Pie in the Sky
For those of you who are
unaware of this fantastic shop
and café/ restaurant in Palma
Nova, it is a unique business
to Mallorca, making and
serving food more associated
with the UK and Australia.
Pies!! They make a huge array
of “proper pies”, both sweet
and savoury. They make them
from scratch, including their
own pastry in a state of the
art kitchen, which contains
a machine called “Little Oz”
capable of making up to 1000
pies an hour!
My personal favourite is the
peppered steak, which has
a real kick to it. They even
serve Tapa pies, just a smaller
version of the regular ones.
The business is owned and
run by Ivar and Genevieve von
Engelhardt, who both have
a background in yachting.
Genevieve came from yacht
racing in Australia to become
a head stew and chef on a
variety of sailing yachts and
Ivar, originally from South
Africa, was formerly a pastry
chef with Gordon Ramsey
amongst other roles, before
eventually making his name as
chef on such yachts as Alegria.
When deciding where their
future lay after discovering
they were expecting twins,
they chose Mallorca as
they felt it was the best
environment in which to
raise their children. They
then set about deciding
what kind of business to run,
with the mission of creating
something special to hand
on to their children. The
business eventually opened
its doors in Spring last year,
initially as a take away pie
shop, but as time went on ,
they quickly realised that the
market here was more suited
to an eat in restaurant. That
meant going and investing in
furniture, crockery, cutlery
etc, which they hadn’t banked
on! However they decided
to adapt to what the market
wanted and quickly became
increasingly well-established
amongst the local community
especially by the young mums
who can take their kids into
the restaurant where there
is a creative corner set up for
drawing and reading etc. A
very clever move I’m sure, as
the kids will always be askingto go back!Tragically in September last
year, they lost their son
Caspar, aged 2 in an accident.
As one can imagine, this
turned their world upside
down and is still making life
very difficult for them both
to come to terms with. Their
focus though is to create
something special for their
other children, which from
the evidence I’ve seen, they
are doing remarkably well.And in spite of their own
problems, over the past few
months, they have still seen fit
to donate money from each
cupcake they sell, give pies
to the Salvation Army each
week plus donate 10% of alltheir Biltong sales. A truly
remarkable and selfless family
and deserve to be supported
by us all.As well as supplying the pies
for their own customers,
they also supply the famous
Fish and Chip shop in Plaza
Drassana, and are now
supplying an increasing
number of charter yachts,
which was always a priority,
having had the personal
yachting experience
themselves. They are also very
keen to hold events in their
premises, such as birthday
parties etc., so next time you
are thinking of holding an
event, why not have a “Pie
and Pint” night, you will not
be disappointed!MALLORCA LIFESTYLE
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