Cleveland, OHPie Shops

This Lakewood restaurant pairs inventive American cooking with close attention to pie, known for unique and unlikely flavor combinations across eleven pies. The salt and honey pie is the biggest seller, and the rest rotate through the year: a maple miso pie on a pretzel sesame crust, a cognac pumpkin on a brown butter ginger cookie crust, and vegan pies such as a miso apple on a wheat-cardamom crust. Order the salt and honey.

This Westlake shop makes handmade, artisan pies with flaky, hand-rolled crusts, sweet and savory, from locally sourced ingredients. The salted honey cream pie is the famed one, a pastry cream sweetened with pure honey under a sprinkle of sea salt and heaps of whipped cream. The four berry and chocolate bourbon pecan pies sit beside hearty mince meat pies and vegan versions of select fruit pies. Order the salted honey cream.

This Chesterland farm market, known for its pick-your-own apple orchards, sells farm produce, local jams and cider year-round, and its bakery turns out freshly baked pies and donuts. The pie list runs long: Dutch apple, caramel apple nut, cranberry-apple, blueberry, blackberry, wildberry, cherry, peach, lemon crunch, mince, pecan, pumpkin and strawberry-rhubarb, with sugar-free apple and cherry too. Order the Dutch apple or the caramel apple nut.

This Cleveland Heights bakery started as a home bakery in 2014, and sweet potato pie, from a recipe passed down for generations, is the dessert it began with. Sweet potato and Oreo pies are the customer favorites now, alongside apple, pineapple supreme, Key lime and lemon meringue made fresh to order, a sweet potato pecan mashup, and vegan and gluten-free options. Order the sweet potato pie.

Founded in 2012 by Laura Ross and Justin Gorski, Cleveland Vegan bakes vegan and gluten-free pies alongside its doughnuts, cookies and scones. The signature coconut cream and banana cream pies swap the dairy for rich coconut cream, and the fruit side runs from apple crumble to seasonal pumpkin and pecan. Order the coconut cream or the banana cream.