Sommerset Hall
When my mom was here a few weeks ago, we went to Dover. It’s a place I’ve been thinking about ever since last November when Norma Grubb won Good Morning America’s Pie Queen contest.
An online vote put Norma’s coconut cream pie ahead of three other contenders and GMA came out to Dover, Kansas, an unincorporated little ol’ town along K-4 near Topeka.
They also sell a few groceries and health and beauty items in the store, T-shirts and coffee mugs.
A group from Topeka filled one side of the cafe. They rode the bus from Aldersgate, a retirement community. The bus makes regular visits to Dover, to the cafe.
In the foreground is the buffet. They had spaghetti and bread sticks and salad that day.
So I had the BBQ beef sandwich and sweet potato fries. Love them sweet potato fries.
The pie! The pie! I’m a sucker for chocolate, but I could’ve easily gone for the banana cream or Norma’s famous coconut cream pie. Tough call. Will have to go back.
Piece of pie: $2.00.
And here’s the Pie Queen, Norma Grubb herself. She’s used to the publicity and was willing to visit on her way home. She’s 89 and still comes in to bake the pies. She makes the cream pies – made five of them that morning – and someone else bakes the fruit pies.
The pie menu: coconut cream, banana cream, raisin cream, chocolate, apple crumb, strawberry rhubarb, peach, cherry and mixed berry.
Just the other day in the Capital-Journal, there was a story about Norma’s 10,000th pie. Apparently she’s kept track since she started there in 1995.
Looks like it’s time for a road trip! Gotta have some of that fabulous pie….
What are we doing HERE? Let’s go to Dover!! In which direction do we go?
Want to go there RIGHT NOW!
Piece of pie $2.00…How much for a whole chocolate pie??
Ray – I don’t think they sell whole pies anymore. They can’t keep up with the volume of business, now that it’s a famous place.
Well, then, if I ever get there, I’ll order just two pieces.