{"id":1048,"date":"2017-12-13T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longbeachize.com\/?p=9185"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T00:05:37","slug":"long-beach-foodie-update-pie-bar-expands-empie-r-opening-second-location-glendale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/food\/long-beach-foodie-update-pie-bar-expands-empie-r-opening-second-location-glendale","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Foodie Update: Pie Bar Expands Its Empie-r by Opening Second Location in Glendale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Want to see all our Long Beach Foodie Updates?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2rL7U2a\">Click here to scroll through the archives.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Brian Addison<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For Laurie Gray, the phrase that \u201cpie fixes everything\u201d is more than a motto for her business, The Pie Bar\u2014it\u2019s an adage that runs deep in meaning given that, in less than a handful of years, Gray has moved from a cottage business to opening a brick\u2019n\u2019mortar spot in DTLB that has garnered national attention to now opening a second location in Downtown Glendale.<\/p>\n<p>The baker had a long career in banking and marketing and, like many, felt a pang of emptiness with her profession. Blessed? Of course. But aligned with her dreams? Not quite, as the nostalgia of her memories in Tacoma, Washington flooded her ambition\u2014specifically the smell of apples\u2019n\u2019cinnamon and the art of creating the pie crust, as taught to her by her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a long career, I needed something else so I started baking pies for family and friends for the holidays in 2014,\u201d Gray told me back in 2016. \u201cIt took off I got my cottage food license but I soon outgrew my kitchen and I had to find a commercial kitchen to bake in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MADE by Millworks on Pine became her first home outside her own kitchen, where the Pie Goddess would deliver her sugary, carb-y deliciousness to visitors at a weekly popup on Saturdays. That grew to delivering to 15 different coffee shops and restaurants\u2014from Berlin to Steelhead Coffee, Portfolio to Aroma di Roma.<\/p>\n<p>Her dream of expanding a la Piehole\u2014which is opening a location in Belmont Shore\u2014has always been on her mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is incredibly special for me,\u201d Gray said, \u201cTo have not just one but two places where I can bake on site and serve delicious fresh baked pies warm from the oven\u2026 It\u2019s genuinely wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost as good as her Nutella Banana Hand Pies or Key Lime Pie or, or, or\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPie is still one of the simple comforts in life,&#8221; Gray said. &#8220;It reminds us of time spent with family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amen to that. And yes, we\u2019ll have another slice.<\/p>\n<p>Follow The Pie Bar on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thepiebar\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thepiebar\/?fref=ts&amp;ref=br_tf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to see all our Long Beach Foodie Updates?\u00a0Click here to scroll through the archives. **** Photo by Brian Addison. 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