Bison Creek Pizza & Pub

My wife & I love the food, ambiance, and most of all, the personable & friendly staff that always makes us feel like long-​time friends! It’s the perfect stopover to unwind after a Sea-​Tac flight, or making a special trip to a brewer-​specialty event. Big shout-​outs to Carolyn for greeting is with a warm welcome, and happy to offer suggestions similar to our usual picks. In short, this is pizza heaven! :-)

Awesome friendly service and awesome food… Seahawks Maybe update chairs n seats but otherwise our favorite place for football

The food was ok. The prices weren’t that great. There were a lot of kids running around which was cute except they were yelling a lot. I like the pizza, but I think I’ll order pick up next time.

10.22.2015, I went last night on there «weekly special» night, $ 8.25 all you can eat Pizza & Salad bar, 5pm-​9pm. I got there about 7:00-ish. there was barely any lettuce in the lettuce bowl, an two trays with pizza on it, one tray had two dried up slices and the other tray had one dried up slice. I was planning to bring a group of girls from the clinic I work at for a ladies night out, now I wont.
I did however, order pizza and wings as I do like there pizza, it’s very tasty.
So, yes, I recommend eating here, but don’t plan on a nice eat all you can eat night.

Pizza’s good, not great. DO NOT ORDER THE WHITE WINE. $ 16.00 for a HALF Caraffe. Gives you two half glasses and not even good wine. You can do better buying a good bottle at almost any restaurant for 20.00. Came in with Groupon so I’m sure we were targeted. Last time at this place.

Wow. 40 minutes and not even our appetizers, and people arriving 30 minutes after us getting their food? LAME.
This place will not be getting another chance.

Poor quality and ingredients. Good pizza places are hard to find south of the sound. This is another example.

I ate at bison creek couple months ago, service was good, it was pretty packed and the lady (looks like the picture of Carolyn) was super nice and she handled the whole restaurant on her own! Kudos to her! Tonight was a different story. I walked in around 7:30, all the booths were taken and there were 2 waitresses. I waited about 10 minutes to be acknowledged. One waitress walks by me twice, making eye contact once but never greeted, spoken to or acknowledged. I left and I won’t be back.

I’ve been to Bison Creek many times over the last 25 years and it’s always a good choice for beer and pizza. I like the updates they’ve made and our server, Carolyn, was fantastic. Great place for team parties or watching the game.

Bison Pizza is great. They have great food and a good selection of beers on tap. The cheesy breadsticks are awesome. And the chicken strips are good when need a meal but aren’t supper hungry. The pizza and pastas are good. The French Dipper is fantastic. My favorite server is Erica but they all are great.

Searching for good pizza is an art and finding it is even harder. I tried Bison hoping for the best, but found it just meh. The atmosphere as you’ve read is good for kids and family birthday parties. It’s heavy on the wood accents and has a lofty comfortable feel about it. The service is good and found they have a full bar and you can get some drinks here too. As for the pizza the toppings seemed okay with the cheese being on the top layer instead of on the bottom with the sauce. The sad part was the crust reminded me of cardboard and didn’t rise to be a good crispy chewy consistency that I really like to see; as I judge pizza more by the crust then anything else.

Carolyn isn’t just a hostess or server, at Bison Creek it’s like being her friend or guest. Good beer, okay pizza, great ambiance and fantastic service.

We went to Bison Creek Pizza last night for dinner. It didn’t seem super busy when we were seated. Our order (two salad bars and a medium non specialty 3 topping pizza) was taken within a reasonable amount of time. Normally salad plates and forks are brought right away. We waited… and waited… our server, whom I think is one of the owners walked by us 4 times during our wait. I was pretty hungry and was going to be primarily eating salad so I went up to the counter to ask for plates. I passed a waitress with plates and thought «oh this must be for us». NOPE! The table behind us. Those people actually came in AFTER we did. When I asked for salad plates to the man who took our order he handed me one and I reminded him that my husband also ordered a salad.
Oh the salad bar! Wilted lettuce, canned vegetables, eggs that looked questionable, and dressing that was empty.
Our pizza came in a reasonable amount of time. It wasn’t anything to write home about. Way too much cheese and the crust tasted like it was pre-​packaged. I could have found something comparable in the freezer section at Fred Meyer and added cheese to it. The sauce was a little too sweet for my particular taste.
Not once while we were there after our order was taken were we asked if everything was okay. We were never asked if we needed drinks refilled. Which is odd because people around us were being helped.
It is unfortunate that the old owners aren’t still running Bison Creek Pizza. It was a lot better and tasted much more home made. We have tried this place a few times since it was sold and make excuses as to why it isn’t as good. Not any more. We won’t be back.

It’s really hard for me to go down a star because I personally still love their pizza. So I am kinda bias and will continue to keep coming here for my pizza needs.
They have a great lunch special with all you can eat salad, soup and pizza! This is by far my favorite time to visit! Their salad bar isn’t amazing but it has a great variety and for a salad bar pretty decent. The pizza is hit or miss with what they have out. But they always have fresh ones coming out! The pizza isn’t as great as it is when you order a whole pie and comes out in basic flavors.
My major complaint with this place is that I have noticed depending on who is working the service, won’t be great. And it doesn’t seem like they are staffed properly. You will see one person working the tables and bar on a busy day which seems weird. Maybe they didn’t plan for how busy they would be.
I have had some great service here above and beyond normal. But that seems to be not the norm anymore.
I still love how family friendly this place is! My daughter loves coming here to ride the horse and play in the game room. Always have to remember to bring quarters!
And for the food I love the pizza. People complain has to much cheese but that’s the way I like it!!! I have enjoyed everything I have gotten. My favorite is still the all you can eat pizza and salad bar lunch and the bison wing pizza!!!
So I will keep coming back but I really hope the service will go back to being great every time!

Writing a «positive» review would have been my preference; but, my lunch experience today at Bison Creek Pizza needs to be addressed; hopefully by the owner.
I arrived at 1 p.m. and noticed the parking lot was empty. (This should have been red flag #1.) But, I had just read their menu from an on-​line «GROUPON» special and checked out their menu. It sounded amazing so I decided to give it a try since I had other business in Burien. (Thankfully, I did not purchase the Groupon deal.)
As this was my FIRST visit to Bison Creek Pizza, I mentioned this to the gentleman behind the front counter when I first arrived. He explained about the luncheon special (salad bar and pizza), pointed to the back, and handed me two plates and a fork.
There, I found TWO pizzas under a heat (?) lamp. (ONE — a combo with three small slices (remaining) and ONE cheese pizza, mostly untouched.) I opted for the combo and proceeded through the salad bar.
In the dimly lit dining area, I seated myself and enjoyed my salad, although it seemed to be bagged salad greens. When I bit into the first slice of pizza, it was STONE COLD! I took it to the (same) gentleman behind the front counter and asked if it could be warmed up. He said he could «microwave it». I thought this was an odd response. (Who eats microwaved pizza?!!) Couldn’t he have put it in the pizza oven for a few minutes? He went on to say that a fresh pizza was coming up soon. So, I returned to my table and waited and waited and waited. NO PIZZA ever showed up.
At 1:30 p.m., I left. The same gentleman saw me leaving and didn’t offer a word as I walked out.
Bottom line, — when a business continually offers «GROUPON» specials, — there is a reason for that!!!

I honestly think this place used to be far better. That stated I haven’t been here in years so maybe by memory is playing tricks on me. Either way I came here specifically for the Pizza. I remember it being amazing, saw the place on Unilocal,the pictures looked amazing so I thought lets make a special trip. Honestly I’m upset I didn’t stop at the 20 different options I passed on the way here.
The pizza tastes like it is made on top of French Bread. Maybe that is a personal preference for some people but to me that tastes horrible. Seriously its white unflavored dough that makes up the majority of the pizza. The cheese wasn’t bad, the ingredients weren’t horrible but that crust was not good. Again could be personal preference but I actually hated it. Brought it home for my wife who loves pizza and she refused to eat more than a slice. It was a bummer as a 2 topping pizza cost me 26 bucks out the door.
The service wasn’t bad. It was slow but honestly cooking pizza is never fast so I wasn’t expecting to have my food in less than 20 minutes. I was right.
Other than that its a dark bar, not really a pizza joint and I guess that is where my memory is messing with me. I remember this place as a lot more like a restaurant than a bar. These days its a bar that cooks over priced pizza.
(As for the prices they do offer a lunch special with all you can eat salad and pizza for like $ 7) So that’s not bad.
I’m really trying to point out the positives here but honestly I won’t be back anytime soon. At least not for the food, maybe for a drink at the bar.
Solid 2 Stars

Came in today for lunch and it was great! When ever I’m in Burien I make sure to stop in. I had the salad bar and a personal pan pizza which is amazing! I love the pan style thick cust and the zesty sauce. By the time I was finished with my salad my pizza was done. Good service and fast!

This place used to be great. I went there with with some coworkers after I had raved to them about my previous experience here.
The salad: literally bagged salad (I saw them opening the bags)
The pizza: flavorless crust, bland toppings. Seemed on par with freezer stuff.
Did they change their ways?
Service was friendly and nice.

Bought a Groupon to try this place out. Unlikely I’ll go back. The pizza was edible but nothing special. Actually reminded me of a frozen grocery store pizza (which would have been much less expensive).
Service was tolerable but quite slow even though they weren’t at all busy.
Beer selection was acceptable. Nice to have a selection on tap although the server couldn’t tell me what they were. She only seemed to know there were 20.
And last but not least there were kids running around. It’s a restaraunt… sit down and eat already!
All and all, there’s better pizza places in Burien for a lot less money.

The last couple times I have been here I have left because I’ve waited twenty minutes and never received service.
Its unfortunate since I love the food.