Santa Fe, NMPie Shops

A roadhouse on the Old Las Vegas Highway where everything is made fresh and pies are the biggest thing the kitchen bakes. The apple pie, one of the house signatures, starts with apples from the trees outside the restaurant, and the list runs to coconut cream, chocolate cream, lemon meringue, strawberry rhubarb and pecan. Order the apple pie.

A Hickox Street cafe known for burgers and New Mexican plates, where staff bakers make the desserts. There is a pie of the day and a gluten-free pie of the day, and the pecan pie is the unadulterated kind, an intense, nutty pie with a crispy crust and no chocolate or bourbon. Order the pecan pie when it is the pie of the day.

A country cafe and feed store on State Road 14, the Turquoise Trail south of town, where the desserts are generous and a hot bourbon apple pie is one of the house specialties: thinly sliced sweet apples rather than a spooned-in filling, served a la mode with vanilla ice cream under a bourbon sauce. Order the bourbon apple pie a la mode.

A San Mateo Road bakery and cafe, a locals' favorite for a sit-down meal or a breakfast burrito to go, that bakes New Mexican-inspired pies. The green chile apple pie pairs sweet-tart Granny Smith apples with New Mexico green chile in a flaky crust. Order the green chile apple pie.