Mark Rich’s New York Pizza & Pasta

Still our favorite italian for 8 years running. Owners make the experience over the top as we feel like family. Great value and food is hands down better than any italian in the vegas area. Favorites are garlic cheesy knots, Sicilian pizza, BBQ chicken pizza, pinwheels, stromboli, and chicken parmesean.

This is a nice local pizza place. The prices and atmosphere are perfect for families.
Ive dined here for lunch several times with girl friends, enjoying a glass of wine, the salads and pizza. My husband and I popped in for dinner the other night. We enjoyed the Caesar salad, zucchini sticks (my favorite) and Chicken Marsala. My Husband ordered a small pizza also. You will enjoy the casual «family run» atmosphere. Our server was upbeat and fun, he brought our food to us quickly and we enjoyed watching the pizzas being made.
It is nice to have a place to dine and relax that is not a chain restaurant. Las Vegas is lucky to have Mark Rich’s pizza!

Ordered a greek salad… iceberg lettuce??? really? The dressing was not good at all, not real greek dressing and the salad was altogether boring. The pizza was not good and cold. The carrot cake looks like they bought it at Albertson’s. I am so disappointed.

We have been here a couple of times and the food and service have been great. Bob and his wife are in the restaurant most of the time and always striking up conversation. My kids love to play with the pizza dough they give them to keep them occupied.

Kristin was excellent they call her smoupie because of her hospitality and the pasta tequila was wonderful I had it with whole wheat pasta which you can ask for special. Mark Rich’s really covers it all great food with healthy options and a beautiful, competent waitress with a smile… I’ll be back for sure!

Great place, great food and amazing owners who make you feel as if you are home… If you want real NY pizza, then this is the place to go to…

So good! And the service was exceptional! The Stromboli is out of this world and the wings are great. I come here all the time with my family and friends.

It took a little while to get the food after we ordered but everything was wonderful when it arrived and definitely worth the wait. We order to pinwheels and two strombolis. Delicious!

Fantastic !
Pizza is fantastic ‚
service is Great.
I grew up in New York eating Italian Food
Thin crust, lots of topping.

I really wanted this place to be a favorite. I drove 30 minutes just to go there, and I was disappointed once I had it.
First, let me start by saying, if I ever had a restaurant, if for any reason I came out of the back, I would go around (like a lot of places do) and address customers. I would maybe thank them for wasting their money on my terrible food or I would even ask them how they’re liking the food. I would say something to better my customer’s experience.
With that being said, I sat next to the owners friends and they requested to talk with him. He came out the back and sat with them for 30+ minutes. He never once looked up or even smiled at us. He was too busy telling stories about his childhood and jokes about fat people.
Even when my food came out, he didn’t even glance up to look at it. If I had a small business, I would want to make sure everyone is satisfied. Even if I was talking with old friends, I would stop to acknowledge customers. I would make sure the product that being served is satisfactory. He didn’t, but if he had, he might would have saved himself a customer.
Ok, so they had one waitress. She was really sweet. She started off great, as far as serving skills. She brought our drinks right out. She asked if we were ready to order, but at the time, we were not ready. It took her about 10 minutes to come back and take our orders. That would have been ok if she was at other tables, but she wasn’t she was in the back.
When she came back, we placed our appetizer order. We ordered the Garlic Bread with Cheese and when it did come out, 10 minutes later, it didn’t have any cheese on it. They waitress said that she didn’t know we wanted cheese. She said that it wasn’t a big deal and she took them back to the back. After about 7 minutes, she brought them back out. They had cheese on them and they didn’t look too bad.
We started on the bread and then placed the order for our pizza. We ordered the 16″ Sausage Pizza. I should have read the tips on this place before I arrived because if I had, I would have known to order my pizza and appetizer at the same time.
We finished the bread and still waited another 20 minutes to get the pizza. It took a while. I know that they’re made fresh, of course, but dang, even Dominos can get the pizza out quicker than that, and they have like 20 other orders to fill. I was the only one ordering, at the time too. Let me stop, I’m not sure the equipment they’re working with. It may be significantly different.
Either way, the pizza got to me, but it was really gooey. It was hot and runny, to say the least. It smelled like butt, too. I wasn’t the only one that noticed the smell either. It made it really hard to eat it.
The bread tasted pretty good but compared to other places I’ve previously tried, it was average. It was, in fact, better than the pizza. The pizza was poor. It was well less than average.
In all, this place was not added to our Favorite’s List. I drove too far to be disappointed like this.

Wow!!! This place is amazing! The servers are charismatic and the food has great flavor. The place was too small only because it was so full. Everyone else in Vegas knows about this yummy dining place.

I live less than a mile from this restaurant for 1 ½ years and thought I’d give this place another try.
In order to get a lot of work done this evening, I went ahead and ordered online to have my meal delivered. It took the typical 45 minutes my order to arrive.
Because there was a $ 15 minimum, I ordered chicken parmigiana with house salad and a combo appetizer.
The combo appetizer included my fried favorites — mushrooms, zucchini and mozzarella cheese with marinara sauce. It was good but not mindblowing.
I opened up my side salad and wasn’t at all impressed as it looked like something I would’ve put together, boring.
And the chicken parmigiana… well, it looked like the chicken patty may have come from Costco.
All in all, with my first and this second experience, this place is just okay.

The stuffed pizza slices are the bomb– it’s basically a thinner version of a deep dish style pizza, with cheese and meat stuffed between two crisp layers of crust. They’re around $ 5 each and easily make a lunch, served with a cup of marinara for dipping.
The salads and pastas here are not their forte– maybe it’s just the dressing, but the antipasto salad had ample toppings but nothing interesting going on flavor-​wise. Meat quality seemed just so-​so, and the «house italian» looked like it was packed with herbs but tasted more like plain oil. Fellow diners who opted for pasta specials mentioned that they were overcooked and mushy rather than al dente as expected.
They have a limited list of lunch specials ($ 7, five options) and outdoor dining tables with umbrellas. Though it’s set up as though you walk in and order, then wait for your food to be brought out, they only do takeout orders at the counter and if you are dining in, you have a server. Beer and wine are available.

3.5 stars. I do like pizza joints like this. I thought the food was good and the service was very friendly.
Seems a little sleepy in there though and they could use some newer TVs.
Nothing memorable or very unique. Not that I’m not glad I tried it.

I’ve eaten at the northwest location many times previously and was extremely happy so decided to try the Summerlin location close to my kids school. Ordered the #1 special. (Large pizza and a bucket of wings for $ 35) and a spaghetti with marinara ($ 7) Got home and found that we had received a 4oz soufflé cup of ranch for a BUCKET of buffalo wings. Obviously not enough. The pizza was good. The wings tasted like they had freezer burn or something. Didn’t eat many since we didn’t have enough ranch. Went back the next day to ask for more ranch. Explained how much I got with my bucket and she still charged me almost $ 5 for more ranch! Ridiculous but needed the ranch to make the wings edible.

One of my close friends and I love this little pizzeria! I think I like the people more than the food though. Don’t get me wrong the food is good — but with so many options for truly excellent Italian food, pizza, pasta — you have to have something else that draws you in to Mark Rich’s. I love Ellen and Kristin! They are truly funny, witty, and service oriented. Plus it’s close to home. This is just a fun place to enjoy your food when you don’t feel like going too far.
My favorite item is the eggplant parmesan with a side salad. I am not elated by the pasta. It is often overcooked or undercooked. The «Works» pizza is good. On Tuesday, you can enjoy a free medium cheese pizza when you order a large pizza. Tuesday’s used to be my standard time to visit Ellen — but she moved to Wednesday’s and now I don’t come in as frequently. Kristin only works weekends — and that is usually when I hit the town in search of new restaurants I have bookmarked on my Unilocal page.
I am not crazy about the cannoli’s here. They are not made fresh in the restaurant and it shows. However, I love the warm powered sugar dough dessert — I can’t do that too often though. I always say I will just have a couple and then… ouch!

I’ve always wonder about this pizza place every time I stop by Albertson’s in the same plaza. Today was the day I decided to give them a try. As I entered the restaurant, that East Coast feel surrounds the place and the smell of the pizza oven lingers. The cashier was no where to be found as I stepped up to the order counter, and took her a good 3 minutes to realize there was a customer. She did not look enthused to be working today apparently as she just wanted to take my order and get back to her task. I do give her a star for being so helpful to figure out my giftcard and giving me feedback on using it.
Now to the food, I ordered the chicken wings with fries and the eggplant parmigiana. I am a chicken wing fanatic and I can eat it and never get tired of it. The chicken wing I received seem very dry and chewy, you can tell they were frozen and then fried. I was not impressed at all whatsoever with their chicken wings, so moving on to the main entrée the eggplant. I was very excited to try this dish as the last time I’ve tasted it was in Florida months ago. Today was the day to give my palate a taste of this amazing dish. So the eggplant I got was burnt and tasted old. Like I was expecting the eggplant to be a bit moist and soft, but what I got was a burnt, dry, hard eggplant. The sauce however deserves a star for being somewhat tasty. I’ll give them another star for the neighborhood pizza place feel and for the convenient location.
All in all, I give this place a three star for the three things that I thought was reasonable to be awarded. Unless you’re really hungry and you have no where else to go and this is nearby, then you can go ahead and choose this place. I won’t say that I’ll never come back, I’ve still yet to try their pizza, but for now I’d rather just savor my once memory of a delicious, perfect, eggplant parmigiana meal in my mind.

Back again last night, had my XL «The Works» pizza, no sharing… she had the eggplant parmesan with a special side order bowl of veggies which were «amazing» and some very tasty garlic knots.
On Tuesdays, if you buy a pie, you get a medium cheese pie for FREE! Never knew that as we only went on weekends.
Met Mark Rich last night for the 1^st time, very warm and friendly guy who wants every patron to feel at home. Very focused on quality food and exceptional customer service. Speaking of exceptional customer service, Mark’s sister Ellen was our server. I love her fun and playful personality!
5 Stars again!

I’m giving this three stars instead of two, because
1. We showed up 5 minutes before closing and were welcomed to eat dinner.
2. The service, both from the waiter and the busboy, was attentive and excellent.
3. The dish I ended up with, after sending back my initial choice, was pretty tasty.
4. They have wine (and beer). And they have wine that I’ll drink (I’m picky), at a reasonable price.
I’m not awarding five stars because:
The ambience, IMO, is nothing spectacular, despite other reviewers liking it. It kinda reminds me of New Jersey strip mall liquor stores, with the big, unadorned plate glass windows and Bud signs. The chairs are comfortable, though.
My first order was Chicken Marsala. In general, I hate it when Marsala sauce has cream in it. In particular, I hate it when it’s not indicated on the menu. I hate it even worse when the chicken and the pasta are drowning in said sauce, to the extent that I can barely see the two main ingredients. The fact that it’s served in a soup bowl is a testament to this. I never learned how to swim, and wasn’t about to so that I could dive into this soupy mess. But worst of all? The chicken was straight out of a food service frozen box, two semi-​elongated patties that were breaded, identically sized (by a cookie-​cutter?), full of salt, and probably worse than a Sbarro’s at any turnpike pit stop coast to coast. One bite and it was history.
To his credit, the waiter was gracious and, despite the hour, offered to substitute any other dish. I «had what he was having,» and got the Chicken Cacciatore my husband was happily slurping up. With pieces of fresh, unbreaded chicken, fresh mushrooms, green pepper, black olives, and much less sauce than hubby’s, per my request, it was delivered quickly and was pretty good. Grated parmesan and red pepper flakes kicked up the chunky red sauce, and it was a very satisfying dish. And because I asked for less sauce, my swimming dysfunction wasn’t an issue. Ultimately, we left satisfied, but the origin of the chicken from my first entrée leaves some nagging questions unanswered.

Our family dined here this past weekend for an early dinner. When we arrived, the restaurant only had a few patrons, so we were seated almost immediately of walking in their doors. The waiter who greeted us and took our orders was friendly enough.
I decided to order a cheeseburger and french fries along with a root beer. I know what you’re all thinking! Here I come to an Italian pizza and pasta restaurant and I order the most American item on their menu. To my defense, my husband chose the restaurant as we were looking for some place quick to eat before our show. I wasn’t in the mood for pizza, the pasta seemed too heavy as I wasn’t very hungry and the salads didn’t sound too amazing. They all came with raw onions, (Yuck!) and their descriptions sounded as if they were all made with filler iceberg lettuce, as I like to call it.
Of course I was given a Sierra Mist in place of my root beer. The waiter quickly dashed off, and I was too tired to say anything. A half an hour later my cheeseburger arrived very dried and sad with no cheese. Maybe I should have ordered one of their salads, and requested no onions.
The only saving grace for this restaurant is that they brought out some wonderfully soft dough on a cute pizza plate to keep my daughter occupied while we waited for our meals.
#90 /​100
Unilocal 100 Review Challenge 2014