Smoking Monkey Pizza - Renton (WA)

2 /5 Andrew Faulkner: Ive had good pizza here but my last two experiences have not been great. The first time had loaded fries that had barely a sauce applied. Wings that were drier than dirt instead of coated with the glaze offered. This second and final experience ended with a half cooked pizza, dough thats more gooey than cheese and yet a burnt crust. I wish the pepperoni was even crisp. The crew there were really nice, almost shocked that I had this last experience. The rest of my order was okay but I was unable to get a refund on the pizza since I did a combo deal. Doubtful I come back, even for a free pizza. Thanks for the good times Smoking Monkey.

1 /5 Kismet Leo “Lion”: Hate to be this brutally honest but after we were feeling slightly ill trying to eat this and throwing it out ultimately. Received the wrong order entirely, new to the area and heard good things so gave them a try thru Slice. Order was 2hr late And as for the food, order was completely wrong and what was received? Barely edible garbage. Stale Fries that were soaked in oil, oversalted undercooked slices. A very wet flavorless tiny meatball sub that tasted like it was frozen previously.. 2 cokes when the order was for completely different drinks. That was it. $45 down the drain would have been a better spend. Beyond disappointed. The menu reads Amazing so to say this was disappointing? Almost wondered if I received an order from a different pizzeria entirely as this was below bargain bin frozen pizza (think totinos but even more bland) as far as flavor.

1 /5 Brian Pham: $1 Slices! Yup, that’s how they got to give them another try. Except upon my arrival I see a sign for $6 slices as soon as I walk in. So I asked the gal behind the register of the deal was was going on today. She said yes and pointed to two sad pieces of pizza sitting next to her and said that was it. I took the two slices as my son was excited for boys night as I had just picked him up from school and we were supposed to grab pizza and watch the game. Ordered a soda as well with the two slices but was told the machine was broken so she was going to give me a can instead. Ok. Somehow the total came out to over $6. (2 $1 slices and a $1.5 soda) whatever, can see why there’s other poor reviews now. Want to super local, but can’t at this joint. Misses the mark in all aspects. I could put up with whatever including super high prices if the pizza was good, but in this case even Costco > and less 1/4 of the price.

1 /5 Abbey Plankinton: The pizza was good (although one was a bit burnt on top) but the service was terrible. When we came in to the restaurant the music in the ordering area was very loud and made it difficult for us to hear the server/cashier and presumably, for him to hear us. We were asked if we wanted to order to go or for here, and we said to go. The server then said we could sit in the air conditioned section and he would bring us some ice water (it was around 90 degrees out so we thought he was being nice). When we ordered, he brought our pizzas out on platters like we were eating here. When we told him no, we wanted this to go, (instead of just apologizing and saying he heard wrong) he tried to gaslight us by saying that we said we wanted to eat here, and that was the reason he said we could sit in the eating area. He also kept pushing us to get other things by asking us multiple times if we wanted drinks or appetizers, and even handing us the drink menu after we already said no. Then after we bought the pizzas we realized they were both 12”, and we had ordered one 12” and one 16”(even though we had to tell him twice that we wanted a 16” while he had his notepad). So we went back in the restaurant to see what happened and he said sorry and that he only charged us for the two 12” pizzas. Then he said he could make us a 16”, but when I asked if we would have to pay for a whole other pizza, he said ‘well obviously’ while smiling; like it was completely ridiculous for him to correct his mistake by giving us what we ordered. He didn’t even offer to take back the 12” to trade for the 16” and pay the difference. When we got home we also realized he charged us twice for two of the toppings on the build your own pizza we ordered. Up until this point we had a lovely day at a number of other local businesses; which I will be giving very positive reviews after posting this, so check out those reviews for other businesses to go to instead of this one.