Place: Pieology
Lunch: Create your own pizza with the house crust, herb & garlic butter, red sauce, mozzarella, mushrooms, black olives, pepperoni, sausage, spicy Italian sausage, and meatballs, Coke (to drink, not on the pizza, weirdo)
Everyone was super excited about Pieology coming to town because having a bakery that specialized in pies sounded really cool. Visions of flaky handmade pastry crusts and creative fruit fillings filled the air. Imagine the horrible disappointment when it turned out to be a pizza place. Even if the consolation prize is it neighbors a bakery that specializes in bundt cakes (literally called Nothing Bundt Cakes).
Anyway, it's another Pie Five style place, a near mirror of Blaze, but a little better. Still not Pie Five. You follow your pizza down the line, you tell them what to put on it, it goes in the oven. They deliver it to your table about...oh...20 minutes after you first walked in the door? 30 if it's busy. The place is six minutes from the office and I barely get back within an hour. Blaze is over twice the distance and they're never a problem.
Yes, I have two sausages put on it. The spicy Italian sausage is actually large slices from a link. I tell them to put those on last so they sit on top of everything else, then I can just pick them off and eat them like an appetizer. It works better than eating on the...pie.
I'd really like a good strawberry pie about now.