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| - Pizza Pie Café has opened its second Valley location in Mesa, making it Arizona's second installment of outside of Utah or Idaho. Pizza Pie Café is less Café and more Buffet offering two dozen types pizza, including sweet dessert pizza, a salad bar and a made-to-order pasta bar.
At the smallish salad bar you will find a choice of three types of fresh lettuces along with toppings such as fresh and pickled veggies, beans, diced meats and eggs along with a larger selection of dressings and crunchy toppings to make a salad just the way you like it. The pasta bar offers various types, flavors and shapes of pasta which you can top with five different types of sauce ranging from your basic Marana sauce, to a thick, spicy sausage sauce, an Alfredo sauce, a spicy red pepper sauce or meat sauce. I suggest a half size order of pasta and experiment with sauce and toppings. The pizza bar is a two tier affair with mostly thin to medium thin savory slices arranged in such a way that you must choose the three or four slices in front; there is no cherry picking your slice here, or choosing that slice way in the back.
For an additional fee, you can get a beverage that offers unlimited refills of Pepsi products at the two self-serve drink towers. There are dessert pizza options too, however, they are typically on the super sweet side despite most being on an unsweetened thin pizza crust. If you choose the "Pizza of the Month" then get ready for your jaw to cramp as this is often a combination of fruited 'pie filling' and candy or marshmallow drizzled with a sugary frosting or chocolate, or both, layered on the top of a thicker cookie dough-like crust. The good thing is they slice the pieces into thin, narrow slices . . . and for most people, this will be plenty.
This location certainly is set up for better access to the pizza pasta and salad bars and seems to have a larger selection of pizzas. However, notably in comparison to the Gilbert location, the staff here is not quite as attentive or cheery as the Gilbert location. For instance, pizzas are slow to be refilled, the salad bar tends to be less kept and refilled as often, and finding someone to make your pasta does take a bit of eye contact and patience. However, with time, things may improve.
Overall, you really can't go wrong given the price, selection and atmosphere of Pizza Pie Café. If you join their loyalty program, they will send you reminders of midday and mid week specials that make it a bargain to eat here. You can fill your plate, drink all the soda you want and stuff yourself for under 10 bucks! However, if you can have some restraint, and eat more salad than pizza, you will feel less guilty for eating multiple slices of pizza and still get in your serving of vegetables.
Overall rating: 3.6
Quality: 3.6
Service: 2.8
Cleanliness: 3.2
Value: 4.2
Atmosphere: 3.6
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