March 11, 2010
A slice of heaven: March 16 is Pie Day at 8 McMahon
If you like pie — and really, who doesn’t like pie? — you might want to stop in the 8 at McMahon campus restaurant on Tuesday, March 16.
It’ll be Pie Day there, and all manner of pies will be available. There will be hand pies like Cuban-style beef empanadas, pot-style pies like the Cape Codder (with shrimp and clams in a rich sherry cream sauce), British-style steak and mushroom pies, quiche pies, sweet pies — even a Frito pie and a Snickers pie.
Pie Day, overseen by Tracey MacRae, 8 at McMahon’s executive chef, is an annual tradition and customer favorite at 8 McMahon. But this year it also serves as a reminder that 8 at McMahon will be available for campus diners when the HUB shuts down for two years of remodeling, starting in June. The hours of Pie Day will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for lunch and 4 to 9 p.m. for dinner.
8 at McMahon is a collection of restaurants that offers burgers, pizza, pasta, salads, deli foods and a rotating menu of regional and international dishes. You can check out the weekly (and largely pie-free) menu online here.
If you like pie, you are certainly not alone. Novelist Jane Austen wrote that “Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness” and Jonathan Swift opined that “pie-crusts and promises are made to be broken.” And never mind that Carl Sagan once said, “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
