Mario’s Pizza

I finally made it to Mario’s Pizza. The pizza is a good reminder of classic NY Pizza, BUT the REAL Reason to visit is the «Bomb» NY Cheesecake. A real sin if you fail to try a slice, plain without cherry topping worked for me! Pizza slice was crisp with adequate toppings and sauce. Crust was good, crisp and well prepared. Sauce was adequate and in total a good slice.
It is a casual feeling small family restaurant with Seating in 5 booths, 5 tall tables and 3 outdoor picnic tables. Pizza sizes range in inches from 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and prices from $ 6.79 to $ 30ish. There is a Family menu and kids meals. RC products and bottled beer. The menu also has Burgers, salads, spaghetti and appetizers available. There are also Lunch specials 11am to 3pm.
I was there on a slow rainy Thursday evening and several families came in. The staff were polite and helpful. The ice maker was a little loud on the soda dispenser. Place was clean and well kept. The neighborhood is questionable with a liquor store and Circle K, but not really any impact on the meal. I noted there was no restroom entrance in the restaurant, maybe it is outside?
I’ll be back to try the appetizers and spaghetti. GOOD NY PIZZA, but the CHEESECAKE RULES!

If you want real New York Style Pizza. Go here. Easy to fold, thin, stringy, just like I remembered from Manhattan growing up.

Great pizza. NY thin style crust. Easy to call ahead and have it ordered to be picked up. They have a really big menu so there’s something for everyone. This time we ordered a big pepperoni pizza and an order of onion rings. Everything was still hot and delicious by the time we got it home and the onion rings were perfectly coated and crisp, without being too greasy.
This place has been here forever. It’s just a tiny little pizza shop on the corner, not a swanky place but the food speaks for itself.

Excellent pizza!!! Totally making this my new pizza spot– perfect sauce, crust and cheese which reminded me of a pizzeria from my hometown. Dominos and all other pizza places can suck it, this goes above and beyond what pizza should be :)

Mario’s pizza is the best! My work orders from here every Thursday and I love it so I just ordered a large pizza, soda and wings from them and they had them delivered to me in 18 minutes! I’ve never had anything delivered so fast in my life! Plus it’s all super hot and delicious and it was super cheap $ 20 plus tip! I would highly highly recommend this place to anyone give them a try if you’re in the Tucson area as they are local and family owned!

Just love their Pizza one of the best!

One of the most underrated pizza places in Tucson. The pizza is so greasy and amazing. Tons of cheese. Tons of pepperoni. Thin, tasty crust. Not the best service, but probably the best pizza.

My first time here which I mentioned and they assured me it wouldn’t be my last. My personal size pizza was a disspointment-​you needed a microscope to see the toppings and they do not provide parmesan or chili flakes in their take out. The chicken wings were inedible– «hot» sauce was mild at best and hardly coated the meat which tasted old like freezer burn-​they included ranch but no celery or carrots for dipping like most places. I like to support local business but for $ 15, you can do alot better at even the worst chain brand where they don’t skimp on ingredients or freshness

One of the best meatball subs in town! homemade in store, not bought in a bag like most places!

I have been eating this pizza since I was a little kid and it still tastes the same. I do miss the video games that used to be there but overall the place has kept what has made it great over the years which is great thin crust pizza

Not a bad carry out pizza. In fact, rather good for Tucson standards. Nothing to write home about, though. Except for maybe the aimless, stumbling meth-​heads in the liquor store parking lot next door. They were entertaining.

Went here with my family today 2 employees maybe the manager not sure pretty much watched us eat refill our drinks talk I felt like we weren’t welcome here so I will not be returning here very rude here not for families! !!!

Food:
I am very critical when it comes to pizza places, because so many places like to claim «New York Style Pizza» or claim they have the best pizza in town even though their pizza tastes like the ass of a cardboard box (just choose an end and bite). So when I say this place has awesome pizza, you can take it to the bank and cash it. The pizza is thin crust, but here’s the good part, the crust is always perfectly cooked so it’s crunchy around the edge AND on the bottom, so many pizza places have not figured out how to get the botttom crunchy and it comes out soft or soggy, Mario’s has found the secret and it’s delicious. The only minor quibble would be that they do not season their pizzas, they bring pepper flakes and parmasean to the table and let you do that, if they were to add some pepper and some oregano to their pizzas, they would be perfect.
Cost:
The pizza’s are fairly priced, it’s not Little Ceasar’s $ 5 pizza, but then again you’re getting top quality pizza, so you get what you pay for. Pro-​tip: don’t buy their drinks, they charge WAY too much for their drinks. I don’t mind paying top dollar for their pizza, but not their drinks. My advice, get their pizza to go and buy drinks elsewhere.
Dining Area:
Their dining area is a bit small and nothing fancy, but I’ve never been there and had to wait for a seat, so it seems to be appropriate for the business they get. However, in the few times I’ve been there, I’ve been approached twice by people trying to get money from me with their sad stories, one while I was eating inside the establishment (not cool) and once outside.
Parking:
Parking is plenty for this place, no problems here.
Service:
Service has always been great, profesional and friendly, pizza comes out quickly and the it’s always hot and fresh.
Summary:
Despite the high prices they charge for their drinks, they have the best pizza I’ve put in my mouth outside of NY and it is for that reason I encourage you to give this place a try, just get it to go and buy your drinks elsewhere.

Breadstick strings yum, the pepperoni and cheese pretty good but the crust was soggy. Maybe on a busier day it will be cooked better. To be continued

Terrible servous and rude cook. There is a guy with rainbow hair that just doesn’t care about the customer. He just stands there and smiles at you. I think thats just creepy. Never the less the place is a hole in the wall and gives you a dirty feeling. There was also flys buzzing around you and your food. Thats just gross and unsanitary. I would sagest that a health inspector check this place out. Its a great place for a homeless person to loiter around!

We have been ordering from Marios for the past 5 years and have never been disappointed with any of their food. I love the variety of their appetizers including fried shrimp, mozzarella sticks, mushrooms etc. Their wings are tasty and the pizza slices are huge and floppy — so good! We have yet to try subs here as we always go for the pizza but maybe next time.. . maybe.

Mario’s gets four stars for being exactly what I hoped it would be. It’s not a new take on a classic, it is the classic. A big, thin, foldable New York style slice for around two bucks. Nothing pretentious about this pie, just cheesey goodness.
(For toppings on «by the slice» orders they seem to put the toppings on a cooked pie and then give it a brief run through the oven. This is pretty standard in my experience, but if you don’t like, say, fresh bell pepper, don’t order any toppings that you only enjoy thoughoughly cooked).
Also, they will deliver beer with orders. :D

I like it a lot but it’s not the best pizza I’ve ever had. We ordered half Hawaiian and half Cowboy (cheddar, bacon and green chiles mmm). I liked the Cowboy better and my bf liked the Hawaiian. Also, if you’re really hungry or like to have left overs go for the extra large. My bf and I scarfed a large in no time!
Delivery time was short and the pizza was still hot, which is to be expected since we live one city block away.
I’d def order from here again!

This was my second time at Mario’s Pizza, the first time was an «ok» experience so I wanted to give it another chance. My first pizza was a large for$ 14 with coupon, average price. The pizza was alright but barely had any cheese and was extremely thin.
My second experience was horrible the medium Pizza was tiny, it was a medium and also barely had any cheese with my topping being extra cheese haha. It gets worse they over charged me for it it was supposed to be 8.99 + tax but when I saw my bank statement I got charged a dollar more. I didnt want to go back and fight over a dollar, but be we warned of getting overcharged if you eat there one-​day.
Overall, the pizza was well below average and along with my overcharged bill I think they deserve a lonely star. Its sad that a local pizza joint does worse than a franchise Pizzeria.

For the longest time, I kept driving past Mario’s and telling myself that I absolutely had to go try it out. It just looked so honest, so authentic, so… well, having grown up in Connecticut, I’ll just say it looked like an actual pizza place.
So a little while ago I finally went in. I looked down the menu and decided I needed a hot sub. I was pleased by the rather reasonable-​seeming price — just over $ 7 once all was said and done. But that feeling disappeared pretty quickly when they handed me a bag containing something roughly the size and weight of a small panini. The good-​ish news: it was pretty tasty — nothing to write home about, but good. The bad news: when I finished, I was ready for the other half of my sandwich. I was STARVING. So suffice it to say: I was not thrilled.
But to be fair, this is a pizza place, and I didn’t have the pizza. I didn’t think I could give a pissy review of a locally-​owned, generally-​appreciated pizza place just on the basis of one inadequate sub (or even a systematically inadequate range of tiny subs, extrapolating from the size of the bread). So today I got a pizza for dinner. Taking advantage of the everyday «special» on their website, I ordered a large (14″) green chili pizza ($ 11.99+tax — actually 1 cent less than the normal price of a 14″ cheese pizza).
Like the sub, the pizza was pretty tasty. The crust is a really interesting textural experience, with a thin layer of oily crunch underlying a layer of rather chewy, doughy crust. The sauce is simple and bright, the cheese mixture has a good flavor and a nice springiness, and they didn’t skimp on the chopped green chilis (though they used mild ones, which was disappointing). So overall, I’d say the pizza was a pretty decent success, though again, perhaps not particularly remarkable.
There’s just one thing…
Here’s a thesis for you: A pizza that I can eat in one sitting by myself without even feeling overstuffed is, as a matter of analytic truth, not a large pizza. And guess what I just did. Yeah.
So as far as I can tell from my small-​but-​hopefully-​representative sample, here’s the deal: Mario’s makes pretty good-​tasting food, and if you have no problem dumping a crapload of money into a pizza joint dinner, then you will likely finish your meal relatively happy. The problem is that most people aren’t going to be willing to do that and, as a result, if they have anything resembling a large appetite they are going to be famished at the end of one of these meals. With tax included, I just dumped around $ 13 on pizza just for myself for one meal, and I only got one topping, AND that includes me taking advantage of a special that dropped the pre-​tax price by $ 1.51. That’s kind of ridiculous if you ask me, and something I will definitely not do again. As far as my recommendation goes, I’d say to look elsewhere to satisfy your pizza shop cravings.