Mellow Mushroom

Best bartenders and HH around. Can’t beat the premium beer prices and the Half price apps. Cory and Mike are super nice.

Stopped in here for an impromptu lunch with my lovely wife after years since my last Mellow Mushroom visit. We were indecisive, while out shopping, about where to go for food and this ended up being the consensus. Hey, I forgot there’s a Mellow Mushroom here, let’s check that out!
We sat on the patio during what was a beautiful afternoon. This location used to be Rock Bottom until the concept change a year or two (or three?) ago. Great memories from Rock Bottom. It was interesting to go inside the building for the first time since that transition and see how… completely different it is. Even including the front entrance.
Looks like they retained the tap system from Rock Bottom, and that’s great. Huge beer selection, lots of craft brews. I like beer so that’s a good thing.
As I said, it’s been years since I’ve been to a Mellow Mushroom and what I remembered of it was… really, really good pizza. Like, excellent pizza. We ordered a house special on this visit and it was just mediocre. It wasn’t bad. Considering, however, that it had Mozzarella, Pepperoni, Sausage, Ground Beef, Ham, Applewood Smoked Bacon, Mushrooms, Black Olives, Roma Tomatoes, Green Peppers, Onions and extra Cheese (sounded to us like we could NOT go wrong), I thought it just didn’t have much flavor. The crust around the edge was good, but under the pizza it was not crispy at all.
Our server was friendly and provided good, prompt service. I drink a lot of water, and she kept me in the water for sure. I was pleased with the service we received.
In summary, the pizza just did not live up to expectations, and I felt let down. I don’t think I will go back here again as a result, unless I’m in the area and decide to stop in for a craft brew at the inviting looking bar. If I do that, I won’t be ordering a pizza.

Great experience! Read previous reviews and decided to chance it. Capreese salad was fantastic! The pizza ½ house ½ kozmo was delicious. The food was fresh and the sevice, spectacular!

100 brews on tap ! Pizza smells amazing and clean although we are only sampling beer I already want to come back

Great happy hour deals! My brother & I ate here on a Monday night during happy hour & we’re totally happy with our bill. We ordered the spin dip, stuffed mushroom & bruschetta. All good choices. I recommend coming here for a late night bite, it will be worth it.

I love this place! I have had nothing but cool and fun experiences. I would highly recommend this place to anyone that wants to just chill out with a great atmosphere, great staff and overall a great experience everytime!

I would give this place 2 stars, but it sucks so bad, I can’t even think about it right now without getting sick. Let’s start off with the wait staff. The waiter was horrible and had no personality. He simply nodded to imply «what do you want to order?» Aside from that the food was horrible. The most bland meatball sub I have ever had. It tasted like cardboard, and was cold and not fresh ingredients. I tried a friend’s slice of pizza and it tasted like trash. Crappy ingredients and horrible taste. Never going back

Love Mellow Mushroom! I always order a calzone. They are huge! My favorite is the Maui wowie calzone (the Maui wowie is actually a pizza, but I get it as a calzone). Jerk chicken, bacon, pepperoncini… It has a bit of a bite! It comes with pesto sauce and marinara. Yummy. This place also has a great beer menu. For an app, order the spinach dip with pita… In love with that creamy goodness!

Ridiculous amounts of quality brew on tap and bottles/cans…always a great idea for a lunch break ;). I’ve had pizzas and sandwiches o ’ plenty here and liking all of them when I get them! Service is generally quite fast and the wait staff are always efficient and friendly.

I had heard good things about Mellow Mushroom, but my experience left much to be desired. We went on a Saturday night around 7:15 with a party of 6. The place was not busy at all, yet they seated us upstairs all by ourselves. It took forever to get our Margaritas (which were a steep $ 9.50 for a small glass mostly filled with ice). The Bruschetta and Artichoke Dip were ok, but the pizza was horrible. We got the Kosmic Karma and there was sooooo much sauce, that’s all we tasted… and it was really expensive. I’ve had better frozen pizzas for a fraction of the price. What a was of money. Will never go back.

Lack of weeknight staff!
I am currently sitting with my family waiting for a table. Walking into the restaurant you will see several empty booths and not a soul sitting in the outside seating. At the same time you see 3 other families all waiting for tables while you wait for a hostess to come up front. Once the hostess does get to the front, you are told that there is a wait even though have of their available tables are empty.
The food is awesome and my wife loves their beer choices, but I must rate according to the overall experience.

The place has some very interesting pizzas! The bartender/​server was very helpful. We were told we could do 2 halves of different pizzas if we couldn’t decide what we wanted. We had the mellowterian and red potatoe pizza.
Pizza was very tasty. The red potatoe was better in my opinion. But both very good. I’ll be back to try some others.
Service was good!

This location seems very new and the building is so cool looking. They tried to make it look like an old movie theater that was converted to a restaurant, so there is lots of movie memorabilia around and also theater eats in the waiting area near the hostess stand.
Other than the décor, me and my friend weren’t really wowed by the food. We ordered the chopped salad, which was basically just a lot of lettuce and not much else (very FEW tomatoes and olives and sunflower seeds). I don’t really get what made it a «chopped» salad as differentiated from a regular salad. Also, the dressing claimed to be a vinaigrette, but what came out was a creamy almost Ranch-​like dressing… odd.
For the pizza we were excited to try vegan cheese bc we can’t eat dairy. The nice thing is that you can sub vegan cheese on any of their pizzas. But the Daiya cheese they used just isn’t very good! The first bite of it is decent, but after the first bite it starts just tasting weird… I think I would’ve preferred a pizza with no cheese than this fake cheese. If they are going to offer vegan cheese, they should look for a better option or possibly make their own. I will say I did enjoy the crust of the pizza! The bread was nice and doughy with a good crispiness to the outside.
Lastly, service was NOT good. Our poor waitress was really nice, but just overworked. She forgot to bring us silverware when we sat down and then when our salad arrived, we still didn’t have silverware. And we couldn’t flag her down to get any silverware for another 10+ minutes, that’s how busy she was! But then after that she was checking in with us a lot — of course then we didn’t need anything.

Went for the Pie He Porter, left full of sadness and despair.
Explains the Groupon.
The fact that they consider themselves a pizza joint is a disgrace to pizza makers everywhere. What was placed in front of me was not a pizza. Maybe I’m missing something, but I seriously doubt it.
First impressions were a bit on the creepy side. This being the Ahwatukee location with flashing lights at the entrance, with a Chuck E Cheese feel as you opened the doors. They have this movie theme going on that is equally disturbing. We chose to sit at the bar to avoid a 10 minute wait for a table and the option to turn our backs to the bizarre movie inspired décor.
For the record, our service was perfect. We sat at the bar and never had an empty glass. The bartender was spot on, friendly and accommodating.
Figured we would try the pretzels made with their signature crust. That should have been our warning to spend the rest of our Groupon on beer. We failed our instinct and ordered a pie.
I can’t get over the fact that, A) they consider this crust worthy of anything other than concrete filler. And, B) Why in the hell was there a wait for a table?
Aside from the strange texture of the «crust», the toppings were also less than stellar with the freshness right out of the grocery store near by and designed by the mind of a child. The one good thing I can say about the toppings is that they were there, as we were hungry and needed something to actually eat.
We did manage to eat about ¾’s of our pie toppings before the realization that we were simply eating to eat, and at the same time swirling into an endless pit of depression.
Even the beer didn’t help at this point. That alone speaks volumes.
To be honest, I can’t even finish this review because of the trauma I am still experiencing after my visit. The sheer horror that I actually attempted to consume this thing they call a pizza and the fact that I actually paid for it.

Whoaaaaa!!! Completely overpriced!!! I ordered their Greek salad ToGo and as soon as I saw it, I knew it shouldn’t be worth more than $ 5 for the small (which is what I ordered). The only reason I am even giving it two stars is because the staff was friendly when I said there’s no way I am paying for that. There were barely any fixings on it and they wanted to charge me close to $ 8.17!!! I had almost gotten the regular size but changed my mind when she said it was close to $ 14. I lived in Georgia for a short period of time and their Greek salad was fantastic and full of fixings. This was quite the opposite. Don’t waste your time with a salad here.

This location is unique. Definitely looks like it was not originally built as a Mellow Mushroom, more upscale for a pizza place. We like to get the whole wheat pizza, and pretzels with beer cheese. FYI, the pretzels are whole pretzels, not little pieces like at the Tempe location. It was just two of us so we totally felt like little oinkers with 6 big pretzels and a pizza! Lol! The pretzels are made from their dough so I’m sure the 4 were taking home will be really good left over. We made sure to ask to take home some of the beer cheese because it is the BEST. The only negative is that we sat waiting for our sever without waters for almost 15 minutes, seems no one knew who’s table we were. However, I will not give 1 less star because they quickly remedied this problem when my husband asked to talk to the manager. Overall, good place and we’ll be back (on next cheat day) :-)

I’ve been about 50 times so it gets 5 stars. The happy hour remains the best in the valley and the food is good. The bartenders are great and the beers are constantly rotating and interesting. Your best bet on food, in my opinion, are the sandwiches. Get a half on a pita for $ 6 paired with one of the 50 or so beers and you’re feeling good.
They also now have an app which allows you to earn free apps and stuff from your visits which is cool.

Awesome draft beer options. All natural food, no deep frying is also very nice.
Food was excellent. Spinach artichoke dip and the Thai dye pizza, both outstanding.
Service could have been better, was slow.

YUCK!
Went on Valentine’s Day. Was given a bad table and the service wasn’t really good.
I ordered a pizza with steak — it wasn’t that good. The plates had a strange damp smell and I started throwing up hours later.
I am unsure if it was food poisoning or a fluke that I got a 24 hour tummy bug around the same time.
I wasn’t happy when I left and will certainly never go back!

Huge fan of the food, not so much the prices and the service. I’ve had such good service for quite awhile, I’d almost forgotten what it’s like to get an apathetic server. Get it together, woman! At least act like you care.
The mighty meaty pizza was really good, full of delicious meaty toppings, and I love the crust! Yeasty and wheaty and really delicious. But $ 21.59 for a medium? Really? I think I blasphemed for the first time here.
Then the oven-​roasted wings were very tasty as well. Hot and crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. $ 10.49 for 10? Over a buck a piece? Second bad set of words uttered here.
They have a fantastic beer selection. The server asked me if I wanted a glass with the bottle of beer I ordered and I declined. My husband had ordered a beer in a can (we didn’t know that at the time), and she didn’t offer him a glass. Weird. Just a preference thing, but beer in a can tastes much better from a glass. No tinny overtones. We each had 2 beers and all were $ 6.50 each except for the Belgian beer in a can that was $ 5.50. All in it was $ 61.82 after tax, before tip. Blaspheming continued here.
Our server was really almost nonexistent and not engaged with us as far as talking about the food and beers and even said she doesn’t bother to learn the beer list because it changes so much.
Next time we’ll try happy hour so we can afford to eat and drink here, and we’ll sit at the bar to maybe get good service. The place is huge and I like the eclectic décor all over the place. The outdoor patio and bar seating looked very inviting too. Maybe we’ll have a better experience the next time around.
**Update. After hearing from the owner just a short time after I posted my review, I’m going to add a star. I am completely impressed with a business owner that can approach a less-​than stellar review with good questions and feedback. That makes a huge difference.