocolate cookies, 2 slices of the apple crumb pie, biscuits and gravy pie, apple cream cheese galette and sour creme & raspberry pie. We ate the cookies on the drive home and started to go back for more they are that good. My hubby ate the apple cream cheese galette and said it was everything. One thing I would suggest is getting a bigger sign or add a flag sign out front bc you may miss them driving by. Parking is limited as well for the small shopping lot so be prepared to find street parking if the lot is full. We spent a little over $40 so...

The storefront is a bit hard to make out, it's in a row of stores sharing a small shopping plaza. The staff are very friendly and welcoming and explain everything you might have questions about.

I had ordered ahead the day before for some pies and picked up a couple of hand pastries while there as well. They were the mushroom, potato and blue cheese and crab rangoon. Both had nice, flaky crusts. The problem is that both the crust and filling (particularly the filling in the crab rangoon) were extremely heavily salted.

I'm big on salting things to the point where my mom (a retired RN) has expressed concern more than once. These were too heavily salted for me. I had to stop eating the crab rangoon, it was that bad. Given the overall review score, I am hoping this was a solitary mistake. I will update the review with the details on the frozen pies I bought over the next week or so.

Just cooked and ate the beef and mushroom smaller sized pie. The seasoning was quite good in this case. The beef, red wine and onions came through nicely.

My oven is a typical older one in an apartment so the cooking time was about 80 minutes on the middle...