Skip the pizza side of the Boston Pizza menu entirely and the rest of the order is fairly easy: wings plain, dry-rubbed, or in a straight hot sauce, a steak cooked however you like it, or a Caesar or garden salad with chicken for protein. The one swap that matters most is the side — ask for salad or vegetables instead of the fries that show up by default with most entrees. None of that is a special order; it's choosing from categories the menu already lists next to each other.
Why the "gluten-free" side isn't automatically the low-carb one
Boston Pizza's menu flags a gluten-free quinoa and rice blend alongside the seasonal vegetables and salads as a gluten-free side option, and that's where it's worth slowing down for a second. Gluten-free and low-carb solve two different problems. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye — removing it doesn't automatically remove carbohydrate, because plenty of gluten-free foods, quinoa and rice very much included, are still built mostly out of starch. A health resource from A Healthier Michigan puts it plainly: following a gluten-free diet still leaves room to eat foods high in carbohydrate, including rice and quinoa, since gluten-free rules out an ingredient, not a macronutrient. On a menu that lists the quinoa and rice blend as the gluten-free swap, it's easy to read "gluten-free" as "lighter" and order it as the safe-sounding option — it isn't, and the vegetables or salad sitting on the same gluten-free list are the ones actually doing what you want.
The same logic shows up with the wings, in reverse. Boston Pizza's own published nutrition figures put a starter order of wings at around 9 grams of carbohydrate and a double order at around 19 — low numbers for a dish that size, and ones that hold true whether the wings are oven-roasted or fried, because plain chicken skin and meat carry almost no carbohydrate on their own. That number applies to wings without a sweet sauce. Once a flavor built around a glaze — honey garlic, teriyaki, a barbecue-style sauce — enters the picture, the math changes, because that sweetness is added sugar cooked into the coating, not a seasoning sprinkled on dry chicken. The chicken underneath never changed; the sauce is doing all the work, the same way a sweetened wing sauce does anywhere else wings are sold.
What to actually order
Wings, sauced on the dry or vinegar-based side. Plain, dry-rubbed, salt and pepper, or a straight hot sauce. Any of these keep the order close to pure protein and fat.
A steak, any cut, cooked any way you like. A plain grilled steak carries essentially no carbohydrate regardless of size — the cut is a question of taste and budget here, not a keto decision.
A Caesar or garden salad, with chicken added if you want more protein in it. Ask for dressing on the side if you're not sure how sweet a given dressing runs — most Caesar and ranch-style dressings lean on egg, oil, and cheese rather than sugar, but asking costs nothing.
Vegetables or seasonal sides in place of fries, spaghetti, or the quinoa and rice blend. This is the one substitution worth making on almost every entree here, steak included.
What to skip or ask about
Fries and spaghetti as a default side — both are straightforward starch with nothing low-carb about either one.
The quinoa and rice blend, specifically because the "gluten-free" label can read as a green light when it isn't one.
Honey garlic, teriyaki, and barbecue-style wing sauces, or any glaze that sounds sweet on the menu description — ask for the sauce on the side or pick a dry or vinegar-based flavor instead.
Breaded starters like calamari or loaded nachos, which lean on batter and chips the same way any fried appetizer does.
None of this requires reworking the order from scratch. It's a sauce choice on the wings, a side swap away from fries or that quinoa blend, and a steak or salad that was already keto-friendly before you opened the menu.
Wing and nutrition figures referenced above are the chain's own published numbers as of 2026-10; menu items, sauce lineups, and sides can change by location and over time, so this piece sticks to the categories (dry versus sweet, salad versus starch) that tend to hold steady even when the specifics shift.
What should I order at Boston Pizza on keto, besides pizza?
Wings — plain, dry-rubbed, or in a vinegar-based hot sauce rather than a sweet glaze — a steak cooked however you like it, or a Caesar or garden salad with chicken added for protein. Ask for the fries that come standard with most entrees swapped for one of those salads or a side of vegetables, and skip the breaded starters that usually land on the table first.
Which wing flavor is the safer keto pick at Boston Pizza?
Plain, dry-rubbed, salt and pepper, or a straight hot sauce. Those lean almost entirely on the chicken itself for carbs, which is close to zero. A honey garlic, teriyaki, or barbecue-style glaze is a different food group nutritionally — the sweetness comes from real sugar in the sauce, not a seasoning, so a double order of a sweetened flavor can carry meaningfully more carbohydrate than the same order plain.
What's the default side at Boston Pizza, and what should I swap it for?
Fries ride along with most steak and entree orders unless you say otherwise. Caesar salad, garden salad, or seasonal vegetables are listed right next to it as standard alternatives — asking for one of those instead is a normal substitution, not a special request, and it's the single swap that does the most work on the whole order.
Is the gluten-free quinoa and rice blend side keto-friendly?
No, and this is the trap specific to this menu. Gluten-free and low-carb aren't the same thing — quinoa and rice are both naturally gluten-free and both still carry a full serving of carbohydrate, so a 'gluten-free' label on that side doesn't mean it's light on carbs. If you're ordering gluten-free for a keto reason rather than an actual gluten issue, the salad or vegetables are the gluten-free option that's also genuinely low-carb.