B J Pizza

Very friendly, good food, and a bouncy house for the kids to play in. What's not to like? Their lunch buffet is a great value.

We went for the Saturday Prime Rib.... it was excellent - rare and tender, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans with bacon.  Friendly staff, wonderful service.  Good access for disabled (own bathroom)

Fate, discovery of a coupon, and cosmic timing led us to the lunch buffet here on a Thursday afternoon.  On the Oregon Coast, one is reluctant to try a spot for the first time as you may actually stumble upon a place with good food, good service, and decent prices...a trifecta that is very rarely seen in these soggy parts.  It never fails that once you discover a favourite spot to dine, the evil hand of fate will take it away in the form of a nose-dive in service and quality or a blatant going out of business death grip.

BJ's is going to be kept alive by it's bar and lottery machines.  Like most places in Clatsop County, the local population of gacktards, burnouts, and barfly's will hand over their government assistance checks and spare change discovered on the sidewalks with a  toothless smile to drown their lives in cheap beer and the occasional top shelf treat.  Food selection, quality, and pricing be damned...it's all about the Rainier Beer on special and a hot machine between their knees that makes the restaurant popular.

For the time that we were there, the kitchen was there to serve only my lovely lass and me plus one take out order.  We won't count the snoring obese lady sleeping at the table by the door who was retrieved by her toothless tweaker companion about an hour later with a nervous laugh and a "wow, I thought they'd throw her out". You have to love Seaside and the local colour it offers.  I feel terrible that I pissed away my life obtaining advanced degrees in university and working a noble career and missed out on the adventures that methamphetamine brings. Dare to dream I suppose.  Since it is on the coast and we have an image to uphold (cough cough), I guess we should refer to them as "trash de blanc" rather than the usual nomenclature for them.

I suppose the summer tourist season, the bounce house for the wee ones, and the dinner crowd keeps the restaurant side more viable.  The modest lunch buffet was quite good and the service was excellent.  The owner, what appeared to be his wife, and another friendly lady was at the helm.  Our hostess was almost overly eager to bus the dirty plates away and was quite bored with no action to keep her busy.

The salad was fair, with a selection of iceberg mix greens and the usual suspects to top them with.  Peperoni Pizza and Hawaiian style were the only types out.  No offers to make a particular kind were ever made.  Soup was in a crock pot and was flavourful.  The star of the show was the broasted chicken.  Perfectly moist, fall off the bone meat, encased in a crispy and crunchy batter.  Best that I have ever had.  I did ask for more of that to be made which while it took about 20 minutes to make it, it was well worth it.  Attention to customer's food needs and requests would be appreciated, rather than hovering over to refill drinks and strip away dirty plates.

The pizza was good, but not really anything that stood above and beyond the pizza offerings here on the coast.  The salad bar was fresh, but uninspired.  The broasted chicken was amazing (and will be even better when they have baked beans in the summer with it instead of soup).  Soup was good, but once again, not spectacular.  Chocolate chip cookies were the usual pizza oven ready / just bake and eat kind.

We were expecting a bit more variety, but left full and content.  When craving broasted chicken, this will be the hot ticket.  The rest of the offerings are just commentary really.

The facility was incredibly clean and tidy (all but the local quasi-transient sleeping at her table).  Service was friendly.  Prices were fair.  Check their marquee for daily dinner and bar food specials.  Bounce House room for the kids.  Full bar.

If you can pull yourself away from watching the local drug crowd walking by, take a gander (pun intended) at the selection of water fowl in the adjacent creek. I can watch buffleheads swim and eat all day long.  You may even see a swan.