Mellow Mushroom

Cool little joint with average food! The ambiance is fun: 70/​80s Rock and roll, hippy culture which was fun and unique– a cool place for kids! They left you split your pizza ½ one kind, ½ another for free which is nice! They have a 12″ gluten free pizza which there isn’t an uncharge for (yay!) but it’s the same prepackaged tasteless gf crust that you get at the grocery store. Blah! I wish places made their own gf crust in house!

Chris Brown (I believe that’s what she said her name is) is a huge asset to this restaurant. My girlfriend and I come here rather frequently and have gotten mediocre service from this place on plenty of occasions. However, Chris has always been on top of everything and makes our experience that much better. I have no idea what her job is there because she’s always doing everything and doing it well. I’m in the industry as well and I literally made an account just to commend how good of a job she does. I wish my restaurant had someone like her lol.
ANYWAY, The food is always pretty good and good beer selection. It’s the best option for late night food and bars. Will def. be back.

I just got done having a dinner at this establishment that was full of both highs and lows. The tossed salad to start was pleasing (after I had to ask two different waiters twice for the dressing I wanted) and the pretzels were to die for once the fruit flies that surrounded them cleared the premise and I could could squeeze in a bite. The pizza was mediocre at best kind of like any Adam Sandler that came out post 2000. Take Grown Ups for example. Grown Ups is a «solid» movie with a fairly interesting and believable plot and I enjoyed watching it but if someone ever came up to me and asked me about the movie I would probably respond with an «eh» or an «it was alright». This is very equivalent to the mellow mushroom. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great either. At the end of the day they serve solid food but there are a few «plot holes» such as the wait staff and sanitation.

Pros: the entire time I lived in Phoenix, I never ate here. This was a co-worker’s fav place and she talked about it all the time. Pretzels pretty good. The pizza with the baked potato was incredibly tasty and filling.
Cons: Pizza OK. Service was decent. It could have been better since there weren’t that many people there on a Saturday night, but not the worst I’ve ever had. Whatever my friend got wasn’t very good.

Pizza is great, and there are plenty of different items on the menu… Great for kids and an amazing atmosphere. We had the pizza delivered to us (this time; we have been here a few times). However we waited for 80 minutes to get our food delivered to us so the delivery service was poor. Overall the salad was excellent and the pizza is a good portion size… Something kids and adults will both really enjoy.

Food and beer are always good here! But service tonight is awful! Been here 20 mins now and haven’t even gotten a drink!

Enjoyed the House Calzone and Spinach Salad tremendously. Loved the minimal dough and beautiful presentation of the calzone. I think the waitress was new as she came back 3 times to clarify my order– but very nice. Fun to look around the walls and ceilings. My friend liked her Hoagie and the Homemade chips.

Very rude staff … 1:10 and they stop serving food and beer. I will never go back. Very rude staff. Just wait till more places open up on high street. Good luck.

Awesome beer selection with good happy hour prices, but the service was lacking a bit. I can’t say this is always the case because I have only been to this location once. But, the first impression was not great. It seemed as though she (our server) didn’t want to be there, and certainly didn’t want us to be there. Kinda strange since we seemed be one of the only tables in there, and the place wasn’t closing for a few more hours.

Food is decent, the hoagies are good, pizza is alright. We were enticed by a $ 10 gift card in the mail which came in a pair. Unfortunately the gift card we grabbed was for February instead of January and David the manager wouldn’t honor it. Will not be returning as there are better options that provide better service.

I have eaten at several different Mellow Mushroom locations. There is one just a few miles from my office. This one is just as good as all of the others. The pizza is very fresh with good ingredients. Because of their crust being a little «breadier» than some, I always get a loaded out pizza here. (Thin doughy crust is better for just cheese and pepperoni… breadier crust needs more ingredients.) Service was also friendly and efficient.

This is my fourth Mellow Mushroom location (previously eaten at their Birmingham, Tuscaloosa and Fort Worth locations), and this is probably the weakest of the bunch. Allow me to explain:
The pizza, while truly delicious, is a wee bit skimpy on the toppings. The crust, however, is good enough that this is not a fatal weakness. But it should be remedied. All of the other locations I have visited are more generous in this regard.
We had the Holy Shiitake, a cheese pizza with pepperoni and sausage, and a Kosmic Karma. The best, I terms of toppings volume was the cheese, followed by the Karma and sadly by my favorite, the Shiitake. The last pizza is generally stellar, but in Scottsdale it was just good.
Now to the service: Mellow Mushroom prides itself on hiring interesting and cool people. Piercing and tats are frequent, as is a very casual demeanor. I appreciate the approach, but I would like to see a couple of changes, such as being more attentive and writing down orders. Pro tip: writing the order means you don’t forget the artichoke hearts my friend wanted on her Kosmic Karma.
The beer selection is bewildering and the type on the beer menu is tiny, and covers both sides of a sheet of letter paper, so bring your reading glasses if you’re old like me.
I believe 3.5 stars would be a better rating, but they get 4 because of the awesome flavor of their pizzas.

I came here over the Thanksgiving weekend with family for the Goose Island stout release. This was the closest place I could find it and was hoping to enjoy a few nice pours. I was completely appalled by the 5oz pour for $ 7.50. I ordered anyways and received my beverage in a lowball bar glass… WTF??? Had I not been with family I would have made a scene.
Pizza is whatever and has way too much crust. They try and get crafty with toppings but skimp on everything. That much outer crust should include some dipping sauces or honey. Something.
Overall, not impressed. Applebee’s meets Dominoes with a great beer selection and people that aren’t educated enough to know what they’re pouring. I’ll go to the liquor store and grab a Lotza Mozza next time.

Okay… if I were to rate this place only for its beer selection, happy hour deals, and amazingly cool and chill bartenders, it would be a clear cut 5 stars. However, I just don’t dig their food menu… I find the food too greasy, and I know how some may think that would go go with beer but for me it isn’t working. Again, not bad by any means, especially the Caesar pizza (pizza with Caesar salad as a topping)
Make sure you sit at the bar and ask bartenders for samples of their ever changing beer list.

Mellow Mushroom will always have a special place in my heart since my fiancé and I had a lot of dates here in the past 4 years. We have been to all the locations in the valley and this one has a music theme.
It is located in a shopping/​living/​dining area next to Desert Ridge. There is comedy club a few doors down which is cool if go to a show you can come to reverse happy hour after. They have a nice patio and a huge bar and plenty of seating in the dining area for the whole crew.
I usually get a Groupon when we visit so I get a little bit of a discount on food and drinks. Sometimes other business give you a hard time about using Groupons but here it was a fast and easy transaction.
I ordered the Gourmet White and a Lil salad. The salad was crisp and fresh but I had to ask for croutons –which was just enough crunch to balance out the greens. The pizza it was okay but greasy from the cheese and only a few pieces of sun dried tomatoes. It was different from other white pizzas I’ve had in the past and not in a good way. Don’t get me wrong –pizza is a food group for me but I’ve have better for cheaper. I’ve gotten the Funky Q Chicken with Jerk Tofu substituted in the past it was always on point. I should have stayed with my go-​to this trip.
If you don’t really like pizza sauce, veggies or meat then get the white pizza is just kinda too meh for me.
I love this place despite my wrong choice of pizza.

Worst mellow mushroom out of all of them. If you go there expecting to use a coupon, dont. I go there and when arriving I say I have a coupon for a certain food with their ap and they say okay just show us at the end. I didn’t have much money to spend so me and a few friends just came to get a few drinks and decided to use coupon. On checking out they said I needed to spend $ 20 to use it which was fine, I get another drink to make it just above $ 20 and honestly I didn’t really want the drink but no worries. I said can I pay out now and since it Litterally just turned midnight is was now expired. It was 12:03. I said can I get my money back for the drink then and they said it was my fault for saying I had a Groupon, which I never even said. I didn’t even know what a Groupon was. So I had to spend an extra $ 12 for stuff I didn’t even want. I used to go here at least 3 times a week.
The first time this happened I had a gift card but you had to spend $ 20 I was at $ 18 so I said can I get another drink to make it $ 20+ to use coupon. And then they said no I was cutt off. RIDICULOUS!!! I bought drinks for other people and wasn’t even close to drunk. They look like they have new pepole since this happened but I avoid this location as much as possible. Happy valley is much much better and actually has the beers on the menu rather than wet pieces of paper

Our favorite late night spot that really saved our Sunday night party!
Sitting in the area just west of the bar– we enjoyed our server Erica who was timely & friendly.
We order our favorite extra crispy double baked Thai chili wings (5).The wings are actually double baked and perfectly crispy & the perfect combo of 2 drumsticks and 3 wings with the double bones. Love the sweet Thai chili sauce too– not very spicy but a unique twist.
The Caesar pizza really rocked– pretty sure they put butter in the crust. The pesto chicken and cheese pizza was on the thinner side with a 1″ Parmesan butter crust. They top this with Caesar salad tomatoes and shaved Parmesan which was a nice crunch! We love pizza with salad on top– sauce has a good one too.
For drinks he did a Moscow mule and I tried a limited time draught that was not on the menu– undercover cucumber. A light filtered lager style beer the cucumber was very very subtle. Loved it! Thank you to Erica for mentioning this and offering a sample.
We finished with a Reese’s peanut butter cup cookie ice cream sundae. This was a slightly warmed cookie with ice cream chocolate & whipped cream. Nothing to complain about!
We will be back again as we truly enjoy the lively but not overly crowded atmosphere of this particular location. We always notice servers from other nearby restaurants eating here in groups– best reverse happy hour ever! Half price drinks & munchies after 10pm.

I enjoyed my recent rip to Mellow Mushroom. My family of 4 went while on vacation recently and I’d wanted to try it. The atmosphere is interesting-​a mix of classic rock meets craft beer bar meets college town pizza joint.
The pretzels to start were good-​the beer cheese sauce was great. Each of my 2 boys ordered a cheese pizza-​one with garlic and olive oil sauce and one with traditional red and each liked theirs. My wife and I split the Mellowterranean-​it was good, but the chicken was out of place-​could have been a straight veggie pie-​but the tzatziki sauce was great for dipping.
Very doughy crust, but good sauce and fresh toppings make it a return spot next time we are near another Mellow Mushroom. Plus, good tap choices and a different vibe than most places.

Love the Shroom! The Mellow Mushroom (TMM) has 47 Draft beers on tap. I started w/​the Rubicon Monkey Knife Fight Pale Ale (5.4% ABV, a mild 27 IBU). Due to location, this one has an elongated layout, which is a bit weird, but breaks up the noise and offers a bit more privacy. Also, par for the course in this locale.
I’m Lactose Intolerant, one of the reasons I like TMM — their pizzas are still delicious w/​o cheese :~) Got the Maui Wowie Pizza, no cheese, extra pesto/​olive oil. Solid! It’s a twist on the traditional Hawaiian Pizza, of which I’m a fan. The crust was just right — well cooked yet a bit chewy — & the applewood smoked bacon and banana peppers were star attractions!

The food here is good and this location seems to be improving with each moving van, dropping off new residents to the former bankrupt Desert Ridge North area. While real estate sales have gone from non-​existent at this north Phoenix area, to white hot over the past twelve months. Go figure
We love everything on the menu, including the appetizers like the soft pretzels, the meatballs (I’ll return to this in a minute), their pizza selections are tasty and they also have an extensive beer list. To top it off, their Happy Hour has most drinks marked 50% off! So all good, right? Well maybe.
As we said, we like the Mellow Mushroom. But on our most recent visit, it was m’eh at best. The big negative for us was the afore mentioned meatballs.
Sadly, they weren’t even half cooked. The plate was ice cold, the marinara sauce was cold, meatballs (photo) were luke warm but pre-​cooked, and the mozzarella inside was not melted and also cold. Ugh.
I’ve decided to average out my rating to Three Stars, because we like the place and they normally do a nice job.
So yes, we’ll be back. But, they need to get their act together.