Timberloft Pizzeria — Restaurant in Oakhurst

Parking is at the bottom of the restaurant. Entrance is at the top so you have to walk up the road. If you’re staying at the Tenaya lodge they can shuttle you there. If you have your own car it’s faster to drive yourself. There’s not much service here. You basically seat yourself and grab your own menu. There are 4 preset house special pizzas and if you don’t like those choices you build your own. But the prices doesn’t make sense. The 16” Timberloft Special with 8 ingredients of which 2 are olives and green onions. I’ve never seen a pizza with green onions on it. What “genius” came up with that? This is a $30 pizza. A 16”building your own pizza is $23 with each ingredient costing $3 each. If you add 2 ingredients at $6 then you’re at $29. Get the picture? You’re better off ordering the Timberloft and swapping out the ingredients you don’t like to keep it at $30. That’s what I did. Another thing about the pizza specials is that the other 3 pizzas list mozzarella as an ingredient except for the Timberloft. When the Timberloft showed up luckily mozzarella was on there. So who lists a pizza with mozzarella? Isn’t it a given that pizza comes with cheese as a minimum? I also ordered the Sicilian and swapped the olives with jalapeño. Both pizzas arrived lukewarm which was confusing because it came out fast. The crust was crispy and appeared cooked. The toppings didn’t have the seared look I’m used to seeing so I don’t know if they precooked the crust and then threw the toppings on or the toppings were cold to start with and didn’t cook all the way through. Either way the pizzas looked great but tasted lame because the sauce, cheese and toppings weren’t hot. I also ordered a salad bar plate. After given the plate I notice the romaine lettuce tray was empty. I asked them to refill it and they said they ran out off romaine lettuce Don’t you think that would be a pertinent piece of information before a customer orders the salad bar? It’s like going to eat at a steak house and you find out they ran out of rib eyes. This is the reason I despise restaurants that have you order and tip at the counter before you receive your food. What’s is there to tip when all you do is just take the order and serve...

The pizza is NOT good, it is simply super mediocre at best. Extremely over priced at $26, should be $8 given the quality. Even it were properly priced I would still avoid it at all costs.

Multiple employees at Tenaya Lodge told us the pizza was good, afterwards one of them admitted to us they'd never actually eaten there.😑 We expect high prices while at resort and vacation destinations but the food is quite poor.

I didn't ask but the dough is likely cheap frozen dough, easily the worst pizza dough we've ever had. The cheese taste every bit as good as Little Cesar's (that's not a compliment).

We spent 14+ hours in Yosemite and were extremely hungry at 9pm after returning to the lodge. We each ate 1.5 slices, stopped mid bite and said "I can't, this is terrible"

$26 for a 16" basic pizza is acceptable when the pie is phenomenal. This restaurant should be charging no more than $8 for the quality of product they're providing.

Look if you like Taco Bell, Little Cesar's, CeeCee's pizza and anything else in that realm then you might like this pizza too. But you wouldn't pay $25 for 3 soft tacos at Taco Bell would you?

The salad bar is also less than ok. Most salad bars are pretty terrible to begin so the bar is never high.

My biggest annoyance with restaurants is when they place community forks/spoons face up in a container. This is a huge sanitary issue, the guy who just grabbed a fork touched every fork in the jar that someone is going to then put in their...

The staff working the night we visited (7/16/25) were friendly and welcoming. No issues with the service but the food quality is horrible. Tenaya’s website describes the pizza at Timberloft as “artisanal”. It is absolutely not. There is nothing artisanal happening at this pizzeria. It’s not wood fired, it’s not fresh dough, the toppings and crust both present and taste as cheap / poor quality with the crust being truly horrible. The pizza is cooked in a fast food type pizza conveyer oven. Saying it tastes like cardboard would be a compliment. Like other reviews we were perplexed when our meat toppings were cooked but our vegetable toppings were still cold - the mushrooms were still raw and cold. The garlic ciabatta is also odd. It’s a multigrain seeded bread and completely lacked any cheesy garlic goodness. Tenaya could make this place actually be the artisan quality they advertised but unfortunately they’ve chosen to serve the cheapest quality because they know people will still keep buying since there are literally no other options. I deeply regret eating here and should have read the reviews that go back for years saying this place is terrible. If they cared about people’s reviews and cared about quality then they would have already improved their pizza because literally it’s been years now that people have been leaving bad reviews for this place. Take my advice and avoid Timberloft by any...