Mellow Mushroom

If you enjoy outrageously over-​priced food, unfriendly service, and an odd odour (think mouldy cheese baked onto an old gym sock) permeating the dank interior, sticky tables and food-​encrusted menus, then this is the place for you! But what will ultimately keep you coming back for more is the pizza. I can’t quite figure out how they did it, but the «cooks» (even this is probably too generous a term to describe the kitchen staff) managed to burn the crust (I’m not talking just singed along the edges here; no, I mean burnt to the point at which carbon elements form a diamond) while leaving the toppings cold and the cheese uncooked. It truly was a fantastic job all around. I eagerly await my next visit to this fantastic establishment. Sarcasm off.

Pizza is good and we enjoy their pretzels with beer cheese, but it takes 45 minutes to an hour to get your food, and that is with about 6 other tables filled at 4pm (maybe ¼ capacity). Add to that the inconsistency of the food where it is regularly burnt, under cooked, or cold when you get it, and it is really a weak experience.

I thought this was a great place to get some authentic thick crust, hearty pizza.
Took the family day before the game. Noone walked away with take us back here please. Real disappointment from the last time I was here. To much tomato sauce, not enough cheese, crust burned and it tasted like burnt pizza.
My bill for 2 pizzas and 4 drinks and a Margarita — 70 bucks for something that did not go down the hatch. So I had to find another path to decent food. Will not be back anytime soon.
The guy at the door became our server and he was not particularly friendly or helpful nor any of the other servers on the floor. Noone said Welcome… Odd.

Definitely a favorite place whenever I’m in Tuscaloosa. I’m going to miss is when my daughter graduates.

The food is great — atmosphere is great and the staff is awesome. Mellow Mushroom restaurants have a variety of food to satisfy anyone — and beer, quality beer!!!

Do not go if it is fairly busy! Went with wife and son had to wait 10 minutes, no problem at all. Sat outside, ordered our food and drinks. 1 hour later, our server had stopped by once, and still no pizza, not even our son’s kids meal was out yet. 20 minutes later i had had enough. Asked for the check and our pizzas in a box to go. A few minutes later they brought out my wifes and mines pizza. The server told me it would be another 10 minutes for someone to make our kids pizza… IT HADNT BEEN STARTED YET??? A 10 year old should have gotten his food first! The manager said his typical apologies blamed it on the «rush» and removed his pizza off the ticket. By far worst Mellow Mushroom experince i have ever had. The server seemed clueless and i assume he was new due to his small section and lack of knowledge. I assume it is nice when its slow, but avoid on the weekend evenings.

Very good! Boys had the pizza and it was delicious., I had the Italian sausage hoodie and it was very good. My husband went for the portobello hoodie and he enjoyed it. The place was busy, we were seated quickly but the food did take some time.

This used to be my favorite pizza joint in Ttown. I don’t know what’s happened but the quality of the food and service has declined significantly in the past year. Cold, undercooked food; orders wrong; allergy requests ignored. Today was my last meal at this MM.

When ever we visit T Town are daughter has to bring us here for the salads, pizza and a drink or two! The food is good and neat ambiance. Will be back until she graduates since none in Cali. !

We originally wanted to go to the Italian place next door but unfortunately it was closed due to Labor Day weekend, so we went here instead.
I gotta start off by saying I haven’t had a decent restaurant in Tuscaloosa among my few visits so this is the best restaurant I’ve had here.
We started with the oven-​baked wings. I had four of the ten we ordered and only one was fresh while the other three were stale. It was disappointing since my first wing was so delicious and then the next three all subpar, like eating yesterday’s wings.
Next we had the Caesars salad and the Greek salad. Caesars salad was flooded with the dressing, a bit too much to be honest. And the Greek salad was fine.
On to the Holy Shiitake Mushroom pizza. Man was this delicious. I didn’t know what to expect because of our starters, but it did take the cake in the show. When I bit into the piece with the mushroom, it just squirted my mouth with all its fluids… a true foodgasm. I want to give 5 stars for this place but if either the salad or wings were at least somewhat good, I def would have. This is coming from a Unilocaler who lived in NY for four years. Definitely above average for a chain restaurant.
Oven-​baked wings — ³⁄₅
Caesar Salad — 2.5÷5
Greek Salad — 3.5÷5
Holy Shiitake Mushroom Pizza — ⁵⁄₅
Come here for the pizza (and maybe the wings if they decide to cook them fresh).

The only thing worse than waiting an hour for a table that’s dirty and the floors are dirty is a manager that turns off the debate because one person doesn’t want to hear. Very bad leadership by the management. 25 people at a bar watching it and he turns it off.
Update the manager did turn the volume back up. Thanks for listening to the majority

IS THERE A NEGATIVE STAR RATING? UNSANITARY — STAY AWAY… My boyfriend and I went over the July 4^th weekend. First his soup came out cold and he found a hair in it— disgusting. They brought out a new soup and all was well until he ordered an unusual drink which requires Chambord. Low and Behold, I notice bugs yes, DEAD bugs in the drink, To his credit, the bartender readily acknowledged the contamination and got his manager who apologized. They said the Chambord had not been touched in ages and it must have attracted all the little bugs. I could have puked right then. After all this, they served us the bill (about 80 bucks for two) gave us nothing comp’d and we left never eEVER to return. Honestly, the board of health needs to pay a visit. This was an awful experience

Another visit to another Mellow Mushroom in another city. Same review as last time… awesome pizza, great service at the table. But same problem as last time… if your selling pizza, you have to either bring the pizza to the table properly sliced or bring a pizza cutter or something sharp for me to cut the pizza. Why is this difficult? Little Cesar’s can do it, Hungry Howie’s can do it. But not the (most delicious) $ 25 pizza at Mellow. Again the pizza was attempted to be cut but it didn’t make it all the way through to the edge of the crust. But they bring a pie scoop as if you should scoop up a slice and throw it on your plate. But instead the whole pie slides off the tray. So you are left to try and saw at the pie slice to separate it. And then you shake the table and spill your beer. Why? I know there must be a sharp pizza cutter in the kitchen. Maybe next time I’ll try the burgers they’ve added to the menu. They sound delicious too!

All great pizza restaurants have one thing in common – metal utensils. This is the one pizza place that my SO looks forward to, whenever he visits the South. So of course, we had to go to a Mellow Mushroom in nearly every major city in Alabama, with this location being no exception.
The service is great. The wait time was a little long but it was what’s necessary to make delicious pizza. Remember to display the Unilocal check-​in to get your complimentary bruschetta. Save some room because they won’t be giving you some snobby wine bar bite-​sized toast. They pile these thick slices of bread with diced tomatoes and vinaigrette.
By the time we finished our appetizer, we were nearly too full to even begin on the medium-​sized Magical Mystery Tour. I like my pesto-​flavored items to have gross amounts of pesto. On a scale of 1 – 10, this was a 5. There can always be more pesto. Regardless of whatever pizza size you order for however many people, there will always be leftovers to take home.

Wherever there is a mellow mushroom restaurant I will always stop there to eat they have the best of everything

Great food and great staff! Our hostess Whitney was amazing and super friendly. My pizza was hot and came out very quickly! I was on my lunch break from work and worried about time but this worked out well! Great lunch deals and delicious pizza. Calzones in my experience have been amazing as well. Loved it!

When in town, Never disappointed with a visit to this pizza place. Food, service and beer is very good. The only negative since it’s a popular place you can wait over an hour to be seated sometimes.

Honestly, earned the the 2 stars due to pretty friendly service. I was hoping the extra dark pizza was their signature and would make the pizza taste amazing. Unfortunately, it was just burnt. Two large burnt pizzas, $ 40. Wow, I will save my money and go elsewhere next time. Sorry Tuscaloosa, this was a let down.

I can say that the food is excellent. I love the quality and the quantity of their fare and although it is a bit pricey, it is well worth it. However… service is woefully lacking and speed is at a crawl. The server was pleasant but the staff seemed more interested in talking to each other rather than taking care of customers. Noise level is horrendous; not everyone is interested in listening to the current sports on the television and with the existing music and hard surfaces made for a painfully loud atmosphere. Otherwise it looked very clean with excellent food quality and all in all reasonable pricing. Get the staff more interested in their jobs and turn the volume down so people can converse and it would be perfect.

Bought pizza by the slice and it was so good that went back with the family for some wings and calzones. Can report that all of it was top notch and may be just as good as one of the mellow-​mushrooms near your area. Our waitress was too cool and definitely fit the mellow mushroom mold (Julie?). Service was a little slow but you know what we did? We didn’t complain. And things turned out just fine.