Oklahoma City, OKPie Shops

A Plaza District pie shop whose bakers roll, fill and crimp every crust by hand, with flavors that run from lemon cream and Kentucky bourbon to French silk and cherry crumble, plus strawberry-rhubarb in season. The pecan is a staple around Thanksgiving, sweet, gooey and buttery, and the long-running bestseller is the Drunken Turtle, fudgy chocolate under bourbon caramel and pecans, rich enough to split. The savory side includes a chicken pot pie in a flaky butter crust, sold frozen to bake at home. Order a slice of the Drunken Turtle.

An Edmond pie shop in the Railyard complex where Lynn Muir bakes from the recipes her grandmother Mae taught her in Pennsylvania, keeping to traditional pies rather than variations on them. Chocolate, key lime and coconut cream stay on year-round, seasonal pies are made only in their season, and a butterscotch pie is on the menu because Muir ate it often as a child. The black bottom banana cream layers chocolate ganache, bananas, vanilla pastry cream, whipped cream and shaved chocolate. Order the black bottom banana cream, then explore the rest.

A Northeast Oklahoma City restaurant that Florence Jones Kemp opened in 1952, where the pear pie is on the menu every day. The pears are seasoned with sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon, and the crust has no butter in it, though it tastes as if it does. Order the pear pie with a scoop of ice cream on the side.

A charcoal-broiled burger restaurant on West Britton Road that serves cream pies alongside the burgers. Of the several it offers, the chocolate cream has been the favorite for decades, and a meal here means a burger followed by a slice of it. Order a burger and finish with the chocolate cream pie.

A downtown restaurant known for tinkering with comfort food traditions, whose chicken pot pie is two chicken dishes in one. Underneath, tender chicken breast sits in a creamy sherry sauce with carrots, onions, celery, garlic, rosemary and thyme; on top go a buttery biscuit crust and a golden-brown fried chicken leg standing straight up out of the pie like a flag. Order the chicken pot pie.