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    Panera Bread

    3.2 (41 reviews)
    InexpensiveSandwiches, Salad, Soup
    Open 6:00 am - 9:00 pm
    Updated over 3 months ago

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    Homestyle Chocolate Chunk Cookie - crisp on the outside, gooey on the inside
    Laura G.

    I used to always go for their Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich, but now I can't stop ordering their Kids Deli Turkey Sandwich. It has a good amount of protein with the meat and cheese and I always just add veggies to it (spinach, red onion, tomato, and cuke). I love the soft bread that it is served on, but you can switch it up. There is plenty of flavor that I don't even think a dressing/spread is needed. Also, it comes with a choice of side - yogurt tube, apple, chips, or baguette. Plus, it's only $5 for a quick, satisfying meal.

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    Fox E.

    I knew a guy that belonged to all the different sections of the Irish Rebels at the same time. He was Pan-IRA. This has nothing to do with him (although if it did, would that be The Bomb?) This is the Panera Bread way down in the Orch (as in Orchard Park Blasdell etc) and it's a pretty iffy one, an older one, but even though it's tiny, it works out, because it's not always so busy. Gets a bit cold, but stays open usually during snowstorms which is usually when I end up in Panera Bread because all my other hangouts are kaput. I'm a Panera member but I think their food is nightmarishly horrible, not just bland but awful. If you love Panera food, we can possibly friends but definitely not dining friends. Not in the sense that you can give recommendations to me, anyway. Sorry. I do appreciate their free self-service water and their free Wi-fi (which is sometimes spotty). Their caramel macchiato is good but I'm not a big fan of anything else.

    Kayla L.

    This place has really down downhill. I came here with my daughter for a quick lunch tonight & I think I'll stick to a different location. I'll start by saying the service from the register was good. She was prompt and patient while the two of us ordered. She also brought me back my keys when I left them at the register ! If it wasn't for her, this would be a 2 Star review. Now as for the line prep, there is much to be improved on. First, they did not add in the cucumbers to my salad like I requested. When I brought the salad back up, she took my salad back and dumped a topping of cukes on. No words or eye contact (to be honest I don't think they're supposed to take good back, but that doesn't bother me). What does bother me is the unappetizing lettuce I was served. Lots of brown pieces and the salad just tasted rotten. Hopefully they can made some improvements or maybe I just came at a bad time...

    Turk, avocado, bacon & tomato with New England Clam

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    Homegrown Kitchen

    Homegrown Kitchen

    4.4
    (48 reviews)
    6.8 mi
    $$

    My wife and I found a great spot for delicious healthy food in East Aurora! We had a great lunch at…read moreHomegrown Kitchen. The Besto Pesto grain bowl that i had was very, very good. Filled with plenty of fresh greens, quinoa, tomatoes and lots of chicken. Shaved Parmesan cheese and walnuts made a delicious complement to the other ingredients and the pesto vinaigrette was the perfect dressing! My wife loved her apple salad with shredded kale, wild rice, apple, dried cranberry, toasted almonds and plenty of roasted chicken. She substituted mozzarella cheese for the goat cheese that is normally in the salad for a slight up charge. The salad is finished off with a balsamic vinaigrette dressing. The orange dreamsicle smoothie was also excellent. Made with banana, orange, vanilla and almond milk... a tasty sweet treat to enjoy with my salad. The service was excellent as well. The friendly and knowledgeable staff helped me decide on which Smoothie to order as I was mulling over the Raspberry, Strawberry and Orange Dreamsicle. We both liked how we received a choice regarding the amount of dressing we wanted for our salad. Light, medium, heavy or on the side. Being a dressing lover I opted for heavy dressing, while my wife asked for hers somewhere between light and medium. She probably should have just gone with medium as it seemed not quite enough for her taste. Homegrown is set up where you order at the counter and can watch as the staff creates your salad or bowl. There was plenty of seating to handle the lunch crowd which grew as we dined at our table. I would definitely recommend Homegrown for your next outing for a quick, healthy and delicious lunch or dinner. We will definitely be back!

    Great salads, but they also have delicious baked goods from the Scone Girl. Even better, she makes…read moreGF and vegan options for those with dietary restrictions. Picked up my mom a GF espresso chip scone that she is still talking about - texture and taste were spot on. Also, this spot offers a great reward system, just sign up by typing in your phone number. Points add up fast, especially if you go on a Wednesday when you can earn double.

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    Pie-O-Mine Greens

    Pie-O-Mine Greens

    3.0
    (4 reviews)
    1.5 mi

    I liked both the girls and boys working here. Maybe I'm Bi-O-Mine. Or maybe there's another reason…read moreWhy-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." *No Israelis or Palestinians were harmed in the making of this review, despite Trump's best efforts

    Maybe it was because we'd just flown from CA and we're crazy hungry, but we ordered a large Veggie…read morepizza and it was damn good. Were planning to eat it at hotel, but just stood in parking lot and ate most of it. Not sure if I'll ever be in the area again, but I'd definitely recommend it.

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    Farmcraft Brewery

    Farmcraft Brewery

    4.7
    (19 reviews)
    15.2 mi

    Farmcraft is such a nice space! There's a variety of seating options inside and outdoors, and their…read moremenu has a good variety of drinks (beers, wines, cocktails and mocktails) focusing on NY made beverages. They also have 1 beer on the menu that they make. Food menu had a good variety of options too and everything was reasonably priced. I ordered the Mac n cheese and enjoyed it! They also have clean bathrooms and host events regularly. This is a drive, but I'd be happy to make the trip again.

    Happened on this place by accident on a Sunday drive. It is a stunning place. Very pretty,…read moretastefully decorated. Looks like a family fun Brewery. They had a board game wall, 2 air Hockey tables. An area with local items for sale. Looks like they hold farmers markets, and events in the weekend. The place was very elegantly decorated, like it was professionally done. But for a 5 Generation family, I would have liked to have seen their Ancestors, history, maybe some family heirlooms as decorations, farm equipment, etc... They had an upstairs, not sure what that was about tho. When we walked in, we saw a sign that said seat yourself, so we did. Then we noticed we could order by Q card, so we did. No hostess. The menu was really small, small plates, appetizers, cookies and milk was the dessert. It was an odd menu. There were a fair amount of kids. Which was nice. It really is set up to be 100% Family First.. It was very large, lots of space for kids to play inside and outside, safely, while adults enjoy their time. Lots of space between tables. So still good for intimate settings too. Really well thought out space planning. I ordered Burnt ends with Mac N Cheese, in a Habanero jelly. It was the only spicy item on the menu. My BF ordered Chicken Fingers, because they didn't have a burger, hot dog, steak, i wondered if upstairs was where they served full meals instead of small plates. Worth checking on before you go. I didn't notice the upstairs until we had already ordered. The menu was lacking. I think it would have been nice if they had a hostess to greet newcomers, and explain the run down, and show them how it works. If there was an area for full dining we would have liked to have known. We also would have been able to see a menu before seating. After ordering, I left my BF seated and went to see what types of local items they had for sale. I ended up buying a jar of homemade Maple cream, from the owners parents. They were a really sweet couple. They were the ones who had told us they had been there for 5 Generations. Being a history buff, I got excited and said I bet you have some great stories. I seemed to have embarrassed him, a bit, because he smiled and changed the subject. ‍ A server came out, and informed me, they were out of burnt ends, with the Habanero Jelly. They asked if they could put pulled pork, with Bbq sauce on top of the MAC N Cheese. I agreed, but was actually super disappointed. It was the only item on the menu that had some kick to it. I just didn't see a reason to look at the menu again, since it was so small. I wish we had just left, because my BF didn't like the menu. I was not getting what I wanted. Obviously, this was not a place for us. The chicken fingers were good, they were big, coated well, tasted like they may have added a touch of cornmeal. But they were still just chicken fingers. They do offer a variety of different sauces on the side. The Mac N cheese was much better than expected. The cheese was white and creamy. The pulled pork was basic sauce, it was cooked perfectly, and had some big pieces in there, and wasn't just stringy. Their ordering system is basically contactless ordering. The new way of the world. Ordering from your phone. Which is something I actually like. But a hostess is still needed. Whoever set this system up, did a terrible job uploading the menu. I wanted a drink with Vodka. The only option was"Vodka drink" when I pushed it, it said I needed to go to the bar. They had a couple of cocktails premade, but all with whiskey and gin. When I asked the female Bartender if they can make a Martini. She looked up at some guy, and waited for him to respond. But I quickly jumped in. Before he could say anything. I just asked if she could make one of their signature cocktails they have on the menu. But swap out, the gin for Vodka. I just wanted to keep this moving forward. They said no problem, and were very nice about it. Then I asked them how to order it at the table. They told me to order the gin drink I want, and they will remember to swap it out for me. I was impressed they got that right. For such a vast space, with high ceilings, the acoustics were amazing. It wasn't loud at all. Even the kids seemed to play quietly. When I finally sat down. I saw my BF looked miserable. My own nervous system had been feeling off too, and was a bit unsure. But everyone was super friendly. It just felt like we had an odd amount of super polite attention, that others were not getting. When I took a hard look around, I realized everyone there were dressed similarly, were polite, composed, quiet, having fun, and smiling. They looked like they all came straight from the same church. That's when it hit me, this is a community place with deep roots. They probably don't get many different types of people here. I live in a rural area too, but we are a diverse group of color, culture, and art. It took me a bit off guard.

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