Wild River Brewing & Pizza

Ok call me a pizza snob… but yellow cheese on Pizza served with ranch. no No and NO. The chicken wings were just awful and I’ll say a slight pass on the sandwiches. I pitcher of beer is nice though. There are much better choices for pizza like Rosarios or Kaleidescope.

I had some time to kill and was in the mood for pizza and good beer. Wild River was the first to pop up in the area. I’m glad it did!
I was greated right away and asked if a booth in the bar would be ok. A booth in a bar is my favorite place to dine alone. Already they have started on a great note for me. My server, Jeremy, greated me with a great smile. He was very knowledgeable about the menu, both food and beer. I decided to start with their beer flight, always the best way to sample a brewery’s choices and usually reasonably priced. With Jeremy’s help I also decided to start with their house made jalapeño poppers, they are delicious! I then explained to Jeremy that I was just wanting to cruise and enjoy while I wasted time. He was very nice and not at all pushy to get me out the door.
I later ordered the deli delight pizza, without red sauce but substituting their house made med oil. (I am allergic to basil, which Jeremy was more then helpful in finding out their pizza sauce contained basil but their med oil did not) The pizza was delicious, and since I enjoyed the nutbrown ale in the sampler and it was recommended with the pizza, I order a pint as well. Great Combination! Then came whiskey and home made dessert! Jeremy recommended the éclair, it was amazing and humongous, I hade to take ¾ of it Togo!
Great Food, Great Beer, Great Service! I will return again before my trip is complete. Oh and they have wifi, always another plus for a traveler!

Well, I might eat flack for this one, but what can I say? I have come to like this place…
Forget about the fact that it is the worst, most sterile design of a restaurant I have experienced in some time; I just cannot deny the fact that I’ve had a number of really good pies from this joint, as well as some passable brews…
Go simple on the pizza: throwing some onion and peppers on top of their cheese pie, or some other similar combo will serve you well. Sometimes we just keep it to cheese, and are always satisfied. The bar section is the place to sit – helps eliminate the sterile piece. Service has been really good of late: no issues, and beer is always a generous pour. We did a flight, and were pleasently surprised to find it included all of their beers – a rarity these days. And, the server was enthusiastic to celebrate their creations! Cheers.
How about them garlic pub fries? Yes please! These are fantastic, and even good for take out (my favorite to pair with a homebrew and a football game).
Definitely an odd-​duck place, but to be real: there is no pizza place in this Valley that nails it for me across the board, so Wild River comes in with a strong showing of their own «flavor» of pizza… and they are clearly capable of brewing a few fine creations, so when meeting them on these terms you can find a tasty experience. Give it a try.

The host was wonderful and recommended his favorite pizza, the deli I think it was called, it was fantastic and I got a mixed 6 pack of their beers, so far the stout was my favorite. It’s a shame that didn’t come in the six pack. Lucky I had a pint while I waited. 5 starts for pizza, 3 for beer

I’ve had a lot of pizza in my day and this place has some of the best! Their pasta is good too. I would recommend the Alfredo, especially if you’re vegetarian. The service is usually pretty good even if the place is packed. No complaints here.

Nice clean place. Had a pastrami sandwich and a beer for $ 14.50. Fries or sides $ 2.50 extra. Very little flavor in a sandwich with Swiss, tomatoes onions and pastrami. Pizza looked good but I’m guessing the quality of ingredients are probably the same as in my average sandwich. Spacious well lit interior. Service was friendly.

Well… It didn’t turn out to be what my family told me it was… Too bad. It looked promising! Granted, I got the Freshwich sandwich since that was one of the only non-​pizza vegetarian options, but the sandwich was SO lackluster! I got about a tablespoon of sprouts, mostly tomato and cucumber slices, a fair portion of avocado, store-​bought tasting mustard, and a brown nut wheat kaiser roll/​bun that was honestly pretty boring and weak for being proudly baked in-​house… They totally forgot the red onions on my order.
I don’t know where it all went wrong… But I do know this: Vegetarians beware! This place has one salad option, no soup option, and two sandwich options for us. No veggie/​garden/​bean burger. It’s those or a custom pizza…
BUT, I was told by a few of my meat-​loving family members that their burgers were great, so there’s that! My mother’s caesar salad was only «okay.» My sister’s salad was «good» but the smoked chicken was «not very good.»
The atmosphere was fine, but it took 40 minutes for our order to arrive.
All agreed that the pub fries were awesome.
Ultimately disappointing for me, but the giant $ 1.00 chocolate chip cookie helped me feel better about it for the most part.
I will probably not return.

We enjoy the pizza, onion rings and pub fries. Really doesn’t matter which pizza they are all pretty good. Onion rings are thick cut and the batter is pretty good! The beer selection, food, deserts, and house made root beer are all great.

Lack luster at best, nothing, did I say nothing, to write home about.
Ordered a calzone, though it came out of an oven, I’m hoping, it was still a strange kind of almost rubbery. Had a little pizza oven char on it, but maybe that was a spray on effect? Like a nice custom fade paint job on a sweet 57′ Chevy, though minus the Chevy, the custom fade paint job, and anything else sweet…
My boys had the rotini and red sauce, or I’m thinking the rotini and a $.99 store can of stewed tomato tossed on top of overly cooked rotini.
I guess I should expect much from a pizza joint in this area. With the exception of a ton of arcade games, felt like an old Shakey’s, just not as good…
Sorry gang.

Happened upon this place around 2 in the afternoon with a group of 8. Greeted and seated promptly. Great, attentive service with a smile courtesy of our wait staff, Suzette. Onion rings and fish and chips were great. Their brewed root beer was fantastic! Would recommend.

We walked into a cavernous, mostly empty space and were quickly shown to a table. An exceptionally friend server (EFS) greeted us and took our drink orders. When asked, she recommended the pasta dishes, the pizza, the burgers, the salads, and the calzones — basically the entire menu. We ordered two house salads and decided to split a regular calzone rustica. Also a diet Pepsi and a regular lemonade.
The food came promptly: first the drinks, then the salads, then the calzone. The food was delivered by another server, not EFS.
Lemonade: Barely sweet, watered down, possibly a mix.
Salads: Large, cold, crisp. Ranch dressing and house dressing: Blah
Ah, the calzone. Tasteless. The marinara dipping sauce? Tasteless. I’m not going to explain to this kitchen how to cook tasty food, but I will say that we both salted (I never salt), which helped a tiny bit. The chicken was touted as «marinated» and «wood fired,» but it was flavorless and possibly a bit on the old side.
Being hungry, we finished quickly. By the way, EFS never stopped by the table to ask how it was going or to refill drinks. As I said, we finished. We tried to catch EFS’s eye but she began to chat with some folks at another table. We waited and waited and waited for our check. I caught the eye of another server and gestured that we needed EFS. He went over and whispered in EFS’s ear. Did she spring into action? Did she excuse herself and rush over? She did not. After another five minutes or so, she finally made it to our table and apologized for our wait. By this time, our usual kindness had curdled (helped along by the lousy food), and my normally silent husband told her that her apology was hard to believe. EFS explained that the people were old friends. My husband countered that it didn’t matter; that she should have excused herself, done her job, and then gone back to chat. EFS apologized again, but rather coldly, and cleared the table and left. She came back saying that she’d taken care of the check.
Our terrible meal was comped because of terrible service, but I will not allow a comped check to silence us about this restaurant. They need to know.

Great food! So many choices of handcrafted pizzas, burgers, calzones, pastas, beer and so much more. The pizza crust here is my FAV!
Service here has always been personal with true care of the quality of your food and experience. The staff are friendly and want you to want to come back again and again.
Listen when you come and hear others around you having a good time if you can hear past your own group.

One of my favorite pizza places in the valley! I love the taco pizza, the pasta is great and the fish and chips are delicious.

Most notably, we received the best service we’ve had in a very long time!!! Our server’s name was Jonathan and the excellent quality of service he provided convinced us that we’d definitely come back and bring our friends.
We definitely were glad we chose the bar area for seating over the restaurant. It’s a full service area that provides both central bar seating and lots of large booths for more privacy.
Pizza here is great, wings are so yummy and not fatty at all, Craft beer is good,. The only only meh — pub salad was fair at best. And surprisingly their desserts are excellent!
Definitely worth a try for good, casual food.

A pizza for the masses? A deep rut of moderate to overpriced Dominos has been added to the list. It’s edible and nearly all of it is respectably «handcrafted» but nothing excites.
Digs:
A surprisingly large temple; the entry let’s you gaze at their huge oven (impressive) + roomy kitchen but quite empty when we checked in at 6pm on a Sunday; tables sprawled everywhere on multi-​leveled dining area seating a few hundred; two lonely local football jerseys among the white bare walls; a bar was well hidden around a divider;

Ate:
Greek Lamb — «ok» combination of sweet onion, meat seemed off or «gamey» compared to previous lambs I’ve consumed; more bland then expected;
Hog Creek — (aka Canadian Bacon & Pineapple) — sad, hardly any pineapple chunks scattered around the pie, looked like a last minute thought; a decent thin crust brick-​oven taste;
House salad — tossed romaine lettuce, but hello croûton city?!;
— Strangely I do want to return to test their beer selection; perhaps a quick bar visit;
Service:
A helpful host that did not remember our «ahead of time pizza» order/​reservation; the server was friendly to our group;
Final Thoughts:
Looking at the price versus taste it did not meet our expectations. I respect and commend Wild River on keeping everything homemade, in-​house, whatever you want to call it but they need to upgrade their ingredients even on a basic pineapple pizza. Maybe borrow the interior decorator from Kaleidoscope Pizza to boot? The search continues in Medford.

Didn’t try the pizza and decided to go with pasta instead. Ordered the Cajun Penne and it was awesome. It’s quite rich and creamy, and has a nice smokey flavor from the smoked gouda that they use.

Ok. So… this is a mixed review. I’m going to try and be brief’ish.
The wife and I came here about 8 years ago and had a pretty poor dining experience. So we came back tonight, with the hopes that things had changed. Not that we thought 8 years would separate a bad experience from a good experience and therefore it would be good, rather more so that the place is highly recommended.
We thought maybe we were missing something.
But we weren’t.
It’s all about the service for me. I am paying to eat somewhere when I’m already a pretty good cook myself. I will also say the atmosphere at home is great!
We were never given plates, until we asked… another waitress. Simply because we hadn’t seen ours in 10 min. Also, our pizza was incorrect when delivered to us, though promptly I will add. Which is very important.
I advised the server on the error in the order, which was met with a kind blow off, because of how busy it was. Ehh… ehh… not a great response.
I will say though that the kids burger and fries were well received, and the incorrect pizza was tasty.
It just wasn’t what we ordered. Plain and simple.
All in all it was just poor service, in a weird environment.
Abbys pizza at a premium.

Great food and friendly service. We ordered a couple of house salads that were crisp and tasty. The complimentary bread was fresh. The wild side pizza was awesome and the beer (IPA and Hefeweizen) was delicious. For a decent meal in price, service, and flavor, we highly recommend this place.

Beer Weekend in Medford. We went to WRBPC for lunch. It wasn’t participating in the event but I had a good ESB. We ordered the pesto primavera pizza that included several vegetables and small bits of chicken on a thin crust. The flavor was good and the veggies were cooked with the pizza so that they were imbedded in the cheese and didn’t fall off as we ate. (An advantage of thin-​crust pizzas – they cook quickly.)
This is a large restaurant with minimalist décor that caters to the sporting and «pizza» crowd. The service was efficient and friendly.

Yum!!! Do you like a cracker thin crust, wood fired to perfection with loads or real cheese and delicious toppings? This is for you! A little non-​traditional only in that they cut it into bites for you. A Medium served two with lots to spare. You will not be disappointed in your meal. A little pricey but good ingredients cost money I guess.