We’ve had this menu buried away for quite some time now and had no real desire of pulling it out to order. They have no real website online and all we found were nasty comments about the late delivery, unappealing dining area, swearing in the kitchen, and so on. There were also rumors of bad business overall with tax problems and being under new management and we wondered if this place was even open anymore. However, some of us at work are more audacious than others who just visit Sue’s, SPoT, Jim’s, etc, so we took the risk of ordering for delivery.
First, the menu is way too huge to go in to. There’s unsorted specials all over it and two pages worth of subs. They are open at 10am and close on 3am and weekends of 5am, which is late. We ordered delivery a few minutes before noon just in case the comments were true about bad service. We just got a cheeseburger sub, chicken finger sub, liter of Sprite, and a personal pizza with bacon, which totaled high to over $26.
Conversely, the service wasn’t bad, but the food was plain mediocre. The order was here before noon and it came with everything we asked for. For a three dollar delivery fee, we better hope so. The phone conversation was fine. All the food was in one big bag and the personal pizza was in a small box in there. After we took out the food, someone asked us, “Where is the rest of the food?” For the price we paid for, it didn’t look like a lot. However, we did a side by side comparison of Jim’s Bleu sub and what originally looked small turned about to be almost the same size of chicken finger sub as Jim’s but maybe with thicker chicken fingers. The pizza was just average… maybe just because it was a personal pizza, but it is not worth going into. The bacon on the pizza was no where delicious as the previous places we tried from.
All the food was just borderline average, if that. Nothing was great. Aside from their poor reputation, it is an expensive place and we probably wouldn't order from them again due to stronger competitors out there.
Final Rating: 2.5 out of 5
Avenue Pizza & Submarine
502 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222-2014
(716) 883-3500
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side not..they aree movin down the street on elmwood into the old falafel bar digs. I also appreciate their soft serve ice cream. Although it is prob b/c there is really no where else to go on elmwood for soft ice cream.
I am sorry to hear that. Avenue used to be one of the better ones. When your prime focus is saving money and not making it, the whole operation eventually goes to heck. Pizza used to be very good, very cheesy, lots of good tasting sauce. Another one bites the dust, sadly !
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