Flying Pie Pizzaria

This is a wonderful establishment amid so many chain (boring) national companies. There may be more than one location, but it felt like a community based co.
The pepperoni is to die for. That’s all I care about, so I ate an entire pie.
Sorry, other customers…

Confusing menu for first timers. Waited nearly an hour for a 12″ cheese pizza after ordering. Try somewhere else unless you’re not in a hurry.

For those who have never been, allow me to clarify a few things as I wax poetic on the greatness of this pizza and the establishment itself:
1. This is not a quick «grab and go» pizza. If all you want is a quick fix, either go to some crappy chain, or just call ahead to order and tell them what time you expect to be in.
2. You seat yourself, and you go to the counter (or the bar) to order. Their staff are often doing multiple tasks at once, so be patient. That being said, these are also the most kind, hilarious, talented, and quirky people in the business. If you treat them politely, they’ll take great care of you; if you act like a pushy jack***, you don’t belong here anyway.
3. Yes, it takes time to handcraft a pizza. Unlike the pizza warehouses that shall go unnamed, the Pie staff don’t make your pizza until you order it. This means hand-​spinning the dough, adding all the toppings (which are fresh and delicious, may I say), and baking it.
Baking doesn’t happen microwave-​fast. Grab a salad (maybe a beer or glass of wine if you’re so inclined), play some pinball, have an actual conversation over the free breadsticks which will be brought fresh from the oven, and live like you’re actually enjoying the company around you instead of cramming food in your face in order to sustain life.
4. Don’t get too attached to a beer, they rotate fast! There’s always the Coors/​Bud Light (not my bag), and the Triple Pi (made by local masters of all things beer, Sockeye Brewing, and only available at Flying Pi), but the other taps rotate about every week or two. You can also request beers tone brought on, and they’ll kindly call you when the keg is tapped. They also allow you to sample so you can find a new beer you’re bound to love.
All this taken into account, get yourself a Zerto Magnifico (add cream cheese, your life will be forever altered), come for habanero season in August, and take some time to just enjoy the simple pleasures of great pizza, great beer, and great company. Honk the horn on your way out!

In my opinion, the best pizza place in Boise. I have come for a couple of their gourmet nights, once for the «It’s your day», and for a could regular lunches. The meridian location is significantly less busy than the one of state street or their fairview location, but that does not mean it isn’t as good. It is probably better! The employees here are super helpful and friendly. I have not had a pizza I did not like here, but I am sure if I did, the employees would rectify the situation immediately and with a sincere smile on their faces. We will me moving closer to downtown the beginning of next month, but we will still be making the trip to this location!

Weren’t impressed with our first visit but decided to give this place another try. The staff isn’t helpful in directing newcomers on how things work but if you take the time to read and follow directions you will get there. Get table, look at menu, get back up to stand in line and order. We asked for a half and half pizza since we had kids with us and didn’t wish to order 2 whole pizzas. Were told that it cannot be done with a specialty pizza. Not sure what is so difficult about splitting a circle down the middle but… when I asked to speak to a supervisor to get an explanation I was told that it is just «the rule». «Just how it’s done». Hmm. I told Shawn that no other pizza place had a problem with it and his smart-​alec comeback was «we aren’t every other pizza place». This place has all sorts of things on the wall saying how their customers are the happiest around so I told Shawn we weren’t very happy & he said that they have been doing things this way for 30 years and aren’t hurting for business. Well, there are plenty of other pizza places who will accommodate people who can’t decide on just one pizza. So we will give our business to those places. The pizza wasn’t that great the first time anyway. Shawn the supervisor needs a few lessons in customer service if he wants to keep happy faces.

Went shooting this afternoon and worked up an appetite. My fiancée and I had the Flying Pie on State Street once before, so we were really excited to try the one closer to our home.
We decided to try and call Flying Pie in Meridian. The number just rang and rang. We tried 4 times, to no avail. Finally we just decided to go in. It was hard to get there with the one way street when traveling southbound on Meridian Ave. BTW. We walk in to the restaurant, and we see two families sitting down eating. While waiting in a one person line I decided to call the phone number to see what would happen… NOBODY EVEN FLINCHED to answer the phone. We got to the front of line and told the gentleman working the counter that we had to tried to call several times with no answer. He shook this off like it’s a normal thing to not answer the phone and that it seems ok to do so. We were going to order anyhow, but then we found out it was going to be 45 minutes to an hour for TAKEOUT. This infuriated me after not being able to reach them on the phone, then drove over, to find that out. Plus, the counter seemed totally annoyed and didnt care one bit that we were hungry and upset… almost as if he wanted us to leave. We left and I’m writing this in the parking lot because I’m so mad I feel this is more important than actually getting food that I’m so hungry for.
This company has great tasting pizza, but the service here at the Meridian location is absolutely horrible. They may be laughing this off today, but when more and more people turn to social media to find out where to go, they’ll have dug themselves a hole too deep to crawl out of. No second chance with this location for me. Maybe I’ll go to the State Street location if I’m out that way sometime.

Ordered the #1 Contest Combo for delivery. This is the best pizza I’ve had since being in New York. Pizza Hut and the other national chains don’t even come close! They said about an hour for delivery but came in about 35 minutes and… the pizza was actually still almost to hot eat. Driver was very kind and professional. I look forward to their product when I return to Boise. 5 plus stars.

I alway thought they could nothing wrong with pizza but last couple of times the pizza has not been that good. If anyone there reads this do some quality checks don’t just look at them they looked good just did not taste that great and that’s sad…

Opted to make a custome pizza. It was out of this world good. Original dough, red sauce, fresh jalapenos, mushrooms, pepperoni and canadian bacon. Got the 14 inch buy one get the other half off so we could bring it back home with us. This place is next to the RV park that we stay in when we travel, so it will now be our go to place for trips. Great service.

Service was amazing from the second we walked in the door. We were «first timers» and the pizza is yummo

Ahh, the fabled Flying Pie. Her siren song has mislead many a hungry patron in her time, and I have several times myself followed the winding whispering tune, only to be crushed in the jaws of mediocrity.
Time stands still at the Pie, I would suggest you bring a pillow and some snacks for the 45 minute wait. Especially the snacks, because the breadsticks and sauce look good but are not good. The opposite in fact. Too much tomato paste.
Oh, yes that famous service. It sucks. Prepare to be ignored. Hipsters should not run restaurants. Hipsters should stay at the Hot Topic and leave my pizza the hell alone. Real pizza is made by fat guys named Guido, not burnt out terminally confused Morrissey fans.
You might be thinking, «Well hell, I’ll just get a few drinks while we wait, that would take the edge off!» And you would be correct, but be prepared to deal with an unfriendly «bartender» who will look down on anyone who is not ordering the Himalayan Yak Dung Double Bock (6 $), god forbid you should want a nice cheap American beer.
The pizza eventually will arrive, and will be ok. Not great, not amazing, nor stellar or delicious. Just ok. Toppings are fine, cheese is good, but the dough is too tough, and the sauce is pretty terrible, way too much tomato paste. But you will eat a bunch, because of course you will be starving by the time it shows up, perhaps it is part of their diabolical plan.
So friends and neighbors, to summarize:
The good: Pinball games, Ice Cube/​Ice T dispensers.
The bad: Everything else.
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Just walked out of this place, I was looking to get some good pizza, and was trying to get helped. Completely ignored by the entire staff. Never coming here

Flying Pie is a family fun pizzeria, and the employees are the fun family. Their pizza is nearly unbeatable and the environment and staff are matched only by the other Flying Pie locations. If it’s good pizza, good beer, and a good time that your looking for then Flying Pie is the place to be.

This is one of those business’s that’s been in the valley forever, a friendly environs that ament is excessively loud at times but still enjoyable.
The food is sub par to be honest, not allot to it and the quality isn’t as good as it really should be, but what all you can eat joint is really all that great?
It’s a staple in the community and that’s what keeps this place thriving. Staff is always very cheerful and upbeat and that goes a long ways in finding a place to dine. Also this place gets three stars because it’s decent relaxing and familiar.

It’s been said many times, but it’s worth repeating. Flying pie is not your conventional business. You can say it is very eclectic.
The staff is always friendly and helpful. I’ve never felt unwelcome, but I have felt like I stood out or didn’t belong. Like I wasn’t part of the correct crowd.
The pizzas are good, but I’ve had some that didn’t taste great. I’d say that is more a lack of menu knowledge than anything.
I went today for the name of the day. I actually got my exact name which means free pizza. You also can make your own behind the counter, but they said they were too busy to take me. I’ll admit I was a tad disappointed.
Overall I enjoyed my time here. I would definitely bring out of town friends so they could enjoy it.

This place is loud and not your conventional pizza place. If you are looking for a quiet place to eat fancy pizza and sip wine, go somewhere else. The people working here are extremely casual and very energetic. They yell out orders and cheer loudly when a happy customer honks the horn.
We usually purchase a 5 gourmet pizza card and use it on a couple of different visits. I personally love the Zambini pizza.
They will let you sample the beer on tap. Be careful, the Triple Pi beer will bite…

I’ve had the distinct displeasure of dining here recently, because I learned the hard way that Flying Pie has the most unorganized service model of ANY restaurant that I’ve been to in the 1 ½ years I’ve lived in Meridian. The decision to go there was purely out of convenience, a decision that ended up being one of the most inconvenient dining experiences I’ve had in years.
When you enter the restaurant, you may or may not have someone manning the «Order Here» area. You might even watch them leave to go do something else seconds before you walk up to the counter, even though they clearly see you coming.
«Another customer?! Run away… aaahhhh!»
Should this be your fate, plan on waiting at least 3 real-​time minutes before someone acknowledges your presence and another 3 (for a total of 6) minutes before someone takes your order. And once you’ve paid for your meal that’s when they spring on you with the, «your pizza will be out in about 45 minutes.»
At this point, just smack yourself for not leaving to go eat at KFC next door.
If you can still see straight, take the oversized playing card (which I thought represented my order «number» but in hindsight realized that it was a resemblance of how the house always wins and the odds were stacked against me) and go seat yourself.
To pass the time, because you will have a lot of it pass, I encourage you to observe the staff. Because in my experience, every time I watched the staff (and I do mean EVERY time), at least one person, and occasionally the entire staff in unison, looked completely and utterly confused.
I seriously watched a server walk around like the undead for a solid one and a half minutes with a basket of breadsticks.
Oops, I mean «pizza buddies.» (Someone from the open kitchen annoyingly yells «pizza buddies!» every few minutes.) After which, your form of entertainment is placing wagers as to whether the shoe leather and tomato paste belong to you or not, as the server attempts to find out what table is supposed to have it.
Ordering the AYCE salad bar was probably the only wise decision I made. No. Not because I thoroughly enjoyed the wilted spring mix or the general salad bar unkempt-​ness. But because I was able to put something in my stomach during the debacle.
By the time the pizza did arrive, I simply asked if I could have it to-​go.
So just in case your wondering, «was it worth the wait?» If you couldn’t already tell by my twinkle, twinkle little one-​star rating, the food, while somewhat creative ingredient-​wise, wasn’t very stellar in taste or texture.
Mostly, my distaste is toward the dough. There’s simply nothing to enjoy about shoe leather…
…or more than twice the necessary wait time to receive said leather.

I first visited Flying Pie during the mid-​1980s, at the Fairview location and the former BSU shop next to the Suds tavern. I then spent more than two decades in western Oregon, but would drop by when I was in town visiting. Pizza and service were always top-​notch.
I was surprised by the negative comments directed at the Meridian store regarding poor service. Many of them came from folks who have eaten at the Boise locations and are fans of the Flying Pie.
My brother and his wife and I went in today for the seasonal habanero pizza, triple hab edition. The servers were friendly and attentive and the habs were smoking.
They didn’t bring us any ice cream, so they must have seen we weren’t struggling with the heat. Maybe they’ll add a quad hab next year. Ha.

Not terrible but nothing exciting. We make our annual trek to Flying Pie every August for the Habanero Pizza and now that it’s August, our trip is completed.
We were in the Meridian area and thought we’d visit the Meridian location. Place was cleaner than I expected. I really enjoyed the layout of the building. Pizza took about 30 minutes but they supplemented our waiting with free breadsticks (YAY!!). The pizza was great! I’ve been disappointed with Flying Pie in the past but this time was much better.
The only down side was the inattentive staff. The two women making the pizzas were like machines cranking out pizza after pizza. However, the wait staff were more just hanging out and chatting. Had to find our server to ask questions.
I won’t let this experience taint my future visit. I liked this Flying Pie and I liked the location. We’ll be back again for sure.

3 stars? What this is flying pie pizza? I know! I’ve had the lunch buffet the last few times and it just wasn’t the best. So with that said. The pizza you order or get for take out is always a solid 4 stars! But I agree with Megan Z Aka Nutmeg. This new location isn’t my favorite either.
And for the Bad news. And I’ve never wrote about this before so I’m not sure why I am now because I usually don’t complain about these things. But for being less than a year old the bathroom was gross! Something you would expect in a honky tonk bar. Not a great pizza place! And no I didn’t take a picture! I almost did and thought to myself. «What the hell am I doing? That’s weird» So I didn’t. Please clean the bathroom. Thank you!