NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — The owner of St. Angelo's Pizza & Wings — known for serving up western New York favorites like Sahlen's hot dogs and beef on weck — said she's thinking of residents as a storm dumps feet of snow on the Buffalo area.

What You Need To Know

  • St. Angelo's Pizza & Wings is known for serving western New York favorites like Sahlen's hot dogs and beef on weck

  • Owner Danielle Dye says she fell in love with Buffalo food during frequent trips to the city growing up

  • She said she's hoping for the best for New York residents currently experiencing a severe winter storm

“It’s scary — it’s a scary storm," said owner Danielle Dye. "It’s like when Ian hit here, you just feel bad for the people up there,” said owner Danielle Dye.

St. Angelo’s was founded by a WNY native, and Dye and her husband, Aldo Polloni, took over in April. Dye grew up in Detroit but said she fell in love with Queen City cuisine during frequent trips to Buffalo.

“My grandfather used to have UAW meetings for Chrysler, and he hated to go to the delis in Detroit because they were just not what he wanted,” said Dye. “We would go across the Elizabethan Highway, and we would go to Buffalo. I was introduced to the Sahlen hot dogs, which we also have here. I wasn’t into the weck when I was a little kid. That wasn’t happening, but the pizza was out of this world.”

Dye said that the Buffalo connection was part of what drew her to St. Angelo’s. They decorated the dining room with Buffalo Bills memorabilia, a photo of the Grand Island bridges, and the front page of the Buffalo Evening News from January 29, 1977.

The headline reads, “Blizzard Paralyzes WNY, Kills 7, Strands Thousands”. Dye said the current storm reminds her of the Blizzard of ‘77.

“My grandfather had this meeting, and he said, ‘Oh, it’s not going to be anything. Let’s just go.’ So, we go to Buffalo," Dye said. "We go and get our stuff for the meeting. All of the sudden, he was just, ‘We gotta go.’ He drove like a bat out of hell back to Detroit. We just made it. We were probably about three hours ahead of it. Then all of a sudden, it just started coming in, and it was breathtaking."

That storm dropped 100 inches of snow in some places. Spectrum News Meteorologist Christina Reis reported Orchard Park, a suburb of Buffalo, had 66 inches of snow from the current storm as of Friday night. 

Dye said she’s hoping for the best for WNY residents through this storm.