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Howie & Son's Pizza Parlor

3.4 (184 reviews)
ModeratePizza
Closed • 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Updated 2 months ago
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Moderate noise
Casual
Outdoor seating
Good for kids

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Undercooked pizza
Siobhan T.

Horrible quality. I ordered a Large (not their largest size) pizza and an order of fried mushrooms. The total was $42! I picked it up and got it home to find out the pizza was undercooked and the mushrooms were salty AF, moist and shriveled up! I immediately called the restaurant and the manager WAS HORRID. He had a nasty attitude and said he could offer me 10% off my next order! Like me for real. I told him I would not be returning and yelled don't ever call here again then! I've gone here for years, I don't know why it's completely gone down the drain the past few years but this will most definitely be my last time. Consider yourselves warned!

Me sitting in front of two orders of fresh hot from the oven fried chicken and Mojo's.
Carol B.

I ordered this fried chicken and Mojos and it was ready when I got to the restaurant. They are very nice on the phone. Everyone here is always very nice. They are never stingy with any of the side condiments. Barbecue sauce, ranch dressing, ketchup, hot sauce, jalapeños.

The pizza that I've been getting for the last 15 years

This breaks my heart to make this review I've been coming to howies since I was a kid I'm 38 years old now in all my years I've never seen a worse pizza my expectations have always been high for howies pizza because it was always made perfectly never had a complaint but after tonight I will never order from this failing business again..... I ordered the special 12 dollar pizza they advertise on Wednesday I've been ordering this pizza for 15 years or longer not once have Ive been told or seen any differences in the quality of the Wednesday large compared to getting a pizza on any other day but when I got home and opened my box it looked like a completely different pizza barely any cheese paper thin crust and just not close to the quality I expect from howies I thought maybe a new person who wasn't trained correctly might have made it so I called howies and told them this doesn't seem like the same pizza if I took it back could they take a look and possibly replace it with the delicious pizza I've come to expect from them the girl on the phone said sure so my wife drives it back and shows some very incompetent rude manager this disgusting pizza and he takes a look and said this how we make these Wednesday pizza since when!!! Then proceeds to say how they are barely keeping the lights on what does that have to do with these horrible pizza you made i hope they go out of business because it would be a deservice to sell pizza like this using howies name I know if he was alive still he would never let his product he put his name on fall so far below standards I will never return do this failing business the pictures below show how far they have fallen in quality how sad

Amazing pizza, worth the drive!
Jose R.

Doesn't look like much from the outside, but wow this pizza is amazing! This hidden gem in Visalia has some of the best pizza in town, my family truly enjoyed this food and will be back again! Thanks again for all that you do, keep up the amazing work! Roldán Family

Big Howie pizza
Joseph B.

We come here often and have never had a bad experience. Pleasant servers And The atmosphere is great for the family. The food is amazing. If you have never been here, go now!!

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Horrible quality! We got food poisoning from this place! Stay away. It's really not worth the stomach pains!

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Always Bowie and sons. Great pizza and chicken. Decent prices and quality of food is always outstanding.

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Took more than an hour to receive my to go order and staff did not care I don't recommend service not good.

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My entire family loves this pizza, fried chicken, and mojos. Sooo good. Prices are awesome too.

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