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Over Memorial weekend, Dangerously Delicious Pies opened its first permanent space at a spot in Wyandotte. It had been operating in the back of the 3rd Street bar in Midtown Detroit.
Now, it's expanding its footprint again.
Owners Don "Doop" Duprie and Sam Wood are working to launch a second location, possibly with 60 days, on the ground level of the newly renovated Strathmore apartments on Alexandrine off Woodward, writes Serena Maria Daniels of Metro Times.
The owners also are working to refurbish a food truck to sell the pies on the road.
In 2014, Jane Slaughter wrote a glowing review in Metro Times of the pie business when it operated from 3rd Street Bar:
Don “Doop” Duprie and Sam Wood are well on their way to being angels there.
Duprie is a musician, and Wood is a music manager; Duprie took up pies as a day job when he lost his 13-year job as a Downriver firefighter. Firehouse cooking gave him plenty of experience in improving old family recipes, he says.
So the two are bringing grace to customers’ evenings with sublime crusts and celestial fillings, not ethereal but substantial, heavenly because of the miracle that is pie crust done right.
One secret of that crust is that Duprie’s Grandma Belcher, his mother, and two other ladies from church come in once a week to make it. Nothing fancy: just a hillbilly recipe of shortening, flour, salt and sugar, says Kentucky-born Belcher. But something about the way they slap it out — no overworking, no underworking — produces the perfect pie crust.
