Somewhere between a gas station snack and a civic institution, the Hubig’s fried pie occupies a category entirely its own in New Orleans.
Simon Hubig founded his pie company in Fort Worth in 1922, and the New Orleans bakery opened that same year on Dauphine Street in the Faubourg Marigny, just blocks from the Ninth Ward border. Every other location in his southeastern chain collapsed during the Depression. New Orleans held on.
For nearly a century, the bakery ran out of that same building, turning out glazed hand pies daily until a predawn grease fire gutted the factory in July 2012 and knocked the whole operation out of commission…