Isaac VanDuyn

Review of Four and Twenty Blackbirds

I'm actually not as big a fan of this place as man...

I'm actually not as big a fan of this place as many other people. I feel like their pies are fine, but not amazing. I've had some great pie in my life and these don't measure up. Part of the reason is lack of variety. They serve about four pies here, few of which conform to any standards, which is tough for comfort food. Sometimes you want a cherry pie, and not a salty honey pie. You can't get a cherry pie here. Sometimes you want a slice of apple pie with a butter crust where the filling is cinnamon-y and just the right texture and the crust is sort of half merged with the filling but half crumbly and delicious. You can't get that here. You can only get salted caramel apple, in a good but too-thick crust. This place has potential, and it's worth one trip, but it's not anywhere close to top pie places of all time or anything.