Palisade Pies

Super friendly pie store (don’t you love having a pie place in town??). You can eat in at one of a few tables, eat out on the small patio, or take home.
Pies are available whole or by the slice (they will cut open any pie for you!). They also make «hand pies» that are very delicious (especially if you like pie crust — you get more on the hand pie than on the slice). Their fruit pies use Grand Valley fruits whenever possible. This is how local they are — I asked if the cherry pie used their cherries. They looked a little chagrined and said — no, the cherries are from my uncle who lives about a mile away. That is LOCAL to me!
I will admit that I haven’t tried their cream or cheese pies yet. I have not gotten past the wonderful fruit pies: cherry, caramel apple, peach, peach rhubarb, strawberry rhubarb, peach and triple berry. Every one is a winner.
I can give no higher praise than to tell you that my mother in law (a pretty good pie baker, herself) praises the pie crust here — and says the baker has «a lighter hand with pastry than I do». This is a woman who I have heard complain about anyone else’s pastry for more years than I want to tell you.
So, MIL gets pies and especially the hand pies everytime I go by Palisade Pies.
And — here is an added bonus. The best milkshakes in the valley. Secret ingredient — heavy cream added in to the shake. This is a luxurious treat! And there are cones, scoops, root beer floats also.
And — as I said — very friendly people. This is a family run place and you will get to see mom, dad and kids around. Mom is the baker — dad is the grower. But everyone pitches in!