America’s Best Restaurants features Estes’ You Need Pie

Story by Patti Brown

In May, the show America’s Best Restaurants came to Estes Park to film a segment on the beloved 50s diner.

Host Luis Rivera watched the chef, Ivan Rodriguez, who is also the restaurant’s general manager, prepare a classic Reuben–the most ordered sandwich at the shop–and then he bit in to savor the hot-off-the-grill corned beef and cheesy masterpiece.

Owner Val Thompson then sat down with Rivera as he sampled several of the restaurants comfort food specialties including homemade chicken tenders that are soaked in buttermilk and then hand-coated with a breading made in-house before being slipped into the fryer. Rivera praised the dish for its light but crunchy breading and commented that the chicken was “super juicy.”

He also sampled the restaurant’s tater tots, creamy mac and cheese before digging into some of Thompson’s famous pies. He started with Chocolate Peanut Butter pie, a confection made from scratch with a chocolate French silk filling and then a peanut butter silk filling topped by whipped cream and a sprinkling of chocolate chips.

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