I liked both the girls and boys working here. Maybe I'm Bi-O-Mine. Or maybe there's another reason Why-O-Mine. It's not the kind of thing I'd Deny-O-Mine. But it might make my homophobic parents Cry-O-Mine. But they'll get over it, they're not gonna Die-O-Mine. It just might end with me no longer being a Guy-O-Mine.
What to get: CYO large salad w/kale
What else: CYO pizza w/red sauce & fresh mozz
This is the greatest salad chain in the whole world and this location is pretty friendly and gets really busy and provides healthy salads and pretty yum pizzas of the create your own variety to the whole of the southtowns and Orchard Park Community.
However, I prefer both of the other locations. The Transit E. Amherst original is the standard-bearer and they make pretty big salads and are pretty friendly. The Sheridan Drive is the gold star location where they make salads twice as big, and everybody there is my best friend. Then the Orchard Park location is still playing catch-up. Both times I've come here my salad was half the size of Sheridan or smaller. Which is kind of an issue to me to be honest. Because there are not many salads that fill me up and the other two locations can both get it done.
Having said that I still have to give them five stars because just the fact that you can pick as many toppings as you want, they're always fresh, always delicious and just the very concept and the price point - as hipsters would say - it's five star all the way. But if they can catch up to the awesomeness of the other two stores that would be even better.
Skip the bland proteins. But then if you live in Orchard Park (much as with E Amherst), any hint of spice will probably be a bad mix with the 57 prescription pills you're on, I know how it is, and I'm deeply sorry that Pumpkin Spice Lattes are soon to be gone for another 9 months. Speaking of 9 months your daughter's preggo again. No, I know about the termination, I mean *again* again.
So. Huge array of salad choices, they throw everything in a huge bowl, chop it all up, $8 or so. The more toppings, the bigger your salad. Get lots. If you have a really big salad like me, the girls (and boys) will love you. Oh wait I stopped talking about salads for a minute.
Lots of good dressings too. And the walls are covered in Fox puns. You'd think I own the place.
They also make surprisingly good pizza. Not a fan of this Chipotle "cooked while you wait pizza" (yes I know Chipotle doesn't make pizza stfu thx), but it's good here. I'm not biased enough to deny when something tastes amazing. These do. They make that overrated, awful Pi Craft crap (if you like Pi Craft I don't like you so please stop reading and go to someone else's review) embarrassed to exist, because they take Pi Craft's god awful concept and actually make it good. Not that PC invented the concept. It's so Brooklyn and SF. So yeah. Let's go get a microbrew.
I think the reason this pizza is so yummerific is that they use good ingredients, as with the salad. Pizza size is very generous too. It's a million miles away from typical WNY greasy pizza but it can be a nice little addition to a delicious salad. Don't get me wrong. Real Buffalo pizza wins. But on the sliding scale from Franco's/Good Guys/Imperial/Bella at the high end, to Papa John's and licking the seat of a toilet (OK, nah, toilets aren't THAT bad), Pie O Mine is actually closer to Franco's than the Peyton Manning end. And who wants to be close to Peyton's end, anyway. Except maybe Edgerrin James back in the day.
Now scuse me, I have to go destroy a Greens CYO Salad faster and with more reckless abandon than Biebs destroyed "Despacito."
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