The Salish Lodge has "Damn Fine Pie" but Twede's Not So Much

My wife and I are big fans of the original and the reboot of Twin Peaks and what better opportunity to enjoy both than to review the pies from the businesses featured in the show. The Great Northern Lodge in the show is the Salish Lodge.

Damn Fine cherry pies at the Salish Lodge

Twede's Cafe (Double R Cafe in the show) in North Bend, WA is a relatively small diner but they shoot the place in the show so as to give it a largeness unlike its reality. By a funny coincidence we arrived the day after the 2017 Twin Peaks convention. A lot of folks were hanging around having pancakes at Twede's before hitting the road.

View of Mt Si across the road from Twede's Cafe

Abby enjoys a blackberry milkshake counterside

The French dip

 I thought that the fries and the French dip were actually pretty good. The meat was well trimmed and not dry, the au jus wasn't too salty, and the fries were fried well. So it was a disappointment that the pie is clearly frozen crust and the filling is that overly sweet canned pie filling. I've heard that the return of the show to popularity has meant that Twede's can't keep up with the demand for homemade pie and have lowered their quality standards (mirroring the plot in the show).

The not so damn fine cherry pie at Twede's

Huckleberry pie

 I heard that the pie shop down the street from Twede's - - actually does good pie, but the store was closed during the convention so no luck this visit. I had been looking forward to some of the doughnuts I had spotted on their menu online, particularly the angel.

My wife took a lot of pictures of the sites in North Bend and Snoqualmie that were used during the show. We saw the intersection where the child is killed in the new show, the buildings that were used for the sawmill, the .

We spotted some fun coffee mugs around town in the gift shops.