Pizza Pie Cafe

Really great service and family friendly restaurant! They even accomdated gluten free needs. Funny work shirts too!

Serive here is great. They cook your own pasta and it’s all you can eat. The salad bar is a little short wish they have most fruit. Pizza is nice and the different types are good to. The desert pizza some is a little sweet but still good. I wouldn’t suggest anyone come here to do homework because it is really loud and busy do to all the kids that are here. Overall good food and excellent service.

My family and I really enjoy this place. It’s a decent little pizza place. The price is great for what you get. If you sign up for there text club, They send you some awesome deals. I had a text so six dollars is all I paid for ayce pizza, salad, pasta and drink. Plus there’s lots of variety. There’s 10 different pizzas to choose from and 5 or 6 dessert pizzas. The crust isn’t my favorite, but if you come at peak times the pizza is pretty decent. I recommend going as close to peak time as possible. Out of the pizza I’ve tried, my favorite is the BBQ chicken. The salad bar has a decent amount of choices. I like that they have lettuce, spring mix and spinach to start the base of your salad with. I’m a spring mix and spinach type of guy. Now comes the best part, the pasta bar. It’s so good! I believe there’s almost ten different pastas to choose from. Two are wheat pasta. Six different sauces, I recommend the spicy sausage and the Alfredo with bacon. Mix them together and they are delicious. They also have Asiago on the salad bar that you can add to the top of your pasta. I would come here just for the pasta and salad bar. I totally recommend this place. Great prices, a nice clean restaurant, friendly employees and delicious pasta.

Restaurant was clean. Staff was nice. Food was fresh and warm. Great value. Very satisfied.

I LOVED this place when it first opened. My boyfriend and I used to go all the time. But over the last few months the pizza has gotten worse, the customer service is horrendous, and the place is always filthy. My biggest issue is the attitude I get from some of the employees that work there. It’s great they hire younger people to get them started in the work force, they all have to start somewhere, BUT, that shouldn’t include having a rude & judge mental attitude. Having been there several times, I can’t even count how many times I’ve heard an employee talking badly about their customers within earshot. Their prices are great for the most part, their pizza is mediocre, but because of the service and the attitude I see every time I go, I won’t be returning.

Lunch buffet is a killer deal. Sign up for the text coupons and the buffet is basically always $ 6 with a drink. Great pizza, cheese sticks, and dessert pizzas. I like the Hillbilly. Clean place, cool décor. Gotta check out the buffet.

Love the atmosphere, friendly staff, and cheaply priced buffet! A staff member let us know of a deal that was going on so we got it pretty cheap. The pizza is good but the garlic knots are to die for, the dessert pizza is also a nice touch as well. Perfect for your daily lunch or a casual family pizza night. Definitely would recommend!!! Yum

For the cost of this all you can eat pizza, it’s def. a great deal. Salad bar, pasta bar, and pizza.

I took my 9-​year old, pizza-​loving son here, not sure what to expect. Wow — we were pleasantly surprised.
First of all, for a buffet it was extremely organized and clean. The selections of pizza were consistently refreshed and in good condition. The pastas were stored behind glass in containers so they stayed fresh. The pasta sauces were awesome and varied.
The salad bar was the only slight disappointment, but we weren’t really there for the salad. It was limited as far as the items were concerned, but was stocked and fresh.
The varieties of pizza were great, from the light flavor of the Chicken Alfredo to the heartier, meaty Hillbilly pizza.
The pricing was exceptionally good and we really enjoyed our visit. We will definitely go back!

Found myself eating salad at a pizza buffet. Staff was fine and the place is clean. My issue was with the pizza. Tough heavy dough that does not hold up well under heat lamps. I was there at 6:30 so it was in prime time. Too many pizza’s getting cold. The temp of the pizza was fine. The problem is as it cools from the oven the dough gets tough. As for the pasta bar, the pasta was fresh but the sauces had funny flavor notes. I tried each one in the soufflé cups provided. I have never tasted anything quite like their spicy sausage sauce. I can report I did not have any pasta during this visit because I did not find a sauce that was good. There is a happy hour from 2 – 4 and 8:00 to close for $ 5.99. I might come back for happy hour just because of the price. It would be worth $ 5.99

Pizza is mediocre at best. Good selection and ideas for pizzas though. The pasta (six kinds) will be freshly warmed for you with a nice variety of sauces for it. The garlic knots are very very good.

Classic pizza buffet spot. The pizza is nothing spectacular, but prices are good and the dessert pizza is awesome.

Hot, fresh, tasty Pizza. Friendly employees clean restaurant, music at a level that was not obnoxious..

This is a franchise which means the owners have a serious financial investment involved which we respect. While noting some good things below, in our humble opinions my husband I think this may be the worst pizza we have ever eaten. Or not eaten as the case was here since we didn’t finish our two trial slices. The bottom line is for a place that puts Pizza Pie in the name and even with low expectations for quality in any «all you can eat» format, this is a fail for pizza. The bland, over thick, doughy crust was cooked on the bottom, so it’s not as if the ‘raw-​ish’ top texture was a factor of too little time in the oven. And if you’re a glutton for punishment (I’ll revisit that theme later), there is a dessert pizza selection too. Although we are not «buffet types», it was the enthusiastic reviews for pizza quality here and food photos (mostly owner provided it seems) that made us go in. Our bottom line is if you’re looking for quality pizza, you’ll be disappointed.
But there were good things worth noting in service, pasta, salad bar and vibe.
SERVICE: A nod to the super friendly and courteous young staff, all guys on the day of our visit, who were hard at work greeting customers working in the kitchen and keeping the dining room tidy and they even thanked us for coming in as we exited. That’s always nice touch of customer care.
PIZZA BAR: In everything is connected mode, the helpful service extends to making the pizza. All pizzas have signs to tell you what they are. If you don’t see a variety you like on the pizza bar, they’ll make one of the kind you want and add it to the options we were told. When we visited there were likely seven or eight options, a couple without meat which is our preference.
PASTA BAR: Much better than expected. Even better than pasta we’ve had at some Boise full service restaurants. Served in shallow pasta bowls, a far better serving dish than a flat plate, there are about eight or ten types of pasta from which to choose. These are par-​cooked in sealed clear containers behind the counter so you can see them. You choose the pasta you want, in as much quantity as you want, and the nice guys behind the counter put it in a little container and then cook /​heat it in tub of super-​hot water. (A finishing process many restaurants use.) My penne and spaghetti were nicely al dente and so was my hubby’s fettucine. There are about half a dozen sauces and split between meat and meat free options in warming containers to ladle on yourself. The roasted red pepper sauce and the marinara sauce, which was chunky with tomatoes, we selected were tasty. There is also a choice of grated cheeses, parmesan, romano and asiago, to top off your pasta as you choose.
SALAD BAR: It is possible to make oneself a decent salad from things like iceberg heavy salad greens, fresh spinach leaves, beets, peas, cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds… the list goes on. As woohoo note, they also provide Balsamic vinegar if one wants to avoid the half dozen offerings of processed salad dressing. I appreciate that they put the fresh salad items in small containers so that they can keep them changed out easily to keep them fresh, which they were.
PRICES: I think lunch is $ 7.25. Dinner is a buck more. (Beverages are not included in the price.) And if you go during the «happy hours» between 2:00 and 4:00 (which we did) the price is only $ 5.99. For that amount we felt we got what we paid for in the pasta and salad bar. But noticing the gluttony (I said I’d get back to that) of some of the folks dining in on the day we were, I can’t imagine what the franchiser’s revenue /​profit model is for the franchisees to make money at these prices at what seemed like a hefty average consumption per diner.
VIBE: Located in one of Boise’s myriad of decrepit strip malls, there has obviously been care given by the owners in the remodeling of this space. High ceilings, a sort of industrial vibe, lots of seating at standard height tables (woohoo for that, no high perch) and booths of various sizes. And while it must be very hard to do in a format like this, everything was sparkling clean at food service stations and seating location. Music mix was a good one of what seemed largely 70’s and 80’s era rock turned up to vigorous level as one would expect here. As we were leaving this Queen tune came on. (Wasn’t Freddy Mercury the best?) I hope the title wasn’t prescient for the future of this business, given the competition it has nearby.
THIS N THAT:
PARKING: Lots of it in the big strip mall lot.
ACCESSIBILITY: One accessible parking spot. It has non compliant curb ramp. Level in and all on one floor. Food service areas seem to exceed reach ranges. Several options of standard height seating.
NEIGHBORS: Quick Wok on one side, H&R Block and Radio Shack on the other.

Honestly, pretty mediocre pizza. It’s maybe slightly better than an Izzys but there is no reason to go here with IPC, Extreme Pizza and soon Flying Pie right down Broadway. The pasta was okay, but I feel like the current 4.5 star Unilocal rating is a bit misleading.
You can tell that the pizza here ha been sitting under a heat lamp for 15 minutes… It’s dry and somewhat bland. The crust is a bit on the cardboard side taste-​wise, although the toppings seemed okay.
I give them props for their set up, and their ability to keep a variety of pizzas available is vastly superior to Idaho Pizza Co. Unfortunately, I would take the last thing available at IPC over any of the choices here. Ultimately, mediocre is the best word to describe the food here.

Great place! All you can eat pizza, pasta, and salad that actually tastes very good. They had a large variety of pizzas, including dessert pizzas, that was constantly refreshed. Pasta bar included several varieties of pasta that is heated individually for you and then you get to choose from lots of tasty sauces. Was a very good value and we are glad we tried it.

I’m impressed with this place! Cheap prices for some good food. They have a decent selection meaning pizzas, pasta, salad, and dessert pizzas. I had a slice of bbq chicken pizza and I believe it was the firefighter? (it had pepperoni and jalapeños on it). They were both good, I wish they had more of a selection on salad topping but I still found some topping I liked. One thing I’d like to see is a vinaigrette or oil and balsamic for a dressing, all I saw was a whole lot of ranch and blue cheese type of dressings. I didn’t have an pasta but hubby said his carbonara was good. The cookie dough dessert pizza was a favorite as well.
I was a little concerned on space because from the pictures on Unilocal it looks small but they actually have a good amount of seating for bigger groups.
Overall this place is great, I will definitely be coming back.

What a great new edition to boise. This is a new pizza buffet in the bench. It is reasonably priced; $ 6 between 2 – 4 and 8pm to close. It’s bright clean and even has really cool booths to sit in little alcoves. The food is great; a huge selection. I really enjoyed their own speciality creation the firefighter; it was delicious. The other cool thing if you want a pizza not being served they will cook it up for you. Another cool addition is their pasta bar which you won’t find at a lot of pizza buffets. Try the spicy sausage Alfredo it’s really good! They have a variety of pastas which they cook to order and several different sauces to choose from. All their food is fresh and full of flavor. If your looking for a lunch spot with lots of choices this is the place! Don’t forget their desert pizzas; the Carmel brownie pizza is delicious.enjoy.

Great new place. Very simple… good pizza, very good salad bar, good pasta bar w/​variety of sauces, nice friendly staff. You can even request gluten free options.
The décor is really open and welcoming. I was very impressed. Clean, spacious, TVs everywhere, BSU memorabilia, and comfortable booths.
They will give Idaho Pizza some competition which will be great to have options.

I have eaten at the Treasure Valley’s new Gem, the Pizza Pie Café a couple of times and I haven’t been disappointed.
They have a great variety of pizzas, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 as well as some dessert pizza options (Helloooo Oreo Cookie). They have more variety at any one time than Idaho Pizza Company. Another cool thing that they do is pizza requests. If you’re looking for a particular pie, or have a dietary need (e.g. gluten free), you can request that they make one. The downside is you do have to wait for the pizza, but at least they’re willing to make it for you.
They have really good pastas and the salad bar is good as well.
If you go there, be sure to sign up for the text message club. You get texted great deals each week, and who doesn’t like a discount?
For an all-​you-​can eat lunch buffet, you can’t beat $ 7.25. And the dinner buffet is only a buck more.
If you like pizza, pasta, and salad, and appreciate good service, a variety of pizza options, and a modern interior, I recommend visiting the Pizza Pie Café.