Cruise in for Dessert: The Historic ‘Top Gun’ House Gets a New Life as a Patriotic Pie Shop

Just in time for the sequel, the quaint beach house from the original movie has been re-imagined as Maverick’s favorite pie place—complete with his Kawasaki out front

Painstakingly restored, the 'Top Gun' House in Oceanside, Calif. greets visitors with its original blue Victorian cottage exterior. Jakob Layman

Few pie shops have the provenance of the “Top Gun” House. Built in 1887 as the 500-square-foot oceanfront summer cottage for Dr. Henry Graves in what is now Oceanside, California, it rose to fame as the home of Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood in the 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun.”

It later fell into disrepair, but thanks to the efforts of S.D. Malkin Properties and the Oceanside Historical Society, among others, it has been reborn.