People Who Pie: Woodstock Pie and Coffee

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: pie season. Whether you’re seeking one of the classics — perhaps pumpkin, pecan or pot pie — or something a bit more nouveau, these three New Hampshire pie shops will happily serve you a slice.

Here are three places that will make your sweet tooth sing.

• Slightly Crooked Pies, Bedford
• The Pot Pie Bar, Bedford
• Woodstock Pie and Coffee, North Woodstock (profile below)

Woodstock Pie and Coffee, North Woodstock

Dessert pies, like the apple pies pictured here, are one of the many pie options at Woodstock Pie and Coffee. Other options include fruits of the forest, chocolate bourbon pecan, a variety of dinner pies and more.

Josiah Lundin had only been working for Woodstock Pie and Coffee for a few months when the previous owners decided they were ready to retire. Owning a coffee shop had been a goal of Lundin’s since college, so he and his father jumped on the opportunity to buy the business. Lundin kept the old business model — good pie, good coffee — the same, but transitioned the shop to be primarily vegan.

Lundin, 26, has been vegan for seven years, so making the few easy tweaks necessary (like omitting the egg wash that was brushed on top for oat milk) to ensure all the fruit pies are vegan by default was important for him.

Luckily, he didn’t have to change the rest of the pie crust: It was already an all-vegetable shortening recipe. “Their crust recipe was very similar to my grandmother’s pie crust recipe,” Lundin says.

Woodstock Pie and Coffee’s focus is on fruit pies; the classics like apple and blueberry are best sellers year-round. They also do some nut pies, quiches and savory pot pies, particularly in the colder seasons. (Lundin hasn’t figured out a good vegan quiche recipe quite yet, but he’s working on it.)

They also sell non-pie pastries that primarily fall under the charge of Danielle Silva, a baker Lundin met at a previous job about five years ago. Lundin estimates that about half of the pastries are vegan, including a vegan whoopie pie. “It’s not too hard to use egg substitutes to make the chocolate cakes non-dairy and egg-free,” he explains.

While this is a story about pies, Lundin’s background is more aligned with the coffee part of the business. He worked in coffee shops all through college and, since the previous owners had the pie part pretty much on lock, he focused on expanding the caffeinated options on the menu. He added cold brew iced coffee and new espresso drinks to the menu, like the Maple Madness (a maple latte with a maple sugar garnish) and the Wichita Mocha (“pretty much a caramel mocha”).

It’s best to stop by the shop early to grab that morning coffee and slice of pie. The entire space is only 316 square feet, so Lundin says they sell out early due to the size restraints of the pie production area.

“I would like to eventually try to increase the size of my space in some way,” Lundin says when asked about the future of the business. “But I don’t want to lose the charm.” woodstockpieandcoffee.com