In the current era of chef worship, no one should expect the executive chef to be at the restaurant expediting service every night. With a restaurant's limited capacity and razor-thin profit margins, chefs need multiple sources of revenue. So who exactly is feeding us while our celebrities are out competing on Iron Chef? Seattlest answers this question through a series of interviews with our city's sous chefs and chef de cuisines. We continue our series with an early morning visit to High 5 Pie on Capitol Hill, where bakery manager Cat Wilcox whips up sweet and savory goodies that remind us of our childhoods.
So Sous Me: Cat Wilcox of High 5 Pie
High 5 Pie Gets Geometrically Delicious
If Mobile Chowdown 3 doesn't leave you sufficiently sated, you can top yourself off the next day with some discount pies courtesy of Pie Day -- er, Pi Day, 3/14. Get 14% of your purchase of three High 5 Pies at any Fuel Coffee location. It's all in honor of our favorite circumference-related constant, which we'd eat if it weren't an abstract concept.
The "Pie Or Boutique?" Conundrum Resolves Itself
We read over at Phinnywood that Greenwood's Lemon Meringue Boutique is going out of business, and will have a "grand closing" sale. We had no idea it existed, which is lucky because we would have gone there demanding boutique lemon meringue pie, only to be confronted by racks of women’s, maternity, and children’s clothing. It doesn't get much bait-and-switchier than that. Now with High 5 Pie, on the other hand, a division of the Fuel Coffee empire, you get exactly what you expect. (Pie, we mean, not a high five.) And while apple, berry, and cherry are advertised right now, their "seasonal" pie flavors may include "peaches, lemon, blueberries, cloves, salted chocolates, raspberries, and lavender." See that? Lemon! One fake pie door closes, another opens.

