pie-house

— [T]he numberless nightly exhibitions, lecture-rooms, mechanics’ institutes, concerts, theatres and casinos, pour forth their motley hordes, of whom a large and hungry section find their way to the pie-house as the only available resource—the public-houses being shut up for the night, and the lobster-rooms, oyster saloons, ‘shades,’ ‘coal-holes,’ and ‘cider-cellars,’ too expensive for the means of the multitude.