Posted by Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle
, June 14, 2008 23:46
The San Diego Chicken Pie Shop recently celebrated their 70th anniversary. Diane Bell writes about the longtime San Diego restaurant for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She notes: “In 1938 a chicken pie cost 10 cents and a full dinner was 35 cents. Today a pie sells for $2.35 and a dinner costs about $6.” Still sounds like a real bargain.
buffetbuster’s photo of a pie, above, is from Michael Stern’s Roadfood.com review. Michael notes: “What we appreciate, as we fork into a Chicken Pie Shop chicken pie – which is nothing but meat and gravy and crust – and tear into the big soft dinner rolls that come with it, is that this is a meal that doesn't want to be home cooking. It is coffee shop food – clean, wholesome, and predictable.” Amen to that, brother!
