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I\u2019ve visited Round Top, Texas, several times during one of their fabulous annual spring or fall Antiques Week. On my very first trip there in 1995 I met Tara Royer Steele. After shopping the tiny town\u2019s endless vintage venues, on the recommendation of umpteen people, I visited Royers Round Top Caf\u00e9<\/a>,<\/em> <\/i>owned and run by Tara\u2019s family. Her dad, Bud \u201cThe Pieman\u201d Royer, hollered at me from where I sat waiting on a bale of hay and pointed to a huge round table filled with diners. As I stared at the solitary empty chair, Tara, then barely out of her teens, welcomed me. Her downhome charm eased my misgivings about sharing a meal with folks I didn\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

Amidst a sea of turquoise-studded hats and boots, I learned that stranger<\/em> <\/i>is a word you don\u2019t hear in Round Top,<\/a> especially at Royers. Within 30 seconds, Tara had us all talking. Judy from San Francisco went on about her cousins who lived in my \u201calmost heaven,\u201d West Virginia, and five-time visitor Mary Ann gave the rundown on the pies. \u201cI\u2019m warning you, we all share!\u201d she said, her fork in midair. \u201cSo it\u2019s a good thing we\u2019re family.\u201d <\/p>\n

Even as a child, Tara always imagined having a bakery. Every Sunday she\u2019d deliver her loaves of homemade breads and cookies to church. But life was not easy as pie for her hard-working family in Katy, Texas, a little town on the outskirts of Houston. In the 1980\u2019s when her dad found himself out of work due to the oil crash, he picked up small jobs while her mother taught piano and did whatever else was needed to keep things going. When she was 11 the family started making and selling wooden jewelry. \u201cLooking back I see I was learning to be an entrepreneur at a really early age,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

For a change of scenery, Tara\u2019s family would sometimes make the one-and-a half-hour trek to Round Top, a town of just about 80 people. (It\u2019s now home to 90 people!) In 1987, one of those jaunts proved to be life changing<\/a>. \u201cThere was a little hole-in-the-wall caf\u00e9, a burger joint,\u201d she says, \u201cand the owner of the place didn\u2019t want it any longer.\u201d When the lady noticed Bud jumping up and bussing tables, refilling drinks, and thoroughly enjoying himself, she felt a divine nudge to ask if he wanted to take over.<\/p>\n

Faith-filled locals learned of the Royer family\u2019s God-given opportunity and taped gas money to their door. The family soon opened Royers Round Top Caf\u00e9, which served up piles of Texas comfort food and mouth-watering pies. \u201cWe had no idea what we were doing, but we all dug in. I waited tables and my brothers did whatever they could to make it work,\u201d says Tara who was 12 when the eatery opened. When weekenders noticed the caf\u00e9 was changing, the family added higher-end items to the menu.<\/p>\n

It was then that a second miracle<\/a> occurred. Tara found out that the eatery was voted the \u201cBest Country Caf\u00e9 in Texas,\u201d by readers of the Houston Chronicle<\/em>. \u201cWe got a call one day telling us we\u2019d won, and come to find out, this group of ladies we didn\u2019t even know had stuffed the ballot box,\u201d Tara say. It didn\u2019t take long for the word to get out and it snowballed from there.<\/p>\n

Tara ended up taking over the caf\u00e9 in 1997. When marital strife and an eventual divorce<\/a> rocked her world, she learned to rely on God as never before. \u201cI\u2019d always gone to church and earned all the badges,\u201d she says. \u201cNow I trusted my Heavenly Father as my source for absolutely everything. Jesus became my best friend,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

A year after her divorce, Tara met Rick Steele. The two married, eventually had two sons, and worked together in the business before selling it to her brother and sister-in-law in 2016. But Tara wasn\u2019t done with the restaurant industry\u2014and she was certainly far from done with pies. In 2011, Tara and Rick had opened Royers Pie Haven<\/a>, a little bakery next to Royers that served only coffee and pie. \u201cI always like to find where the need is, figure it out, and be part of the solution,\u201d Tara says. Her philosophy is richly reminiscent of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale\u2019s maxim: Find a need and fill it<\/a>. \u201cWhen an old house with big oak trees turned up for sale next to the caf\u00e9, it just seemed crazy right,\u201d she says \u201cThe idea just totally worked. I mean, who doesn\u2019t want to get a slice of pie and a cup of coffee and sit under the breezy Texas sky and a wonderful tree?\u201d <\/p>\n

Sounded pretty havenish to Tara!<\/em><\/p>\n

Tara filled the walls with old ceramic pie plates with recipes on them. And whenever she\u2019d happen upon a vintage item at Round Top\u2019s spring or fall Antiques Week she thought would fit in with the quaint ambience, she\u2019d snag it and figure out a spot for it later. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d think, I\u2019m gonna write on the walls too<\/em>,\u201d Tara says, describing how she hung chalkboards with inspiring quotes<\/a> and Scripture. Customers did the honors in the bathroom, covering the walls with encouraging, brightly-colored sticky notes that remind folks they are loved, seen, and valued. One of her favorite scribbles is the verse from Ecclesiastes 3:11: \u201cHe has made everything beautiful in his time.\u201d <\/p>\n

At the beginning, Tara and Rick only sold sweet pies<\/a>. Then the menu evolved to include savory pies like Margherita Chicken Pizza Pie and Hee-Haw Pie in a crust with herbs. Texas Trash\u2014a gooey mix of caramel, coconut, chocolate chips, pretzels and more\u2014and Not My Mom\u2019s Apple Pie are perennial favorites for those with a sweet tooth. Tara loves to watch for facial expressions and oohs and aahs when visitors are enjoying her creations. \u201cIt\u2019s that whole nostalgic thing,\u201d she says. \u201cLike going to your granny\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the pandemic<\/a> hit in March 2020 Tara had another opportunity to fill a need. Royers Pie Haven had 2,500 pies\u2014and empty pie crusts aplenty\u2014in the freezer ready to go for Round Top\u2019s then-cancelled spring Antiques Week. Tara heard of folks in surrounding communities who couldn\u2019t get out and had nothing to eat. The crisis became an opportunity to reach out to an ever-new family. In addition to their pie deliveries, they hosted a drive-through for kids and fed others in need. Their Facebook page, called Feed His People, offered a menu of budget-wise casseroles, cookies, and the like. By the end of the first week, the pandemic had forced Royers Pie Haven to pivot. It ended up being a win-win; they had 500 grateful new customers. \"\"<\/p>\n

When \u201csnowmageddon\u201d\u2014the Great Texas Snowstorm of 2021\u2014 hit in February it was yet another opportunity for outreach. \u201cWhen we put out on social media that we had free food, it was shared hundreds and hundreds of times,\u201d Tara explains. \u201cSomebody in North Dakota read the post and called her brother who was only five minutes down the road from us. He\u2019d been shot, couldn\u2019t get out of bed, and had no electricity or food. That\u2019s how it\u2019s done, God,<\/em> <\/i>I thought. All of this happened because of pie and You.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2021, Tara\u2019s tiny little eatery was named one of the South\u2019s best bakeries by Southern Living <\/em>magazine. That honor landed Tara a June 2021 appearance on Live with<\/em> Kelly & Ryan<\/i><\/a> where she made her famous and fun Junkberry Pie. Tara hasn\u2019t let her new celebrity status go her head; while she and Rick are expanding into other ventures she remains committed to celebrating Jesus through pie and sweet treats. In 2020 Tara published Eat. Pie. Love<\/a>.<\/em> The book is comprised of 52 devotions, plus recipes, designed to satisfy the mind, body and soul. (Tara illustrated the book herself.) As I move forward in my life I try to always keep in mind what Tara wrote in the book\u2019s forward: 1 dash of love + 1 heaping scoop of grace = life sweeter than pie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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