Cicis: What’s Vegetarian Editorial Review

Cicis works well for vegetarians because the whole point is an all-you-can-eat buffet, and a big share of it never touches meat. Cheese and veggie pizzas come out hot all day, the salad bar is self-serve, and dessert pizzas are fair game too.

What to order at Cicis

Classic cheese pizza and the Veggie pizza, topped with black olives, green peppers, mushrooms, and onions, cover the basics. The Mac and Cheese pizza, macaroni and cheese baked on a garlic-butter crust, is a meat-free comfort option worth trying. Work the salad bar for lettuce, tomato, carrots, cucumber, and chickpeas, and finish with the cinnamon rolls, dessert pizza, or fudge brownies. Since it’s a buffet, you can take a wedge of cheese, a wedge of veggie, and a slice of Mac and Cheese on the same trip and decide what you actually want.

What to watch out for

Croutons, pasta with Alfredo sauce, cinnamon rolls, and fudge brownies are all vegetarian but built on dairy or egg, so they’re not vegan. If you want a vegan slice, ask for build-your-own with vegetable toppings and no cheese, and order pasta with red sauce without cheese too. Since pies sit out on a shared buffet line, mark anything you didn’t watch come out of the oven as a question for staff. Cicis bakes to order more than people expect, so a polite ask usually gets you a fresh pie in a few minutes.