Really cool place with delicious pizza. People here at really nice. The beers are cold!! Kind of an old fashion type of place with neat little artifacts of days gone by in this nice little town of Kalama. The bartender here is really nice and you can tell she is a super nice lady. I got the supreme style of pizza here. If you ask they will even give you some free red or green peppers on your pizza. The crust was kind of hard and crispy so when you grabbed your slice of pizza it did not like bend over. If it did you would lose all the small chucks of sausage. I lost a couple small chunks of sausage too as they are on top of the cheese and roll right off. Later on I even saw an older lady losing her chunks of sausage off her pizza falling into her loo and on the floor lol. I got the small pizza. My buddy and I had 3 pieces each. I gave the other two pieces to another friend of mine. Can't wait to come back again. Oh and the $2.00 Ecliptic Stardust cans of beers were not a bad deal either. read more

Poker Pete's Tavern - Go Viks - Pizza Near Me - Kalama, Washington

The most expensive pizza I've ever ordered. 30 dollars for a cheese pizza. I got a special 3 topping pizza for 25. Which I guess wouldn't be bad except they used CANNED MUSHROOMS. Absurd. If you are about to charge 30 dollars per pizza you either need to use real mushrooms or at minimum tell your customers you are about to use canned mushrooms. Also its 1.50 per ranch. read more

We have been here twice now. Plenty of room for our party of 8. Cold beer and great drinks! Friendly service. We all loved the chopped salad. Pizza is about a 6...still a 5 star overall experience and will come back! read more

Pretty good pizza. We order ab 1 x per month. Wish they had fresh mushrooms instead of canned. read more

Great service at this small town low-key tavern. Food was hot and beer was cold. Pool table, pull tabs, several TVs and plenty of conversation with friendly locals. We'll be back! read more

The bartender is horrible. Needs work on her customer service skills. I'm new town and never felt out of place. I'm in the industry and someone like that would be fired eventually. If your the owner of this establishment I'd think hard about replacing this person. Out with the old in with the new. I witnessed a real uncomfortable situation probably not the first. If you continue to accept this behavior you'll lose new customers. Or maybe it's a bar who only caterers to regulars if that's the case then post it outside so we won't waste our time going in. read more

Genuinely some of the worst pizza you can find. Dough is dry as carboard, ingredients are straight from the can, and it doesn't really taste like anything. It's very expensive for what it is. Your money would be better spent driving down the road to Costco and getting three decent pies for the price of one painfully bland one here. Every staff member I've spoken to, though, has been extremely nice - I have nothing but positive things to say about the staff! The atmosphere is also quite nice - it's a good spot to hang out. The problem is solely with the food here read more

A curly haired bigger lady took my beer in front of me and said I was swaying and too inebriated and would cost her job if a higher upper came in. The bar was full and my dad had the last seat in the bar on the right side of the bar closer to the front door. I stood next to him and talked to only him and had a beer. I am a 26 year old that has had brain surgery 9 months ago that failed and I still have seizures everyday and can't ever reach the goals I wish I could. I am slowly down falling with my health and I can't control it but I try to enjoy my life because I'm still alive. I will never come back to this place and hope all of you that have a disability or any dignity do not come to this establishment. Thank you and God Bless read more

Poker Pete's Tavern - I live in kalama. Love you all and hope everybody appreciates the small things - Pizza Near Me - Kalama, Washington

Have your pizza and beer too get your pizza from the pizza parlor next-door. You either order it in the pizza parlor and have it delivered over to Poker Pete's Tavern or you can just sit at the table and Poker Pete's Tavern and order your beer and a pizza too. All the bartenders are fantastic. Doing an amazing job there's times when there's 75 people in there Playing pool celebrating a birthday meeting after work for a couple of beers and a pizza. It's all fantastic and there's big screen TVs with several different sports events on to keep track. Your favorite team air conditioning works great. The camaraderie is wonderful. Everybody's nice and polite. A cozy place to go. What do you just want a beer after work meet several people to celebrate something. It's all good. You're gonna have a big party. I recommend calling ahead so you can get the big table back by the big TV Pizza is fantastic from Poker Pete's pizza parlor next-door. read more

Always have a good experience, friendly staff, fast service. Pizza is pretty good, overall all satisfied

I hate to leave a negative review but our last experience was terrible. I asked for extra sauce, was told ok, but there wasn't hardly any sauce on the pizza. It smelled like wet cardboard and it tasted like wet cardboard. How sad that Dominos makes much better pizza. read more

This is ridiculous. Poker petes pizza use to be some of my favorite & its gone down hill bad. The last few times we've ordered pizza its flat, taste like cardboard and hardly any toppings. Very disappointing especially with the cost we pay. What happened? read more

Poker Pete's Tavern - Cheese pizza - Pizza Near Me - Kalama, Washington

Overpriced pizza for nothing special. CANNED MUSHROOMS BEWARE. Sauce has no flavor it's completely bland. Do not recommend.

If I could, I would give it 4.5 star, but I can't so I rounded up because they deserve it! Wonderful pizza :) Is this the best pizza I've ever had? No. BUT... it is darn good, fully loaded, crispy thin crust on a not-so-thin pizza. They do use canned mushrooms, which I prefer, so just keep that in mind if you are too good for them. I wish I could have eaten inside as it was very clean (forgot to take picture). read more

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Family owned. Always wonderful service. Great bar for small town Kalama. Definitely a class reunion for all, lol. Great pizza and drinks and wonderful staff working for the years I've been going. (: Always a pleasure! read more

If 21, you can order pizzas on the bar side of the business as early as 11 am, every day. The pizza parlor side has different hours than the bar side. read more

Great service, food and ambiance! We have had several parties there in the bar and always super accommodating! Great community place to hang out also! read more

More than $20 for a pizza I'd expect fresh mushrooms. CANNED Customer service was fine, it did smell weird. I'm just so sad about the mushrooms! read more

I'm not sure about their service as we ordered pizza to go, 1/2 "Evan Strikes Gold" (aka Hawaiian); 1/2 "Rodeo". I was EXTREMELY disappointed before I even tried it when I noticed the mushrooms on the Rodeo half actually came out of a can and were not fresh. The texture of canned mushrooms grosses me out. I wasn't a fan of their sausage either. Then on the other (Hawaiian) half, I had bites that were like when you get a grain of dirt or sand in your food. I thought it otherwise tasted fine and it wasn't every bite that had that, but it's off putting when it feels like you have a grain of dirt or sand in your food. I'm not saying that is what it was, but it was a grain of something which made it unpleasant to eat. I will not rule out eating there again, as even restaurants can have days worse than others. I just know not to order the Rodeo or anything else that has mushrooms on it. read more

We were in town visiting family over the holidays. Kalama has very few choices of places to dine. We had been to all of them except for this place. We were hungry for pizza and didn't actually expect too much but we were pleasantly surprised. The pizza was great! They were having a special on their pepperoni pizza and that's what we had to try. We loved it. I also loved the fact that the pieces were cut in smaller pieces than most places. We will definitely be stopping at this place again and trying a few of their other pizzas. read more

What is up with pizza in Washington!?! Once again, another tragic failure. I don't understand how a cracker qualifies as pizza crust. Bread from an Army ration has more texture and flavor! As the only pizza restaurant in town, there doesn't seem to be any motivation to improve. I'd prefer a frozen Digiorno's pizza instead of this dry, flavorless pizza. Someone! Anyone! Please import a decent pizza restaurant into southeast Washington! read more

Great service! Great pizza! Bartender/waitress on her own but our party of 10 did not go without drinks or food on a Friday night. What may have lacked in expediency was more than made up by her quick wit and humor! Definitely return! read more

I recently moved here and desperately wanted someone to deliver. Poker Pete's does not deliver. We ordered a salad and a medium pizza, we waited about 45 minutes (maybe a little longer?). It seemed like a really long time when you are hungry and still have to drive home with it. I did enter on the tavern side though, I'm not sure if the restaurant side was busy (but there weren't any cars parked out front). The salad was OK, made with shredded lettuce not chopped lettuce, odd. The pizza was really good, it was about $19 for a medium and had 3 different meats and mushrooms on it. The bar looked kind of cool, there were 2 pool tables and a few locals. I'll be back, the food was good but hopefully it won't take that long next time. read more

Ok pizza. Nothing special. Stone-fired crusts are good, but everything else is so-so. PPT- get in the game!

We love the pizza here. It's thin and crispy and the toppings go all the way to the edge, the last bit which is my favorite part! The service here is always super friendly and really quick. They never seems to be a lot of people eating in the restaurant. Most people are taking to go orders or are next-door at the bar, where you can also eat pizza. No free refills on the soda seemed a little stingy considering they weren't very large. This is our go to place for a sitdown meal when traveling between Olympia and Portland. read more

Personally I love their pizza especially the rodeo. Could stand for more sauce in my opinion. Usually wait to have it when it is on sale I don't know if they are still doing that. Wish they would come up with a thin crust option. read more

I have only two good things to say: it's nearby, and I've never gotten food poisoning eating their pizza. Anytime I've gone in to pick up a pizza, it's always smelled a bit odd in the place. The pizza, while not horrendous, is reminiscent to me of school cafeteria fare (before the age of letting Pizza Hut and Papa John's provide school lunches). Oh, and what's the deal with cold tomatoes served on the side with a hot (or sometimes warm, here) pizza? I've encountered that more places than just Poker Pete's, and for me, it just makes the pizza that much less appetizing. [Edit: It used to be nearby, when I was living in Kalama; I've since moved.] read more

Not the best pizza I have had , but it was ok. Who uses canned mushrooms, yuk. The drink at the bar was good not watered down

Amazing Pizza. Our new go to place. Local friendly small business that deserve a shout out. Went their for super bowl Sunday and had a blast. Met new friends. We try to go once a week. We have not made it for taco Thursday. We definitely are going to try that too. Hit this place up for decent pizzas read more

Simply amazing pizza. I think it's the best pizza I e ever had in Washington. It's not fancy and it doesn't have u inquest toppings. What it does have is quality ingredients and crust. Family owned. Legit place. It's in my top 5 pizza joints in the country. Cathy whims at Nostrana in Portland is my number one.... Just sayin.... read more

Poker Pete's Tavern - The locals at their watering hole. Beer and liquor. Minors welcome on the other side. Booze and good pizza.... What more.. - Pizza Near Me - Kalama, Washington

If this is the best pizza some of these reviewers have had, they need to get out more. The crust is rock hard and too thin, mushrooms are from a can, not fresh, they resemble slugs, and if I had to guess they are probably similar in taste. The price we paid for the quality of food is below par. We will not be revisiting this establishment for pizza. Papa murphys or totinos is way better. If you want good pizza, this is NOT the place to go! read more

Poker Pete's Tavern - Mushrooms from a can! YUCK!!! - Pizza Near Me - Kalama, Washington

I live in Kalama. This is the only pizza joint in town which is why I've been here twice but I can't do it again. The pizza is probably the worst I've had. The crust is the worst. And the sauce is almost as bad. The only flavor in either is a bad one. Get a new recipe. I'm from the east coast so maybe I'm spoiled but unfortunately I cannot buy this pizza again. read more

This place is awesome!! They never cut you off and they have canned beer in tall boy form. They are the only place in the history of places that has both a Pee Wee Herman and an Ernest puppet. Good people great food (if your the eating type). This establishment respects power drinkers. read more

I really didn't expect to like Poker Petes as much as I do! That's kind of a back handed compliment but the first time we stopped we had to grab something and I just couldn't eat another soggy salad or sandwich. So we thought what the heck and gave it a try. The crust is tasty and not thick or too thin. The sauce is spicy and delicious! The toppings are generous without being ridiculous. I fully recommend it. Plus the tavern side is kind of like walking into Cheers. Lots of local folks sitting around the counter bar giving each other lots of BS and joking around. Very homey. I like it and will go again very soon! read more

I went into this bar around December of 2014. It was a Saturday night and we ordered Pizza and some beer. It took forever to get the pizza and we ended up having to go to the bar for drinks. It did get very busy around 8:30-9:00 and it took so long to get our check my friend wanted to just leave. We didn't, and it took equally as long to pay. I thought I caught them on a bad night. Went back in there last night and I was shocked at how horrible the service was. Apparently you have to be a local to even get a waitress to look at you. How do people even get drunk at this bar? read more

The pizza is fairly good, okay prices, the pops should be refillable, but over all we like the pizza here. Our past four pizzas have been really burnt though, I even asked them not to burn it when I ordered it, it was still very burnt. If I was the owner, personally I'd offer us our money back or something. We'll probably be back simply because it's close and convenient. read more

This place is a local yokel hangout. Come play poker. Have a beer. Enjoy pizza! There's pool tables. There even a piano here. There a nice wood stove. It's down home friendly! When you get done eating and drinking, go shop for antiques! read more

This place hands down has the best hometown feel I've ever been associated with. The bartenders are always very friendly accommodating and the place is always clean. The food is exceptionally prepared and delicious. Considering this place has been open since the 1980s I would say that has staying power. Kudos to the owners and all the staff. I also love the fact that they do not discriminate against anyone. read more

I was put off by the sparse decor upon entering but was surprised to find a courteous and polite young woman at the counter. After a short conversation I was almost excited to receive my pizza. I ordered pepperoni expecting it to have a few slices, it was completely loaded and they were all deliciously crispy. I would definitely come back and I would recommend it to locals and tourists alike. read more

There were way too many positive reviews on TripAdvisor to ignore this place given my troubles with Mcmenamins where I was staying but in the end pizza was undercooked with shredded cheese still present under the toppings. Pepperoni placed on top and fell off when picked up. In general pizza was what I would expect from small rust belt town local pizzeria. read more