Pritty Boys Family Pizzeria

CLOSED FOR BUSINESS— I walked by here on August 14, 2014 and there is a sign in the window thanking the neighborhood for three great years and saying that they are closed for business.

Sorry, but waited too long for the menus and water, which were almost thrown at us on the table… Literally just put the pitcher and the stacked cups on the table and walked off. Then after ordering, three of the six dishes came and we had to try and get someone’s attention for silverware, of which they didn’t have enough of, so they gave us two plastic forks? Really?! Then the rest of the dishes finally came… The salads were «eh», only because my husband had to cut up his whole leaves of lettuce It was definitely not a good first impression… The pizza was good though, that’s the only reason why there’s two stars instead on one.

This is a good place to eat If your looking for comfort food. I been here many times either with friends and family or on a date. They never disappoint.

Food: 4 stars. Very good, reliable pizza, great salads, good sandwiches, yummy mac and cheese — I have zero complaints about the food here.
Atmosphere: 5 stars. I have a 2 year old and it is THE BEST to be able to bring her here and not worry about her… she goes right into the play room and hangs out, runs around and the staff don’t seem to mind, and it’s just loud and full of kids and perfect for families. Relaxing for parents.
Décor could use some help, especially the back room with the weird banquette with no where to put your feet so they hang into thin air, the boombox, the wires and crap all over, etc.
(Also — please clean the windows and toys once in a while)
Service: 1 – 2 stars. Please, oh PLEASE start training your waitstaff how to actually wait tables! From what I can tell, they hire kid after kid after kid to wait tables, don’t train them at all, they suck and lose tips, they quit, and repeat.
Really, the management should be embarrassed by the terrible service there, it’s totally their fault (I mostly do not fault untrained kids, although, come on guys, even an untrained waiter knows not to talk to their friends ALL NIGHT and ignore tables. Seriously.). I’m used to bad service in Seattle; this is some of the worst I’ve experienced.
We will continue to go here very often regardless, due to the family-​friendliness, but they’ve gotta pick up their service game.

Awesome family place! My son loved the play area while we waited for our food. I tried Gluten Free pizza for the first time and it was great! I would definitely reccomend it!

I feel a little weird writing this review, because this place is just not designed for someone like me. By «someone like me», I mean a childless person.
This place is pure crazy town with kids. They are running everywhere, yelling and screaming and having the time of their lives. That is undoubtedly great for them and for their parents, who can and do pretty much ignore these kids as they race around dodging servers. If you aren’t used to this madness, it’s kind of hellish. And loud. So loud that we had to raise our voices to be heard. The website sort of insinuates that there are quieter areas to enjoy your meal, but I sure didn’t see any in the building. We joked that maybe the quiet area is in the kitchen.
The pizza was okay. It tasted fine, but the crusts were so raised and bubbly that the toppings were all in the middle of the pie; two to three bites, and all that was left was a big ol’ piece of crust. Boooo.
The staff was super-​nice, and the beer selection was decent. I understand why families like it. I just don’t think I can ever go back.

Nice play for parent to hang out when they have kid. Except the playground not that big I imagine. But still nice. Happy hour from 3’30 to 5 have cheap staters food. You should check it out if you have kids. Indeed the customer service is not that good though.

Excellent place if you have a kid. Everything else is mediocre at best. We go here somewhat regularly since we live in the neighborhood but it angers me every time.
SLOW service with an astounding aloofness and lack of awareness in the servers. As a kid friendly place, one might think it would be possible to at least deliver the kid’s meal with some promptness. Tonight we waited about 45 minutes for our salad to arrive, 5 minutes later our pizza and 10 minutes later we got our kid’s mac & cheese.
Salad was great. Pizza has giant puffy and tough crust with a tinge of sourdough flavor. It’s like eating a loaf of bread with your pizza. And if yo u get a cheese pizza there is usually an incredible amount of gut bombing grease that comes with it.
The interior is fine, dorky and uninspired. Like a Home Depot remodel.

Oh Pritty Boys please improve!

While the kids area is an awesome find in this day and age, the service and food lack.
I’ve been here 2 or 3 times. The first time was for a birthday party so the service was probably what one would expect. However, the last time we went it was like the server couldn’t care any less about a tip. She came back twice: when we finished eating; to drop off the bill. Here’s the ringer: there was only one other table when we arrived, and then one more couple came in after us.
The pizza isn’t anything to write home about, but what stands out is the children’s play area. They also have some video games in the back room.
Will I return? Only if I have a 50% off coupon.

Um, yes, yes, thank you, yes.
I will discuss.
1. Play area for my child.
2. Other children running around willy nilly.
3. Lots of high chairs.
4. Patient, friendly staff who not only tolerate said willy nillies, but actually seem to enjoy them.
5. MOZZARELLA STICKS.
6. Pizza with comte and truffle oil!!!
7. Delicious Greek salad.
8. MOZZARELLA STICKS.
All of the above make Pritty Boys awesome. But what makes it invaluable is being able to eat out and actually relax. I don’t have to sit there the entire time worrying that my son is annoying someone, or being a pest, or making too much noise. Cause everyone else’s kid is doing the same thing.
Love it. Love it! Thank you for giving us a place we can eat out and enjoy ourselves.

Totally not our normal scene, but since my 1 year old nephew moved to Seattle we have been visiting and hunting for more family friendly places. Pritty Boys is great because it’s not just for kids — though they certainly make it clear with the butcher paper table tops and play area that kids are their main target audience. The bar area is pretty cool and I’ve peeked into the back to check out the arcade room.
Overall a solid place if you’re toting around some humans of the toddler variety. I definitely wouldn’t come otherwise, though. Not because the food isn’t good — it definitely is… and the service is top notch. I just think there are better places to go that are more accessible for adults sans fam.

It’s Friday night. It’s packed. I got the attention of the staff barely before I was in the door. The staff were SUPER sweet to my nieces. Customer service: A.
I never had gluten free pizza before. That is specifically why we came, as my extended family recently discovered this food intolerance. This is exactly how I want crust… thin, crispy… basically as a tool to funnel cheese and other delicious foods in my mouth. Loved it.
Also, free video game and pinball for a quarter? How can you go wrong???

The pizza is pretty good — great crust, a little stingy on the toppings which others have observed but it is overall good. The kids play area and video room are great if you do have kids in the toddler — 7-​year old range.
We have gone here twice now and it is not likely we will return. On our first visit, the service was very slow, disorganized and completely inattentive. There is no need for a pizzeria to provide 5-​star, white glove service, but we do expect to be acknowledged and, um, if you request water, having to ask twice more for the same water is not really ‘service.
So first visit was not that great based on the above so we returned again a couple of days ago to try it out again — any place can have an off-​night, right? Wow, virtual repeat. Slow to get seated (the place was not crowded). Someone finally graced us with their attention after we had been sitting for 15 minutes with no menu, no drink, no acknowledgement. After our order (it was just two of us) we watched two larger groups get seated AND served before us. No biggie, kid was having fun in the game room. When I did flag down the young lady to ask if we were going to get our two small pizzas, she was put out that she had to answer a question and pointed out that she was not really even our server! This same young lady spend most of the hour and a half we were there fiddling with the computer at the hostess station and chatting with the staff.
The young man that finally did serve us and took care of the balance of the meal made an effort but appeared to be distracted.
Overall, the staff here is disorganized and management would do well to spend some time and effort on customer service training. Another staff member spend a good deal of time texting or doing something else on her phone. All of the staff were very chatty with each other and a couple of customers at the bar but virtually ignored the dining room.
We may give it one more try but at this service level, no worth the stop right now.

This is a good place to go when you’re just at the end of your rope with the crazy toddler and you just need to get some food in your body.
Food — 3 stars. I had the spaghetti with meatballs and it was a fine dish… but not fantastic. It’s basically something I could make at home with little effort. I do think that they used good ingredients in their food and I can tell that a lot of attention was given to everything they prepared… cuz dayam, it took a long time to get our food!
Service — 4 stars. Our waiter was attentive and checked back with us a few times. The food took a very long time to arrive, though. For a place that has a kid play area, you’d think they’d be a little more attentive to this detail.
Ambiance — 4 stars. I’m a big fan of their play area! Honestly, it is better and has more toys than other restaurant play areas I’ve seen in the past. The ambiance in the rest of the restaurant was unremarkable.
Price — 3 stars. Price not commensurate with taste. However, the portions are adequate.
I would go back if I were in the neighborhood… but I don’t think I’d go out of my way for this restaurant. There weren’t a lot of people there the last time we went. I hope that this place makes it, though. Their food is really decent and that play area is rockin’!!

How have I not reviewed this place yet? When I first went, I wasn’t expecting much. The TVs, arcade room, and toddler play area put to mind a scaled-​down Chuck E. Cheese’s. Happy to report I was totally wrong.
Ambiance: As a teenager, I was a video game junkie. As a 40-​something, the sounds of arcade games get my Depends in a bunch. The games here are in a separate room and can’t be heard over the more organic din of the play area. The TVs are tedious and distracting, but at least the sound is off. The background music, on the other hand, is great. (Last week I heard «Lola» by the Kinks. Awesome.)
Food: The pizza is pritty good. (See what I did there?) The crust is thicker than I prefer, but the flavor is good and their ingredients are varied and high quality. And it’s light years ahead of the dreck they serve at the Ale House. The salads are solid. But where this place really shines is in the specials, like a seasonal appetizer of warm Brussels sprouts and pancetta, or the potato-​leek soup. Clearly someone in the kitchen likes to play, and they do a damn fine job at it.

Such a warm, friendly, and pleasant place! It’s both family friendly (I LOVE the kid’s play area in the corner!) and comfortable for adults. There are great beer and wine choices… as well as a terrific menu. And, the service is both efficient and friendly.
My son and I ate dinner here last night. First we shared a Greek salad. We debated about getting a full or a half as a starter, and I’m glad we chose the later because it definitely was big enough for two to share. Lots of fresh greens topped with red onion, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, sliced kalamata olives, and lots and lots of feta cheese. Super delicious! And, the dressing (served as requested on the side) was wonderful. The only thing I would ave added to that salad would be peppers (green and/​or pepperocinis).
We then ordered a pizza, choosing our our own toppings, rather than ordering one of the many specialty one on the menu). Fresh mozzarella cheese, roasted red peppers, and red onion. It was DELICIOUS!!! The crust had a great flavor and perfect texture, the sauce was wonderfully spiced, and the toppings were fresh and plentiful. It was a PERFECT PIZZA! We had a large (family sized) which had 8 good sized slices. Enough for us for dinner plus a couple of extra slices to take out for another meal. Yum!

They have gluten free (gf) pizza, unfortunately it is not that good. Can’t speak for their normal pizzas but their gf pizza was bland and forgettable. Even as I am writing this it’s hard to recall their pizza since it wasn’t really amazing or horrible just meh… I would suggest going elsewhere for your gf pizza fix.
Called in an order and got there to pick it up on time but when I got home the pizza was already really cold. Usually when you take home a pizza that supposedly just got out of the over it should still be warm. Guess I should have gotten there earlier than the time that was stated.

We brought a large group (70 people) to Pritty Boys for a pizza party after a swim meet and had a great experience. Prior to our visit we had spoke with Darren (Owner) and Byron (Manager) to work out the logistics of our visit. When our group arrived they were ready for us and maintained a steady flow of pizza and drinks to keep the party going. The pizza was great and the game room was a huge hit with the kids. While the food and venue are both fantastic, what is most impressive about Pritty Boys is the service. From our initial call to check if they were able to accommodate a large group until the last guest left the party everyone at Pritty Boys offered us a «yes we can» service attitude that seems to be missing from so many larger franchise businesses today.
On the restaurant’s website they state their goal is to «treat everyone like our family and ensure that everyone has a great time and enjoys our food.» Pritty Boys definitely met this goal with our group.

This is a kid-​friendly restaurant. Too kid friendly — it’s expensive as a pizzeria, and the pizza is average, nothing special. Our dominant reaction after going was that the focus was on kids, and that as adults, we didn’t need to go back. The ambiance was dissonant — dark like an upscale restaurant, with the kids corner the dominant feature of the restaurant.
If I’m going to a sit-​down pizza place, I expect the pizza to be really good, and the atmosphere to work. This place missed on both accounts.
It’s too bad, because I’d really like them to succeed — Madrona needs more casual dining with reasonable prices. Somehow, they’ve just missed the mark. My impression, and I could be wrong, is that they don’t have much experience in the restaurant business, and this just isn’t tuned the right way.
At a casual evening round of drinks on a friend’s patio, we all agreed (5 households) that we wouldn’t be going back ourselves, but we hope they make it even so.

For the Madrona neighborhood, I feel a unique sadness for you, you have no decent restaurants or heck even a grocery store nearby!
Imagine if you had a couple of kids to toss in, this place would be decently amazing for you — they have a huge play pen for kiddos off to the side. But really, why are we aiming to be like a Chucky Cheese here?
Our group ordered a half vegetarian half meat combo pizza which came swimming in grease. Also the slices are huge! Great for smaller groups, but when your med-​large number it can it awkward to divide the pizza unless you’ve ordered more than one.
I’ll save myself for Capitol Hill’s better offerings.