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Creekbread
- Hours:
Mon-Thu, Sun 5 pm - 9 pm
Fri-Sat 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
23 reviews for Creekbread
Review Highlights
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"Organic, sustainable - so very fitting for Whistler." In 7 reviews -
"...was fun to watch our pizza go into the big wood-fired pizza." In 1 review -
"They are a great casual spot that serves up a great pie." In 3 reviews
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23 reviews in English
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Review from Ryan C.
Vancouver, BC
2/21/2012
Creekbread! Found out about this little gem from some buddies who frequent it on the regular. Now I know why. Organic everything, delicious everything. Good prices, good beers. Veg options that are awesome! What, you're the only person in your party who doesn't love choking down sausage? Get a delicious potato pizza, even meaty mcmeateater will love that sh*t! Can it get any better?
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Review from Jay R.
Mmmm!
CreekBread gets very busy, especially after Christmas.
Creekbread has a great atmosphere coupled with delicious pizza! It felt very homely with the nice wooden tables and "old-school" pizza oven. The pizza was very good as well. -
Review from Andrew G.
4/21/2012
Walked over for dinner while staying in creekside for a recent vacation. Liked the low key vibe and local beer on tap.
We split the basic salad which was interesting since they work hard to only serve local veggies. To finish the theme, we ordered the veggie pizza ad enjoyed the flatbread crust as well as the local veggies. Service was good and the price was on the high side, but this is whistler.
I would ordinarily give this 5 stars, but my pizza standards have gone up since moving to NYC so 4 stars it is. -
Review from Matt T.
White Rock, BC
4/19/2012 2 photos
Excellent smiley service... at first. Great flatbread. Inviting community atmosphere.
I'm guessing that the difference between pizza and flatbread is that flatbread is very thin, somewhat chewier, and has a soda flavour... at least, that's the difference here.
Creekbread has a minimalist menu: only salads and flatbreads. The flatbreads they served us were beautiful. Toppings looked a little thin and sparse, but turned out to be delicious and satisfying.
The atmosphere was inviting and comfortable. Hunting for the washroom was a bit of an adventure down a very dark, unlit stairwell. And our second server was not nearly as bubbly and happy as our original server. But the room has lots of artwork and such to look at, and the open kitchen offers an interesting experience watching food being prepared.
Impressed, overall. Recommended. Will visit again. -
Review from P F.
3/27/2012
After putting in our name for a table, we proceeded to the bar where we were repeatedly told that we would be helped in 2 seconds. After a length of time, the bartender asked for our order, and then proceeded to ask us to wait yet another two seconds while he took the orders of another patron who had just walked up.
The horrible bar service convinced my party that take out would be our best option. We ordered pizza to go, which took a while to prepare, but it's worth it for good pizza. Creekbread pizza, however, is pure unabated crap.
They oversell the whole "organic" aspect. Its written on everything, reminding you that although the pizza doesn't taste good, it's organic. whoopee. The brick oven is a nice touch, but the dough was too bread-like and lacked that pizza dough texture. They were extremely stingy with the sauce and the toppings were scarce and scorched by the oven. Three pieces of dry flatbread with crusty toppings for $70. If you've ever had real pizza, and I've had the pleasure living in New York and have also sampled Chicago and California's finest, you'll absolutely hate this place. I realize it's whistler and people do strange things like put potatoes on pizza, but even so this stuff is still crap. If you want to pay for oven roasted organic cow pies, this is the place for you. I wish I had four hands so I could give this place four thumbs down. -
Review from Orlene D.
12/13/2011
What a perfect combination - live music (singer/guitar Thursday & Sunday), all local organic ingredients, and tasty food. My friends ordered the salad with almost all the veggies for only $9.50. It was such a refreshing salad with unique ingredients. Our favorite pizza was Mopsy's Kalua Pork and the more traditional Nitrate-Free Pepperoni & Mushroom pizza. Warning though - their pepperoni is very different than normal pepperoni. The 16" pizza (good for 2 ppl) ranges from $18 - $26 or 12" $13 - $18.
PS - Can be confusing to find. It is inside Whistler Creek Lodge. You can checkout the map on their site. -
Review from Connie C.
9/22/2011 2 photos
Yum, tried three different flatbreads, and ordered the salad w/all additional veggies on it ($3 extra)
Salad: different, but delicious nonetheless (there was roasted potato and seaweed on it, not really your typical salad).
Flatbreads:
Homemade sausage - yum! my favorite
Potato pie - yum! my husband's favorite
Pepperoni (make your own, with the cheese based one) - yum! pepperoni tastes more like a typical sausage.
All three flatbreads were delicious. It was too much for us. We had 6 adults, and we shared 3 16" pies plus the two salads. 2 16" pies would've been enough. We had the equivalent of an entire one leftover to take home.
Tried the organic mango juice, nothing special. Had a diet soda, and they didn't once offer to refill it, even though I had finished it halfway through the meal. They did let my husband try one of the beers before he had ordered a pint (he picked another one). -
Review from Matt J.
1/16/2012
This could have been a 5 star review, but they just missed the mark with the pizza. So, why not 4 stars? Well, when you are a pizza place (I refuse to call it a flatbread place), you pretty much need to make great pizza. If you don't, then why the hell do you exist?
First, some good points:
1. Nice atmosphere and warm, with the big wood burning oven.
2. Very kid friendly. I have one of these now, so that suddenly matters.
3. Locally sourced, organic, sustainable, blah blah blah, hippy friendly.
4. Good, but slightly overpriced beer selection.
5. Pretty awesome organic salad (go for the "all vegetables" option, you won't regret it.)
Why they lose 2 stars:
On paper, this place sounds like an easy 5 stars. All organic ingredients, hand made, locally sourced, custom built wood-fired clay oven, house-made sausage, sustainable blah blah blah... All of these things make the place sound awesome, which unfortunately for them, made me arrive with relatively high expectations about the quality of their pizza.
Now, their pizza is by no means BAD pizza. It's just not GREAT pizza. It's got all the sustainable, organic, locally sourced, hand made, etc. fantastic ingredients. The problem is in the execution. It actually took me a few minutes to figure out why this pizza that I had anticipated as being delicious and flavorful and awesome was just... OK.
Pizza Problem #1: Too much time and a not hot enough oven. Everyone that makes truly great pizza knows that you need a ridiculously hot oven (usually over 800 deg F) so that the crust gets crispy and toasty on the outside while staying moist and tasty on the inside. The toppings get cooked and cheese melted and bubbly but they stay juicy and flavorful on the inside. This only takes about 90 seconds. In watching their oven (which is probably too big to get hot enough), they are keeping them in for about 5-7 minutes which means they come out fully cooked, but mostly DRY with a floppy somewhat soggy crust in the middle. Also their oven design clearly has a cold side and a hot side causing one edge of the pizza to be nearly burnt while the other side is a little underdone. In the end, what had great potential turns out to be an unevenly cooked, rather dry pie that never developed the awesome flavor potential it once had. Disappointing.
Pizza Problem #2: Their house made "nitrate free" pepperoni is not pepperoni. It's just a sausage. It's not bad at all actually, and is quite spicy, which I like. But it isn't made like pepperoni, doesn't look like it, and does not taste like it. This means it probably shouldn't be called pepperoni. So, if you really want pepperoni, go somewhere else.
Service Problem #1: Not to be nitpicky, but when I go to an all organic, locally sourced, sustainable, additionally hippy buzzword, etc. restaurant, I still expect the waitstaff to have conventional grooming and cleanliness standards. That means that they should actually wash their hair at least once every two weeks. It ruins my appetite when my server (Who looked like a young unwashed Javier Bardem and otherwise did a pretty good job) has hair that looks like it was used to mop up pizza grease from the floor. I actually gave him an extra dollar in the tip as I was afraid that maybe he was just too poor to buy shampoo, or something like that.
Service Problem #2: (wife's addition) The lemonade (which I thought wasn't that bad) wasn't sweet. Upon request, it was duly sweetened with real maple syrup and was then quite good.
Summary: Nice place, great salads, good for kids, but for this price point and all of the potential, the pizza was disappointing. Is there better pizza in Whistler? Sadly, no. There is not a better place that we have found. But there is cheaper pizza that still tastes good. -
Review from Janice F.
8/26/2011
Definitely a 5* stop in Whistler.. gourmet "flatbreads" that are really just pizzas. I think their reason for calling them flatbreads, is that they are not all tomato-based.
Organic, sustainable - so very fitting for Whistler. Even the soaps in their bathroom is sustainable.
Huge wood-burning oven in the middle of the restaurant, prompted us to enjoy the cool breeze on their patio.
Server was laid-back, friendly and helpful. We ordered the two specials of the day, half and half each on a 16" (applewood bacon, caramelized onion and a broccoli alfredo). One half was slightly overcooked, and they offered upon arrival to make us a new one, but we were starving and we weren't able to finish the whole thing anyways.
The crust on the broccoli alfredo was delicious - really nice bubbly char.
Hand-squeezed lemonade with customizeable tartness level makes me happy. -
Review from Ruth D.
Vancouver, BC
2/10/2012
Best pizza in the world. And I say this having had pizza all over Italy. Don't chicken out and get the cheese pizza (though it's delicious, too)! Go for the potato pie one. I swear (with every taste bud and ounce of passion in my body) that you will not regret it.
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Review from David S.
3/26/2012
What a great surprise. We sat by the large wood-fired oven which was quite entertaining. All organic ingredients go into their pizzas and salads. All very tasty in a fun atmosphere. Three of us shared a large, fresh salad and two of us shared a small pulled pork pizza.
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Review from Dave D.
Victoria, BC
Updated - 6/19/2011 2 Check-ins Here
I've been here once before and I'm now sitting in the waiting area with an estimated 1 hr wait to eat here again. Need I say more?
Tip - learn from my mistake, make a reservation. :)1 Previous Review: Show all »
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1/12/2011
Has replaced The Joint in Victoria as my vote for best pizza.
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Review from Jeff M.
Toronto, ON
12/2/2011
No delivery here
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Review from Arun S.
3/6/2011
We went here a few months ago when visiting Whistler and like it a lot!
It is a bit outside of the main touristy part of Whitsler so it is best to drive there (probably a 3-5 minute drive from the village area.
They have great, organic, sustainable pizza. OK I never thought I would use the word great in the same sentence as organic and sustainable; but I guess that's what living in Seattle for a few years will do to you. Anyway, we had a great salad and pizza. Pizzas are made in a brick oven and there are all sorts of cool topping options. Prices were reasonable. Food was fresh. They had a great drink menu. Service was great. Overall, solid place. Nice if you want a reasonable, relaxing dinner away from the over-hyped over-commercialized central Whistler village area. We will be back if we return to Whistler. -
Review from Cody S.
Surrey, BC
9/4/2011
I found about about this place while I was at their sister location in Maui, so I had to check it out. The atmosphere isn't as nice as the Maui location, but the pizza is just as good. They use as many local and Eco-friendly ingredients as possible
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Review from Selena B.
Updated - 7/20/2011
Went back here a year & half later and the pizzas still taste great :)
Listed in: Whistler, BC
1 Previous Review: Show all »
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2/11/2010 First to Review
Organic Pizza baked in an wood oven at the center of the restaurant. mmm mmm mmm!!
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Review from Chris H.
11/29/2010
Whistler is another one of those resort towns where you are forced to over pay for averaqe food. And many restaurants in the low and mid range serve make you over pay for bad food. But Creekbread is an exception. They are a great casual spot that serves up a great pie. Organic salads, organic ingrediants for the pizza, a ton of flexibility and a good beer and wine list make this place a great choice if you want a casual meal. You need to get yourself down to Creekside (taxis are cheap) and they dont take reservations unless you are in a big group, but they will put you on the list if you call 20min before you plan to show.
If you are in mood for a pizza, you cant go wrong here. -
Review from Lou S.
4/11/2011
Amazing fire hearth pizza with good beer selections. So many options to choose from and all very organic and healthy choices. This is the place to go for a quick fix for pizza and relaxation after a long day on the slopes.
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Review from Jen H.
Whistler, BC
8/24/2010
Mmmmmm! I absolutely love the food at Creekbread. All of the pizzas are fantastic (my favourite is the Pembie Pie, made with potatoes - who knew potatoes & pizza would be such a great combp?). Their salads are also fantastic, and the brownie sundae is to die for.
Definitely a family place, so don't be surprised to find a lot of kids running around, especially on a busy weekend. But a friend and I sat at the bar, ordered enough of their yummy grown-up lemonade drinks to tune out the kids upstairs, and had a great "girls' night". You should go! -
Review from Tony J.
8/23/2010
Wish I had a half star option because this place would get a 4 and a half star. The half star for being entirely organic, and still tasting as good if not better than most pizza out available. (This place is in the same league as Settebello and Grimaldi's)
This pizza was some of the best I've had in any city. Was with the family driving back to the hotel after dinner, and the talk was entirely about making a return trip before leaving town!
Highly recommended. -
Review from Lynn Y.
Gibsons, BC
6/20/2011
Fun, friendly staff amazing thin crust pizza, and homemade brownies yummmmmmm!!!!!!!
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Review from Mike H.
Whistler, BC
5/17/2011
Best pizza in Whistler, but insanely expensive.
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Review from Rachel L.
8/13/2011
We had a fantastic meal at Creekbread Thursday evening. Had heard great things about the restaurant and finally made it in. Our two girls were kept entertained with pizza dough to play with and crayons/paper. We were kept happy with $5 long island ice teas. The service was great and it was fun to watch our pizza go into the big wood-fired pizza...and it tasted fantastic when it came out. Highly recommend this place!
