Cascadia Pizza Co. — Restaurant in Salem

Look, it's unfair of me to compare to basil and board, but they were the only artisan and original pizza in town. I had high hopes for Cascadia and writing this review does not bring me joy. Problem 1: gluten free quality. Listen. Lifesource, the little local market down the street, makes a gluten free crust for their hot bar pizza. It's not special. It's not even great. Their pizza is $4 a slice. But their gluten free crust is goes harder than Cascadia's. You pay $4 more for gluten free and you're getting a crust that amounts to a saltine without the salt. It reminds me of the frozen, gluten free pizza crust you get from Fred Meyer. Guys. It is So EASY to make GOOD, GLUTEN FREE crust. We live in a world full of gluten intolerant or allergic people and I've had gluten free pizza that is indistinguishable from regular crusts. It's insulting to be up-charged $4 for a crust that wasn't even made in house. Problem 2: value, and originality. I paid $16 for a buffalo chicken pizza that was marginally bigger than a single serving Stouffer microwave pizza. I do not mind paying extra for good pizza - that's the whole point. But there was nothing special about this. Point of fact, there was nothing special about the menu. No rotating specials, nothing that stood out. All basics that you can find on a Dominos menu. Basil and Board prided themselves on their original and rotating pizzas, which are now gone. $14-$18 for 10inch pizzas that have nothing cool about them. The choices and quality reminded me more of Mod Pizza. Finally - Chase and the staff were awesome. In fact we were asked to leave an honest review when we ordered, and I applaud that. They were prompt in getting our order out and, as always, that restaurant space is great. But Cascadia is just another franchise. For what we got and what it is, I'd rather have Garlic Jim's or even Dominos. I hope one day they figure out how to improve (point 1 in particular), but we will not be...

Our first time here. Salem Or. 430 pm on a Sunday with ony two other tables. The pictures on the wall looked as good as the over all reviews. We ordered naked wings, Cesar salad, and two large pizzas. The salad was perfect, love the lemon. The wings were chared black and they were arranged very neatly on the plate with the chared section down. This wasn't just a little blackened... I'm talking flame kissed burnt! With that crunchy bitterness of burned chicken skin. The worst part is that whoever plated it knew it. On to the pies! The worst pizza ever. Both were the larger of the two sizes offered. The first was a Hawaiian that had very little toppings and was burned on the edge and soggy in the middle. Next up was the Evergreen. Literally two of the slices had zero meat and the whole pie had 4 pieces of green pepper. With both pies the red sauce tasted like canned tomato sauce with no seasoning added, and the crust oddly tasted like homemade bread gone bad with blackened bubbles around the entire edge. My second favorite food in world is pizza pie and I love a good artisan twist to liven it up. This was not the case. Our party was 4, and two were kids. None of us ate more than half a slice and 1 bite off of a wing each. We told the staff about the chared wings and soggy centered pizza and we're promply gifted a free salad upon our return. I will leave that free salad on the counter at work. There were others that appeared to be very happy with their food, unfortunately this style of food is not to my...

It’s a really nice building, I enjoyed how much parking space was available and there were more than enough tables, for a Sunday evening anyway. This was our first time here, they are currently only serving personal sized pizzas because of a recent kitchen fire. The prices are a little confusing at first, at a glance the menu shows a picture of a pizza with its description, and two prices. It doesn’t specify that $12 is for a personal 10” pizza or that $16 is for a 14” pizza, which could be helpful. People typically want to be certain of the price of their food before ordering. Well, anyway $32 later we get the most floppy pizza I have ever seen. We ordered the Evergreen with a customization for garlic base instead of red sauce, and a Buckley. They accidentally made the Evergreen with red sauce and were nice enough to remake it. The service and atmosphere were honestly fine. But the food was terrible. The toppings on the Buckley just slid right off the moment you tried to lift it, I mean this stuff was folding in half with the weight of gravity to the point of being comical. This was more akin to a hot tortilla, than a hot piece of pizza. I’m not sure if it has to do with the kitchen fire, potentially the oven is not heating properly, but it was a very...