Fantastic pizza with plenty of varieties, including cheese types (try the Riccotta). Â A little pricey, but worth the price, even the crusts where good. Â Great entrees and if you order a soft drink, it comes in a LARGE cup, (most places don't do that).
Very attentive staff and manager. Â I had a small problem with my pizza, the manager came out, apologized, and got me a new one free of charge and off my bill. Â Now that's a place that wants you satisfied.
Nice classic rock theme, if a little loud in the place due to it's open tables and booths. Â The salads as mentioned, are a little excessive on the dressing, but good salads, nonetheless.
I will be going back when I want a good pizza
Love this place! Â The pizza is really yummy and the beer is good. I like the red. Â The waitstaff is great. Â We have our favorite servers who are always friendly and make us feel super welcome. Â Our kids love it here, too. Â I'd say stick with the pizza, not the burgers, etc. Â After all, they are a pizza place! If you join their rewards club, you get happy hour prices even in the main restaurant, which saves a ton of money.
Review Source:I had dinner recently at Rock Fired Pizza in Vancouver. Â I had the California Dreamin' pizza. Â Service was very good, so no complaints there, but....where was the chicken? Â Where was the flavor? Â Sauce? Â Sun dried tomatoes? Â Pine nuts? Â I felt like I should have just ordered a cheese pizza for all the small portions of ingredients. Â I shared a family salad with my family. Â That was good.
Review Source:I go here a lot for their happy hour, especially during the summer. I love the outdoor sitting while sipping on my bucket drink. They have great happy hour! I'm not really a fan of pizza, but i do love their pizza!! It can be a bit spendy, but if you get a large & split it the cost it's not to bad on the wallet. I've been here in a large group a few times & it is always a blast! I've always gotten amazing, fast service. Except for one time & they were slammed, but he appoligized more than once for everything taking so long. Definantly a fun place if it's just two people or a group!
Review Source:Yum! The pizza selection is pretty big, ranging from tomato to white sauces. Has typical style pizzas with sausage and pepperoni to fancy styles with arugula and prosciutto. They brew their own beer and have a decent red and IPA. Kid friendly and courteous staff. The service can be a little hit or miss, but for the most part they are attentive. Another good thing, outside seating! Definitely a plus for us in the summer.
Review Source:This place has gone down the dark path that many Vancouver restaurants travel. When it opened it was a fun place to get great food and drinks at a good price, but it has mutated over the years to mediocre food and weak drinks at a steep price.
The pizza has become oily and the toppings are skimpy. A large pizza has roughly the same quantity of toppings as the medium or small of most other joints.
The Bucket - a drink that has always been a premixed affair - is boldly listed as "2 per customer," (which would leave one to think they're about to be druuuunk) hardly gives me a buzz. I'm certain that you're paying that big price for what equates to about a shot's worth of rum.
Service is typically atrociously slow (EDIT: when there is a full house, which it usually is on the weekends), but it has always been good and friendly. The servers deserve an award for what they manage to wrangle when this place gets packed. I just wish I could understand WHY it gets packed.
I'd rate the pizza 4.5 stars, and the service 3.5 stars
Some thoughts:
1) Â The pizza is competitive with the best you'll find in Portland, but without the long wait, and lower prices
2) Â I've been to a bunch of their locations, everywhere from Lynnwood, Tacoma, Renton and Vancouver. Â I'd say the Vancouver location is my favorite, mostly because the wait is a lot shorter than at their locations.
3) Â Try the wings, they're the best thing on the menu. Â (And that's saying a lot, because the pizza is delicious.)
I wrote a more comprehensive review here. Â All of their locations are consistent, so everything I wrote here applies to the Vancouver location too.
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I really tried to not like this wood fired pizza chain, because heck who likes chain restaurants?! Â BUT I have to admit their Stairway to Heaven pizza was pretty darn good and the crust wasn't too shabby either. Â The Stairway to Heaven is a pretty simple and a more health conscious pizza with a garlic butter base with melted mozzarella, baby arugula, prosciutto, and parmesan cheese on top. Â Very tasty and light. Â You can eat several slices without experiencing cheese overkill. Â Their spinach salad was pretty decent too and a good size. Â My hubster and I split the salad and we both got plentiful portions with our own special roll and they didn't even charge for the split. Â Oh and I liked how they gave us the right amount of dressing on the side! Â
Our server was extremely friendly and efficient. Â Yeah, the interior is a bit loud and tacky, but geez the place is called The Rock with big graphic flames blazing behind it! Â
A great place to eat pizza, hang out with friends, drink beer, and watch a game in the 'Couv!
I don't know why you would bother when Portland is *rightthere.* C'mon guys, live a little.
The decor is an absolute turnoff. It's loud. It's tacky. It's like Applebees and Vegas had a little pizza baby.
But, if you take the pizza outside of the interior, isn't that bad. The menu is practically begging for a three-ring binder. So many of them have repeated ingredients, that they should just list them and pare it down. Stick to light ingredients or your destined for floppy crust.
What I will say is that our server was awesome, leaving me and a friend alone for hours after we'd already settled our bill. We both "met in the middle," and clearly had some chatting to do. I actually started to feel bad until I noticed that it was virtually dead on a weeknight. It's not like we were stealing anyone's seat.
The BEST part of this menu is the drinks! The drinks are fun, cheap, and often times you get to take home your cup! Our waiter was great at explaining the menu because we had never been there before. I ended up with the pesto tortellini which was rich and very cheesy. I had to take about half of it home because it was so filling. My boyfriend got pizza and really enjoyed it. It is put in the fire directly so it has a little bit of a smoky taste to it. We got coronitas I think they were called (margaritas with a corona flipped over in it) and they were $10 for HUGE ones. They were in sand pails and we got to take those home! My boyfriend also got a lava lamp drink which lit up and had jello shots to separate the colors. He also got to take that cup home!
Review Source:So finally this place didn't look packed and we decided to try it out. Â The lunch service was decent and I wanted to try the dinner service again to see if it improved.
This time I didn't opt for a pizza and tried a burger instead. Â I ordered the burgerman burger which had some indications it was hot, possibly spicy, which peeked my interest. Â What I receive instead was something sweet, almost off putting and greasy. Â Not exactly what I was looking forward to and quiet frankly left me disappointed.
Service is still lacking, our server delivered our dishes and was back within (literally) 30 seconds asking how it was. Â Sorry, I just got my food and picked up a fry (which was not bad) and nothing entered any ones mouth.....so... uh... fine I guess? Â Go away and let me eat, give me 2 minutes to savor the food and then I will let you know.
Going back to service, the guy got the order and drinks right. Â However, he forgot to bring us a sauce we asked for or refill our waters. Â I'm not a service snob, just take my order (get it right), deliver, come back and check on me once or twice and keep the drinks full. Â Your tip will reflect well, it's just basic service.
I don't plan on returning. Â There are far better pizza and burger places within a short distance near this place.
I had no idea The Rock was a chain, which explains the gaudy yet enthralling decor. Â It's the only pizza joint in its part of town open till mid-night, which is what brought me in. I shared the Evil Ways which has pesto, artichokes, red onions, spinach, mozzarella and sundried tomatoes. Â It was fine. Edible, but not worth the $17. Â It just lacked flavor and not enough pizzazz. Â
I won't go back for the pizza.
The pizza is pretty darn good! We have eaten in the restaurant and in the bar and either way, you are gonna get good food! The bar puts you closer to the drinks which means you will get your drinks faster.
The place is pretty busy, it has a rock concert theme, and the servers all look like bouncers (even some of the women). I learned that the bartender does not know his dressings but did know his drinks (duh).
Seriously, the pizza brings me back and the service...well, it's not the best, but not the worst either. Maybe it's time to give the restaurant section another chance.
This place has a serious rock attitude and a great menu selection. Â I really love their appetizer's....would think of putting brown sugar on mozzarella garlic bread? Sounds bad - tastes delicious. Â We love the Crazy Train pizza - and the caramelized onions on anything are delicious! We did have a few issues with our late night take out orders, but after contacting the general manager it was handled graciously. Â I did not expect such a personal response to my problem, and I felt like he made every effort to make sure we were satisfied.
Review Source:I first tried this chain in the Hubby's neck of the woods, up north near Canadia-land. Â I can't remember exactly what I thought 'cause it's been a few years, but we were pretty excited that they were building one so close to home. Â Did we pump this place up too much in our heads? Â 'Cause, I'm pretty sure I remember it being better than this. Â Huh. Â Kind of disappointed. Â
Hubby had the wings. Â I didn't try them so really I can only tell you how they looked, and that was burnt. Â They're a dry style and they looked like they would have been tasty if they would've been taken out of the oven sooner.
I had the caesar salad, it was...soggy. Â Made me wonder if they dress the lettuce ahead of time and store it in the fridge until someone orders it. Â So much dressing! Â So little flavor.
We shared the After Midnight pizza. Â The crust was undercooked, and the sauce, cheese, meatballs, and sweet sausages all were bland. Â I picked off the olives but would guess that they would have tasted either bland or just salty.
I'm bummed, because there are a ton of pizza choices that sound like they would taste amazing. Â Not sure if we will go back or not to try anything else out. Â Maybe, after a while.
I had high hopes for 'The Rock' but they fell short in reality.
What hits you first is 'the theme' in theme restaurant is just WAY over the top - we're talking cliche level. Is this for real?
Anyway, it's about the food, right? Oooh, and a pizza buffet.- I'm a sucker for those. I eagerly ordered the buffet (from a 21 year old who realized once I wanted root beer and not a $9 drink became quickly disinterested). I head over to the buffet ... and in my mind a dreaded sound enters my brain - Nelson of the The Simpsons goin' "Ha-ha".
It was picked over, Heat Lamp City. What a downer. What was left was just under-toppinged pizzas. Worse, I waited for some more to come out ... and waited, and waited. After twenty minutes, it was two forgettable slices and I was out of there.
Well, this place is a bit too . . . I don't know . . . country for me, I guess. Â I was put off by the overall atmosphere, but I can look past that. Â So, fine. Â I look past that.
The service was fine. Â The pizza was really pretty bad. Â What made me unwilling to ever return here was the fact I had $4 more tip added to my credit card than I gave. Â Believe me, I tip well, and this was no exception. Â I can't say for sure what happened, but the management's response wasn't adequate enough to earn redemption for it in my mind.
Next leg of or Oregon trip brought us here during the lunch hour and in need of nosh and did so! Whew!
We opted for the buffet which looked fabulous, 6 or 7 different pizzas, salads and 2 pasta courses; Artichoke Alfredo Penne and lasagna both hearty and good!
There also was a wonderful tomato bisque that I heavily abused due to cold rainy weather.
Yum, comfort food!
The music is awesome. I can't resist classic rock blaring from every corner. They also have trivia on the tables in the bar, which makes the time fly by when you're waiting for food.
But then the food gets there.......and it's ok. It's better than fast food, but that's about as far as I'd go. I've had both pizza and sandwiches there, and I wouldn't go back for either.
The atmosphere is kind of like a movie set, which some people might be really into. The bathroom was VERY strange, all black toilets and sinks.......made me feel like I was hurled back into the 80's.
Also, if you like drinking super artificially colored cocktails out of little plastic buckets, this might just be your new favorite restaurant!
Great atmosphere! Â Friendly staff, and good pizza. Â What more do you need?
I think it is more for adults than kids, as most of the decor is from an older era. Â But kids love pizza so I don't think they would care.
I do wish that they had more of a selection on the buffet, but what they had was great.
"The Rock" is like farts. I pulled that out of my head one day when thinking about the place. I have been there several times now, and been around the menu a bit.
Why would I think of such a description for a Pizza restaurant? Well, the place is loud and rollicking, but it stinks. So there it is. Â The Rock is like farts.
There is way to much investment in décor and not enough backing up the food.  One thing that really turns me off is phony claims. The Rock Wood fired pizza is not really wood fired. It is more like wood enhanced. Their ovens are gas fired and the have a small pile of wood burning over in the corner of the oven to give the impression of wood fired pizza. If you want real wood fired pizza then you have to go somewhere else. The real tell of true wood fired pizza is that it gets a little burnt on the crust, all true wood fire places have this trait, because cooking a pizza in this method makes for uneven cooking, and it takes some skill to cook this way. If you have a gas oven doing most of the cooking, there is a lot less skill required. I wouldn't mind if the pizza wasn't "wood fired", because doing it for show is worse than not doing it at all.
Edit: I stand by my assertion that Wood fired pizza tends to have charred crust. It is the sign of a very hot oven.
To say that folks that char their crusts don't know how to cook pizza. I give these examples of places that char their crusts, and appear to know how to cook pizza.
<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pizzeriabianco.com%2F&s=db7b8b2948e8e2c504c1cadc21bcc1b2d466d4392b174bacbaa0fff19de60e91" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.pizzeriabianc…</a> (Phoenix, AZ often mentioned as the best Pizza in the U.S. I have been here and yes, it really is that good.
<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkensartisan.com%2Fpizza.html&s=c599dc0effb6bec69430cdbd609d0a806aa729ba92289043e3a11a39bfe0a3b2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://kensartisan.com/p…</a> (Portland, OR definitely wood fired and definitely has char on the edges. Not been here yet. Odd hours and difficult location for me.
<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapizzascholls.com%2F&s=0c59add8cc9bb3e05830069e5e205cd1a01a7e909921e81d659660a38eeed1ee" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://apizzascholls.com/</a> (Portland, OR) Maybe wood fired, maybe not but definitely a very hot oven, could be coal fired, but they never could admit to that as they are on Hawthorne and would be boycotted by the locals if such a thing was true. Char on the crust mentioned on web site, been here. Good pizza, not Bianco level stratospheric delicious, has Bianco's attitude and wait times. Which is not so great.
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The pizza overall is bland. The sauce has no bite, and it seemed that all the various pizzas taste the same. It is hard to believe given the exotic ingredients albeit with schmaltzy names for the various pies.
The waitress staff is more eye candy; lots of pretty bouncy girls, but poor service follow through.
I don't rate this place a complete flop. With some real effort into the food and perhaps the change in hiring a work force that is less on looks but more on service this place could turn around and become a real good pizza place.
We came here tonight because it seemed like  a 16 year old's dream birthday night dinner locale.  Things seemed pretty much under control when we walked in...slow actually for a Friday night, but we were told immediately that the wait would be 15 to 20 minutes and handed a pager.  There were two clean booths visible, from the front podium, and several back rooms and an upstairs, so I figure several more...I was a little put off by the "no, you must wait" thing.
We told the waiter it was our son's 16th birthday when we came in. Â He said, " Well, happy birthday". Â The atmosphere is very "rocker" so our son liked the coolness of all the names of the menu items and the stuff on the walls etc.
Our waiter took our drink order and appetizer and drinks came. Â My drink tasted wrong, but I drank it anyway....wait staff was scarce and drink had lots of ice so went fast. Â After ordering a second of the same, it was completely different (blended) and tasted the way I thought it should the first time. Â I told the waitier and got a "so what" attitude. Â Actually, I was told, "Hey, I've been doing this for 13 years." Â Ummmm, so? Â No offer to comp anything, just a punk attitude.
Any changes/exchanges on pizzas are charges, not free - that was annoying. Â I wanted a pizza that had blue cheese but wanted caramelized onions instead and had to pay $2 for the change. Â I was told it was "policy". Â I have worked in the restaurant industry - NOTHING is policy when it comes to making the customer happy. Â You want happy customers? Â You give them what they want. Â This guy was starting to tick me off.
I make pizza two or three times a week from scratch at home using my own dough. Â It's the cheapest thing in the world to make, so a $12 personal size pizza is a joke to go out for unless there is some special reason for it.
The Rock's Pizza wasn't good enough to come back for more bad attitude, lousy service and missed drink order. Â I hope they fail - they deserve to. Â At the end of the meal we got nothing special for my son's birthday but the full bill, mediocre pizza, a bad drink and a half-a$$ed "happy birthday" from a punk waiter that thinks he's something pretty special.
I was really excited to purchase a Groupon for this place because I love pizza and I love breweries. Â Unfortunately this place fell a bit short of my expectations. Â The atmosphere is totally fun if you like rock music - I can already think of a few out-of-town visitors of mine who would get a kick out of that. Â But that and the service were the best things about this place. Â The food and beer fell a little short.
My boyfriend and I sat at the bar and were served by a delightful young woman. Â We started out with a beer sampler to give everything a try since it was our first time in. Â The beers were underwhelming. Â Most of them lacked flavor - even the IPA which is hard to make flavorless. Â As far as pizza breweries go, BJ's has a better quality line up of beer.
The menu sounded so appetizing that I had a hard time figuring out what to eat so I coaxed my boyfriend into splurging on an appetizer. Â We opted for the beer battered chicken strips. Â This was my first experience with beer battered chicken and I must say that I enjoyed it very much. Â More places should give it a try.
By this time we were nearly finished with our sampler and ready to put in our food order. Â I ordered a simple pepperoni pizza and my boyfriend got one of the specialty pizzas with pulled pork. Â The server was really cool and told us about a special that was ending that night that they had for football seasons. Â Two pizzas & two pints for $20. Â That was too good of a value to pass up, so even though we weren't huge fans of the beer, we ordered a couple of pints since they were basically free.
The pizza tasted fine, but it was nothing spectacular in my opinion. Â And the pizzas were smaller than I expected - only about 8". Â I can't remember what size the menu says they are...
Because of the great deal we got on our dinner, we needed to order one more item to get the full value of our groupon so we split a mojito. Â The friendly server gave us a coupon for a free appetizer on our next visit. Â That will be the only reason I go back because I know my boyfriend wants to try their mozzarella pizza bread that's seasoned with brown sugar. Â I live in Portland so Vancouver isn't far to travel for dinner, but it's too far out of the way to go for just some mediocre pizza and mediocre beer. Â But the value is good. Â We had our beer sampler, chicken strips, two pizzas, two pints, and one cocktail for just over $40. Â This place won't break the bank, but you probably won't be wowed by it either.
Nope. 1.5 stars.
I came here with some friends who paid for dinner (that was nice). Â There were four of us. Â For $50, without tip or tax, we got four drinks and two medium pizzas.
The pizzas were small! Â About $15+ for each pizza. Â The toppings covered about half the pizza, leaving about 2 inches of crust.
I will say that the pizza flavor was good, but the value is just not there. Â I was also somewhat turned off by the whole chain restaurant feel. Â Another reviewer said it's a Chuck E. Cheese and Hard Rock Cafe. Â That pretty much sums it up.
Although I didn't pay for my dinner, I felt ripped off.
We discovered "The Rock" 2 years ago in Bothell, WA - while out of town for a Lacrosse Tournament. Â Totally blew our minds then and now that it is closer to home - my mind is still reeling!!! Â Thank God it is in Vancouver and not Beaverton or my waistline would be in TROUBLE!
"Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy" (red sauce with GOOD MEAT) and "Bad to the Bone" (It has a cream sauce with several delicious toppings and BACON!!!) are our pizza's of choice, EVERY TIME. Â The Mozzarella cheese bread should be illegal it is so delicious. My boys enjoy the Caesar Salad and I have had the BBQ Chicken Salad and it is big enough for 2 people to enjoy. Â All the food we have had at both locations has always been PERFECT. Â Service is friendly and the quality is outstanding. Â Not cheap, but nothing really good ever is.
We went here on my sons suggestion; normally I'm not a fan of pizza for a family dinner....
Being a musician though, I was pleasantly surprised at the 'backstage rock concert' decor, and our table was the top of a flight-case (clever!). Â Stage lighting, trusses, rock music and imaginative brickwork made the place look like a hole-in-the-wall rock hall. Â We were seated close to the wood-fired oven and could watch the chefs at work, and our table had a small HDTV right there in the booth tuned to ESPN.
We had two pizzas, the 'California Dreamin' (A white sauce pizza topped with chicken, fresh pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts, garlic and mozzarella) and 'Slow Ride' (shrimp, chicken, hot sausage, dry-aged pepperoni, roasted peppers and crushed garlic in a cajun cream sauce, topped with mozzarella cheese) - I thought both were excellent, the latter was too spicy for my wife. Â We liked the crispy thin crust.
Only complaint might be that the music sounded tinny and weak - get someone to work on the slave amplifier!!(lol, little musician joke there)
Decent service (not stellar), fairly spendy (the two small pizzas were about $15 ea), after non-alcoholic drinks, tax and tip it was around $50 for the 3 of us. Â But put this next to a Hard Rock Cafe or Dead Robin and I'd pick The Rock every time.
So we came here because my friend Kevin has been here a few times and liked each time. He wanted to share this place with me.
We were seated in the perfect place to watch our food get made, it was awesome watching a real brick/wood oven cook the pizza. Speaking of pizza, there are dozens of different and very wild varieties on the menu, so I can say there should be a pizza for everybody.
Don't be afraid to try something new and interesting. If you don't think it will work for you, then forget everything you expect from your traditional pizza and try one of the weird ones, you may just like it.
On my first look at this place, I was a little nervous. It was a Saturday afternoon and wasn't busy at all PLUS you could hear the music blaring so loud that it could be heard when the door opened. I came here with a friend I hadn't really seen since high school so the music made it a little tough to catch up.
Be warned: the menu is a little overwhelming. There is sooo much to choose from for their created pizzas, salads, pastas, sandwiches, etc., etc. so it's tough to pick something. The friend that I came here with was so picky about the pizza toppings so we did the creative choice of making out own. When we recieved our pizza, there were hardly any toppings on it! Basically just a slice of pepperoni for each slice of pizza, about 5 slices of green peppers, and whole black olives for a large pizza. It certainly wasn't worth the amount of money we paid for it. At least I enjoyed the crust.
The table they sat us at was awesome. It was close to the back so we could watch the pizzas being cooked. One odd thing though is the cook shouts out the server's name when their order is up. Nothing like hearing names being yelled at random intervals... Plus we had our own t.v. (but no way to control it ourselves) in the booth. Although, they had a workout info-mercial on which really lays the guilt on thick when you're eating greasy pizza and garlic breadsticks.
Even though I was disappointed with the pizza...I'll go back just so I can try some of their other food because it looked tasty. Who knows, maybe I'll even go back for their "Bucket." Nothing like 5 different rums in a small bucket...
The Wife called and asked me lunch today. A smart man never declines lunch with The Wife, so we talked about places to go and decided on pizza. I had to do some shopping at Fred Meyer (after all, they have it at Fred Meyer) and the one on Columbia House was close to her and not too far out of the way for me, so we decided to try The Rock Wood Fire Pizza. It was a first time for either of us.
Now, first let me preface this review by stating that I am a from scratch pizza dough maker so to get anything better than I make at home is pretty long odds. Was The Rock better than my own? No. However that does not mean they were bad. It is a darned respectable pizza (sorry E.C. but Chuck E Cheese is below those pizzas we used to get at the school cafeteria!).
Upon our arrival we found out that they have a lunch buffet. Didn't even have to crack open the menu! How do you turn down a lunch buffet? You can't. So we ordered drinks; and I am still not sure why on this 24 degree day I ordered iced tea, but I did. The tea was pretty generic, I got the regular tea, they offer a peach and raspberry but I pretty much stick to tropical teas or regular. I think this was Lipton, not bad, but nothing special. One nice thing, the glass was HUGE! At $2.69 it better be!
Brick is the decor along with a rock & roll band rolling instrument case sub-theme. It's hip and trendy I guess, I'm not hip and trendy so it's hard for me to tell. The music was there in the background, it didn't blast out over tired speakers, you could tune it in or out as you pleased. The booth was very soft making for a somewhat difficult entrance and egress (for a big guy) but once butt cheeks were firmly in place it was comfortable.
Our server was Rebecca and she was pretty nice, but rushed, you could tell she wanted to be two tables further down the line whenever she stopped by. Â She did, twice, take our plates away while we had a slice of pizza in our hand, leaving us nowhere to put it down if we didn't feel like eating the rest immediately. Â A little annoying. Â Maybe she hasn't waited tables long; I'm not sure but I would label her a average waitress. No points off, I never expect great service anywhere, I like to be surprised.
We went over to inspect the salads, soups, pasta and pizzas. There were seven pizzas ranging from classic to exotic, there was a Caesar salad and some greens with a sparse amount of toppings and four dressings. I went for the Caesar. The soup of day was unrecognizable so I didn't bother. The pasta was some penne with a white sauce. It was not a great start to be honest. I loaded up two slices of pizza and went back to the table. The salad was a passable Caesar, nothing great but not bad either. The Wife put red onions on her Caesar and said it helped. I was starting to regret coming until I tore into the pizza.
The pizza was quite excellent, the cheese was not your typical made with milk-like product cheese, the toppings had taste and were quality ingredients. Dashes of ricotta cheese on some of the pizzas was an excellent touch! Ricotta cheese is so underused in the pizza industry!!! The sauce was there, not too heavy but enough to add another layer of flavor between the toppings and the crust. The crust was very good, thin in most cases which is worth an extra star from me, but not cracker or matzo thin. Some places thin crust looks and tastes like a big round saltine cracker, but without the complicated tastes.
In the end we were full and satisfied and looking forward to coming back again soon. I do recommend The Rock to any and all trying to escape the prefab pizza blues.
If I could pretend that the manager read Yelp and took our suggestions to heart I would say to expand the lunch buffet a little. Maybe back off to six pizzas instead of seven and offer up an appetizer (like Round Table does sometimes) to break up the traditional pizza-lettuce buffet theme.
To know me is to know I love a buffet. I enjoy any place I can sample many different things, especially if I have never been there before.
My family and I stopped by on a weekday and all opted for the buffet lunch for $8.95. There were several pizzas to choose from, and we came in at the tail end of the buffet time. There was also salad, a couple of different types of lettuce to choose from, and also a Caesar salad. There was pasta and soup, although I didn't try either of these. My Mom said the pasta was nothing to write home about..Salad was ok, not a full salad bar with toppings, but enough to curb your need for a side salad.
I really enjoyed the pizza. The crust was delicious, and the toppings were varied enough to be interesting. There was one out that had pepperoni, sausage, and ricotta cheese. I wouldn't normally order something like this, but since it was out for the buffet, it was easier to be adventurous. The ricotta cheese was velvety and tasted pretty damn good on pizza - who knew? I'm very sheltered and usually stick to Canadian bacon and pineapple which is my fave. They had that one out too!
I thought the atmosphere was fun, and the music was good. My four month old son started "dancing" to ZZ Top. The best part of this trip was our waitress. I wish I would have asked her name. She was lovely, gracious, and attentive. Oh yeah, and the drinks are frigging HUGE.
If the movie "School of Rock" had a restaurant, this would be the place...
I SAID IF THE MOVIE "SCHOOL OF ROCK" HAD A RESTAURANT... oh never mind...
There comes a point when shouting over the roar of suburbanites and a blend of Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, and AC/DC just becomes too much. Â I mean really. The only thing that this place was short of was Jack Black screaming about rock singers only rocking you half the time. Â
But when your credo is "HELL YEAH that's good pizza" you have to have a certain "vibe". Â And if you choose to go for the annoyingly kitschy backstage rock and/or roll genre, you might as well bump the tunes, flash the fiery skull & crossbones, and emblazon the place with smashed brick, oversized posters, and scrawled VANCOUVER ROCKS graffiti. Â
The salads are alright, the pizza is good... maybe not $20.00 for a 16" good, but pretty good nonetheless. Â The house beers are nice, with adorable...uh... Â i mean... hard core names. Â The IPA is pretty hoppy, definitely feel it for a while.
Expect a 30 minute wait on a Friday night for this relatively new spot in town. Â It's a fairly solid joint, good for the kids, alright for the 20 somethings. Â Not an "A" place, but A-OK in my book... Â
But rock isn't about getting an A. I mean the Sex Pistols never won anything... so there ya go.
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