900 S. Bluff St.
St. George, UT
(435) 628-1700
(800) 293-PIES

http://croshawspies.com/

     When you’re looking over the pie flavors on the menu board and a customer in a nearby booth hears you marvel over the flavor options and asks, “What more could you want in life?” you get a real good feeling about the place.
     That happened to us at Croshaw’s, a five-booth gathering place in beautiful St. George that also offers salads, sandwiches, quiche and pot pies, in case you’re one of those people who like to have something else to go with your pie at lunch.
     We have an admission to make right up front about Croshaw’s: We should have bought and tried a blackbottom pie. Yes, it was for sale only by the whole pie, and we were traveling and had nowhere to keep our leftovers but it was only $9! We should have purchased one, had them remove slices for us and let the staff resell the rest of the pie if they wanted to.
     If you’ve read the “About Us” portion of this website, you know the special place in John’s heart that blackbottom pie holds (his mother’s recipe, best pie in the whole world, etc.). Well, imagine how his pulse picked up when he saw the flavor listed on Croshaw’s menu board.
     But we kept to the by-the-slice part of the menu: cream cheese pie for John and the chocolate cream for Jennifer (both pictured on the home page). Now, there was little wrong with either offering. As a matter of fact, the inch-thick cream cheese sitting plumply between a plain cream layer on top and a graham cracker crust evoked moans of joy. It could have stood up a little stouter to the fork, perhaps, but the flavor left nothing to be desired.
     And with the chocolate cream, the heavy, thick chocolate layer (the cream actually comes in a 30-cent cluster of dollops on top, if you request it) passed the test. A little ordinary, perhaps, but still good.
     Maybe the sour cream pies (with apple, blueberry, lemon or raisin), also sold whole only, are the versions that personally speak to you. There are also creations called Tropicana and Rodéo.
     Or perhaps you’re happy with just a slice of the other flavors, $2.49 to $2.79 for apple, French apple, cherry, rhubarb, blueberry, berry, very berry, raisin, lemon, banana – (deep breath here) – coconut, chocolate, German chocolate, pumpkin, custard, pecan or lemon cream cheese. (Mini-pies are $3.69.)
     Croshaw’s, which has been here more than 20 years, has a plain décor but some interesting features, like the fact that you can look through the window into the back room where the pie munchkins are hard at work (see second picture), and that you can buy a day-old slice for $1, from the selection in plastic containers lined up on the counter (see third photo). 
     And in the end, that blackbottom pie is still talking to us. Okay, we’ve got a great reason to return to Croshaw’s.

Another Croshaw’s location:

6731 E Brown Rd
Mesa, AZ 85205

(480) 832-7437