Royer's Round Top Cafe
Round Top, TX
Home to down home country folks, a couple Ohioan tourists, and some fantastic pie!
Set scene: Roadside cafe in downtown Round Top, TX- population 81
Their motto is "Dive into the PIE box for an out of the box experience!"
Their shirts say "Remember the Alamode!"
Their pie is DELICIOUS!
I went to Round Top cafe after a visit to the Blue Bell Creamery in Brenham, TX. It was only about a 25 minute drive, but seemed way out of the way. I had read about this place in a Dallas Morning News article about roadtrips, and it seemed like a great place to go, so I thought it'd be worth the inconvenient drive.
When we pulled up, upon seeing the cafe, the exact words out of my husbands mouth were, "Where the heck did you take us to? This is it?" Little did he know, that in about 15 minutes, we'd have some of the best pie we've ever tried in our bellies- and quail, stuffed giant jalapenos, and rolls ontop of that! When we walked in the door, this is the view we were greeted with:
Pies, pies everywhere! Cherry, Strawberry Rhubarb, Apple, Chocolate chip, Pecan, Butterscotch, Buttermilk, Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Key Lime Buttermilk, and Coconut Chess.. all there for us to smell and savor!
We sat down and ordered pie immediately- a slice of Apple, and a slice of Strawberry Rhubarb- both with ice cream, of course, because they charge you 50 cents extra if you don't get them a la mode! As we waited for our pies to come out, we sat and looked around this quirky cafe. The walls were adorned with signs, old tshirts, pictures of local and national celebrities, Christmas lights, napkins... anything you could think of!
We sat and chatted with the waiter wearing overalls (who I think was the owner) and talked to him about my food blog. He, in turn, started bringing out free samples of everything under the sun! Grilled quail (first time I'd ever tried it.. very good!), HUGE jalapenos stuffed with crab meat, cream cheese, jalapeno, and a plethora of other things, bread with homemade jelly, and then our pies. The fabulous, down home service here was wonderful.. almost refreshing. You don't see many places anymore where you can sit and learn about the business from the server, and really get to know them. By the time we left I felt like I belonged in Round Top, and was born to eat this pie!
As we paid the bill and got up to leave, the server brought out a box and handed it to me. He said, "On the house. Please enjoy, and y'all come back." It was a large cherry pie, straight out of the oven, just for me. Free.
This place has my heart, and will always have my business.
So, if you're ever deep in the heart of Texas, somewhere between Houston, College Station, and Austin, stop by Royers Round Top cafe. They also ship their famous pies all over the US- just order at http://www.royersroundtopcafe.com/
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