Christina Welsh
The Food is honestly out of this world scrumptious! The atmosphere inside and on the outside patio is amazing! It is very comfortable, cool – as in not sweaty hot, and lots of room – especially when it’s very busy I never felt cramped. I must repeat that the food was incredible! I was pleasantly surprised! The chicken was huge and so yummy, the fries were big and thick and NOT greasy – they were my favorite! The pepperoni pizza had 8 slices for 24 bucks and it was everything you want in a pizza! The cheese OMG I can still remember that first bite I was in shock from the hot delicious flavor gooey and scrumptious melting in my mouth all my senses tingling and screaming in delight!!! Yes it was that good! The food was surprisingly really great! The few things that were irritating was no boxes you cannot save any of the food to take with you. I had 3 young kids with me and they couldn’t eat everything, it would have been nice to take for a snack later. The other annoying thing was the pumps with catsup, ranch, mustard, etc all the sauces were all empty and even though I told the employees no one would refill them. That sucked. I love the catsup with fries but I was denied , I did survive obviously!!! Overall I humbly enjoyed this experience at the Cincinnati Zoo! For a fast food place it was really nice.
… moreMichael Kline
Most of us had pizza, one had a burger. Pizza tasted fine, but as you’d expect, prices were high.
… moreBrittany Belcher
The grippos seasoning was just plopped on top of my fries and my chicken sandwich in one spot. I had to shake it off. The aioli is gross. None of us enjoyed our food and the presentation was just lazy. You can tell they have a captive audience because they aren’t even trying to be good, they know you’ll eat here anyway because you have to.
… moreMeg
I was hoping they would offer composting year round, but apparently not. 🙁 They have gluten free hot dog buns and hamburger buns. The fryer is used only for fries they told us. They offer gluten free packages brownies which are pretty good. They definitely didn’t nail our order, we had some mix ups with cheese and such on the burgers. But the staff was friendly during our visit. The facility seemed clean. The apple something or other burger is very strange! It had apple pie filling on it. I like weird flavor mixes but this was a firm nope for me. I forgot to take a pic of the gf burger before it was mostly eaten. we paid about 15 a person. Not bad, not great. The smiling staff covered a lot of ground with us.
… moreMichael
Base Camp Café is a dine in or out on the patio restaurant. There was a line to the front door but line moves fast since most waiting are groups and 2 cashiers taking orders. Pics are just inside the doors.
They have Larosa’s pizza (whole or by slice), burgers, and hot dogs. It took about 20 minutes to get food which I found reasonable ordering a whole pizza and the amount of food people ordered before me.
Pizza was piping hot. You can’t just bite into it, let it cool down. Has the same great taste.
Most tables inside were full but since it was nice we sat outside. Plenty of tables there.
Always a nice place to stop when hungry.
… moreLyn ۶ৎ
Pepsi Zero was actually full sugar rootbeer!! Food was so good I almost didn’t throw up!
… moreAllison Snider
Visited for my friend’s birthday. The Base Camp Café was the only open food place we could find during our visit. It is in a convenient location in the Cincy Zoo, and contributes to the fun of the overall experience, but was pretty expensive and some of the food wasn’t quite what we were expecting. Staff was great though, and we got reusable cups that come with refills forever. While I wouldn’t recommend it as a cost-effective everyday experience, everyone should give it a try.
… moreSherzod Abduakhatov
I’m ordering large pizza I’m waiting here 2 hours and my order not ready and they don’t want my money back that black square will be not work and if’s you first time here don’t get in just go other because here you will wait long time and you will not get your food it’s my first and last visit this place not frendly
… morePam Brasey
I was pleasantly surprised at how this spot has changed. I have going to the zoo for over 45 years and my children always looked forward to eating at this restaurant in the zoo. Now I’m bringing my grandchildren. The food was hot and the chicken strips were meaty and crisp as well as the fries. The pizza was perfect. It is a little expensive but that’s to be expected. My only issue was the cleanliness of the dining room. There were many dirty tables and that limited the seating for our large family. Other than that I was very pleased.
… moreSabrina Archey
This place was a mad house. Went on a Saturday after typical lunch time. No seating available. Took about a half an hour to get to place our order. The staff seemed overwhelmed and were not friendly. The line to get drinks took about 15 minutes, in addition to the already half hour or so we spent trying to order food. There was no ice available for drinks. The floor was sloppy wet and sticky with zero clean tables. All of the self serve condiments were empty and nobody to refill them. Food was served hot and did taste okay though. The prices are absolutely outrageous, as expected.
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