Aubree’s Pizzeria & Grill

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Cuisine

Italian

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Meal Periods

Lunch

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Dining Format

Buffet

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Phone

(734) 483-1870

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Address

39 E Cross Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48198

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Website

aubrees.com

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Cuisine

Italian



Meal Periods

Lunch



Dining Format

Buffet



Phone

(734) 483-1870



Address

39 E Cross Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48198



Website

aubrees.com

EXPERIENCE

Aubree’s turns a pizza lunch into a broader little outing, with its signature feta bread giving the buffet an identity beyond the slices. At participating Michigan restaurants, the lunch spread combines pizza, salad and baked accompaniments, with soup also appearing in the advertised buffet offering. It is a comfortable proposition for a group whose pizza preferences are unlikely to fit neatly on one shared pie.

The business began in 1972, when Bill and Sandee French opened a small corner bar in Ypsilanti’s Depot Town. It has since grown into a Michigan group of full-service pizzerias and grills. That history helps explain the combination of pizza, a bar and room for company. The buffet is one way to enjoy it, alongside a much wider ordinary restaurant menu.

The original Depot Town restaurant occupies a distinctive brick storefront, while other locations have their own buildings and dining spaces. There isn’t one room that represents every Aubree’s. The shared character is the casual pizza-and-grill meal, with buffet choice making lunch particularly useful when everyone wants a different topping or a different balance of salad and something baked.

The current location directory explicitly advertises daily lunch buffets at Depot Town, Ypsilanti Township, South Lyon, Howell and Grand Blanc. Other locations should be checked individually. That makes the local listing a better guide than an older chain-wide promotion or general opening hours. Come for the actual buffet, and the decisions can remain pleasantly small: a slice, some salad, or a little more of the bread that gave the meal its second attraction.

FOOD

Feta bread is the clearest way to distinguish Aubree’s buffet from a straightforward collection of pizza pans. The brand identifies it as feta-infused cheese bread, topped with garlic butter and Parmesan. Its own buffet promotion includes feta bread with the pizza and salad, so it belongs to the unlimited meal’s supported core. It offers a baked, cheese-and-garlic choice with a different character from a topped slice.

Pizza supplies the main variety, with the day’s combinations determining the actual selection. Operator buffet imagery shows several pizzas set out together beside the bread, making the format easy to understand: several choices are ready to serve rather than one pie chosen for the whole table. It is the changing mix of toppings that gives a repeat lunch room to differ.

The changing pizza selection has included mushroom and chicken-bacon-ranch combinations at Depot Town. Those are useful examples of the range, rather than a permanent buffet menu. A mushroom combination makes vegetables the main topping interest, while chicken, bacon and ranch take the pizza toward a more substantial mixed topping. The regular specialty menu is broader, but it isn’t a promise that every named pizza appears on the buffet.

Salad gives the lunch its fresher accompaniment, with a full salad bar among the Depot Town buffet features. Soup appears in the brand’s buffet promotion, adding something warm that isn’t another oven-baked item. The particular soup and salad ingredients vary; they are supporting parts of the meal rather than a reason to promise an exhaustive station list.

The buffet’s appeal is the combination of these foods, with feta bread lending it a recognizable Aubree’s character. Pizza, bread and salad provide plenty to choose among while keeping the meal centered on its pizzeria choices. Burgers, full entrées, shakes and separate desserts remain their own restaurant orders unless a local buffet specifically includes them. Lunch is quite capable of being satisfying on the strength of that spread.

FOOD HIGHLIGHTS

♛ Feta Bread — feta-infused cheese bread with garlic butter and Parmesan.

♛ Rotating Pizza Selection — several topping combinations within the lunch buffet.

♛ Mushroom Pizza — a rotating topping example from Depot Town’s buffet.

♛ Chicken-Bacon-Ranch Pizza — a hearty combination in the changing pizza selection.

♛ Salad & Soup — lighter and warmer companions to the pizzas and bread.

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