Pizza Pie Cafe

The idea is great and the salads are really good, but every time I crave this and we go, I realize it’s just not very good. The pizza is mediocre at best and the pasta is pretty gross.

If I had wrote this review a week ago I would of given it 4 stars we eat here frequently. Friday night my husband and I took out 2 kids to dinner here. My kids ate the pizza my husband and I ate pizza and salad. Around 5 hours after getting home my husband started feeling really nauseous and began vomiting I felt ok until I woke up in the morning we spent the entire day I the bathroom with very intense food poisoning. Up until this point my husband, kids and I have ate the EXACT things all week. My kids were 100% fine. With us being the only ones to eat the salad It leaves me no other option to know that this is where it came from. I decided to call it in to report it to a manager. He just became extremely defensive and told me it wasn’t food poisoning. He said they use gluten free dough so it was probably that. I have 10 years experience in the restaurant industry the manager was very undermining and told me you might have worked in the industry but I KNOW more because I’m a owner. Wow really? I was just calling to report a serious matter. Very upsetting how he reacted. I will never return here he was so unprofessional and not even sympathetic just defensive. He said what do you expect me to do throw away $ 10,000 of ingredients to replace with $ 10,000 in new product because you think you got something from here. WOW!

We love this place, they do customer request pizzas. Tanner is one awesome manager at this place.
My daughter loves the cinnamon sticks dessert pizza
Love that they have mug root beer.
Emma treated my daughter great.

I came here with the family and ate like a fatass. This shit is good. The only reason I’m not giving it 5 stars is because they don’t have any meatballs anywhere. My kids ate for free with a coupon and they ate like 10 plates of food. The spicy sausage sauce for the pasta is good af. They even have dessert pizza. I felt like I did something wrong after I came here. My son ate until he literally went into a food coma, and this is a kid who usually will barely eat anything. He woke himself up from said coma to eat «two more bites» of his Oreo pizza. Wtf. If you have kids you can’t go wrong bringing them here unless they are diabetic or lactose intolerant, and one of my kids is one of those.

Meh…$ 4.99 special via text. It’s not worth full price at $ 7.25. Pizza crust was hard and tasteless. Just a bit better than CiCi’s and that’s not saying much.
Will it fill you up? Yes. Will you feel good afterwards? No
Not recommended.

Bad experience. Sorry. No one clearing tables. Slow getting the pizza out. Felt like a similar local pizza buffet place and that is not a good thing. Probably won’t be back. If this was not enough, a hair on top of my pizza.

PPC is middle of the road, like the reviews imply. I went after 8pm and only paid $ 5.99 which was fair — the dinner price of $ 8.50 would be too much. Seating is mostly designed for larger groups with only a half dozen booths and no tables-​for-​two.
There is a lot of variety in pizza toppings as you would expect for a buffet. So that’s cool. Unfortunately, the dough is very thick and dense, which doesn’t make for very good pizza. Worse, is that most of the pizza was lukewarm so cheese wasn’t gooey. However, the density of the dough ends up being perfect for garlic knots! Grab those for sure!
Salad bar was basic, not as good as Ruby Tuesday’s and for a place that is «Pizza, Pasta, Salad» I was expecting more variety.
The pasta bar is a cool idea. They heat up par-​cooked pasta and you add sauce yourself. The carbonara has no egg but and nice smokiness from bacon.
Highlight is the dessert. Yum! My favorite was the «cookie dough».
In summary, I’m glad I tried it, but am unlikely to return unless I get a craving for their dessert pizzas. I think about the fact that I’ve spent more than $ 5 on a dessert at other restaurants; here I could pay that and at least get a whole meal even if 90% of my visit is dessert!

First impression was great upon walking in. The front desk gal was pleasant. But that’s where it ended. The salad bar was underwhelming (like the whole experience). All the ingredients were nearly gone. The dressings were on the last drops. The pizza is subpar. I think it’s the crust. It is not good. I tried multiple flavors and rhey all had a strange flavor. The only answer is the crust. Also, the plates for the pizza are big enough for one slice. What the heck!!! Probably won’t return.

My son and I ate there yesterday. I paid nearly $ 20 for the pizza buffet and 2 drinks… to find a dirty table (place was not busy) and to eat cold pizza and get a stomach ache. It was gross! I gave up by the 2^nd piece and tried some pasta… which in all fairness was mass produced but better than the pizza, meaning it was at least warm. I did mention to the employee that the pizza was cold on the buffet and he didn’t seem concerned. Both my son and I ended up with stomach aches after eating there.
Anyone can buy frozen pizza dough, slap ingredients on it and open a buffet… there is nothing out of the ordinary here. Lesson learned… I wouldn’t go there again.

I love this place. It’s a little far from my normal routes but I drive out of my way for it. We came for the lunch buffet twice now and have no complaints.
Plenty of options for vegetarians –salad bar, pasta w/​marinara sauce. All excellent. They have about 5 options for dessert pizza too.
The salad bar is awesome, the pizza is fresh and tastes nothing like cardboard like other buffet places. I hope this place is around for a long time!

I’d been to a Pizza Pie Café location in Provo UT multiple times and loved it, so when I found out that this Gilbert location opened so close to my parents house, I had to drag them along to try it out.
As usual, the pizza was all fresh and delicious. There were many different kinds to choose from and the dessert pizzas were on point. I LOVE the cinnamon sticks the most. The problem with an all you can eat pizza buffet is it’s impossible to stop eating your favorite things once you start.
Definitely come here. The price is unbeatable for what you get. $ 8 for hot fresh unlimited pizza pasta and salad. The only downside is that they’re a Pepsi establishment

So I guess that this is where you go if you have no taste buds? The pizza has no flavor what so ever. I sampled 4 different slices and they all tasted the same, blah. I tried the pasta and it was also blah. Salad bar was sad, and not many toppings. The crotons, fake bacon bits and sunflower seeds had a small cup to scoop them them out. This is nasty since you have to hold the cup to scoop out the toppings and then the cup is thrown back in the container and touches the food. Ewe!
The pizza is under what I thought were heat lamps but none of the pizza was hot or even warm. They did not bring out a fresh pizza until every slice was gone so some sat there with one slice forever.
I did try a piece of the apple dessert pizza which was ok, I tried the cinnamon slice but it was hard as a rock. Most likely because it had been sitting there forever.
I didn’t see anyone over the age of 18 working there. Maybe the manager was asleep in their office?

Very good for buffet pizza! Great desert pizza, nice staff, clean. Loved the Apple pie desert pizza and the garlic Knotts. They also have salad — but really? Salad vs pizza… Pepsi and I think spaghetti but didn’t get a look at that. Great place to take kids or families. Decent price for what you get.

I enjoyed Pizza Pie Café, but it’s not perfect.
The salad bar which isn’t big, but it is sufficient for a pizza buffet. The pasta bar was unexpected with numerous pastas which you pick and they quickly boil and there are a bunch of sauces you can add yourself.
Regarding pizza, the cheese pizza is great, but unfortunately the other pizzas just didn’t seem appetizing to me. They looked like they have been there for a bit too long. I tried the BBQ chicken which had pineapple; I’ve never had pineapple on BBQ chicken, it seemed out of place. The pizza was also a bit dry as it seemed to be out for a while.
I tried the apple and cookie dough pizzas, the apple tastes like an apple dessert pizza from any other place and just pass on the cookie dough.
Overall, I see myself returning sometime in the future to give it another chance as they have potential, maybe lunch on a Saturday is not the best time to come for fresh pizza.

So I advise everyone not to ever go to Pizza Pie Café over on Val vista and Elliot!!!
Yesterday my friend, Drake, and I went there. We were having a good time enjoying their food and all. I got drake I big bowl of spaghetti (he love spaghetti he can eat it all day if I let him) well he was enjoying the spaghetti. I went and picked up a noodle and under that noodle was a freaking BOLT!!! A bolt that hold screws into place! It was in my sons food! He could swallowed that and choked! He’s just a year old!! All they did was apologize brought me more spaghetti (which we didn’t eat) and give me a freaking free coupon nothing else (like I’d ever come back to this place!)
I was SO pissed off! And I’m still heated about it! So needless to say don’t ever go there they are careless about there equipment and rude and could care less!

Guys. This is a pizza buffet for $ 8 a person. For those of you expecting amazing artisan pizza, go elsewhere. For everyone else, especially parents, that are looking for an easy, no fuss, and pretty good dinner, this place is for you.
The pizza is pretty good. Definitely the best pizza buffet pizza that I’ve ever had, but far from the best pizza overall. They have a ton of different pizzas to choose from beyond the basics. The pasta bar is good. The pasta is well cooked and there are 6 different sauces that are delicious, but far from authentic. The salad bar is small, but is stocked with most peoples favorites and is a nice addition to the rest if the food. The dessert pizzas are fantastic. They beat any dessert pizza I’ve had anywhere else.
This place is more than what I expected it to be. For $ 8 a person, you definitely get your money’s worth. Thumbs up.

Mmm those knots!
The Phoenix metro area is hard to navigate for food. Why? Because there are so many options!
Anyway, we got some coupons in the mail from this place and on a kiddo weekend we decided to try it. We didn’t use the coupons but that’s beside the point.
The pizza was fresh and hot, there were plenty of options to choose from, and everything was very tidy. (It didn’t look like a herd of elephants had gone through the buffet line before us.)
The garlic knots were my favorite part, hence they were mentioned in the first line. :)
The dessert pizzas are pretty standard but apparently they rotate one monthly. That’s cool.
Very affordable, quick place to grab lunch — particularly with picky little ones. We’ve been back twice already and I’m sure we’ll go again. (First visit was about a month ago.)

This is by far my favorite all-​you-​can-​eat pizza, pasta, and salad restaurant! I was amazed by the pasta bar, especially, because you get to pick your pasta and sauce. It’s not even pre-​made or warmed; they cook it right in front of you! Service is attentive and the restaurant itself is so cute! It’s a well-​liked place, but luckily, they have lots of seating for busy days. Overall, it’s a very yummy, clean place, great for families!

I like the food, except the pizza is a bit tough to chew. Nice service and music. Clean and nice place.

This place is great! It’s a big building so no matter what time you come, you’ll definitely be seated. For under $ 10 it’s basically all you can eat pizza, pasta, salad, and dessert, and a drink as well. The food tasted good for the price. And they have different options to everything as well. You can pick your pasta and sauce, and their salad bar looks clean and up kept. Their desserts are delicious. Definitely go for the oreo or cookie dough one. Went with a friend and it was a good time.