Our Story

In 2015, we opened our doors as Denmark’s first authentic pie shop to an eagerly awaiting public of Danish foodies and homesick ex-pats. Co-founders Erin Eberhardt Chapman and Dorte Prip shared a simple vision, and merged their complementary skill sets to set the wheels in motion.

Erin hails from the farmlands of Illinois and the northwoods of Wisconsin, USA. Homegrown and home-cooking equaled love, and her obsession with food started with growing up on her grandparents’ farms, practicing family recipes, enjoying the abundance of her dad’s vegetable gardens each year, and inheriting her mom’s “baking-to-relax” tendencies. 

With over 20 years experience in the advertising industry in Denmark, Erin had specialized in brand building and image development for lifestyle, food and fashion clientele on both national and international levels. Merging her love for food and art direction, Erin began food styling, cookbook design and recipe development, and has co-authored two cookbooks for the danish market, American Pie and American Diner, as well as authoring the pie shop’s own cookbook, The Pie Shop Cookbook and Autentisk Amerikansk Pie. Having lived in Denmark since 1998, the merging of food and nostalgia has been a constant help to ward off homesickness.

Dorte was born and raised in Denmark, and had the opportunity to attend the Stanford Graduate School of Business in the heart of Silicon Valley, where she whole-heartedly fell in love with the USA, and continued to travel back for the inspiration, the spirit, and the connection.

In Denmark, Dorte built a career in retail as a senior vice president of Danish grocery powerhouse, Coop, where she acquired a keen sense of food quality, food ethics, and human relations. Dorte then moved on to becoming the CEO at Copenhagen Business School Executive. But despite a fulfilling career in Denmark, her “happy place” was still California, as it was there she was married, where her children have attended high school and college, and where her American family also lives. Wanting to pool her life experiences of retail, business, education, love of food, and spirit, she was inspired to build something close to her heart. 

The women came together to create exactly what they had been missing in Denmark – a home away from home – making The Pie Company nothing short of an experience. 

With a location in a historical 300-year old Copenhagen building, the pie shop is designed in a 1920s-30s café-meets-apothecary style, with hand-laid tile floors, antique lamps, vintage pie pans, and family kitchen knick-knacks hung on the walls. With the many postcards and drawings left by visitors, one can immediately feel the good vibes.

Specializing in both seasonal sweet pies and savory meat and veggie pies, everything is handmade on location in the pie shop’s kitchen with simple, quality ingredients, and the menu changes every 1-3 months to reflect the season.

If you’re looking for an authentic experience in Copenhagen, The Pie Company has the right stuff. Whether it’s the cozy vibe or the delicious pie, it will surely win your heart.