Larry’s Pizza Buffet

restaurant is closed… nada… no more

Okay pizza. Awful service. Awful! TERRIBLE. SERVICE. Not worth the $ 9 per person. The staff acted as if every request was not their worry. Had to ask for napkins. When we asked for silverware, was told, «Follow me and I’ll hand it to you.» Pizza took 55 mins to come and was burnt. Huffed away when we asked for a box. I would never recommend anyone come here. It was awful. We’re leaving upset and disappointed. We won’t be back.

Three stars because the food doesn’t really compare to a «delivery style» pizza. The crust is too thin and the ingredients are sort of bland. Overall dinning experience was good.

We scored a groupon for Larrys: $ 8 for 2 all you can eat Lunch Buffets. For $ 4 a person I wasn’t expecting much, but I must say I was impressed. The staff was incredibly kind and accommodating, I believe our server’s name was Debbie: she was awesome.
The pizza is okay, nothing special. Much better than Ci Ci’s. I do love how there are some wacky pies like macaroni and cheese and cheesecake dessert pizza.
If you can score the groupon, do it! One heck of a deal.

Service is horrible, food takes forever to come around, very dirty– just overall not good!

Cici’s vs Larrys:
A lot went wrong… Here’s a list!
SERVICE:
At cici’s you are greeted with a smile. Here the lady was having a heated exchange with what sounded like a vendor. She told them to hold and took my money.
The waitress seemed impatient when I couldn’t understand her southern accent. An off duty employee sat at one of the many empty tables on a very loud conversation that set the mood of the place.
VALUE/​QUALITY:
Here I paid $ 7 without a drink, while Cici’s is $ 5 currently. Larry’s had some crusty looking mini pizzas on display that nobody would want. Their mushrooms in the salad bar (and on the pizza) were the gross canned kind. The pizza sauce was cheap, flavorless and similar to a bad microwave pizza. The lettuce on the salad bar was shredded into thin strips (like taco lettuce). The only reason I can figure out for this is a laziness reasoning. They are too lazy to tear it by hand and since they serve it shredded on the taco pizza they figure nobody will care. Wrong. It sucked.
The pizza is brought out to you when you order one in mini pizza form (not slices as it should be). When I asked the waitress to leave the whole mini pizza (as there were only one other set of customers in the whole place) she gave me a dissatisfied look.
Conclusion:
Everything was wrong with this place. I thought upscale waitresses/​waiters would bring around full pizzas on a cart where you could select a slice or you could order a few custom slices. I at least expected as good of service, taste and price as CiCis and they fell well below that. Awful. Stay away.

The concept is cool. Its a buffet and you order what you want from the server and they bring not only your pizza but others every couple minutes. I like the Wes special and the chicken bacon ranch. It is good medium line pizza and you will for sure leave full. The peanut butter chocolate pizza is also very good.

Great food. Great atmosphere. I will def be going again. Staff was quick and attentive. The pizzas kept coming and they all were delicious. I recommend anyone looking for great pizza and exceptional service to visit this place.

Friendly Staff, Good Food, Very Reasonably Priced. Great place for lunch. I will frequent the restaurant.

Eh –you get what you pay for. If you’re a fan of overstuffing your face with mediocre pizza, then this place is good for the money. The staff was very friendly though!

Came for a friend’s birthday just trying to grab a quick, cheap bite before going out to drink. Service was so slow and the food wasn’t all that great. To top it off the kitchen closed before bringing us our last pizza we paid for, even though we had been waiting for hours. Asked to talk to a manager and all he did was bring my friend a dinky ice cream cup. We all left hungry… from a buffet. Great concept for a restaurant, just horrible execution. Would NOT recommend!

Went in on my birthday for the first time. Not only did they close the kitchen without giving us one of our three pizzas, they took forever to even deliver any other pizzas out. I definitely don’t recommend if you want to do something quick.

Last summer I started frequenting this place. I loved it immediately. It was like a Ci-Ci’s Pizza for grownups. The service was attentive and focused. the food was fresh, hot, and tasty. Servers would take your order at your table, bring slices of your pizza to you, while putting the rest of it on the buffet for everyone — and they would bring different pizzas to all the tables to offer hot fresh slices to everyone.
All of that has changed. There has apparently been a management change as well as a philosophy change. They seem to be shifting their focus from taking personalized orders from customers and delivering the pizza to their tables (along with a buffet accessible to everyone with a variety of pizza) to just a regular buffet. The biggest problem with that is that they are not keeping a variety of pizza choices on the buffet line.
And the service has gone to hades. The uniqueness of this restaurant seems to have vanished. I won’t be back for a while.

I didn’t really come in expecting anything great.
The service was okay, the servers came by, offered, left, brisk and efficient.
The manager or who I’m guessing is the manager came by a few times and was a bit more approachable with his offerings to every guest.
3 for service.
The food.
Of course the salad bar was paltry but the amount of items, while not of highest quality was amiable. They have fake bacon bits but they also have what looks like sunflower seeds which imho adds a nice depth to salads even if all the ingredients are sysco grade.
As for the pizzas, they have a very creative and extensive variety.
It seems they dish out pepperoni out quite a bit as well as their Fat Larry Supreme.
Most of the others are by request.
It may have been because there were a lot of patrons, at least by their standards but the pizzas were not rotated very well.
I noticed that the side closer to the bathrooms were rather neglected at times.
Also for that amount of people they should have dished out a few more pizzas because generally none of the pizzas except dessert got to the bar for people to get.
To taste… well I didn’t throw up
Their crust isn’t horrible but its not great either, same as cicis I would say. Toppings were mostly overly salty, bland (apple pie :(), weirdly combined or a combination of any that just was a tad off from what was intended.
But while I can’t say I would be willing to have the buffet again, there was one pizza that was pretty delicious and worth a try: baked potato
Pretty good place to feed your kids, just make sure to bring books or something because unlike cicis they don’t really have a way of keeping them entertained between waiting for your slices to come tableside.

Sub par Ci Ci’s pizza at best. Was there over an hour and only had two servers offer us any pizza. They would stop at the tables closest to the kitchen first and within 3 tables be completely out. I stopped 4 seperate servers to ask for two certain kinds of pizza only to be told they’d put in the order yet it nevr arrived.
They never refilled our drinks. The floors were littered with trash and food. The walls were dirty and it was about 80+ degrees in the dining room. The salad bar had a fairly decent offering, but there was fake cheese along with low grade bleu cheese dressing. In the hour we were there they NEVER added any pizza to the buffet line. It contained the same four pieces of old dried out pizza the entire time.
We paid in advance of eating as that is their policy. I used a debit card and gave a $ 3 tip. If I’d known the experience to be had, I’d never have tipped such poor service/​food quality.
For two adults with drinks the total was $ 19.75 and with the addition of the $ 3 tip, $ 22.75. Save your time and money. Go elsewhere.

I only rated this four stars because im from Arkansas and have been to the Original Larry’s…Its hard to top. That being said this is an excellent option if you have children or just have a craving for pizza. The service is ALWAYS great. My favs are the buffalo chicken, Loaded Potato, and Cheeseburger. Worth trying at least once. (IT PUTS CICIS TO SHAME)

This place is just not worth the drive. The best thing about this polace is that its located right next to Kirby Wines and Liquor.
Its a shame that the best thing from the whole dining experience was the salad bar! I mean you guys have ten + types of pizza, most sounded disgustig, and the best one was the supreme pizza names after some fat guy,
Also two people I was with got sick the next morning and I’m sure it was from the chicken they had. Something about it just didnt taste right.

I saw a couple of reviews, and then a mention on another web site so I decided to check this place out. The concept is very different, and gives them an interesting niche.
Basically you get to buy the buffet. You can order take out as well, but eat in there is only one real product, all you can eat. Curiously lunch is $ 7.00 and dinner is $ 7.25 (drinks extra); I’d love to know the decision process behind that small difference. A stop at the drink station and then you seat yourself. Salad bar is self serve. A very middle of the road selection and ingredient quality, but it was all fresh and well tended.
There are three options to get pizza. You can order a pizza from a menu of about 25 choices. What that means is they will make it and bring it to your table first, then take it around. You can simply wait for a pizza to come around. The Texas De Brazil comparisons are good ones; servers just walk around with pizza. Lastly, after making a circle of the restaurant the servers drop the pizza off at a buffet station you can walk up and get some at any time. Breadsticks also come around from time to time.
The pizzas are small and the pieces cut small, both of which are plusses as you can try many types plus being good for the kids. My only real complaint is the crust; it’s a very basic low-​flavor crust that I found disappointing. On like a slice of cheese the quality of the crust detracts from the overall slice. On a slice with more toppings like loaded baked potato the crust quality is much less of a factor.
The thing that moves this from 3 stars to 4 for me is the desert pizzas. There are several and they are all quite good. The peach pie we had was particularly nice. I wish more pizza places did desert pies, and being able to get small slices of more than one is awesome.
This place is a no-​brainer if you’re trying to feed a bunch of kids. For adults, it is a great value, but I think many might want a higher end product. Still, I’m an adult and I’d go here every once and a while just for the desert pizzas.

I should have known better! The pizza was not good at all… any of them. The crust taste like paper and all ingredients were very greasy and not fresh at all. I could continue with my discontent but what should I expect for $ 7.00 all you can eat buffet.
The overall setup is basically CiCi’s Pizza with a different name. The only difference is they deliver the pizza to your table. They offer custom pizzas acting as though they are taking your order, which is not the case. I was seated and ordered three slices of pizza, all of them different. Then after 30 minutes, I think I was offered almost every combination that they already had cooked but not my order. I had to ask three times and turn down numerous gross combinations before they got it correct. Don’t get me wrong, the wait staff was very friendly and they were at my table every 3 minutes… but sometimes too much is very annoying!
There are many other options for cheap pizza and I recommend calling them. They will be at your house within 30 minutes or it is free! Also you can stay at home; it would be a much better experience and better pizza.

This place appears to be a copy of Cici’s pizza. $ 7 for the buffet. You can special order from the menu also. I did this as the pizza that was out was old and cold. The crust is the typical buffet cardboard variety. The pizza did have more toppings than other low end buffets. Everybody working was very nice and the service was good. The salad bar was a total disaster from lunch and needed a complete go over. I would not come back unless somebody else wanted to and I would try to suggest somewhere else. It’s really more of a star and a half. UPDATE– After I thought about it, I wouldn’t waste another meal here even if someone else wanted to try it. It was pretty darn bad.