Dottie's Flour Shop opens in Ladue tomorrow, selling fall favorites like salted caramel apple and pumpkin-pecan pie
The shop already sells its pies online, but now customers will be able to walk in and purchase in-store.
The outside of the soon-to-open Dottie's Flour Shop.
After putting its plans on the back burner for a year, Dottie’s Flour Shop will open tomorrow in Ladue, just in time for the holiday season.
The pie shop is the descendant of Humble Pie, a pizza joint from owners Mark and Jessica Lucas, who also own Fozzie’s Sandwich Emporium. The husband-and-wife team temporarily closed Humble Pie last October for a few weeks and ended up shuttering the restaurant soon thereafter.
Access was an issue, as Humble Pie operated out of a rear kitchen, and finding the space was a challenge. Still, the restaurant’s size and lack of staff rather than its location or product was what ultimately spelled its demise.
“It wasn’t big enough to do the menu we wanted to do, so the choice was to simplify it—which none of us wanted to do—or close and do something else,” Mark Lucas said in October 2017. “Fortunately, my wife provided the perfect exit strategy.”
Jessica Lucas’s baking business was booming at the time, so the couple decided to make the Humble Pie space the brick-and-mortar location for Dottie’s Flour Shop. They converted the former pizza kitchen into a baking kitchen and small retail area.
Jessica Lucas owns the store along with Dottie Silverman, the shop’s namesake and baker. Marcia Mermelstein, a well-known local pie baker, also contributes in the kitchen.
The shop already sells its pies online, but now customers will be able to walk in and purchase them in the store. Dottie’s current pie menu includes fall favorites like salted caramel apple, pumpkin-pecan, and pecan, and other varieties such as cherry-almond and s’mores campfire. The shop also has vegan pies in flavors including Mexican chocolate, salted caramel apple, and cherry-almond.
In addition to pies, Dottie’s will also sell upscale home goods and gifts. Linens, cookbooks, color-me travel mugs, candles made from wine bottles, and antique measuring spoons are a few of the items that customers can find in the store or online.
