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Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie

Dining · 1 location · Brooklyn: Red Hook

The walk-up window at the end of Van Dyke Street looks like a one-man pie stand. Behind it is a 6,000-square-foot bakery that has sold one dessert wholesale across the city for decades, still owned by the husband and wife who started it.

Founder-run

The Big Picture

Genuinely Independent

Steve Tarpin and his wife Victoria run Steve's Authentic themselves, and no investor, parent company, or franchise system appears anywhere in its structure. As a single-location family business it has generated little public labor or environmental record to weigh, and it publishes no supplier list for the key limes at the center of its one product. The people answerable for it are the couple who own it.

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Local ownership
9/10
Founder involvement
10/10
Worker pay & benefits
6/10
Environmental impact
6/10
Sourcing & labor
6/10

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Company data last updated August 2026

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