Piety

We went here, drawn by the excellent reviews of the key lime pie. For our entrée, we had a pizza. Wow! We’re both retirement age, and have eaten pizza for many years all across the country. This was one of the very BEST pizzas we’ve ever had. We are already making plans to bring our out-​of-​town visitors to eat there.

We’ve been wanting to try this place for a while. So since it was a rainy night we thought it would be a nice time for a slice of pie. When we entered the store at 8:30pm there wasn’t much choice. The server came out of the back to help us. We could tell we were interrupting her cleanup. There were no prices near the pies. Finally saw a sign on a back wall! I got a coconut cream baby pie my husband got a sweet potato tart. Neither of us was impressed. K&W had better pie. Crust was hard and coconut filling not too sweet very runny. My husband said his tart crust was hard. We both think Piety was way overpriced. We won’t be going back.

Couldn’t decide so I ordered a variety! Key lime, pumpkin, blueberry cobbler, chocolate molten, peanut butter — oh my !!!

Piety is a thousand times better and more interesting than Bubblecakes. I make it a point to stop here every time I am in Roanoke to get desserts. Their mini pies are a great way to sample many different flavors. Key lime is my favorite, but the Smores flavor is excellent as well. Apple and cherry are classics. The chocolate raspberry is also delicious. It’s almost impossible to go wrong! They have a huge selection tea and they have other baked goodies as well… cookies and cupcakes abound. I wish there was a location closer to me!

Stopped in Roanoke on my way home to lynchburg and loved this place! I got the coconut cream and hubby got an croissant/​donut thing. So yummy !!! Highly recommend it .?

This is a unique little place and definitely worth the stop. I expected to see mini-​pie shells full of goodness but it looked like most items are baked in a cupcake tin per se so the depth is greater than that of a typical pie shell. I tried the cherry and apple pies and they were both delicious. Service was great and I also tried some tea and had it chilled. There were so many options for tea flavors but they weren’t loose leaf but were in triangle tea bag. I don’t know if they are custom made or just purchased and resold. Either way, there was quite the variety and tasted good.

Stopped in before grocery shopping at Fresh Market last week and had a look at the summertime pies available. They looked yummy.
I had never been to Piety before although I have had some of their mini-​pies before because a friend stopped and got them on her way to my house for Thanksgiving. They were DELICIOUS. I remember my favorite being some berry kind.
I drooled over some of the yummy pie options and looked at the cookies and cupcakes.
Didn’t buy anything but I was surprised to see the fresh loose leaf tea and other items.
Maybe next time!

I’ve been here on three separate occasions and they were closed, even during store hours. On my fourth visit, when they were open, I was surprised by the variety. The crust itself is pretty good, it’s kind of hard to eat though. Do I fork it or should I just pick it up? The mystery remains. There isn’t any pricing anywhere so when you do pay its kinda like a random grab bag of how much you’re forking over for a mini pie.
Overall, I would say these are about 30% better than the mini pies you can get at Walmart for 50 cents.

Ever since this place opened, I have always wanted to go in and buy their pies. I finally visited on March 14 2015 for Pi Day but walked out with empty hands. My initial purpose of the visit was to ask if they wanted to put an ad in a local school’s musical program but was also going to purchase some pies afterwards. I understand that it was around lunch time and it was starting to get busy and my question may not have seemed important to this older gentleman because there were buying customers in line but that does not mean you should cut me off mid-​sentence. I had been to 10 other businesses that morning and nobody, even those that were not interested, cut me off like that. They were polite and waited for me to finish. If you are already frazzled around lunchtime and cannot handle the pressures of retail that it makes you snap at a potential customer, you shouldn’t work there. In addition, when I am buying something delicious to eat, I do not want to see your bare backside and more. This place is just a branch of bubblecake. Right after this place, I went to Viva La Cupcake in Grandin and the manager/​owner there was MUCH friendlier and more supportive of the community than Piety. I don’t care how good your pies are; customer service is just as important and it seems that all you care about is money. You just lost a potential customer.

Their pies are delicious! Every one we’ve gotten has been great. We got the black and blue today (blueberry and blackberry) and it didn’t disappoint! Our daughter loves the cinnamon buns! These make great and thoughtful gifts!

While the service was lovely and the prices were reasonable for a small bakery, I was honestly a little disappointed with the fruit in the apple pie and dark cherry pie that I ordered.
Both the apples and the cherries tasted as if they were plucked out of a can, and not in a pleasant way. It really negated the loveliness of the crust and the sugar, which were actually quite wonderful. To be fair, it’s also winter and those fruits are out of season locally, but it nonetheless lessened my enjoyment of their products.

Have gotten a few pies from here and they have all been delicious. The chocolate brownie one was one of the best desserts I’ve had in a very long time.

I have been here several times and realized during this visit, while eating my luke-​warm savory pie (I had the Greek one), it’s not really worth the publicity or hype. The associate working took the pies into the back to warm them up and I realized once she was back there that she had even taken the incorrect pie to warm up. We were not impressed — the pies were not warmed to the point of being even close to savory. Didn’t bother with dessert this time around — went somewhere else. 3 stars because the idea is good and I hope their great concept (it’s really unique) can keep up with all the hype and publicity… the quality was just not there this time.

The Cronut was amazing. Just had their fudge and OMG!!! Savory pies make a great lunch or supper w soup or salad and glass of proseco. Very friendly staff and clean atmosphere. So glad Towers is getting better shopping.

Visited Piety today for the first time, very impressed by the display arrangement of goodies. I tried the Turtle pie, awesome to say the least. The only thing I didn’t like was that the young lady taking your money is also picking up your dessert pie and placing it in the pie box (no gloves, bare hands).If you’re handling a customer’s money you should not be touching their food. Maybe I should of told her politely, she probably didn’t know (next time I will).That’s why I gave them four stars instead of five.

I enjoyed the pie and donuts. I think the girl working could have been a bit more friendly and knowledgeable about the variety of items that are offered. But all in all, a very nice treat! We enjoyed the Jacked up Apple and Banana Cream Pie.

The pies are delicious. A quaint place to come and endulge your sweet tooth. Will be back again and again.

There is something special about Bubblecake that makes them worth the price, albeit a special occasion price, but Piety, owned by the same folks, feels like a rip off.
I’m sure tiny pies are harder to make than cupcakes, so I can’t explain it, but a cake is big enough to share and the pies aren’t, so there’s that.
And, when you get down to it, dessert costs $ 4 anywhere I suppose, but it seems like these are just too expensive. They are cute and yes, tasty, but maybe a once or twice a year thing…
They sell savory pies, which could be a good lunch. No knowledge if they will warm them up for you though. Also cookies, Bubblecakes, larger pies.
I got an Apple and a Banana Cream, both tasty. I asked if they needed to be refrigerated and was told the Banana Cream did. Both pies were in the unrefrigerated case.

Adam,
It’s not our customer service that is the problem. Our reputation, longevity, social media following, and raving fans will attest to that. This includes Bubblecake.
Our problem is people who are clearly not our customers, hiding behind a keyboard, throwing insults. We would have gladly fixed your order AND given you your money back. We would like to have been given the opportunity to make you happy.
Responding to you is not my sole purpose here. This post is for everyone who chooses to comment negatively, without regard for the damage that public scrutiny does to small businesses. Yes, we are all entitled to opinions. But we somehow now live in a world where bad intentions and amateur «food critics» run amuck on websites such as this one. Using Unilocal,Urbanspoon, etc. to harm others for no good reason is cowardly at best, devastating at worst.
We and our staff work very hard to bring quality to our community. We work equally hard providing for our families. We work very hard to make the lives of others better. In short, we work for a higher purpose that our true customers appreciate and understand.
Unilocal, it pains me to respond to this man on your site. Why? Because I’m giving you what you want. Which is controversy. This will be the last time I do so. Adam, I fully anticipate that will continue with this debate, I will not.
Please do not call us requesting us to advertise ever again.

Awesome pies and muffins. We have been on 3 separate occasions and not been disappointed yet! My favorite is the cheesecake pie, husband loves the key lime and my daughter was all about the Oreo. My mother really enjoyed the linzer torte and was super disappointed that they did not have it the next time.
They have some specific pies available all the time and then some seasonal ones. Bacon, Bourbon, Pecan was good, as was the crème brûlée but hands down the most amazing thing I have tried is by far the Peach praline muffin.
They also serve Cronuts (wasn’t a fan). Pies come as mini’s, and some medium and then large as well. Go for something out of the ordinary, don’t play it safe, you will not regret it!