Izzy's Pizza & Buffet

I had three hungry teens to feed and I was not about to break the bank taking them to anywhere fancy that they wouldn't appreciate. So hey, Izzy's was the closest place that came to mind.

We arrived at about 3:04pm which is right when they're transitioning between lunch and dinner... THE WORST TIME TO COME TO THIS SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT!

Of course they had old pizza, dry chicken and partially empty trays in the buffet line but I gave them a break because of the timing.

They put out some fresh food 20 minutes after we arrived and the chicken was juicer, pizza was fresh and it wasn't bad for the most part. I just had to get them fed and my goal was accomplished.

I wouldn't come back because I don't do buffets but the customer service was pretty good and the teens enjoyed themselves.

Happy Yelping...

My meal here today was great. I was really worried, bc I normally go to the location on 82nd Ave, to which none compare.
I was pleasantly surprised, both by the staff and the food. I will be back. This location is slowly but surely improving. Don't give up on this place. Every month should be a little bit better, until everybody can in good conscious give this place 4 stars.

Not too shabby! I assume this place is quite busy on weekends, we went on a Sunday night while the snow was still on the ground. The kids enjoyed the different selections of pizza. Apparently the ribs and sweet and sour chicken were worth a second trip too. They make a great steak, I highly suggest the garlic mushrooms over the blue cheese, though they were a tad salty. The garlic green beans in the buffet are amazing, along with the many fresh choices for salad. Try the tomato soup, flavorful.

Clean place, sweet and helpful staff, and the buffet is constantly being refreshed/cleaned. I'm sure we will one back sometime, great neighborhood place:)

Why do I keep going here? Will I never learn?
Unless you are going for salad only I would not recommend the hot food buffet. They seem to never be able to keep up with the dish of the day. The bin is always empty. You can eat corn all day long but don't expect to have ribs if that is the draw for the week.
Today I had a chicken thigh. Yup, undercooked. It was pink and rubbery at the bone. The rest of the hot food was bland and/or cold.
But the salad bar was pretty good.

This is ur standard sub par buffet. This is not the type of place j frequent but family wanted to go so I went. From a buffet standard it was ok nothing that jumps out at me.

Had a BOGO coupon or I would have never gone in.
None of the food was good.
Service was great.
Ice cream machine magically quit working right before we were ready for desert.
Found hair in our "street taco's"...looking back the hair probably added flavor to the flavorless tacos.

I remember going to Izzy's in Longview after church and having decent food, apparently that was then and this is now.

Don't waste your time, we wont be returning.

The sub par food was expected, after all this place was not my choice. However I was taken back by the atrocious condition of the restaurant. The floor was littered with food, under the tables and in main thoroughfares. I even slipped in some. There was puddles of water around the serve yourself drink section. Most of the tables were piled with plates of abandoned food by previous patrons long gone. The plates were wet and dirty. The food old and cold. I got a handful of something greasy off the handle of the ranch dressing. The place was disgusting!
What bothered me the most was the staff's blase attitude toward the messes, they must have been so used to it they didn't notice it anymore.
I think the health inspector may want to check this one out. Yikes!

Checked in there for lunch haven't been in a while. So used to paying top dollar for lunches and dinners. I was kind of taken back by the pricing $8.50 per person which I thought was an amazing value for all the food you can eat. Our three-year-old daughter eat for free!

The food is what you would expect from a buffet. Mediocre food but still decent after all these years.

Yeah, this place used to have my favorite pizza and their cinnamon rolls were nearly as good as Cinnabons--- fast forward a decade or two and to say they've gone downhill is quite the understatement.

Went there today to escape the rain, thinking I'd get some atleast moderately decent fresh pizza, but there were basically scraps of some less-than-desirable choices.

Salad bar is always good. Hot buffet was good, although the baked beans were "meh". Breadsticks still tasty. Pizza, like I said, USED to be hard to beat, but its just a sad reminder of another place in the Gateway area that's well-past it's prime. And it saddens me that to add to the rainy day gloom there wasn't even music playing, it seemed overly dim with some lights not even on(sadly it wasn't to add to the ambience of a mediocre meal), and, to drive that point home: NO fresh pizza, and it seemed upon exchanging a brief look with the cook/chef/guy-in-the-kitchen that he had no desire to bother freshening up the choice of what Izzy's was one world-famous for--

Remember their slogan back in the 90s?
"Izzy's is pizza, plus a whole lot more!"

Clearly it isn't.

I mean. It's okay. But they constantly forget the toppings on the dinner grill items. And the pizza always has mushrooms on it!