Despite the brightly colored interior with plenty of booths and tables, Amie’s Pizza Factory is primarily focused on takeout orders, with inside seating available between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.

However, this means the staff spends less time waiting on tables and more time concentrating on what really matters: giving people reasonably priced, award-winning pizzas.

The restaurant’s menu features standard pies — such as All Meat, with pepperoni, sausage, beef, ham, and bacon, or BBQ Chicken, with barbecue sauce, chicken, and red onions — but also branches out to more unique combinations, like the Baked Potato, with ranch dressing, potatoes, broccoli, bacon, and red onions, or the Coney Island, topped with sliced hot dogs, onions, beef, and chili. All signature pizzas range from $9.25 for a small to $21.25 for an extra-large. 

The Reuben was a pleasant surprise, combining all the ingredients of the classic sandwich to deliver the taste one would expect in a more portable package. The Seafood pizza successfully uses garlic butter to compliment the fishiness of the shrimp and crab. And the Chicken Bacon Ranch was a showcase of all the title ingredients, with cheese thrown in as well.

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If you’re looking for something simpler, we’d recommend the White Pizza, which includes special sauce, cheese, and garlic butter. The “special sauce” seems suspiciously similar to ricotta cheese, but we would never hold that against anyone — it’s delicious.

Or, if you’d like to customize your pizza, you can do that too, with additional toppings costing between 50 cents and $2.50.

The key to the pizzas, in our opinion, is the crust. Amie’s crust is soft, not overcooked, and does a perfect job of providing support without overpowering the toppings. And even in the 9-inch size, the smallest the restaurant offers, the cheese stretches all the way to the edge and each bite gives you a full experience.

However, no matter how pleasant the pizza is, Amie’s Pizza Factory does fall a bit short with its other offerings.

The Italian salad ($6 to $8) could have been a hit, but the delightful dressing wasn’t enough to overcome the blandness of the iceberg lettuce, and it seemed too much like a bunch of ingredients just thrown together. The chicken tenders salad ($6 to $8) was a similar story; the only real difference is that chicken replaces the Italian meats.

On the sandwich side, the meatball sub ($7 to $13.50) was also close to being very good. The meatballs were well-spiced and the sauce was robust, but while in  the crust plays a supporting role in Amie’s pizzas, here the bread was distracting from the fillings.

When it comes to starters, Amie’s doesn’t have the widest variety of options, but there are various breadsticks and topped breads to choose from.

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The sausage bread ($4) was hearty — and very reasonably priced — but doesn’t really seem like something that could easily be shared. More of an open-faced sandwich than an appetizer and paired with a side of marinara sauce, it could realistically serve as a full entree, or at least an economic snacking option.

The last item we sampled were the cookies (65 cents each). They were far from the fanciest dessert around, but they were tasty, and at $6.50 for a dozen it’s an easy addition to upgrade any order.

Amie’s menu also features cold sandwiches, burgers, fries, and pasta.

All in all, our experience with Amie’s Pizza Factory was more than satisfactory. It’s fast, it’s affordable, and the pizza is definitely worth the trip. It’s not the perfect place, and there’s some lackluster menu items, but at the end of the day it’s a pizza factory, not a sandwich factory or a salad factory, so if visitors keep that in mind they should walk out with a lovely meal.

First Published October 6, 2022, 11:30 a.m.