Red Baron Pizza

Really good pizza in friendly relax atmosphere. Jessica is wonderful waitress.
We eat there every time we go to Big Bear .

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Well, other than taking about 30 minutes to get a pastrami sandwich food was good

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Pizza was good. Wanted to try somewhere I had not tried before and I liked it. Tasted good reheated too.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Excellent pizza! Awesome musicians for open mic. Had a blast! Highly recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Grew up in big bear, while I hate this town there's some restaurants I've got fond memories of, which I like to visit on rare occasions I'm there just long enough to get something to eat. When i was a kid, this place was more family oriented, with booths that had vintage pics of big bear on the wall, a few arcade machines, candy dispensers. In 2016, I went here for the first time since I was maybe 11 years old so it had been around 10 years.

I was disappointed to find they've turned their focus more towards being a bar, which really destroyed the environment and made it uncomfortable to eat in. Worst of all, the pizza is subpar. I think next time I decide to get pizza in big bear, I'll take my business to Maggio's since I haven't been there in even longer, in hopes at least they've still upheld their quality after all these years.

Also, as a side note, any pizzeria you go to anymore, pizzas are absurdly priced, I'll willingly pay as much as 100$ at my favorite place where I live now, but Red Baron isn't high enough quality anymore to be charging "I know what I got" prices.

edit: in response to the owner; you don't have to say the recipe was changed, I can tell, that's why I left a negative review. I'm sorry, but if you believe using higher quality ingredients automatically makes food taste good, that there is why the quality of your pizza has drastically gone down hill. Any chef will tell you, you don't need high quality ingredients to make good food because a skilled cook can make good food from just about anything.

So, if you are in fact using higher quality ingredients and your pizza still taste as poor as it does, something is very wrong. All I can say is I'd go back to whatever you were doing around 2005/2006 because you didn't improve your pizzas. But frankly, even if you did, I'm sorry to say it just wouldn't be worth taking the risk of trying again when I've got too many superior pizzerias at home or even a much shorter driving distance to find one to justify it. Even then, there's multiple non-pizzeria's in big bear alone that over all just have way better food that are worth the trip.

I'm not taking any joy in what I've said in my review, I'm actually quite sad because I was hoping for the same delicious pizza I enjoyed when I was a kid and it's simply no longer the case.

Good pizza, ready on time and pleasant staff.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Custom Pizza

Ordered there for a to-go. Gentleman was very nice and welcoming. However, we did not get what we ordered.
Bone in wings turned out to be boneless
Bread sticks turned out to be bread bites. Not a bad flavor to them but not what we wanted
The pizza was just ok and the ranch for salad was very watered down.
Id say we were disappointed but they were nice.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Meatball Sammy was pretty tasty , pizza is good

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pepperoni Pizza with Black Olives, Meatball

Pizza is good.
Nice environment with bar and arcade area for kids. Also just an open mic on Mondays 5-7pm!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Garlic Bites

Our pizza was a little salty

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 3

I absolutely love this place so much! The pizza is one of my favorite ?. Fresh and absolutely delish! Check out their specials too! Your Realtor Brenda

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Custom Pizza, Pepperoni Pizza with Black Olives, Sausage Pepperoni Extra Cheese

Since the new ownership, the pizza here is much better. Definitely my favorite in Big

Food: 5

Good pizza for the price

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Idk ?‍♂️ seemed odd felt odd wile visiting . The food was good but for the price I'll try something els next time the wings where very dry . One of the girls was a bit aggressive when I tougth I was entering the store restaurant. They have a door down the hall for employees I tougth that was the entrance . A young lady aggressively approaches me made me feel stupid and pointed me to the other door ?. The cashier was friendly everyone els seem very busy. I got the family special but dint receive a friendly service very odd ?. Get on get Goin. Felt more like that. ? hope this helps.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

The cheesy garlic bacon fries and the calzone were delicious. Friendly service and during lunch on a Sunday it was not busy.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Marinara