Buffalo, NYPie Shops

Creekview Restaurant stands on Main Street in Williamsville, on land that was the first home site in Amherst around 1799, with a classic dining room and a heated patio open year round. The pie options are plentiful, and the cream pies are the ones to know: banana, coconut and chocolate. Order a slice of one of the cream pies after the meal.

Zider Zee is a diner in Holland that serves breakfast and lunch and also specializes in pies. The selection runs from a blueberry rhubarb combination to classics like peach and cherry. Order a slice of the blueberry rhubarb with lunch.

Muscoreil's Fine Desserts is a North Tonawanda dessert bakery known for its wedding cakes and dessert catering, and its pie list is long, running across cream and fruit pies. The choices include black bottom banana, peanut butter mousse, cherry lattice, pumpkin and pecan, with many more beside them. Order the black bottom banana pie.

Elm Street Bakery in East Aurora keeps a carefully curated selection of desserts at its counter at any time of year, and around the holidays it pulls out all the stops with pies, built like everything else there on exceptional ingredients. The maple pecan pie is made with sweet local maple syrup and toasted pecans in a flaky butter crust. Order that one.

Vin-Chet Bakery in Snyder is entirely gluten-free, and its baked goods please people who eat gluten just the same. Pie is part of the case: cherry, apple, pumpkin and lemon meringue, and the gluten-free crust is sold on its own for anyone baking at home. Order the lemon meringue.