Schooner Station Pizzeria & Sports Pub

Looks like that cursed location is bound to lose another business sooner than later! Owner (wife?) has totally wiped out the cool & relaxed vibe. I’ve witnessed her chastising employees in front of customers more than once. She’s harsh and throws her weight around. Won’t go back in. Tough to watch her moods flip flop. Too bad. Good food, good deals and easy to get to after work. Gotta find a new hang…

New owners are fantastic. They’ve kept everything I liked (really good food, trivia Tuesdays), and they don’t run out of beers or food. Plus they have hired more help, so the service has definitely improved. The restaurant seems to be busier, and I’m happy for the new owners.

Under new ownership and LLOOVE Them. Food & Service is on point. Heather & Tim are personable and all about great customer service. The front patio is Dog friendly (which is awesome)
Will totally make it my spot each time I am in the area.

Schooners was a blast today they had a Mad Media event to view the Mint 400 and they rocked it!!! Service was on point beer was flowing pizza was hot and delicious!!! The large meat lovers pizza was meaty and cheesy! We had an order of wings too they were just the right amount of crunchy and hot! Great job today Schooners!!! We will be back!

The new owners that have taken over Schooner Station are awesome! Food is great! They actually have all their beers on. Unlike the last owner who didn’t give a hoot! I will totally be back to enjoy their great pizza and great beers.
They have the same cooks from Today’s Pizza there, which amazed me. Surprising the stuck around!
Give this place a try! You wont be disappointed!

Cool place affordable food and beer. They have 24 beers on tap and some bottled choices also. I loved the Philly sandwhich. Yumm.
Trivia on Tuesdays is pretty fun.

Loved the gluten-​free pizza here! Plenty of toppings, good quality, fresh. We showed up late on a Sunday night, so it’s hard to rate the service — we had the staff’s undivided attention as the only people there.
There were several big TV’s with multiple sports events playing. I can see coming here in the future to watch some football or basketball.
Friends with me got $ 1.50 slices because it was close to closing, and they were huge pieces. Such a good deal. They tried the garlic and buffalo chicken pizza and both of them spoke highly of the crust and flavors. Though it was a little odd that the garlic pizza had full cloves of garlic on it — I’ve never seen that before! They also tried the cookies and said they were great.
Will be back soon for another gluten free pizza and probably some drinks next time — prices were really reasonable.

Love, love, love the pizza. Creative menu! Cold bears on tap in a cold schooner mug to match. TV’s everywhere with every type of sports show you can want to watch. Friendly service. Also, great to bring the kids too, the mini arcade keeps them busy!

Service is sooooooooo slow. Waited 10 mins in line to get a beer (that they didn’t even have but still had on the menu) because they only have one server here… Poor girl!

Hate writing a bad review… BUT. Stopped in this afternoon while I waited for my wife who as across the street at Scripps. 3 women at one table and two men at the bar. Spent 15 mins sitting there and not one person came over to greet and/​or wait on me. Manger walked by but didn’t acknowledge. Eventually saw a waitress who never came out of the back. Looked like she had been eating and was walking around on her phone. I walked out with out anyone noticing just like while I was sitting there.

I watched the pro bowl here with some friends last weekend. It was pretty fun. I’d never been here but it had a really cool and fun atmosphere. Drinks are affordable and the food was tasty!

Actually 2.5 stars, but I’ll round up since the staff was very friendly. We decided to come in on our way down south. This location seems to always be a pizza place, I remember it being a Shakey’s way back in the day.
We came in around lunch time and it was relatively quiet. They do have a good variety of beers and their prices are very reasonable in regards to their lunch specials. You can do two slices of pizza with a soda, or one slice with a salad. They have about 5 – 6 types of salads to choose from.
Unfortunately, that’s where the good ends. I went with the pizza and salad special. As others have mentioned, the salad produce was old. Brown edges and not fresh at all. It was edible, but not enjoyable. Next everyone in our group got their pizza except me. They didn’t realize the missing pizza until they came back to check on us. Even then, it took another 5 minutes to get a slice a pizza out. Disappointing, especially since they were not that busy.
The pizza itself is pretty basic, nothing that stands out compared to other pizza places. If you want other toppings besides pepperoni, they just throw it on a plain cheese and throw it back in the oven.
This place has potential, and I very much enjoy places like this and Pizza Port. They just need to step it up on the fresh ingredients and be more attentive to their guests.

I LOVE the pizza here! It has a wonderful fresh taste. The crust is perfect. More importantly they put the ingredients all the way up to the edge, unlike most places.
You can get it by the slice or the whole pizza.
Fantastic prices!
I even like the sports bar environment with the TVs — if you’re into that sort of thing. I love it once in a while.
Lots of parking, which is pretty darn important.

My overall impression of this place is that’s OK. Decent pizza, decent section of beer. Not great but good. Schooners were ice cold. My beer took awhile to get cold but the thick frozen glass chilled my beer down after a few minutes. Don’t know why it wasn’t cold in the 1^st place. Lots of flat screen tv’s so if your into watching sport this place stands out. Easy parking too. I’d go back again.

Wanted this to be better, like it used to be. Ordered 2 pizzas, both were gummy and greasy. Guessing they needed more time to cook and better quality cheese? It left 3 of us with stomach aches over night. We ordered an Encinitas salad and although the idea was good, much of the lettuce was brown and the creations had that rancid oil taste. Also ordered Penne Pesto. It was average.
On the bright side, they have great TVs and beer on tap. Maybe next time we just don’t eat.

The positive: good beer menu, fair beer prices. Good selection of local IPA’s, although they were out of two of the 6 – 7 on the menu. Excellent sight lines to the TV’s and plenty of TV’s if you’re there to watch a game.
The bad: the lettuce in the salad was so brown that I had to pick thru the brown parts of the salad (half of it) guessing lettuce or croûton. The mushroom pizza was soggy liked it needed to be cooked a couple more minutes and was too cheesy. Not a lot of flavor.
Bottom line: stop in for a beer, stay away from the salad, and maybe see if you can do better with an app than I did with pizza.

Love their specials, and pizzas! Their bread they use for their sandwiches is so delicious, I just want to take a bunch of those sub rolls home! Fav pizza is the buffalo chicken (I pick off chicken tho). Just realized today how this place has become a regular for me. Great price on beer. Gave 4 star because I don’t like the chicken they use too much.

The only reason I didn’t give it five stars is because there were, literally, twelve Tv’s for a room about the size of the inside of a Wells Fargo bank. I guess I’m in the minority but the more Tv’s, the less likely anyone is going to talk to each other. But everything else was awesome. I am from LA. I came down because of my job. When I have to come back, I’m certain to go here. Why? The crust. It’s perfect, and an often unsung hero of pizza. A perfect thickness, dancing the thin line of being both crispy and chewy. It makes every pizza here at least yummy (buffalo chicken), if not a debilitating deliciousness (spinach and artichoke). You miss it after you eat it. I know it won’t change anything, but I suggest SOME time when Tv’s aren’t on every wall.
Oh! And a six dollar Stone Ruination? Fuhgedabboutit. That’s too great.

This is the worst food ever. It’s over priced and on th recipe u were charged here and there for Vons supermarket charges for God knows what. Bull. And dressing had a layer or mold on it yuk. Cold meatballs. Burnt sandwich. Moldy salad dressing. Waste of time and money so disappointed for Monday night football and food. Crappy. Someone put them out of there of business. blast but not least they were out of most of the food and BEER.

Be warned, the management and service are so bad here this place will probably be out of business soon. Don’t try to watch an out-​of-​market football game here. Even with only three customers in the place they were unwilling to keep my game on and were rude about it.

This place is amazing and exactly what Encinitas needs– A sports bar with all of the games on complete with awesome specials. They have tasty and refreshing $ 3 mojitos in addition to their $ 5 18oz craft beer specials and all day lunch specials. I absolutely love the location (just west of the 5/​Santa Fe Rd exit) and the service and food and. everything! I highly recommend their breakfast pizza for those looking for something to eat while they drink during the early 10am football games and their artichoke pizza that is on the menu regularly. Sooo good!!!

I really like this place. $ 3PBR 16oz!!! And great craft brew for 5 bucks! Oh yea the pizza is awesome too! A nice chill place that I can stop by and relax. I usually have pre-​meetings here before I go to the Del Mar Race track! The pizza is very tatstey, I got the sun dried tomatoes and artichoke. Good stuff to say the least!!!

I had driven by this place a million times, seeing how it’s right by where I live, but never thought to go in. Some family came into town and we were looking for some beer and pizza and I decided to hit up this place. I’m really glad I did.
First off, there are a ton of TV’s and a projection screen which should be great for watching games (I can’t wait for football to start to come here). Secondly, The pizza is good but nothing to write home about, along the lines of Costco quality. Finally, and most importantly, the beer. You can get an 18oz Sculpin or 10% great divide and other good craft beers for $ 5. For those looking to just put alcohol in their mouths, there is $ 3 PBR.
Overall, this is a great place to enjoy some good beer, eat and watch a game with friends and a locals’ spot.

Pleasantly surprised. I have been to this location before under different ownership/​management with a «blah» experience. I was drawn in here from a couple recent Unilocal review for cheap beer. Go figure.
We ordered a meatball sandwich and a slice of artichoke heart pizza. Sandwich was pretty darn good. Lots of cheese and meatball. The slice of pizza was good, just tasted buttery.
The beers all come in Schooners (hence the name) which were ice cold. The beer itself was not cold. I assume they count on the glasses to chill the beer. My only concern might be on a busy day, they may not be able to keep the schooners cold, and you will end up with warm beer. I can’t confirm this since there were maybe a max of 8 people during our whole visit. It is a non football Sunday afternoon though.
Service was good. Order up front and they will bring food to you. I asked for a glass of ice water and was given a 6 oz plastic cup to fill myself. I need a little more than 6 oz after a Saturday night.
Beers are cheap. Double IPA’s for $ 5. (Did I mention 18 ounces?). Not sure how much longer they can afford that. Some decent «name brand» breweries, but some off-​shoots too. All in all, good lunch, cheap beers = happy me. I will be back on NFL Sundays to see if they can keep the beers cold. If so, I may make this a 5 star location.

I’m so confused by this place. After two visits the BF and I have agreed we won’t be coming back-​what a letdown considering we live in Cardiff and were stoked that a pizza a beer place was opening in our ‘hood.
Atmosphere: great amount of TVs-​ok can’t argue that, upon first glimpse this place looks great-​how can you beat pizza and beer (cheep, cold, craft beer?) it comes with a price.
Food/​drink: pizza is average, nothing you will ever crave. can’t tell you about the wings because we ordered them and never got them.
Service: what service? both times! Seriously lacking, this is where the majority of the downfall is because the potential is there but with no customer service it’s hard for local businesses to survive. dirty tables, distressed looking woman trying to deliver food to tables with the tiniest order number tags (see photo), ordered pepperoni by the slice at 7pm which is prime dinner time and was told they could add some onto a cheese slice, don’t get me started on how nasty my second choice of spinach and artichoke by the slice was! The BF usually finished everything I don’t and even he couldn’t finish that.
All in all, total letdown for a what could be a cool neighborhood spot. One star for the amount of TVs and one for the grapefruit Sculpin. With so many great spots in the area we won’t be including this on our list.

What is not to love about $ 3-​$ 5 18 ounce Schooners during all hours of operations !!! They also have pizza by the slice for $ 3, talk about a great value. Their bartender Heather is an expert at beer which is super rare to have a woman share such passion for the beers I love. This is a great place to have some brews with pizza while watching the game !!

After taking my Ava to the nearby dog park, we often times stop here for some pizza. Pizza is the NY-​style reheat-​in-​the-​oven kind, and it’s very, very good. My favorite is the buffalo chicken, closely followed by the pesto.
2 slices + soda = $ 6.
And then there’s the beer.
All beers are $ 3 — $ 5 and served in 18-​ounce schooners. The beer selection is huge; on the $ 3 end is PBR and on the $ 5 end are some tasty choices like grapefruit Sculpin.
Kind of a tiki ambiance indoors.
*** Important update: their licensing now allows beer on the patio, and yes, my dog appreciates that… and so do I when I get to have a beer and hang out with her.

Do they really spell pizzeria with an «A» in the middle? Oh well, a google search found some people are confused, but I think most would agree it’s pizzeria. Anyway, the place is pretty nice, and I like the number of drafts all served in their large nicely chilled Schooner mugs. Happy Hour is a great value, and they have slice and beer or slice, salad and coke specials for lunch and throughout the day.
Very cool that they have Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin on tap along with several other local and craft brews. I tried a slice and it was pretty good (the kind where they have several pies sitting out and they throw a slice in the oven to warm it up for you, and it was as expected (nothing too special, but hit the spot), so I can’t comment on how a full fresh pie would taste. We also tried the chicken wings and they were pretty good (about what you would expect — and nothing too memorable). The buffalo balls sounded interesting, and maybe I will try them next time. Sorry I wasn’t blown away, but it was a fine upgrade from the old restaurant. Maybe next time I will come with a group of friends to watch a game or something, and then maybe adjust my start ratings.

I have a feeling that Schooner Station will be seeing a lot of my husband and me. We dropped in to check out the place that took over from Today’s Pizza and were pleasantly surprised. Nice ambiance kind of tiki bar meets sports bar. Extensive menu of pizzas, sandwiches, salads and appetizers should appeal to everyone. In fact I had the mac and cheese with bacon from the starter menu and it’s a very generous portion. It was tasty too and I had to hide it from my husband when I got home so I could enjoy for lunch today.
They serve beer and wine and what they call Craft Cocktails. Craft cocktails is misleading as it’s actually Soju which is fine by me but they do not have a good variety of mixers. Example they are calling a screwdriver a craft cocktail. It’s not. It’s a basic. Other than that one detail this place seems to have what it takes hopefully to become a mainstay in Encinitas.
Large open area, lot’s of TVs, pizza by the slice if you need something fast, friendly helpful staff, reasonable prices, close to the new Encinitas Community Park, etc.
Don’t take my word for it. Go see for yourself. You won’t be disappointed.

I’m kind of excited about this pizzaria taking over the old business — «Today’s Pizza». Not that I had anything against the old place but this is a fresh new look and feel to go right along with the new Encinitas Community Park behind the shopping center where «Schooners» is located.
We took our bundle of joy, Shelby the pup, to the new community park and adjoining dog run and afterward decided to try out the new pizza place. I can say, happily, that Schooners is wonderful. Craft beers and Soju drinks available as well as your typical soft drinks of course. TV’s, TV’s and more TV’s all over the place and a new feel throughout. It’s clean refreshing and I just know it’s going to be a hit. It’s a hit for me already and all I had was a meatball sandwich. it was great. Alisa had something off the «Starters» menu and was surprised to have a huge plate of Mac n Cheese set in front of her. And, it was really good. Topped with bacon and real cheese, I got to help eat what we could of it. She doesn’t know it yet but I’m gonna be sneaking trips to the frig tonight to steal bites of it. Ymmmm!
My meatball sandwich was fantastic and my attention was occupied by all the TV’s everywhere. The service was great. Several servers asked how we liked our food to which we responded, «great». It’s all great”.
This is going to be a new favorite place for me especially since the new park has opened. I’ll be coming in this place a lot. I mean aaaa lllllllot,
I can’t wait to try the pizza. It looked fantastic. A few notable selections on the pizza menu — Mediterranean Dream, Artichoke Spinach, Chipotle Chicken, Thai Chicken, Maui Wowie, Roasted garlic chicken — Yum, etc… Don’t those sound great? They do to me.
Other notable items on the menu… Locally grown and organic produce — (whenever possible) it says. Homemade dough, Gluten Free Dough, (for nominal extra charge),… Oh there’s lots of reasons to try Schooners. Do it cause I said so. Or do it cause you know I’m right — I don’t lie. Or just do it cause you’ll love it but just do it. You’ll be glad you did.