Sizzler

This place is Awsome! Great food, clean n great staff! Keep up the great job guys!

Christmas Dinner.
I’m giving this location 5-​stars for being a shining light on Christmas night 2015. Bravo to the employees who sacrificed time with their own families to provide a hot meal to weary travelers who unexpectedly found themselves adrift for a meal. Kudos. Kudos. I hope they got extra pay for working the holiday.
At 8pm the place was packed. So we weren’t the only ones seeking a meal on Christmas night.
We traveled 370 miles to Phoenix never thinking about dinner and that so many places would be closed because of the holiday, but we quickly found out different. And Phoenix is a dark town when business lights go out. Even the restaurant at our hotel was closed for Christmas.
We consulted Siri by cellphone to find the location. As we approached the building, lights ablaze, bodies moving around inside. Hope. Stomachs growling. 8pm we parked hoping they were still serving Malibu Chicken and Grilled Salmon and were not about to close for the night. Hallelujah! This location is miles from the freeway and we would never have found it without Siri’s help.
The salad bar was clean and appetizing. Food served hot and yummy. Rolls warm and toasty in their basket. And even though the temperature sank to the low 30s after dark a steady flow of diners used the self-​serve ice cream machine.
A nourishing hot meal. Christmas music. Attentive service. What more could two grateful diners ask for on Christmas night.
Thank you, thank you, Sizzler staff for being a shining light on a cold winters night.

Dirty carpet, mopping the floor when people were walking. steak was awful! I used to love Sizzler too! wow. just shaking my head how do u mess up a sizzler? The staff was really nice though. I feel sorry for them working at that dump. fail!

Things took a downhill turn on my second visit. The French Onion soup was cold and dreary while the broccoli and cheddar tasted like Campbells. The worst was the lettuce which was basically soaking wet and who eats wet lettuce right?
The only thing good was the Cheese Toast and Frozen Yogurt. Avoid the salad bar folks.

This restaurant was the nicest Sizzler I’ve been to. We were visiting Phoenix and didn’t know the neighborhood so was pleasantly surprised… Lots of salad choices, yum banana pudding. Very clean and spacious. friendly staff.

I had the worst experience at this location. We ordered the tilapia dinner well done and the steak and salad bar. The steak should’ve been medium and it came out well done and the fish came out extremely gooey and to my taste not good. The silverware was dirty and to top it off the manager was extremely rude and combative about our food. He came to our table immediately having a negative attitude and said «you wanted me?» He spoke to us the way no manager should speak to paying customers. He argued that the temperatures of the food was correct and was trying to prove we were wrong in some way. I explained to him that we just did not get what we ordered and what we wanted, regardless of the temperature it was not good. He argued with us the entire time and rolled his eyes at us repeatedly and spoke down to us. I would not return here.
The only positive is that the servers are very nice girls and very attentive and ours was wonderful I just felt bad that she had to deal with that manager. It even seemed to me that she was afraid to tell him about it issues clearly due to his attitude.

Went to this place for lunch and was very surprised. I expected a «chain restaurant» experience but honestly was blown away.
Their restaurant at this location was extremely clean.
The salad bar was full, rotated, hot, & delicious.
I also ordered a steak from their menu which came out cooked as ordered and was pretty dang good for a place like this.
Not to mention, our waiter was courteous, polite, and quick.
Desert was good.
Overall, I will come back to this location and I will recommend this place to others.
Good eating!

The $ 8.99 salad bar-​with-​appetizers lunch is a huge win if your real goal is to eat a solid, pretty cheap lunch and you want some vegetables to make you feel good about what you’re planning to do with taco shells, potato skins, and, later, dessert. The staff will help you feel good, as they are the sweetest people ever, and they deliver generous drink refills along with baskets of cheese toast.
If you’re looking for fancy pre-​made salads, the selection is smaller and less creative than at Souper Salad or Sweet Tomatoes. If, like me, you’re going with a few spinach or lettuce frills as a base for the good stuff, Sizzler has the edge of offering not just diced ham, not just pepperoni slices, but also diced bacon. There is also ambrosia salad, demonstrating a proper respect for the role of marshmallows in traditional salad-​making (for real — cookbooks of the 1950s love marshmallows and whipped cream in «salad»).
The only soup (of the four) that I tried was the clam chowder: since it is the «signature» soup, it is available on a day other than Friday (say, Saturday!), which may make the case for this buffet right there. It’s not going to send you into rhapsodies about the chowder you once ate in Boston or San Francisco, but it is recognizable and pleasant clam chowder that goes nicely with the cheese toast. Again, soup selection was less diverse than Sweet Tomatoes… but the trade-​off for not getting Greek lemon soup or other more chi-​chi delights is being able to have clam chowder on a non-​Friday.
The appetizer bar, while small, blows past Sweet Tomatoes on the grounds of offering actual proteins (Sweet Tomatoes’ spread looks splendidly chi-​chi and healthful, then it dawns on you that it’s a carb wallow) and past Souper Salad on grounds of offering… carnitas! Carnitas! I just met a scoop of carnitas! There are also flour tortillas deep-​fried into cup shapes, and there is fresh guacamole that is definitely made with actual avocados. It is possible to construct a highly respectable Tex-​Mex lunch.
There are also various forms of chicken parts (which I didn’t try), potato skins (ditto), and pasta that can be draped with meatballs (which were pleasant, though not memorable). If you worked at it, you could probably manage a pasta in a salsa cream sauce, like at the chi-​chi fusion restaurants… and on my next visit, I might.
The best part of Souper Salad, on a good day, is getting the gingerbread and slathering it with sundae toppings. Sizzler goes more for poundcake — it also has mini desserts and soft serve — and promises the exotic addition of pineapple topping. I need to go here on a day when I’m utterly starving, as there is much to explore, now that I have the lay of the land.
This is a four-​star rating on the basis of being good at being a budget-​ish buffet lunch, so if you’re looking for organic greens and the finest ingredients, Sizzler’s not a hidden Maryvale treasure. It’s better-​than-​fast-​food at a fast food price, plus everything’s labeled with any common food allergy triggers (so you may not be able to eat everything, but at least you won’t break out in horrible symptoms), and my delightful server brought me a to-​go cup for the remainder of my iced tea (gratefully accepted, since I was taking the bus).

My family and I went up to Flagstaff to play in the snow! So we come into Town and spot a Sizzler. Famous chicken and their salad bar, prices for quality far over priced. Very disappointed !!
. Von Louis Thomsen
(623) 512‑7060

Too bad I can’t give zero stars… over cooked steaks and unprofessional management made for a aweful experience… the server and management talking about my wife and I in Spanish made it all the more classy… keep driving… you’d get more class at a McDonald’s…

Just like home. The staff was very attentive and the Malibu Chicken rocks my socks off.

They should call it all the shrimp we ain’t never gonna give because they will give you six small and you will never that server again except to give you an excuse as to why you haven’t received your food. Themanager’s response… don’t order that anymore! I just won’t ever go to a Sizzler anymore, how about that manager?

Sizzler happens to be a favorite of my family which is why we went. We live in the midwest and most if not all the Sizzler restaurants are gone so when we went to Phoenix, this was a place my husband and son wanted to go. For $ 8 you can get all you want to eat off of the lunch buffet. There was a decent variety, left feeling full (some of my party more than others) and the server was friendly and attentive. Would I rush to go back? No, but that’s because I prefer to eat somewhere other than at a buffet. For the money, it’s a pretty decent value. You can eat healthier for the same money you’d be paying at the fast food restaurants.

Sizzler happens to be one of my husbands favorite restaurants. At this location there were some positive things, such as the salad bar which was typical, and good. There are enough options there to satisfy most. My husband ordered the Steak and Colloso (sp) shrimp, and the food overall was good. I got the special, which was Salmon. The rice and brocolli was fine. One very bright spot was one of the wait staff. I did not get her name, however, she is African American and projected so much positive energy in her mannerisms, she should be your model of who to hire.
On the other side, there were some minuses. First the bread at Sizzler is one of the best parts of the meal. The cheesy Texas Toast bread. Not so here. The bread was not seasoned properly and was not good. Second, the Salmon, was not edible. I took one bite and could not take another. I believe it was spoiled. Third, the sauce that came with the Shrimp tasted like burnt oil.
One final issue was a very large party of individuals (my guess is 20), that was allowed to sit in the main room. It is disruptive to have large groups, with a lot of small children sitting among other guests. Perhaps you should have more than 1 room for large groups, or in this case, ask the smaller party (we were the only ones), if we would have like to be reseated somewhere else.
All and all, this Sizzler does not rate high on my list.

We went there for dinner and ordered the steak and all the shrimp you can eat. They ought to call it steak & all the shrimp you ain’t gonna eat because we’ll never bring that yish to you! They took an hour to bring the first round and 20 to bring the next for my companion. Forget about getting a refill, cause it’s not going to happen. By then, we were Ret-​tah-​go. Then they tell us that we cannot box our food up. WTH!!! There will NOT be a next time.

I’ve made this part of my regular lunch rotation and as such it has earned a fourth star. The food at the salad bar is always fresh, most times they even have avocados. The service is always efficient and friendly.
Only a couple of changes have occurred since I started going here. The most notable just happened recently. They changed some of the items on the $ 3.99 express lunch menu (you can still ask for the grilled cheese with bacon and tomatoes) and now if you want to add the salad and drink it bumps it to the same $ 9.99 as their regular lunch menu with salad and drink. This gives you more options but at a cost. Seems they were getting into fights with people who couldn’t read the dine in only sign in large letters and wanted to pig on the salad bar and then get a to go box for the entrée. Even at $ 9.99 it still is a good lunch deal in my opinion.
One thing not advertised is if you are getting the salad bar you can choose not to get a side with your entrée. That works out well for somebody like me that cannot eat as much as I used to so I can have a decent sized salad, a bowl of soup and still have room for a bowl of ice cream. Another trick: The ice cream bowls are really small to make a sundae so I grab a soup bowl. :)

this was my first visit to a Sizzler and I thought it was pretty good. The shrimp dinner I ordered was not that great but the salad and dessert bar made up for that. The place is no Golden Corral by any means but what they got is pretty good, you will leave with a full belly. the service was good and I was able to make a strawberry shortcake from the dessert bar. So I will say YAY I am a fan!

I hadn’t been to Sizzler in years, and had the urge after moving for some salad. This was the only salad bar close and so I talked my reluctant fiancé into going.
The service was super nice and attentive. (not annoying attentive mind you, he kept our drinks filled and made light conversation)
The manager was nice as well, and everyone was helpful.
The food was constantly being rotated out with fresh food and everything was kept clean. I don’t think there was a moment we were there that the staff wasn’t cleaning something. It was great.
Only the bathrooms weren’t the cleanest/​nicest, definite wear and tear from the area.
The fruit was possibly the freshest and sweetest I’ve found all summer in particular the watermelon.
Don’t hate on Sizzler just because its corporate… this place has topped the service I’ve been receiving elsewhere as of late. So if you’re in the mood for customer service, cheap prices and all you can eat I recommend that this Sizzler be your destination.

great salad bar and good food!!!