I've never actually been inside Pizza Amore, but their salads are one of my favorite local deliveries when I neglect to pack anything and can't get away from the office for lunch. I've tried several of the varieties, and my go-to is the chef salad. It is a HUMONGOUS bed of fresh iceburg lettuce, topped with green peppers, cucumbers, tomato, hard-boiled eggs, purple onion, ham, turkey, roast beef and cheese (lately I've noticed that you have to ask for the egg specifically or risk it being left off). When I say humongous, I mean straight-up massive and will seriously serve two hungry people or one person for two meals without any supplementation. All of Amore's salads come with your choice of garlic bread or freshly made pita, and salad dressing. I'm extremely partial to the buttermilk ranch that they make themselves, and the pita which is big, soft and puffy and made in-house daily (I once heard a rumor that root beer is their secret pita dough ingredient?!?). My mother usually opts for the garlic bread...which is about half of a large grinder roll (but I don't think they make it themselves? It seems fairly standard)...and instead of eating it with her salad, she saves it for the next day and tops it with tomato slices and cheese and throws it under the broiler to get a whole other meal out of it.
The house salad with chicken is my second fave (iceburg, hardboiled egg, bacon, feta, mozzarella, purple onion, green peppers, cucumber and loads of smallish chunks of grilled, seasoned chicken -- I think it may be the same chicken that they use for their suvlaki? its' great)...with their homemade Italian dressing. I can also recommend the Greek salad and the antipasto salad. I did order the cobb salad once, but it was indistinguishable from the antipasto. I don't know whether that was a mistake or just a peculiarity of Amore...because around that same time, their chef salads would often come as the antipasto salad and we had to ask for "the one with the egg and turkey, not the one with the salami and pepperoncini." But for the last year or more, the chef salad has consistently been the chef salad without the need to specify ingredients when ordering...so perhaps the cobb salad is now the cobb salad. Not sure.
Anyhow! Their stuffed grape leaves are very good, and the gyro, chicken souvlaki, and turkey club sandwiches are all decent. Pizza is rather bland as I recall (but I haven't had it in years, so it may be different now), and the reuben was disappointing. The fries are jumbo steak fries and are excellent when dipped in the homemade buttermilk ranch instead of ketchup ;)
They have some interesting sounding Turkish-inspired sandwiches and wraps on their menu which I always say I'll try next time but then never do... it's like, I want to say "Istanbul wrap" ... but before I know it I've blurted out "Chef Salad with Ranch and a Pita"... read more