Definitely good food for the price, and most of the deserts are delicious
Frida B.
Tu valoración: 1 Las Vegas, NV
Why did this location close? Can’t find any info.
Alyssa H.
Tu valoración: 4 San Diego, CA
For everyone who left bad reviews, I’m not sure what you were expecting lmao, I mean you get all you can eat pizza for $ 5.99. And it is CICIS, you can’t really expect five star service from this chain, and especially not for their prices. You people are hard to please. Lol. ANYWAY. I had a great time here. The kept fresh pizza out, it was clean, and I actually quite enjoyed my pasta and every slice of pizza I shoved in my face. The dessert pizzas are also delightful. My favorites were the stuffed crust pizza and buffalo chicken. Yes it was noisy and lots of kids, but again it is CICISPIZZAGUYS. I would sure as hell bring my kids here too for the prices. My husband and I ate for $ 12 total, so I wasn’t complaining about a damn thing to be honest with you. Go enjoy some cheap pizza and remind yourself this isn’t Ruth Chris steakhouse. Pay your $ 5 for all you can eat and ignore the employees who may or may not be rude to you. Again, $ 5 people, FIVEDOLLARS.
Robert P.
Tu valoración: 1 Arcadia, CA
Makes little Ceasars look like authentic Italian cuisine. Worst paper thin, when I ordered a regular crust, no topping, no cheese, hardly any sauce, most pathetic, worse then microwave pizza, excuse for a pizza I have ever had. My expectations where none existent because it’s cicis, but this cicis is either blatantly trying to rip people off, or don’t care in the slightest for any kind of quality whatever. The Manager here clearly dosn’t give a crap about his store being sanitary or his products being edible.
David K.
Tu valoración: 2 San Diego, CA
Not terrible, but not cheap enough to outweigh the quality anymore $ 19 bucks for two — pizza out is stake and old, actually curling up on the edges… Pasta floating in nasty water at the bottom, yellowed and hard on top. Salad bar well stocked though. Not like the other locations I’ve been to. Maybe more worth it at lunch for $ 5…
Ashley E.
Tu valoración: 3 San Diego, CA
So the great thing about CiCi’s is that it is cheap. For under 6 dollars not including a drink you can have unlimited pizza, pasta, soup, salad, cheese sticks and dessert. If you do not like any of the pizzas on the buffet you can request whatever kind you like pending availability of ingredients. I personally like the zesty ham and cheddar and their Mac and cheese pizza as I am not a fan of their red sauce. The soup is okay but needs some salt. It is my son’s favorite item. I have not tried their pasta as the sauces look awful. The salad bar is nicely stocked but I do not like their dressings. Service is very inconsistent. Sometimes there is a teenager manager who likes to stand around and not work which leaves a very unclean restaurant and minimal choices at the buffet and sometimes there is an awesome manager who keeps everything cleaned and the buffet full. I’ve also seen a manager who has her family there and ignores the restaurant while she eats with her family. The staff about a year ago was much friendlier and the restaurant was always clean. I wish the same employees were still there. Look at your plates before use, lately half of them seem to still have food on them. Overall it’s a cheap and fast lunch or dinner which is why I come back.
Karla C.
Tu valoración: 1 Chula Vista, CA
What ever you do ur better off ordering lil cesar’s pizza not kidding. This will b my first and last time here, yes its really affordable and employees seem friendly, but you get shep food. The salad bar is pretty gross the whole bar was dirty as well as tables and floor. And the salad bar its located right next to the cash register. Employees working here where coughing like everywhere. Definitely a first bad experience and will not be coming here again. I dont recomend this place 4 anyone. Sorry CICI’S you look better on your comercials.
Marina H.
Tu valoración: 5 San Diego, CA
There isn’t much to say about a $ 6 buffet besides the fact that it’s cheap and delicious. What really set this location apart was the attention the manager(Friday afternoon) gave each customer. She asked us multiple times if there was anything she could get us and made sure everything at the buffet was adequately stocked. I don’t expect much going into places like these, but this customer service was 5 star quality!
Denise L.
Tu valoración: 1 San Diego, CA
Greater than the one because you actually have to write them but my experience here tonight on November 22nd2015 the service was horrible I asked for a specialty pizza and they say they’re no longer making them for the night and like they couldn’t tell me that when I first came in this is ridiculous the management that’s on tonight his attitude sucks and it can’t even get his stuff together this is the worst dining experience I have ever had here and I’m thinking about twice about ever coming here again and I will be letting all of my friends and family know as well not to come here and ever done in his restaurant we have now been waiting 45 minutes for our wings this is just ridiculous and I won’t give us our money back either
Max T.
Tu valoración: 1 Spring Valley, CA
Food is bland, at least it’s warm. Sodas are not tasty, more soda water than syrup. Pasta watered down. Seems it’s busy since the hometown finally closed.
Mark G.
Tu valoración: 3 Tehachapi, CA
Just came out of curiosity, since I have seen commercials for years without ever being near a location. Good family place. The pizza is so-so at best. The cheesy, stuffed crust pizza was the best. The Alfredo sauce is not half bad, and the salad bar is alright. The brownie is warm and delicious, but the cinnamon roll needs icing. Not a bad budget place for myself and the family. You get what you pay for.
Andrea M.
Tu valoración: 4 Spring Valley, CA
Cici’s is great. Bree is amazing! I love coming in when she’s working. Always a smile on her face, she’s very friendly. For about $ 6 ~ all you can eat pizza along with a small salad bar, pasta with marinara or alfredo sauce & desserts. Drink is not included and will cost you another couple bucks. I love that you can special order so you aren’t stuck with the options they have out. My favorite special order is a pizza bowl ~ a foil bowl(round to-go container) with all of the toppings in it you want, you can have pasta at the bottom if you like. I like mine with just the toppings to make up for all of the carbs I eat here. With such a low price, it can get crowded and I’ve seen people come in with table decorations and have a birthday party. I always keep an eye on the buffet for when they put out fresh cinnamon rolls. They don’t put enough icing for my taste, but will add some it you ask. If you need anything, just ask.
Robert R.
Tu valoración: 4 Imperial, CA
HI! Welcome to Cici’s! So here’s the deal. Not to many places a family of three can eat for under $ 18. Plus this place is probably quicker than a drive thru, you can get in, pay, eat and walk out and back in your car without a wait. Well once you get passed the cashier. This place is Hometown meets Chuck E Cheese. First, whoever came up with the brilliant idea to open an all you can eat restaurant is a genius. Each one is slightly different but not really. The regular pizza offerings that each location stock up on at the counter might be different but it seems they all have the same ingredients to make the same items behind the counter. So if you’ve been to another location and don’t see something you like all you gotta do is ask the friendly staff behind the counter. This place is pretty clean for the amount of people that work here and the amount of people that roll through its doors. I wouldn’t go eating off the floor here, but I wouldn’t at home either… The salad bar is always fully stocked and has plenty of choices. They have a pasta/soup station to get you warm on a colder evening. Than you find yourself smack dab in the middle of pizza heaven. Their crust seems to be a work in progress but it’s not bad. They offer plenty of choices, and for those that cannot find their favorite pie, guess what? They’ll make it for you: you can request them to build your own special pie. After dinner, if you still have room, you can slam down a hot and fresh baked cinnamon roll, a brownie or a desert pizza. The cinnamon rolls are awesome straight off the oven rack! Place is even complete with TVs and game room. So for you dads looking for a place to entertain the kids and watch a game you can’t beat it. Is the pizza Mona Lisa or Fillipis? Nope, but at less than $ 7 a person you walk out stuffed and have fun. The workers here are always friendly and these guys do a great job of clearing off your table so you have plenty of room for all of your future trips to get your grub on!
Joseph C.
Tu valoración: 1 South Bay Terraces, San Diego, CA
This place is roach infested don’t eat here. I seen a roach by the soda machine. I work for schools and know but exterminators and when there’s one there’s at least 10 more where that came from. Then on top of it the employees here are very rude & demeaning. I wouldn’t recommend coming here, I know I won’t be back.
Robin D.
Tu valoración: 2 Grantville, San Diego, CA
Pizza was alright can’t complain tho for the price and it’s all u can eat but my son hand trouble sipping out the cup they gave him so I went to open the cup to poor into his sipper cup and BOOM a fly stuck to a piece of ice smh what a drag! Come on people keep it clean ur location already suggest you guys would be dirty but what happen today just let me down never will be back again and if anyone ask me I will not recommend
Riley S.
Tu valoración: 4 Chula Vista, San Diego, CA
HI! WELCOMETOCICISSSSSSSLOL… I like Cicis it’s good pizza. Pretty cheap for the buffet. They have some unique pizzas; macaroni & chz pizza, Apple pie pizza. If there’s a certain pizza tickling your tastebuds all you have is request them to make it for you. My faves are the chicken buffalo and the plain pepperoni. The spinach is pretty good too. Be aware if your on. a diet tho!!! Here is the no. 1 place for carbs!!! They have a small side place for pasta and salad with some veggies. I think they could focus on that side better tho. maybe add some spinach in there. But if I’m ever craving pizza buffet for cheap I’ll come to cicis
Chris V.
Tu valoración: 3 San Diego, CA
Cheap, all you can eat pizza, pasta, salad, drink. What else could one want? While CiCi’s is not a chain I haunt, I am frequently in areas where I find them. Each location is slightly different, from what is available among the pizza and salads(the pasta and sauce seems the same at each one). At one location, I am able to get a pizza that has feta cheese and jalapeño… but I see nothing unique at this location. It would appear that pepperoni and sausage are the available meat toppings here, and onion and olive the veggie. Salad bar with its’ 16 choices and 6 dressings(overkill?)…nothing incredible or amazing. The iceburg lettuce is fresh… This is a place to bring young children who are not very discerning in taste… or teens with their«whatever» attitude about everything. Staff is friendly… food is acceptable. Cleanliness is OK. A solidly sturdy and forgettable experience.
Gabriela V.
Tu valoración: 3 San Diego, CA
I thought i had seen some pretty flacid things in my life but Cicis pizza takes the cake. I didn’t believe my bf when he told me it’s just $ 5 to eat here. I’m just like the rest of YALL on here who enjoys their fancy foodie eats at certain establishments but today I decided to be rebellious. Once we paid and I saw what was offered i muttered to myself«this is a ghetto souplantation». You got carbs carbs carbs and carbs. There’s a salad bar of iceberg lettuce with every imaginable topping that doesn’t belong on a salad. Then there’s one a soup offered next to plain pasta with Mariana sauce for you to add and a long line of several varieties of paper thin pizzas. Followed by desert that consists of desert pizza, brownies and cinnamon rolls that have been stretched out of their coils and dismembered. A lot of things here are made with the same type of ingredients all throughout the buffet just in different varieties. I can totally see why Cicis pizza was placed in university heights. You get unlimited amount of food for a below average price to feed yourself and your family while stretching your dollar. I was gluttonous and stuffed my face. I came here knowing what I was going to expect and that wasn’t Souplantation. Of Your ballin on a budget, got mouths to feed or if you’re stoned out of your mind. This is the place to come. The staff was surprisingly very nice and attentive to our dirty plates and I can appreciate that. Also, check out the bitchin virgin de Guadalupe coin machine on the way out. My boy took me to a buffet and proposed to me with a Virgini Mary purity ring in the parking lot. Be jealous fellow female Unilocalers, I’m goin places.
Jon Q.
Tu valoración: 1 Sacramento, CA
This place was pretty gross. I guess it was kind of cheap, but for $ 2 more you could go to the round table pizza buffet which features pizza and salad that is infinitely better.
Here’s my notes from the pizzas: The crust here is bland and lifeless. I think it’s a tad under cooked. The red sauce is flat and sweet. The white sauce is flavorless. The buffalo chicken pizza was salty and just tasted wrong. In fact, all of the chicken pizzas were kind of weird, because they had the tiniest cubes of chicken sprinkled on top. Tiny, pale cubes of presumably chicken. The spinach pizza was disgusting and tasted like they just threw on frozen spinach right on top of the pizza. I could not think of any redeeming qualities while I was sampling the various slices of pizza at the buffet. Salad notes: plain iceberg salad mix with toppings that appeared to come out of a giant can. Even the tomatoes looked terrible. They were pale and flavorless. The sad part is, the salad bar was the most enjoyable part of the buffet. Save your time and your calories and find a round table buffet for lunch.
Kelli S.
Tu valoración: 5 Honolulu, HI
In Hawaii, we would always see numerous commercials for CiCi’s Pizza … and we didn’t even have a CiCi’s. So when I moved to California, naturally, that was one of the chains I wanted to try. I didn’t go in with super high expectations, but for all-you-can-eat pizza for about $ 6, you can’t really go wrong. Sometimes, CiCi’s even does monthly specials, in which the all-you-can-eat pizza buffet is only $ 5 for lunch. The pizza at CiCi’s isn’t gourmet pizza, but it still tastes good to me and I always make sure to be hungry whenever I know I’m going to CiCi’s(gotta get my money’s worth). All the pizzas are made fresh, and there’s a great variety that’s available in the buffet. Kids will be happy with the more traditional pizzas(pepperoni, cheese), and there are other types of pizzas on the line to choose from(BBQ chicken, Hawaiian, etc.). Most of the pizzas, however, aren’t labeled, so you basically have to go by looks when making your selection. Before the pizza buffet, there’s a small salad bar where you can get some greens(iceberg lettuce) and toppings(olives, dressing, bacon bits, etc.). I am a fan of the pasta salad, so I always get that. There’s also a little station for pasta — you can get mac and cheese or plain, curly noodles with the sauce of your choice(tomato or creamy Alfredo). I have been to several CiCi’s locations, and I have noticed that each one tends to be a little different. This San Diego location was one of the cleaner store I have visited, and the staff was very friendly during my visits there. The garlic rolls at this particular location were very yummy. Here are some of the must-haves, though, when it comes to the CiCi’s buffet. And all of the pizzas are thin-crust style, so you can definitely fill ‘er up(note: to avoid getting full faster, only eat part of the crust on each slice, not the whole thing): «Mac & Cheese» Pizza: You won’t often see this particular pizza sitting out on the buffet line, and come to think of it, all the times I have been to CiCi’s, I’ve had to request it. This creamy, savory pizza comes with the curly noodles(same type featured at the pasta station) baked on top to make the ultimately cheesy pizza. Now, mac & cheese pizza might sound gross – like a wet and watery mess – but the noodles are baked firmly atop the pizza but the cheese remains melted and gooey. My boyfriend and I have ordered an entire mac & cheese pizza before for ourselves to share … it was that good. «Chicken Alfredo» Pizza: Although I don’t know the name of this pizza, I liked it because it was one of few on the line that featured a cream sauce. There were small chunks of grilled chicken atop the pizza, and in addition to the cheese, the pizza seemed to be topped with the same Alfredo sauce that was featured in the pasta station. A cheese lover at heart, I found this pizza to be gooey and delicious. Garlic Knots: The garlic knots can be found by the pasta section and they’re super garlicky and flavorful! I went to CiCi’s several times before trying the garlic bread for the first time, and I’m glad I did. These little round balls of dough can fill you up, though, so try to only start with 1 – 2 and then come back for more later! Brownies: CiCi’s has a small dessert section at the end of the pizza line. This little section provides several options for those who want to end their savory pizza meal on a sweet note. There’s cinnamon bites, a dessert pizza and a slab of cut-up brownies. I always go for the brownies(yes, more than one) to finish off my CiCi’s visit. Although they’re a bit flatter than most brownies I’ve encountered, the CiCi’s brownies are great because they taste like dark chocolate. Served warm and topped with powdered sugar, the brownies feature a dark chocolate flavor and are moist and dense. When you first bite into the brownie, it may seem a little cakey because of the crisp top, but once you reach the center, you’ll experience that moist, chewy fudginess that makes every brownie stellar.