The Purple Pie Place in Custer is a fixture for the summer and fall, offering the best homemade pies in the Black Hills. They serve hundreds of slices of pie a week. The homemade delights are also available in a take-home whole-pie version. It’s not just pies that they serve, they also have fresh sandwiches, paninis, salads, soups, ice cream and a kids menu. The pie and ice cream parlor is open 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday through Saturday. (Closed during the winter months.)