If you have a moment let me borrow your EAR
To tell you of…read morethe best slice you'll have this YEAR
And the kind of sub sandwich that's better than a BEER
You'll love it more than Marky Mark loved Reese in FEAR
I'll take you there now, you can drive, I'll STEER
When we get there I might go in the back and disaPPEAR
Eat their whole stock sooner than R Kelly had AALIYAH
Cause the only thing I really want to Mangia is MIA
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What to get: Pizza and Chicken Florentine sandwich. Their chicken finger subs and other sandwiches are wonderful as well.
Owned by Mia Farrow, Mia Zadora, and "Mamma" Mia from the play Mamma Mia, this pizza shop is one of the very best in the East burbs. It's easily inside Buffalo's top 20 locations for pizza, subs, wings and the like. The pizza in particular is spectacular. Well-seasoned, saucy, delicious, gooey, perfect.
The best way I can describe it is that Mangia is a carpet of a pizza with masses of delicious salty sauce and very thick cheese; sloppy and tasty and good. The service is wonderful too. They heat my slices without me even asking (some places take umbrage with that, whatever umbrage is, idk) and it was really cheap for an enormous slice.
Of the sub sandwiches I've tried (4 so far), the Chicken Florentine one is my fave. It's remarkable and utterly delicious. But the chicken finger sub closely rivals it because it's one of the best chicken fingers subs in town. The Mangia Mangia is really good, too, as is the chicken parm. Their subs are competitively priced, stuffed, filling, and some of the absolute best sandwiches in town.
This is the busier, larger original location, with plenty of seating, way down in the southtowns. There are other (inferior and much less friendly) pizzerias to choose from down this way. None are even close to being this good.
Their new location is up closer to Clarence, much farther North, close to Genesee & Transit. It's tiny and has nowhere to sit. Both places make perfect, and very similar, pizza. The people running these places are really wonderful too, which is a nice change because I get a little tired of the attitude problems that some Pizzerias (especially close to this original location of Mia) can have.
As I've said before, in another review, Buffalo has some of the best pizza in the world. Sadly people will tell you otherwise, especially people who don't appreciate what their hometown does well, or people who prefer refined Italian wannabe pizza or thin crust NYC slices, which I admit are amazing, when done right. Or if you're not from around here, the thick gooey doughy saucy cheesy greasy greasy greasy (did I mention greasy) style might throw you off. That's a shame. You don't come to Buffalo for health food. We're sorely lacking in serious contenders along those lines. But when it comes to pizza there are probably 50 great pizzerias and lots of good ones too.
But it's slices like these at Mia Mangia that really make Mia Ppreciate Buffalo Pizza the most. It's definitely going on my top 10 WNY slices list, and is the best you'll find anywhere along Transit Road, by a distance.
So step right up ladies and gents. A slice from Mia Mangia will set you back a mia (mere, get it) $2 and change, and it's big and juicy and delicious, like my Great Aunt.