Together with our friends Romeo and Meg, who are spending the weekend parked alongside us in Fredericksburg, we took a drive out today to Marble Falls some 20 miles or so from where we are staying.

It’s a lovely town with a very famous restaurant called the Blue Bonnet Café where two US Presidents have come to enjoy their famous, homemade pies!

The classic café first opened its doors in 1929 and soon earned a reputation for good food and friendly service. The menu features breakfast items that are served all day alongside classic American staples such as fried catfish and chicken-fried steak. But it is the dessert pie list for which the café is famed!

All the pies are made fresh, in-house each day and the bakers have perfected the mile-high meringue and creamy custard fillings that attract their regular customers and visitors from around the globe. And, for those not working on their beach bodies, pies can be ordered ahead and picked up on the day for as little as $16 – for a whole pie that would feed a small army!

Thankfully for our waistlines, we were too full to enjoy a slice of pie … I don’t think I have ever seen quite as much meringue on a slice of lemon meringue pie!