Las Vegas, NVPie Shops

The coffee shop inside Jerry's Nugget in North Las Vegas shows off its pies swirling in vintage-style glass cases, and both cream pies and fruit pies run through its long menu. Order the banana cream, the coconut cream or the classic apple.

Emeril Lagasse's New Orleans seafood restaurant at MGM Grand is known for its banana cream pie, piled high with whipped cream over a filling that is fresh and custardy with a balanced sweetness, then finished with chocolate shavings and ribbons of caramel. Order the banana cream pie.

A Boulder City diner serving old-fashioned home cooking, where a meal is meant to end with pie. The fruit pies run to apple, peach and strawberry rhubarb, and the cream pies to coconut cream, chocolate cream and peanut butter and chocolate cream. Order a slice of the peanut butter and chocolate cream, or the strawberry rhubarb.

A North Las Vegas pie shop on Craig Road where fruit pies, cream pies, meringue pies and cheesecakes come in dozens of varieties. Nine-inch pies go out to order in flavors such as peanut butter chocolate, strawberry rhubarb, apple cranberry and a citrusy Key lime. Order the peanut butter chocolate or the Key lime.

A Filipino bakery built around its namesake ingredient, ube. The vividly colored purple yam goes into a creamy ube custard pie and an ube coconut cream pie, beside an ube cheesecake, and a citrusy calamansi pie is on the menu as well. Order the ube custard pie, then try the calamansi.