Pies and Pints was born in my mind years before I met Kim Shingledecker at the wonderful Solitude Mountain Resort in SLC Utah. After having worked in the pizza business on Long Island for a long time; I moved on to a short stint as a brewers assistant at Long Islands own Blue Point Brewing Co. It was after this that I started thinking about combining creative pizza, world class beer, and good music in one environment.
Many journal entries later I moved out west to Utah. It was there that I met my business partner and the person who convinced me that we could open a restaurant with only $2,500 in each of our pockets.
Kimberly Shingledecker had already opened the Cathedral Cafe and sold it, this was good news to me. She had a place in mind, showed me some photos, and a few months later I pulled into Fayetteville during an extremely rain soaked April.
Wow! There I was in the quaint town Fayetteville. Enthusiastic, excited, ambitious, scared, worried. Does it rain like this all the time was one of my first questions to those I met. Assured that the sun does shine, the fact that we will do well, ( We were assured this by the kind gentleman who sold us our first piece of equipment in Utah, a scale) and the positive vibe from all the new locals I was meeting, we embarked on an adventure that continues to this day.