3.14 Pi Bar — Restaurant in Colorado Springs

Highly recommend!! They have sweet and savory pies, breakfast items, some very unique options, and all delicious. Here's what we had: -Hummus Odyssey: Delicious! Really delicious and great quality. -Bacon and Cheddar Mini Quiche: also delicious. Good balance of seasoning and salt, great texture. -Cluck n' Shrooms Pot Pie: AMAZING! I love mushrooms and was really looking forward to this. It's listed as being in a Swiss cheese bechamel sauce and while I really dislike Swiss cheese, that Swiss cheese flavor didn't come through in the sauce at all. It was just that perfectly smooth, silky, umami-full pot pie gravy. The texture and seasoning of the filling was delectable and the crust was just perfect, not dry at all and held together well. The ratio of filling to crust to gravy was also fantastic. -Choco-Latte Slice: Fantastic! Really smooth silky light texture to the filling. I don't like coffee notes at all and while it has espresso listed as one of the components, the waitress said it was just a sprinkle on top to enhance the flavor and she was correct. It did not taste like coffee at all to me but it was fantastic and did not taste overly sugary nor did it sit really heavy on my stomach. -Nutella Cutie Pie: To die for. Amazing. Just like the other pie it was smooth, silky, light, and had plenty of flavor but was not overly sugary. I hesitated because Nutella was listed as the main flavoring and Nutella can be really heavy on flavor and on sweetness but they managed to get Nutella flavor to come through without having it feel heavy or sickly sweet. I was really shocked how they were able to do that so well. And again, with the pies I felt like the ratio of filling to crust was just perfect. We didn't finish the cutie pie that day so it went into the fridge and then even a cooler the next day when we were traveling back out of town and it held together very well and was just as good on day three as it was a Sunday one.

-Customer service: For me this will make or break an experience somewhere. I have at times enjoyed a restaurant experience with mediocre food more when it had fantastic customer service versus a restaurant experience with phenomenal food and customer service that was lackluster or even irritating. This place was phenomenal. We encountered two waitresses, Emily and April, were both amazing and helpful and sweet and welcoming and knowledgeable. They both worked to make sure our questions were answered and that we got our food in a timely manner. They were really welcoming and friendly. They made the experience so smooth and easy and pleasant. Thank you, both, you are amazing!

In summary, HIGHLY recommend, would definitely visit again, everything we had every experience we had not only met but exceeded our...

Inedible. The food and the service were absolutely awful which was surprising because the reviews are overall positive for this restaurant.

I took my mom out for dinner at 3.14 Pi Bar because she absolutely loves pot pies but this place was super disappointing.

I ordered the Julia's Child (supposed to be a tender red wine braised beef pot pie) but mine was lukewarm, the beef was tough, rubbery and the crust was sort of gummy and chewy, not crisp and flaky. The beef was so awful, I actually had to spit it out into a napkin. Mom ordered the Rosemary's Baby pie and had the same experience with the chicken, crust and being served a meal at an improper temperature. We both had the mashed potatoes which were cold, dense and wall paper paste like, clearly overworked. The entire meal lacked flavor and freshness, the beef was tough and tasted old. Nothing was freshly prepared, we ordered and less then 5 minutes later our lukewarm food arrived, clearly made ahead of time and reheated in a microwave.

The service was equally bad. The restaurant was well staffed, there was only one other table with customers but after our meal was delivered, our server never checked back on us. Instead she spent her time chatting with other employees. I had to go to the bar and ask if our food could be heated. When our server finally showed up at the end of our meal (we had left about 80% of our dinner untouched) I politely explained the situation, that our meals were pretty much inedible and gave her an opportunity to alert a manager or correct the situation but all she said was I'll let the kitchen know, left and never returned to our table. I waited another 15 minutes for someone else to bring our check, there were no apologies or even an offer of discounting food we didn't eat or plan to take home. So we paid $42 for 2 people, for food that wasn't edible, only to then go home and make dinner. This was one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a restaurant.

Bad food and...

When this place first opened, my wife and I would go every couple months and we loved it. The Chicken of Aragon was our favorite. Then we saw that they were changing ownership and were worried as many of our favorite places have gone downhill after that change. We decided to come by and see how it was and were extremely disappointed. The Chicken of Aragon was no longer on the menu, not a huge deal, but the new owners had originally promised the menu would remain the same. Our server seemed annoyed that we were there even though they only had one other table. We both got the Rosemary's Baby which was our second choice before and it was saddening how bad it was. The pies are no longer made to order as we waited maybe 15 minutes for them and the quality of the pies was obviously much less than before. The crust was hard on top and inside the filling of the pie was just a few veggies and chicken with the rest of the crust mixed in. The inside was hot but the outside cold, indicating a microwave was the primary method of cooking. We added a side of mashed potatoes and they were inedible. I'm not even sure how you mess up mashed potatoes but they were sour and very over peppered. Honestly it's hard to even describe the awful taste. Given the fact that the pies are pretty pricey my wife and I did our best to power though it but now are regretting it as we both sit on the toilet. My kids both had the macaroni and cheese hand pies that neither one of them ate. My kids aren't picky either but they weren't impressed. Before we arrived we were so exited for desert pies but after the dinner we tried to choke down we decided to leave and go to Black Bear Diner instead. Our desert there was much better. I am all for supporting local businesses but the new owners have ruined this place and the staff doesn't really...