Truly feel the need to have … the need to have for pie?
A former film established can aid if so. The legendary fictional residence of Kelly McGillis in 1986’s “Top Gun” has been reborn as a pie shop — and opened just months forward of the Friday release of “Top Gun: Maverick.” As a nod to the aerial motion flick, the eatery, positioned in Oceanside, Calif. — a military services city that is about a 40-moment push north of San Diego — is named High-Pie.
“The dwelling is so in the vicinity of and dear to so several hearts of the area community,” Substantial-Pie operator and chef Tara Lazar informed The Submit of the 135-calendar year-previous Victorian cottage, which homes her most recent restaurant venture.
Built in 1887, the 500-sq.-foot residence fell into disrepair following the movie, and was subsequently rehabilitated by a historical culture and relocated from its original handle to the Mission Pacific Hotel’s beachfront courtyard. It is now within just sight from Oceanside’s scenic Pier, which features vast sights of the Pacific’s blue waves and the palm tree-dotted coastline.
The course of action of changing it into a bakery, Lazar states, was no small feat.
“Besides it currently being painstakingly tough to transform a historical dwelling into a professional kitchen area, we wished to be sensitive to the faithful admirers of” the Tom Cruise basic, she explained. Many thanks to a “dream team” she feels the concluded final result succeeds “in representing all matters Americana and honoring the record of the household as nicely as patronage to ‘Top Gun.’”
“The renovated interior is adorned with daring, retro signage, Victorian era panels and an upholstered hearth, as well as exciting design touches these types of as ‘Top Gun’ set photos, historic imagery of both of those Oceanside,” and vintage furnishings, specifics a push launch. The home has preserved its primary blue exterior and now boasts a serving counter with “deli-design and style display circumstances and shelves,” as well as an assortment of individual hand pies stuffed with seasonal compote and shown on a “Willy-Wonka-esque conveyor belt.” Exterior, a vintage scooter sits, both equally for aesthetics and for deliveries to neighboring hotels.
As for the menu, pies (which are gluten-absolutely free — an incidental and not a aware selection, Lazard told the publication Restaurant Hospitality) price tag $3 each and every and flavors at present incorporate a regionally sourced strawberry-rhubarb, between other sweet possibilities.
For an excess $2, a scoop of mascarpone ice cream can be added to the pie, which is then deep fried, in accordance to the marketplace news web-site. Espresso costs $1 and there’s also apple kombucha, a distinctive cherry pop and a $6 iced coffee consume designed from condensed milk and Revolution Roasters’ beans.
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