Dominique Ansel Bakery is bringing back Pie Night, its all-you-can-eat celebration of holiday-themed pies, for nine nights in the bakery's SoHo backyard garden this September. Tickets for the 2026 sessions go on sale Friday, August 21 at noon on Resy, and guests can expect ten pies spanning holidays from New Year's Eve to Halloween, unlimited slices, warm apple cider, ice cream, and cocktails during 90-minute seatings.
The event marks its 12th year, according to Time Out, which reports that Pie Night will run September 8-10, 15-17, and 22-24 at Dominique Ansel Bakery in SoHo, with three seatings each night at 5:00-6:30pm, 6:45-8:15pm, and 8:30-10pm. Tickets cost $110 per person, and the menu features five savory pies and five sweet pies built around holidays throughout the year, including a St. Patrick's Day pie with Irish cheddar, caramelized onion, and roasted potato, and a Pi Day salted-caramel apple pie.
Other pies on this year's list lean fully into their holiday themes: a Valentine's Day strawberry-and-vanilla rose pie, a Lunar New Year pork-and-shrimp dumpling lasagna pie, an Easter carrot cake and coconut mousse pie, a Fourth of July BBQ chicken and mac-and-cheese pie, a Halloween chocolate-and-peanut-butter pie, a Thanksgiving pie loaded with braised turkey, stuffing, and green bean casserole, a Christmas-inspired braised short rib beef Wellington pie, and a New Year's Eve pie built around champagne, yuzu, and mandarin citrus meringue, per the outlet's reporting. Hendrick's Gin supplies the cocktails served alongside the spread.
How Pie Night Got Its Start
The tradition traces back to autumn 2015, when Chef Dominique Ansel's team went apple picking in New Jersey and unexpectedly returned with 200 pounds of apples, according to the Daily Meal. That surplus prompted a small pie-tasting event that ended up crashing the bakery's website with more than 700 ticket request emails within hours. The event was originally held at the former Dominique Ansel Kitchen before eventually moving to the SoHo flagship's backyard garden, the outlet reports.
Demand hasn't cooled off in the years since. Tickets for Pie Night sessions typically sell out on Resy within minutes of release, according to a thread on Reddit's r/FoodNYC, which describes active secondary reservation sales and ticket exchanges among local diners scrambling for a seat. Reservations are non-refundable and strictly capped per session, per the same thread.
A Baker With Global Credentials
Ansel, who created the Cronut, has the résumé to match Pie Night's cult following. He received the James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef in 2014 and was named World's Best Pastry Chef in 2017 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants, becoming the first U.S.-based pastry chef to earn that global title, according to his Wikipedia entry. He also earned France's Ordre du Mérite Agricole in 2015.
Dominique Ansel Bakery first opened in November 2011 with a four-person staff at 189 Spring Street in SoHo, operating as a neighborhood bakery before the Cronut's May 2013 debut turned it into an international destination, per kevinEats. Following that debut, Ansel developed more than 800 unique flavor variations of the Cronut over its first decade, maintaining a policy of rotating the flagship flavor monthly without repeating — a philosophy that echoes the rotating lineup of holiday pies now featured at Pie Night, as Hoodline previously reported.
Beyond SoHo: Ansel's Expanding Footprint
Pie Night remains anchored at the original SoHo bakery, but Ansel has steadily built out his Manhattan presence in the years since. In July 2021, he opened Dominique Ansel Workshop at 17 East 27th Street in the Flatiron District, a 4,000-square-foot croissant counter set directly inside his main commercial pastry production kitchen, according to Forbes. The space functions as both a retail counter and a test kitchen.
More recently, in May 2025, Ansel opened Papa d'Amour at 64 University Place in Greenwich Village, a 2,000-square-foot bakery centered on French-Asian bread culture inspired by his Taiwanese wife and their children, according to Time Out's earlier coverage. That concept omits signature items like the Cronut in favor of new creations such as steamed croissant bao. Outside New York, Ansel has also expanded to major gaming resorts in Las Vegas, opening Dominique Ansel Bakery at Caesars Palace in October 2022 followed by Dominique Ansel Marché at Paris Las Vegas in December 2024, per Chefs' Warehouse.
Options For Those Who Miss Ticket Sales
For readers who don't manage to snag a Pie Night ticket when they go live Friday, Dominique Ansel Bakery also offers full-sized whole versions of its seasonal Pie Night pies for advance online order and pickup at the SoHo store during September, with whole pie pre-orders requiring 48 hours' advance notice. That option gives holdouts a way to taste the lineup even if the ticketed sessions vanish within minutes, as they have in past years.
