Closed Colorado Restaurant Returns With Pies for Thanksgiving

The summer of 2024 in Colorado included the closing of a restaurant that had been in operation for 40 years. For Thanksgiving, that restaurant is back with their pies.

For longtime fans of the restaurant, it will be [almost] like they didn't close at all; for others an opportunity to get on of the pies that helped to make them so beloved. It'll be like a "cameo," if your Thanksgiving were a holiday movie.

Those who do actually score one of these pies will be smiling big, when it's time for dessert.

Closed Greeley, Colorado Restaurant Selling Pies for Thanksgiving

It was in August of 20204, that Fat Albert's closed its doors after 42 years in Greeley. Generations of folks from around Northern Colorado were saddened with the news, but some things just have to come to an end.

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One of the menu items that made Fat Albert's a destination restaurant were their pies; with the first Thanksgiving of them not being open approached, the outcry for those pies was so much, that they decided to sell some. Not a lot, but some.

Fat Albert's in Greeley Sets Up 'Pop Up' Location for Pies

Fans of those Fat Albert's pies need to make plans to be at Crabtree Brewing in Greeley on November 27, to purchase ($35-40) of the "select amount of" pies that they'll have on hand.

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As of this writing, only three of the six pies planned are still available (their super-famous) peanut-butter pie is one of the "sold out" choices. If only we'd heard about this, sooner.

Colorado Holiday Store Hours for Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Most Colorado stores will be closed on Thanksgiving giving their employees time to spend with their families. Here's a list of closed stores with some guesstimates of Black Friday openings.

We'll continue to update the list as more store hours become available.

Gallery Credit: Tim Gray