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Boston's Pizza
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
21 reviews for Boston's Pizza
Don't go thinking its a restaurant, go thinking its a bar that serves a full menu. Their happy hour is top notch, how else do you explain a full bar nearly every day between 4 and 6? If it was as bad as stated here, it would be empty. Yes, we've had a small share of less than stellar food and service, but all-in-all, for what you pay, its a great bargain.
Appetizer menu in the bar for happy hour is solid. $3/$4/$5 items that offer variety and bulk! Give me a full basket of twist bread (pizza crust twisted once and baked) to absorb some of that $2.79 draft beer and I'm in heaven. Green beans? Yumm. Thai Chicken (I know its really sweet and sour) Bites? Yumm. Tater Skins, Mozzamia? Very tasty.
I will say that I've ordered their pizza more than a few times (been in this Boston's probably 50 times) and they are much too proud of their sauce. I found that if I say "light,light" sauce, the flavor is much better. Nothing to write home about, but better.
Go to Happy Hour, bring a couple of friends, don't be super picky, and you'll have a blast! Typically bill for four adults, with drinks, at happy hour has been around $50, plus tip. Not bad for two hours of relaxation!
About time some decided to shred the pepperoni so it cooks and not just sweat all the grease out into the crust. The waitress in the bar was great she knew the menu well.
Limited menu, mediocre food, and slow service.
The staff always seems to mean well, being apologetic when orders get screwed up and very eager to make amends when things take forever to get to your table. But not enough to actually work to improve anything. My friends and I have yet to go in there and get our order without something being wrong.
The food is remarkably Meh. As others have noted, the marinara sauce is really bland and is apparently used for all of their pasta dishes as well as the pizza. The only thing saving Boston's from being a 1 star review is that they have a decent happy hour and the appetizers are edible and put something in your stomach while you're drinking and watching a game on one of their plasma screens.
If you're looking for a place to drink and watch the game - and really don't care about what you eat with it - then Boston's is for you!
We've been to this restaurant twice. This is such a great location for a quality bite to eat. The staff is young and upbeat and the atmosphere is active. The food seems to be a bit of an after-thought. There just isn't anything remarkable about the food here.
I had a very nice salad here chock full of goodies, the service was great, and the outside dining was fun, albeit you're just watching cars go by, no scenery. We took our 6-month old and he did fine. The other food looked pretty good, I shall go back and try.
I've enjoyed the food at Boston's and typically have a good experience there. Of course I don't ever try to get in on a busy evening... I'm not interested in 45-60 minute wait times.
I generally agree with most reviews here.
The kids menu is decent but NEVER get the "Decorate your own cookie.'
Plus - great outdoor seating when it's nice out.
Minus(es) - the food wasn't good. and i love pizza. But not there. Isn't that pretty much why you go to a restaurant?
A nother crappy
W aste of time and money
F lavorless
U nbelievably bad service
L ousy pizza place
We have given this place not just a second chance, but a third and fourth chance. Equally disappointing every time. The pizza tastes premade, the servers are clueless, and the wait time is never rewarded with a wonderful dining experience. At least they are consistent
This a very large chain out of Canada. Since when was Canada known for their pizza, eh?
Wow, at the time of my writing this place has received some pretty harsh words!
Boston's is hit and miss. They do have a nice bar and outside seating. I have sat in the restaurant and the bar and outside and I definitely recommend if you do not have kids do not sit in the restaurant. Also, the times I sat outside I felt a little bit forgotten, so I say opt for the bar if you are coming here sans kids. The bar is nice and has great tv coverage.
My friend had a Passport Unlimited card (which I highly recommend) and at first the waitress told us it did not apply to what we were ordering, an appetizer and a pizza, but then in the end, the manager allowed us a nice discount.
The nachos we had were good, but our pizza was a little charred at the edges which disappointed me.
Our waitress was pleasant, but overall based on all the times I have been here, I think they are a tad slow compared to others.
I like that they have a nice local beer selection.
If I could, I would give them 3 1/2 stars - they are better than 3, but not quite 4.
Some things are best left in Canada. Boston's is one of those things.
I am usually pretty willing to give a restaurant the benefit of the doubt and try it again if it sucked the first time. However, that was until I had an uninspired dinner at Boston's.
Let's review the highlights of the one (and only) dinner I had there with my fam:
Greek Salad: apparently in Canada, Greek Salad doesn't include any lettuce. Eh? A plate of thickly cut green peppers, red onions, tomatoes, and a couple of olives in an oregano-based red wine vinaigrette does not make a Greek Salad. Ever.
Chicken Marsala with Pasta: I never knew a meal could be burnt to a carbon form and ice cold at the same time. Bravo, Boston's for defying the laws of physics with this disgustingly inedible concoction.
Pizza: Barf on a plate. Unappetizing crust, repulsive tomato sauce, all served under a hefty layer of burnt mozzarella. Doesn't that sound delicious?
Not only was the food gross, the service was pathetic at best. It wasn't even worth the time to explain to the clueless waiter that our food had some temperature issues.
What a waste of time and money. So unworthy of a repeat visit.
Boston's looks appealing from the curb, and the restaurant itself actually looks decent. Any goodness ends there.
We started our meal with an order of boneless buffalo wings. When asked how spicy we wanted them my wife indicated mild since we had children with us. This equated to no buffalo sauce at all. The wings themselves were disgusting. They would be better described as the worst imaginable popcorn chicken bites you'd find in an awful kids meal. They are little piles of deep fried breading with something that may have had a hint of chicken on the inside. What a waste of eight dollars.
We ordered two pizzas--the Florentine and the deluxe. On the Florentine they brought the wrong size-an individual rather than a small. Fortunately, the waitress said they were baking a replacement at no charge. Both pizzas were pretty gross. Their sauce is awful. The only good thing about the pizza was the crust. I ended up scraping the toppings and cheese off and eating some of the crust.
Like other reviews, the service was awful. It took about thirty minutes for the deep fried popcorn chicken (aka wings) to arrive. As we moved between courses used plates piled up at the end of the table and were not removed until the bill came. I will never return.
If you've ever seen the movie "Waiting", I swear Boston's is the restaurant in that movie. The place is always full, but is overflowing with noise and rowdy teenagers. It never looks clean - food all over the floor, straw wrappers litter the booths. \
The food is mediocre. We've been twice (it's convenient, OK?) and both times we've waited about 20 min. This food ain't worth waiting twenty minutes for. Not even five. But at least I don't have to cook it myself?
But, with a place like this, you know what you're getting in for. However, I vastly prefer Red Robin if we're looking for this type of meal (sometimes, after a really tough week, a mindless stop at Red Robin is necessary.)
I've only gone here several times for the happy hour. I was lucky to never have had a bad experience with the service. There isn't much of a selection in terms of food but it is reasonably priced at around $4-5 (I swear the prices keep going up every time!). The food itself isn't much to write home about. The chips from the spinach artichoke dip tasted pretty bland and the dip itself was a little salty. The quesadillas didn't really have much flavor either. However I did like the crunchy fried green beans and the Southwest ravioli bites that came with some dipping sauces. I would say this place is good for big groups because you can get the Team Pitcher of beer (128 oz) for around $22 and some other deals on alcohol. Boston's isn't a bad place to hang out but I've had better happy hour food at other places.
The place is OK, there service is suckish. But there food is good. I like the BBQ Pizza
Meh. Not sure if this place deserves one-star, but I can see how it could definitely have service issues on a busy night. The bar fills up quickly, and we came here early Friday afternoon to watch March Madness. Our table ordered an appetizer platter, which was more than generous, and some pizzas. The pizzas themselves were very average, and reminds me of the pizzas one might find in Peoria, IL. The crust is fairly thin and is topped with plenty of cheese for a nice gooey meal. The beer selection is pretty decent, and they do have some larger sized pitchers like a 128 ouncer, which looked pretty impressive and was a good deal. Overall, not sure if I'd come back, as Azul has better food and atmosphere at the MCTC, but the place seems fine for basic beer and bar food, if it isn't too busy.
Last Wednesday I met my friend Anne for lunch at Boston's in MC.
We had the place to ourselves! There were literally 9 other people in there at 1pm, sometimes it's great to be out an about during the week!
Our waitress with her pierced chin and multi-tonal hair, was quite dedicated to filling my coffee cup! Which is always a pleasing thing!
The interior was VERY new, kind of like a combo of Red Robin and Denny's, but totally date worthy! And family friendly, as my G/F brought along her 6 month old daughter, Hannah!
And Thankfully, Hannah was quite content with us chatting for 2 hours.
About 1pm to 3pm.
I ordered a fairly presentable Calzone and a dinner salad, with Blue cheese, it was about $8.95-ish. My comrade ordered a personal pizza, but not from the lunch menu, as the only thing that looked good on the lunch menu was a hamburgler, which I will try another time!
I actually thought this was a very nice establishment, but I can see where they might have trouble's if there were a whole bunch of people were to converge at once!
I guess it was just lucky timing.. Also the Mill Creek Town Center is quite a lovely setting, they are definitely attempting to emulate a Bellevue like mini-city though.
After a good walk around the area for about 2 hours, I said good bye to my friend... And then what did I do?
I went back to Boston's for their Happy Hour!
The Hour of Happyness was 3pm to 6pm, I got there at 5:37pm, it time to order a Bud, drink it down and then order a CL, and chicken Quesadilla's! The happy hour is note worthy, and very sport's oriented!
Oh the app's on the HH, are $3 and $4! The Quesadilla's were not terrible, but not great! Although much better than the ones next door at La Palmera! Another time for that!
This might be a fun place for Families more then couples, as it's not very intimate. And the noise does seem to bounce around.
The bathrooms were at least stocked with TP, BUT they were out of the seat cover's! Oh the humanity!
I love this place. I've only been to this one once. Most of the time we visit the one in Bellingham. I love the BBQ Chicken Pizza and the Pasta that has zillions of kinds of meat in it. We usually get the Appitizer Platter and the Full order of pasta and Share it. That leaves just enough left for both of us for lunch the following day.
As for the service, it was ok the night we were here. It was a tuesday night around 5:30. I do know during the weekends and sporting events this place gets crazy do to the fact that they have a bar with TV's.
I like this place.
The horrible excuse for a Ceasar Salad that was served here was absolutely stomach turning. I really hope that they're just using Hidden Valley Caesar dressing and this isn't some creation of a cook somewhere as the dressing was the most bland Caesar dressing I've had, it makes Applebee's Caesar dressing look like Morton's. The greens were horrible and lacked freshness.
I'm also pretty much positive that our waitress was actually less intelligent than the salad I was eating. Yes, she was really that dumb. I had to ask repeatedly for a refill on my water, and we had to ask for a extra set of utensils a couple times before we finally gave up on her and asked one of the other waitresses. To make matters worse, and I'm not kidding either here folks, she wrote "THANKS! :)" on our receipt. I laughed. I'm sure she wasn't smiling when she saw that she earned herself a whopping 17 cent tip (and I usually tip very well).
The food is pretty damn cheap, but I guess you really get what you pay for at Boston's.
Boston's tag line is "The Goumet Pizza Place," So I came expecting to be limited to pizza. However, they have a full menu of appetizers, salads, pizza, pasta and more. I was happy to have a wider variety of choices and thought I might be able to get something healthy to boot. I was wrong.
On top of the lack of nutritious chocies, they also serve the adult food cool and the children's food so hot it will burn their mouths.
I tried to order a salad, but it arrived drenched in dressing.. I asked my husband to have them replace it with the dressing on the side, but in the time it took me to take our two year old out to the car parked around the corner, gather some of her books into a bag, let her show me that voices really do echo underground, watch her do big jumps all the way back to the stairs and then assault - I mean, smell - the flowers on the way back to the restaurant, our waitress hadn't checked back at our table even once.
Eventually, we ordered two pasta dishes and two children's meals. Of course, without silverware it was hard to eat anything. We had to remind our waitress of this problem (she was now busy replacing my salad) twice.
My husband thought the food tasted "okay." I actually thought the ravioli had a nice flavor...too bad it was cold.
The staff is very nice, but small things seem to stress them, and something is going on in that kitchen. We started theorizing...is the kitchen understaffed? Do they cook it too quickly and then allow it to sit, waiting for the perfect moment to bring it to your table? For my new salad, that moment was halfway thrugh the entree, with about half the original dressing, but not on the side as I'd requested.
Despite the great location and proximity to our house, we won't be going back. Ever. One star for the breezy atmosphere and staff who are sweet despite their inability to remember much.
Seriously the best Happy Hour anywhere near Mill Creek. $3.25 for really great margaritas, $3-4 appetizers (potato skins, wings, etc.) it's all really great. The drinks are all really cheap and not weak at all. I've only sat in the bar area, and the service has been great there! the service is great even during games when at most places the wait staff disappears until after the game is over ( a huge pet peeve of mine). I can't vouch for the main dining area but definitely hit up the bar. Happy Hour is 3-6 and 9-12!
Update: So my husband and I were going there pretty regularly for the past couple of months for a cheap dinner and all of the staff was really nice...until a couple of weeks ago. We sat on the patio and ordered our usual happy hour food, but the waitress messed up our order and gave us buffalo wings even though my husband had specifically ordered the BONELESS buffalo wings. Anyway, they brought the food out the table and we noticed it was wrong, so we waited for 30 minutes for the waitress to come back to the table so we could tell her that's not what we ordered. She NEVER came back, so finally he just ate them and when the bill came she had charged us $8 for what should have been $4. We told her it was wrong and she freaked out like it was going to get her fired to change it, and then she proceeded to blame us for her screw up. She pouted, she scolded us like we were kids, etc. So now we don't really go there too often, and if I ever see that girl again I'm going to ask for a different waitress. At this point I'm going to say don't bother going here, La Palmera is much better anyway!
This is a really cool place.We haven't tried their pizzas yet.Had been there for happy hour and their menu had all kinds of stuff from salads, appetizers, desserts to pizzas and pastas.The margarita was great and so was the beer.We also had Queso Cheese Dip and some garlic bread and they were so yummy.The service was fast.They have plenty of covered outdoor seating.A nice place to go to with friends and family.
