Star Pizza & Pasta

Best Mediterranean pizza!!! This is my go to for a quick delivery (or pick up) when we don’t have any plans and I don’t feel like cooking. I haven’t had anything else except the Mediterranean pizza, but once you try it, you’ll never want to order anything else. Nowhere to dine in, but there is a small table when you’re waiting for your pick up order. Awesome local pizza spot!

I have been trying to figure out for a while which pizza is my fav for delivery. Well, I’ve decided It is Star Pizza. Loaded with fresh toppings and I do mean loaded. Cordial delivery people. Great phone and online ordering. Overall the best!

I ordered delivery. It was promised 45 – 60 minutes and took about and hour and 45 minutes to arrive. The food was bad! Bad, bad, bad! Italian sub was thrown together with thick nasty ham, a few pieces of small pepperoni and unidentifiable slabs of cheese. The wings were greasy and had no flavor and the pasta salad??? Wait, was that pasta salad??? I got 1 and a half pieces of pasta under the foil that the sandwich was on! The best part of the meal was the bag of Lays potato chips! Don’t waste your money!!!

I just ate at the Star Pizza on Roswell Rd. While I had initially intended to get a burrito from Perdido, I arrived to find that the lovely little independent burrito joint had gone under a few days ago. Since I like to try new restaurants I figured I’d give this desolate looking place a shot.
One member of the staff was entirely friendly, highly professional, and made effortless small talk as he prepared my food, and even thanked me for coming in to try the food on a whim. The other member of the staff (a Caucasian teenager in Lady Gaga glasses) said nothing to me, came in and dropped my wings, and then proceeded to sit outside and smoke. He continued smoking, while the timer for my wings was clearly going off in the background, thus leaving his co-​worker to stop in the middle of making another customers whole pizza, in order to rescue my now burnt wings. Unfortunately, the pleasant and welcoming demeanor of the lone employee cannot overcome what is an extraordinarily bad product. Simply put, I have never been more underwhelmed and disappointed with the taste of a slice of pizza or wings in my life.
When I try a pizza place for the first time, I always get a plain cheese slice. I do this so that I can attempt to try and discern the quality of the crust, cheese and sauce; and judge them on their own merits without them being hidden or masked by a bunch of other ingredients. The sauce and cheese used at Star Pizza are essentially tasteless. The cheese has the texture of baked mozzarella, but somehow it manages to have nothing even reminiscent of the flavor of mozzarella cheese. There is zero tangyness or even a hint of tomato flavor in the sauce, and it basically acts as a water based lubricant to help make the whole tasteless package easier to swallow. While the crust gets some points for being crispy and not greasy, it like the other ingredients, is not blessed with an overabundance of flavor. Or really any for that matter.
The story was the same with the wings. The wings were dry, overcooked, under sauced, and judging by their size, looked as though they had been taken from week old newborn chicks. Few things annoy me more than ordering wings and being served a box of overcooked skin and bones, in a light sprinkling of Texas Pete billed as a «Hot» sauce. Wings aren’t hard to cook, and its neither hard nor expensive to make a decent sauce to put them in. The days are long behind us where it should be considered acceptable for any restaurant to sell their customers the remnants of malnourished and rejected chicks from the local poultry factory.
What strikes me as most odd, is that at such a low price point the bar shouldn’t be that high for Star Pizza. But even going into the experience with diminished expectations, I quickly realized «the bar» was non-​existent. I spent $ 12 on two slices of cheese pizza and 8 wings, and literally just threw six of the wings out. I’m now going to get some beer, and hope I can get drunk fast enough to have this written record be my only memory of eating at Star Pizza.
I may go back one day, and try one of the fancier menu options, or maybe a sub; but I doubt it. Due to the fact that even the simplest items on the menu were so bad, I will probably never go back. Especially not with Sapporito’s being literally across the street, and La Bella’s less than ten minutes away.
The entire experience reminded me of a quote from The Office by Kevin Malone; «It’s bad. It’s real bad It’s like eating a hot circle of garbage.»

Great Margherita pizza! Have ordered it 3 times, really love it! Got delivery twice, both times pizza came within 30 minutes and was nice and hot. Recommend!

I have been ordering from Star Pizza for the past three years and I always get my favorite, the Guiltless Mediterranean. A smörgåsbord of flavor. Since it’s been close to my home, I honestly can’t recall having used the delivery service; it’s just as easy to place the order, walk to the Kroger for grocery shopping in the same strip, and arrive back for it to be ready. I did not like the White Pizza, and an normally a big fan. The presence of cheese (ricotta and extra mozzarella) was way overpowering, along with the garlic. My partner enjoys the All The Way, which I can take or leave, but for inevitable satisfaction I can never go wrong with the Mediterranean. When I stopped in yesterday I noticed they had organized the inside of the store so that there was more space to wait, but even so it still looked pretty dingy. For this reason alone, I’d dare call it «divey». Update the interior and the full experience will match the amazing pies they create!

To quote Yakov Smirnoff «What a country» — only in America could you find a Bangladeshi born Muslim making a competent pizza, and in Roswell, Georgia at that. The key here is the competent pizza.
The first time I ordered off their web site, I paid by credit card and I again paid the driver (like a dummy, I paid the driver in cash) … And in about a half hour after the driver left my home, I received a phone call from the owner «Mohammed» informing me of my error… And telling me to call for another pizza and HE would deliver it, as it was already paid for. So about a month later, Mohammed was good to his word– standing on my door step about an hour after I called in my order. He explained that it was against his religion to cheat a customer.
And he made a recommendation — to try his «Mediterranean Pizza» which sounded yummy. So next time I called I ordered a «Guiltless Mediterranean» which turned out to be a wonderful combination of Spinach, artichoke, roasted garlic, tomato, basil, feta and mozzarella. But we waited and waited and waited –almost 1 ½ hours for a delivery from a store that is less than 2 miles from my house, it was soggy and well room temperature. Still it was very tasty, and I knew I had found the right combination, take out and a «Guiltless «Mediterranean»
Even though they are principally a delivery pizzeria, delivery is their weakness. (And I KNOW delivery having worked for UPS the last 25 years). I will not use their delivery again. I have learned where in my travel path on my way home to call, so when I get there a fresh hot pizza is coming out of the oven, sliced and boxed as I’m walking in the door. Their delivery weakness costs them 1 ½ stars. The other ½ star is for their waiting area inside and outside their store. Composed of a couple of ratty, dirty chairs, even if it is intended only for your delivery drivers, you can and should do better.
While I have tried other combinations of of their pizza, I keep coming back to this one. With pizza (amongst other things) I tend to be a traditionalist… But this delicious combination of spinach, artichoke, roasted garlic, tomato, basil, feta and mozzarella is rather delightful pizza. There was a slight twist on the last one where there was an added treat, tons of fresh basil!
So I know that when it’s been a particularly bad day at work, and neither my girlfriend or have planned anything for dinner; and when I get to make the left turn off of Roswell Rd for Azalea drive, it’s time to call Mohammed or his staff at Star Pizza and in 15 minutes when I walk in their door, one of the tastiest pizzas I have ever had will be freshly boxed up, waiting to go home with me!

Upgrading this to a five, because they deserve it. The pizza is really damn good, even my foodie snob boss liked it, which is amazing. He rarely likes anything. Service is always great, they deliver in an acceptable time, are friendly, polite, and even call and notify you (or me anyway) of issues like a hold up, or the item you wanted isn’t available, etc. The half subs comes with chips and pasta salad and are HUGE (though it’s a LOT of bread, be prepared), and it’s only $ 5. Can’t beat that price anywhere. I got roast beef tonight after finding they were out of turkey, and although I don’t regularly love roast beef it was good. Thick pieces of meat with very little fat, unlike a lot of sandwich places. Pizza is equally affordable and delicious, the best I’ve ever had delivery wise and up in the top five of pizza anywhere. I’m not some foodie asshole who travels to NY and Italy to try the finest of the finest, but I know what I like and this does the job well.

Keep hearing how great the pizza are there, so despite the bad review, i give them a chance last night.
I ordered thru their website (you need a computer since the tablet will not work on the site), very easy ordering fast delivery, and delicious pizza!
Mine came perfect with a smiling driver!
A bit pricey, but was huge!
Will order there again!

Well I was on my way home. Thought I would try something different and never have tried this place before. Apparently you need to just stick with pick up and not delivery… fine with me since I pass it on the way home.
I ordered the Guiltless Mediterranean: Spinach, artichoke, roasted garlic,
tomato, basil, feta and mozzarella
The pizza was great, crust was good, the toppings were tasty, and the sauce was perfect [not overly sweet].
Just now for lunch I put the pizza to the ultimate test. I tried it cold for lunch today. Yep still good.

I was a happy Star Pizza customer for over 5 years, but this past year has been abysmal. The last 3 times we’ve ordered from them they’ve taken nearly two hours to deliver the pizza (after multiple follow-​up calls) and have even delivered the wrong pizza after an hour and a half, with the correct pizza not coming until after 2 hours once. I chalked the first insane delivery time up to being a fluke, the second I became suspicious there had been a management change, and after tonight’s 1 hour and 45 minute no price break calamity, I can say they’ll never get my business again. I didn’t take it out on the driver, as I consider him to just be the bearer of bad news/​pizza/​service, but as the saying goes, three strikes and you’re out. It’s really a shame. They used to be great, but something must have happened in 2012 to cause such a consistently horrible experience that long-​time customers will never consider returning.

First off, their pizza is quite good. The reason for my poor rating is the customer service, which is abysmal.
I always order using their web site’s on-​line order form. When you select a combo deal, it pops up with a check box list. The problem is that the lists have errors in them. In particular, the first item listed for the Family Special is the All The Way pizza, which apparently isn’t part of that deal.
Some time ago, maybe as much a two years, we got a call after ordering telling us this. We’d placed this exact order a dozen times before without a problem. This time the manager called and was antagonistic when I told him we’d never had a problem before, he acted as though I was trying to cheat him. I explained that if the All The Way wasn’t part of the deal, it shouldn’t be an option on the site. He said it would be fixed soon.
Well over a year later it hasn’t been changed. We’ve ordered it dozens more times without a problem. Tonight though, this same manager called and was aggressive right from the start. He basically yelled at me about knowing better. I explained that if they left it as an option on the site, denying me now is basically false advertising. He then pulled a new rule out of his butt, claiming no substitutions, despite that having never been a problem before. He even claimed we had discussed that before, which we had not. At this point he was just yelling and going on and on about it. I canceled the order, eventually having to scream into the phone just to break through his ranting.
To sum up, decent pizza, but their delivery is painfully slow on the best days, and god forbid you break an imaginary rule while ordering. We’re done with Star Pizza, there are plenty of other options.

I used to love this place. Great pizza, like a half a mile away. Woo!
First, there was a mix-​up on the pizza. My husband hates mushrooms (and I LOVE them) so we order pepperoni on whole, mushrooms on half. They got it right a dozens times before, and one night, we got mushrooms on whole, pepperoni on half.
No biggie right? They can just re-​deliver the right pizza. I call them up, and they say sorry. I ask, is there anything you’re going to do about it? Nothing. I boycotted them silently for about 4 months.
Then I start ordering from them again. Their pizza is really great, which is why I had to end the boycott. You know those coupon books that have the buy one get one coupons? I bought one because it had some Star Pizza coupons. Awesome, right?!
One night I have some friends over, so I decide to use one of the coupons. I call them up and order. I wanted to keep it simple with one topping per pizza, so I ordered one with pepperoni and one with sausage. The coupon says «Buy one pizza, Get one pizza free, up to 3 toppings.»
The lady on the phone says, «Well you have to order 3 toppings.» I reply, «No, it says ‘Up to 3 toppings, which encompasses *one* topping.’» She refuses to acknowledge the logic. I ask for her manager. He gets on the phone, and tells me the same. After some more back and forth I get so angry, I hang up.
I hate to leave a long and bad review, but if anything ever goes wrong with your order, don’t expect any sympathy from these guys. But if anything, do carry-​out and inspect your pizza before paying (and don’t buy a coupon book because you think your local pizza chain will respect the discounts.)