SQZBX Brewery & Pizza

236 Ouachita Ave, Hot Springs - 71901
314 reviews
Pizza Italian Brewpubs
(501) 609-0609

Okay I tried a few places in downtown Hot Springs but this place is the best. The beer is fantastic; the pizza is just as good; fantastic. But the beer is definitely the highlight, I was amazed at the quality. Okay small correction to my review. I don't think you get service like this anywhere in Hot Springs; from the first "hello," to the glass of cold water when you first sit down at the table, because, it is a little hot today, to the manager spending a little time to visit with me and she didn't have to and I really appreciated that, so I'm going to have to say that the superior service is also five star. ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐

This was a great place to eat. It was very clean and bigger than you’d expect when you see it from the street. We had wonderful service, and our “wide load” pizza, which is like a supreme, was amazing. The crust is just the way we like it. Delicious! We would eat there again.

Amazing pizza! We were looking for a great place to eat and we certainly found it here. The small pizza is perfect for one person. I had the meat pizza and my dining partners all had something else and everyone loved it.

We love finding a good brick oven pizza when on vacation and this place was just that! I do wish the crust would have been a little thicker but overall, it was delicious!

Great service, staff was very friendly! Pizza was wonderful and so was beer! We had 1776 IPA which was very good. We will be back.

I have lived for 50 years and this is the Best pizza I have ever had. Fresh toppings, a little black on the crust from the oven char. It was so, so good! The cheesy garlic knots were phenomenal.

We went on Saturday night around 8pm and it was really busy. The pizza ended up being really good (5/5)! We got a medium pizza which was just enough for two people to share. We also got the Greek salad (it was fire!) and pepperoni chips as an appetizer since they were out of garlic knots. The pepperoni “chips” were served with cold marinara sauce and were only good because we were so hungry. The service was also slow as the kitchen was so backed up with delivery orders.

Highly recommend this pizza joint! For Celiac’s, this might be the best GF crust I have ever had. My server said it is made from scratch in house daily. The Meathead pizza was great. Plenty of craft brews on tap but I went with the house made cider, delicious. Can’t wait to go back again!

I'll start by saying, I don't normally write reviews unless a place is really good or it's really bad. It's hard to mess up Pizza, but this place was really good at making bad pizza. The atmosphere and staff were very nice and it was a super clean establishment. Now, I'm not picky when it comes to food, much less pizza. But this definitely fell way short of good to me, by a long shot. For the "appetizer"? My kids make this at home by sprinkling Italian seasoning on pepperoni and microwaving it. Blah and super DUPER greasy. The marinara was also equally bland. The pizza and the appetizers looked and tasted like a kid made it. Sloppy and uninspired. The pizza? Also super greasy as well and the toppings and crust(where not burnt) were soggy. It also looks like they hastily threw toppings on top as there is a negligible ammount of cheese besides a thin laughable layer underneath the toppings. The whole uncooked red olives thrown on top (to me) were not favorable at all... Maybe because of a rush due to one of our 3 pizzas not being made on time when we placed our order (I didn't try any of the other 2). We had to wait an extra 15+ minutes for the 3rd pizza which was then made not as we ordered it (without red onion). In fact, It was absolutely covered in red onion ALL over, not just a few slivers here and there. Okay, I'm easy. We ate it anyways as everyone else was finishing up on their food and were ready to go. Several pieces on all of the 3 we ordered were severely burnt as noticed by all in our party(oven issue? Too hot on one side?). Not over cooked, but charred black, inedible. Now for the service. Thankfully, despite the food issues our waitress was absolutely fantastic!!! And hey, the in house "Wheat Springs" beer was good as well. Maybe the kitchen had an off night? I've heard good things about this place from other people in the past. Me personally? Our family will not dine here ever again. The only reason I gave 2 stars and not 1 was for the waitress and the beer.

Great food great atmosphere awesome staffWe don’t typically visit the same place twice during vacation but this place was awesome. Had pizza the first night and the second time we stopped in for a salad for lunch and they were both AWESOME. Beer and ciders were on point!!!