Wednesday’s Pie

I ordered a caramel apple pie for our Christmas party. It was mealy, thin, and not fresh. the crust was bready, had melded with the pie filling, and flavorless. It was barely touched and we ended up throwing it out.

Don’t be fooled by this name. It is just the Green Russell Grill and does not exist as an independent entity. Also the cache that they just serve pie on Wednesday is no longer true. As for the pie, it is just average and overpriced. Also, the Green Russell profile is also misleading as they are not an exclusive dinner establishment. They are now open every day at 11:00am for lunch except Sunday. There is nothing special here, just another eatery on Larimore.

I love this place! It is inside the green Russell and my first visit was on pie day… So it would be hard to go wrong in this situation. I got two slices to go which cost 6.50 or so. A whole pie runs around 25. There were three pies of the day. We got caramel apple and blackberry.
Delicious!!! The crusts were different. The blackberry was sweeter since the berries were tart. You could tell the ingredients were fresh and it almost tasted like they used almond flour? The caramel apple had a great crust as well and a little whipped cream and caramel drizzle on top.
We got them to go and ate outside in the beautiful sunshine! Thank you Wednesdays, for making my pie day sweet!!!

This place is actually inside of Green Russell. I didn’t know this going in. That makes me believe that is how they justify charging ridiculous prices for a slice of pie. If I’m paying $ 10 for a slice it better be made out of gold. The reality is that the three slices we had were no better than other similar pies I’ve had elsewhere (and, no, we didn’t know the prices until the bill came!). Absolutely not worth it!

I like that their pies aren’t super-​sweet. Love the subtle sweetness of their blueberry and apple-​caramel pies. The pecan pie I ordered was sweet, buttery, and fresh out the oven. I’d order from Wednesday Pies again.

On an adventurous Friday afternoon, we walked on down for a slice of pie. With a price of $ 7 a slice, we had high hopes which were squashed as soon as we opened the boxes back at the office.
The portions were small and the presentation left much to be desired, but if the taste is spot-​on I can look past things… However it wasn’t. There wasn’t much taste really to the peach or apple pie. I do like how they use vanilla bean and almond flour, but all-​in-​all we were not impressed. A friend said I should try it again because she thoroughly enjoyed her pie on a separate occasion, so I may be obliged, but I was disappointed this go-​round.

As a pie person I was thoroughly disappointed, but service was great. I’d rather make my own.

Have they changed baker? Since the Fresh Peach Pie first captivated my heart and taste buds in the Fall of 2012, I’ve been back twice to visit. First, exactly one year later in Oct 2013, was told no peach pie available because peaches were past season (well how do you explain the previous year?). OK so this time around in 2014, I made sure to visit in the summer as soon as peaches start to pop up all over supermarkets. But guess what? Instead of the beautiful lattice top crust that I’ve come to adore and became willing to pay $ 30 for, it’s nowhere to be found! Instead it’s a much shallower streusel topping. Granted there’s almonds in the mix but still, I swear the pie is half the height of the double crusted lattice presentation. Not that the streusel toppings are not good, I could taste they use real butter (hence the high price tag) but it’s just not as fancy and as worthy of my money IMO. It even affected my impression towards how the fillings fare. I thought with the lattice top, the peaches tasted so much fresher but with the streusel topping the peaches felt like they could be from a can, with the help of too much cinnamon (probably to disguise the freshness of the fruit? just taking a wild guess!)
If Wednesday’s Pie has no quality control over their goods, I’m not sure I can become a loyal customer even if I wanted to! It’s made me kind of sad…

The mulled blueberry is pretty darn good!

Maybe the time of day shaded my experience, but my pie was just so-​so. I went to Wednesday’s Pie at 10 PM on a Monday. They get points just for being a pie shop open at 10 pm on a Monday. I will forever miss Dangerously Delicious Pies in Washington DC where the world’s finest pies are sold until like 3 am, but that’s just an impossible standard to meet. My crust tasted a bit like refrigerator though. Maybe they don’t make fresh pies on Mondays. Maybe it had just been sitting in the fridge since 6 am, but regardless I was a bit disappointed. The crust also seems to come from the French school of pie crust which is not pie crust and is in fact tart crust. It was homogeneous without the tender flakiness I think of when I want pie. Perhaps if the pie wasn’t as cold, I would have tasted the butteriness of the crust and the almost meal they add to it, but the crust overall didn’t do much for me.
The actual pie I got was caramel apple. The filling had a pleasant taste, but were underdone by my standards. I don’t want mush, but the apples shouldn’t crunch still. My wife got the turtle pie. I was confused when a cream pie was presented. Turtle to me sounds like it was going to be a chocolate, caramel, pecan pie. This was some kind of cream pie with pieces of pecan in the cream filling and drizzled with chocolate and caramel sauce. Again, underwhelming. Not terrible, but I question whether it is worth the $ 7 a slice that they cost. If I’m in the area again I may go back. But I’ll continue my search for a Colorado Pie Hole.

Went there last night after discussing pie cravings with a friend. Walk downstairs toward the Green Russell and it’s the first door you’ll see. The ambience of the whole place can only be described as magical. While you’re in this subterranean wonderland, it’s like stepping out of real life for a while and into a movie. Yes, that sounds cheesy, but I dare you to disagree! Twinkle lights artfully draped over exposed pipes, art deco ceilings, men in bow ties and vests, checkerboard floors, crimson stools – it was like a hipster-​version of a 1950s soda shop. In the best way.
We sat at a bar table in the Green Russell (order the smoked trout!!! DO IT!!!) to enjoy our pies. I ordered key lime and my friend got the caramel apple. Upon first glance, I totally had pie envy – his looked like everything a pie should be. HOWEVER, upon first taste, it was instantly clear that I had won the ordering game. The key lime pie was cool, creamy, tart and as light as a cloud. It was like someone took good key lime filling and whipped it with cream! Outstanding. The crust was delicious, definitely something beyond a simple graham cracker (it may have had almonds in it, so nut allergies should check). The caramel apple pie, while definitely good, was just moderately above average. And it was COLD! The temperature really detracted from our enjoyment. For $ 7 a slice, apple pie should be warm!!! I didn’t award five stars because of the cold pie. Who does that???
Pies are served until 11 (we went at about 10:15 on a Thursday and they still had all three of their daily pies available) and from what I can tell, Wednesday’s Pie is open whenever the Green Russell is open. Don’t bother going to their website – it contains zero valuable information, though it looks cool.

No doubt, this is the best pie I have ever had in my life. My fiancé and I are getting married in August and we want to have a pie bar instead of cake. We had been sampling pies around Denver and hadn’t really found anything amazing. That changed last night. We sampled the following pies and truly can’t really say a bad thing about any of the them.
Key Lime
Chocolate Oreo
Pineapple Ricotta!
Dark Chocolate Strawberry
Carmel Apple
The Key Lime and Chocolate Oreo were particularly superb!

Full of surprises, this hidden gem!
Lucky for me, I came with a friend on Pi Day, appropriately on a Wednesday! Although our server did tell us that Wednesday’s Pie is no longer just a specialty on Wednesdays, but a daily opportunity for all!
Don’t be fooled. This is that area in Larimer Square (next to Lime) that takes you underground to Green Russell. ALAS! You go down the sketchy stairs and into a cute, dimly lit, miniature pie bar.
Fool of a woman that we asked regarding the location of this pie shop told us that it’s a fake pie display for Green Russell and she stared at me like I was nuts. Turns out she was WRONG, and I wish I told her SHE was the nutty one. Hope she finds out about it one day and feels stupid.
This particular month, WP was serving their usual apple caramel, and two others: chocolate peanut butter and pineapple ricotta.
I’m not a cheese person and I wanted to venture out of Mommy’s Apple Pie so I got the chocolate peanut butter even though I was really hesitant. I was expecting overly sweet and gooey, thick, nutella-​like pie, but I was wrong! Imagine texture like Key Lime pie except it tastes like, well, peanut butter and chocolate. Super amazing and the crust is to die for.
While you wait, they have free coffee for you (even if you’re just to-​go-​ing!) which complements the pie well. If you sit and stay for a chit chat, it’s super intimate, charming, and a nice place for simple dessert.
Though pricey (~$ 7 for one large slice), I think it’s well worth the occasional visit.

Best pie ever. The crust, filling, and homemade whipped cream — amazing. Definitely stop by for a taste!

So, I was fretting about adding a business that may not be it’s own actual business, that being is it a stand-​alone business or a side-​business of another business? Does ANY of that make sense to anyone? It certainly does not to me.
So, I erred on the side of adding because it DOES have it’s own website, but not it’s own phone number.
Also, it DOES have a sign, but the sign MAY or MAY NOT be a ruse for the speakeasy-​esque Green Russell.
This «establishment» (if it should even be called that) is the dessert equivalent of a zen koan — «What is the sound of one pie baking.
This location is VERY Frank Bonanno, playful, hip, cool and just enough of everything you want with nothing you don’t.
Brilliant in its simplicity and simple in its brilliance, here is the general concept.
1. Open only on Wednesday and only pie. Hence the name, Wednesday’s Pie.
2. Every Wednesday, starting at 11AM, there are several types of pie, coffee and milk available.
3. Chew. Swallow. Repeat.
You will go.
You will eat.
You will enjoy.