Welcome to the Pie Town Cafe
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How did Pie Town get it's name you ask ?


   It was built up principally by dust bowlers of the mid-and-late 1930s.  They were refugees from their busted dreams in Oklahoma and West Texas.   But Pie Town has been around as a settlement since at least the early 1920s, started, as the legend goes, in 1922 by a 6'4" tall  WW-I veteran Texan named Clyde Norman.  

He came to the area to homestead and eventually filed a mining claim in town that he called the "Hound Pup Lode".  It was a 40 acre parcel of property that lay along a little rocky ridge near what was then the Coast-to-Coast highway, later to become U.S. Highway 60.  The property also sat in middle of the East-West cattle driveway.  That driveway was used until 1966 for driving cattle from points west of Pie Town into Magdalena where the cattle were loaded onto rail cars. 

In early 1927, Craig battled the federal government to have the town offically named Pie Town.   After all the town's people signed the petition for a Post Office an application was made. A Postal Inspector arrived to appraise the situation and said a more suitable name must be found, as Pie Town was rediculous and "beneath the dignity of the department".   But Craig said it was either Pie Town or no town!  The Postal Department in Washington finally relented and a Post Office in the name of Pie Town came to be and Mr. Harmon Craig was appointed the first Postmaster on May 14, 1927. 
  
By 1935 about 300 families lived in Pie Town.  Today, fewer than 100 live within a 20 mile radius.  
The cowboy tradition born in Pie Town carries on today.  Pie Town has been visited by many hikers, bikers and tour groups from around the world traveling the "Continental Divide Trail". 


Pie Town has been featured in various television programs, publications and in June 2011 featured on the Food Network Channel "The Best Thing I Ever Ate" for the New Mexican Apple Pie.  The Pie Town Cafe has changed ownership several times over the years from the "Break 21 Cafe" to the "Daily Pie Cafe". In March 2011 Mike and Cyndi Fowler bought it and changed it back to the original name of the "Pie Town Cafe" remodeling it back to the Cowboy Tradition where it all began. Cyndi has changed the pie recipes to her own with a crust that is raved about from the North East South and West.  During our one year here in the cafe, we have had numerous requests for our pies to be throughout New Mexico and Arizona.  We made the decision to leave the cafe and transition to an online pie cafe on April 1st 2012.  We are currently processing our pies in a local certified kitchen.  We sell our whole pies made to order to businesses and of course our customers. Visit our Pie Room for more on how Pie Town got it's name and a list of our available pies and new prices. Check our calendar page for upcoming locations and events.   

We Thank You for visiting the Pie Town Cafe.