I ordered the "Philly Cheese Steak". What an interesting twist to this sandwich, it was delicious, and the addition of hatch chilies made this variation perfect. Nice smoky, spicy flavor without being overly spicy. The seasoned fries are delicious and crunchy. The atmosphere is fun, lots of family groups with adorable children, so if you're not into kids later in the evening might be good. But I don't mind kids The waite staff are attentive and friendly. Overall, it was a great experience. read more

When in Montana we have to eat at McKenzie River. We had a great time. The staff was amazing. Very helpful. The food was great. We love the atmosphere. Great trip. We will be back! read more

Good food. Good service. Good menu. Good location. Decent prices. Lost my sunglasses and found them for me too!

$27 for a bland Thai pie, $11 for a sad Salad without all the advertised ingredients. This place used to be awesome- not anymore.

This Resturant is your standard local/chain Resturant. I had the Ruben. It was fine. I wasn't like wow that was the best Ruben I've ever had. Their fries We're weird. Almost like they were cooked in the air fryer. My table had a hamburger. It was a typical burger. They were busy almost all the tables and booths were full. Waitress wasn't unfriendly but wasn't fantastic either. She was just going through the motions till the tip. I will eat here again because their food is consistently average. read more

The salads are quite good. The proteins are OK. Pizza needs a boost on crust. The other thing that needs a boost is seeing replies from generic "CUSTOMER SERVICE REP." This is BS. Do you have a name??? Maybe reach out to people with a name instead of some corporate garbage label? Come on people- Just be human. Win, lose or draw, nobody wants to talk to a computer about their food. Grow Up! read more

Food is ok. Service was poor. Watched one waiter stand at a table and talk with a couple for about 10 minutes. May not return.

I haven't had a pizza from there in a long time and I wanted to celebrate so I got my favorite pizza. Well, I got a version of my favorite pizza. It was more like a cheese pizza than a buffalo chicken pizza and I ordered through DoorDash, so I didn't expect it to be hot, but it was stone cold and I ordered a large but got a much smaller size. I grabbed the DoorDash guy and he said he would take the receipt and talk to the people at McKenzie River, but I never heard back from him or anyone else. I tried today to go in and talk to somebody but the hours I'm available or not the hours that McKenzie River is available. read more

Came for pizza, then saw the sandwich menu and we all ordered Philly cheesesteaks! Which the kids said were, "fire." The skillet chocolate chip cookie was great too. read more

This place is a family favorite with a wide variety of foods to satisfy everyone's taste, great service and decent prices.

We went here tonight for dinner had the pretzels and cheese also had the chicken quesadilla everything was good read more

MacKenzie River Pizza Co. - Pretzel and quesadilla - Pizza Near Me - Helena, Montana

Stopped by for dinner on our way back from Canada to California. Food was pretty great. Good portion size and everything was genuinely delicious. I did take off one star because of service. We had checked in for our table for our party (4 of us) and were told a 15 minute wait but it was longer because the hostess left and we were skipped over and a few parties were seated before us until the host finally noticed and asked if we were waiting for a to go order. read more

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Well we have been here quite a few times but only now gotten around to reviewing this place. The atmosphere in the restaurant is nice, they have some extra cute and large private booths, and there's lots of cool montana-y decorations. So it's kinda pricey here, nowadays that's normal, but what's really great for us is that they offer non dairy cheese, because my wife and one of my daughters can't have dairy. And the kids meals with pizza are HUGE!! Like the pizzas are very large. (See pics). We just found out on Wednesday that kids eat free with a minimum $13 purchase. Of course that's easy to do because that's less than one meal. But for two adults to eat and three kids for $40 is unheard of in todays society! And the service was great too! I had a fancy dish of ziti fettuccine with some other stuff and my wife had a non dairy pizza. And the kids had their own pizzas and fruit and all. Any other day but Wednesday it would have been a lot more money, but hey, we'll take it when we can! I recommend Mackenzie River. read more

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Hasn't been good since before Covid. It's basically a high end frozen pizza. It could be so much better if the dough wasn't frozen and premade by sysco. read more

First time trying Mackenzie River Pizza. Our server Julia was very welcoming. We ordered a half and half, The Stockman and the Rancher. Great tasting pizza. Julia checked on us several times. Will definitely go back. read more

Good pizza and a fun atmosphere. Unfortunately the other night was disappointing, the water had a moldy taste to and so did the soda. We think they need to throughly clean their ice machine. read more

A large, clean facility with solid service and satisfactory pizza. Ordered a large Good Ol' Boy. The dough was flavorful, the sauce a little bland, and the pepperoni plentiful... all in all a decent pie. Having had the same pie at another Mac River location, we were a little disappointed. Will be back to try again. read more

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Summary: More than pizza, MacKenzie provides a variety of sandwich, salad, appetizer, and main course options. My lunch combo--called Rod and Reel--provided a 1/2 sandwich (Reuben) and side choice. I had coleslaw. Fries and a spicy dill pickle slice were included in the meal. The Reuben was terrific. The coleslaw was a bit dry. The pickle had a surprising hit of chili pepper after the dill taste. The fries, dusted with seasoning and cheese, were lightly crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. They quickly became soft and unappealing except for the seasoning. Service was attentive. read more

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Super awful, bland food. Will not be going back. Pretzel breadsticks were ok. The queso dip had the wrong combination of beer & cheese. Whatever pairing they're using does not compliment each other. It was so bitter to the point of being inedible. Like a homecook who saw a YouTube recipe & only had Corona & American cheese in the fridge. Although that would have been way better. The Frito pie was like whhhaaaaat?!? & not in a good way. Chili was bland. So was everything else. Why do they even have this on the menu? It adds nothing for them. Attached is a picture of the kids chicken nuggets. The most pathetic looking presentation I've ever seen. They could have atleast threw in enough fries. Just bland frozen chicken nuggets. Nothing different or special. Their Cobb Salad was decent. Ample mixed greens. Toppings were cut nicely & seemed fresh. Chicken was moist. They don't serve the best ranch so that kind of dampened the Cobb Salad experience. Probably Sysco jar ranch. Now to the pizza: you'd be better off getting Digiorno's because that's exactly what this tasted like. Seems like they use a generic, mass-produced recipe for the dough. Sauce taste like jar sauce. Cheese was previously frozen which makes it taste bland. Sausage was too crumbly & non-existant. A slice of Costco pizza would have been 100x better. A very disappointing experience. Not worth anyone's time. Just because we live in a rural area with little options for restaurants doesn't mean you can serve us bad food like we don't know any better. Shame on you for trying to pass off this bland, one note food as "flavorful." read more

MacKenzie River Pizza Co. - Terrible presentation. Atleast fill the tub with fries. - Pizza Near Me - Helena, Montana

We were here the other night and everything was absolutely wonderful. However, tonight the same salads took 45 minutes. To bring to our table we were absolutely starving and of course ended up ordering extra drinks that we had not planned on the waitress was pretty nonchalant about the long by the way the restaurant was not full at all. It's a weekday night one of the olives in the Greek salad a pit that I down on very hard thank God I did not break a tooth. I suggested they should add a little memo on their menu that the olives might contain pits again. Everybody was pretty nonchalant about this read more

We called in an order to-go for a salad and they told us it would take 30 minutes to prepare. Well, I happened to show up 20 minutes later and they just pulled something out of cold storage and handed it over to me. The dressing was melted sugar with no flavor and the "salad" was just a tiny box of greens - I could count the number of huckleberries and it was 3 pieces of split nuts. Skip! read more

Came here with my family for lunch. Ordered half Thai Pie half other kind of pizza. Also lodgpepoles. The Thai Pie was unique but it was good. It had like a curry base with oranges and chicken. It worked good together. I also liked the unique flavors paired together for the pizza. It was just different. We also had lodgepoles with marinara sauce and it was okay. It was like pizza bread with cheese. I do suggest the bread be a little bit more flavorful. Maybe adding a garlic Butter herb on it. I think the best part for me was the service and the beer! Our waiter was amazing at suggesting some good local beer. And was also very helpful. I also really liked the decor and it looked like a cool place to bring family or friends for lunch. I would come back again! read more

I don't leave many reviews, but wanted to for any out of town travelers to Helena as there are not many options in town. The Restaraunt itself is very clean, very nice, seems to be well run. The employees, my waitress was awesome, great location especially for families in terms of ambience. Not great for a business eating by yourself spot, but not many are. The buffalo wings were dank, really good. Great selection of beer. No issues there. The Pizza tho. If Dave Portnoy ranked it, he would prolly give it a 3 out of ten, or worse. I hate to be mean, and I am Sicilian and I do live in an area with lots of really good pizza. However the Pizza at this place is basically a heated up digiorno's frozen pizza, at least that's how it tastes. Not horrible, but really not good. I may just be a snob being Italian and from Boston, but that's my take. Of course it's probably the best Pizza around for 200 miles so, i'll give the place a 5 star rating for ambience but a two for the pizza. They either need a new recipe for pizza or a new cook. But other than that, it was good. read more

MacKenzie River Pizza Co. - Dank Buffalo wings. - Pizza Near Me - Helena, Montana

Food was delicious. Came here with a friend. Good amount of seating. Waitress was very nice. Friendly staff. Very good place. Overall a 5 star. read more

Service was fantastic! From the hostess to the entire server experience, wonderful and friendly. Great for families and friends. Food was excellent as always. We enjoyed wings, salad and lodge poles. read more

MacKenzie River Pizza Co. - Large House Salad, Lodgepoles, Wings - Pizza Near Me - Helena, Montana

Recently came here and waited for about 15 minutes before our order was taken, and we finished our drinks in about 15 minutes as well and they weren't refilled they had even brought over our wings and just left without asking if we needed anything we didn't get anything till we got our food and that was about 40 minutes till then, so a total of about 50 minutes all together before we could get new drinks. Never was checked on and I don't know if it was due to the color of our skin or what and a whole different server brought out our food! And was also never checked on once again! And our official server had finally came back, mind you during this other server bringing out our food, she was still attending to other people, it was not busy at alllllllll! She also came back when we done eatingg, so we asked for our check, and it came back fast but she didn't come back we waited for about 15 minutes, before I decided to leave cash. read more

The restaurant wasn't too busy and I ordered a beet salad and a portion of fries. It look 35 min for my food to come out which was too long of a wait for the type of food I ordered. The fries were good but the salad wasn't anything special. read more

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We ordered an Ole Boy pizza with mushroom. there was half the amount of pepperoni that they had 3 months ago and they may have put the equivalent of one cut up mushroom on the entire pizza. Not going back for sure. read more

The restaurant was dirty, the bathrooms were dirty. The restaurant didn't have beer or wine or a bar it was closed for some reason. The girl who seated us was an air head who couldn't even answer any questions we had and shrugged her shoulders and said, " I just work here!" . There must be better places to eat besides here in Helena! read more

Food, Service, & Ambiance were all stellar. I was a loner on my recent visit, so I decided to take a seat at the bar. I wasn't disappointed. The food was great, the server & service was excellent. Everyone seated next to was friendly, courteous, and having a good time. read more

Not sure where the poor reviews come from. Food was tasty, service was fantastic. Server was busting her butt and did a threat job taking care of us and a bunch of other tables. Lodge poles are a classic and the Greek salad was solid. Ordered a large rancher pizza which we all enjoyed. Kids loved the kids meal as well. Would definitely come back next time we're in Helena! read more

I used to love McKenzie River Pizza. Now, I feel the service and quality of its ingredients are not what they used to be. Last visit we all ordered salad with our pizzas. The salad was wilted and the service was lacking-did not check up on us as she was busy waiting 6 other tables. read more

TLDR: takeout took almost an hour longer than we were quoted and the food was burned. We ordered takeout at 5:55. Our order was 2 pizzas, 2 appetizers, a kids meal and a salad. They told us 35-40 minutes. We came in at 6:40 to pick up our food. They told us it would be 15-20 minutes more. Okay, no big deal. We had a drink in the bar and returned 20 minutes later. It wasn't ready. They had forgotten one meal, so we waited. We finally got our food at 7:15. When we got home, we opened the food half of it was burned. I don't mean crispy, I mean burned. read more

MacKenzie River Pizza Co. - Burned Lodgepoles The one at the bottom crumbled to ash when we touched it. - Pizza Near Me - Helena, Montana

We decided to have food delievered tonight and when it arrived it was nothing short of a mess. I ordered the buffalo mac and cheese which arrived crunchy and burnt in places with chicken so hard it resembled plastic. My son got the kids quesadilla which had the same "plastic" chicken and a tortilla so stale (yes stale, not overcooked as it was practically still white) he wouldn't eat it after the first bite. My husband's sandwich was okay but it wasn't the one he ordered so there's that. Even the tortilla chips were stale. My husband went to the restaurant to resolve things and they were confused on how we even got food because our online order was canceled?? My card was charged and I never got notice it was canceled and we got food that essentially would've been trashed at the restaurant so I dont even know how this place is running at the moment. There is an Adult in the kitchen and an Adult manager but every other worker is high school age which kind of explains the mess of things but its no excuse for the quality of food we were given. We were offered a gift card instead of a refund but we are from our of town so they offered to remake the food which my husband is still waiting for at the restaurant over 2 hours past when we were supposed to have our meal and almost my sons bed time. In short, I'd skip this place at least until they get some real management. read more

MacKenzie River Pizza Co. - Crunchy and burnt mac and cheese - Pizza Near Me - Helena, Montana

I live in cali but have been here three times while visiting a friend. I've tried the buffalo mack n cheese, the jalapeno popper dip, artichoke dip, bistro pizza on a flatbread, and the beet salad. Did not enjoy the popper dip. It actually tasted like pure bacon grease and the cheese was like curdled. Hard pass on that. LOOOOOVED the artichoke dip (it has pesto and I love pesto) and the beet salad. I did switch out the arugala for spring mix. It was super good with the orange balsamic, with big beet chunks and goat cheese. Service was great every time. They were there when we needed something but not overly served, which I appreciate because we were there for awhile each time. I will definitely continue to come here when I'm in town! read more

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We almost skipped this because of the other reviews, and I'm so glad we didn't. It was fantastic. We got three appetizers, three salads, two pizzas, and two desserts. It was all delicious. And our waitress was the best server we've had in two weeks of eating out on vacation. Solid 5 stars. If we lived here, we would be regulars. read more

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Great lunch! We had a beer and the flat breads. Perfectly cooked and potion filled me up! I wish I could remember our waitress name, but she did a great job. The restaurant was busy but we never felt a drop is service. Thank you! read more

The atmosphere is fun, the pizza, however, is very average. I believe it has declined over the years. My favorite thing to get there is the Willow Creek turkey sandwich. It's delicious. read more

Mackenzie pizza sold out to a different owner a few years ago. The good old boy pepperoni pizza changed. It doesn't taste the same as it did years ago. I've had pizza across the UNITED STATES from Florida to California to Montana. Mackenzie river was the best at one time. Sorry to say not for us anymore!!!! read more

Always have good service, and great food! Definitely recommend coming here for a yummy bite!