Mama's Restaurant & Bar

Penne Vodka was flavorful and the pasta perfect Calzone was HUGE and delicious, perfectly cooked too. Two sandwiches: meatball sub. Meatballs were really good, perfectly formed meaning not overly compacted, they remained tender and flavorful. On the sandwich I would have preferred a little more marina but it did not detract from the taste at all. The Chicken parm was tasty too - chicken was perfectly cooked, crunchy crust yet tender and juicy. The defining element - the marina (the gravy). Very balanced flavor, no sweetness detected, just a hint of that desirable sourness. On a side note - the fries. Thank god for people who properly season fries as soon as they come from the fryer. Hats off Chef. - well done.

This is directed toward ownership: This place should simply not exist. For customers: don't bother providing feedback. Management/ownership will publicly offer to make it right, but they won't actually follow through. On three different orders of the same item over the past few months, the simple, as described on the menu order has somehow been repeatedly impossible for the staff to fulfill. How is it possible to ruin a Marguerita pizza over and over and over again? Why does the staff have to literally ask me if the pizza is ok? (Hint: they knew it was messed up and were thankfully prepared to make it again regardless of my answer-they knew it was foul when they pulled it out of the oven)Somehow, there is NEVER a manager on staff (Alex?) to assist. The poor kitchen staff appear embarrassed to work here. I completely understand why. I've been a customer many times, and yes, have had great experiences in the past. Recently, ownership and management appear to have abandoned this place, leaving customers to suffer. Dear potential customer: don't do it. The menu on the website? "Alex's menu" does not actually exist. Don't even ask. Never ever going to waste my time and money on this establishment again. I can get better, less expensive pizza all over town from businesses who are not consistently terrible.

Please take advantage of the 20% discount on Happy Hour, and the shredded fries look great! LOL and cool American music LOL

Great food, reasonable prices. Friday night, so busy, but service was good. I will definitely try again.

Tried out Mamas since I was in the mood for Italian. It was super cold out and the restaurant was also very cold. The restaurant is very small only a few tables and does lots of takeout business so the bartender was our server. It took a while to get our food but it was definitely freshly made and my chicken parmesean was a huge portion. Everything was good.

For years Mama's has been our go to pizza place for takeout. This past year Mama's has had a problem with the quality of their pizzas. This past time, several weeks ago I arrived at Mamas a few minutes early. I observed the person making the pizza sweating over the food preparation area, granted he is rather large and I'm sure it was hot near the deck ovens. When we received our pizza for takeout the pizza was not a traditional NY style pizza, it was more of a greasy preparation like one would find at little ceasars, or Costco. Certainly lower quality pepperoni was used. Hopefully one day they will correct the path they are on and hire a Pizzaiolo who knows their craft.

The food here is delicious, no question about that. My fav is the chicken piccata and toasted ravioli. The service could use some help though. The wait is long, whether you order out or dine in. We dined in and waited so long for our app and main dishes, and they still got the type of pasta we chose incorrect. We didn't have enough patience or energy to order dessert, but our fav is the pistachio cake when we order to go. They have forgotten some items in our to go orders as well. Seems like there is a lot of business but it's hard to keep up. Hope they hire another server or two and some more folks in the kitchen to help, but other than that this is a restaurant we love.

Solid Italian food. I was impressed. Its a great option if you can't make it down town to the little mamas joint in uptown or waverly

We had some family visiting from out of state and they wanted to try some Italian food. We always tell our friends and family how friendly the people in North Carolina are. That's why we found it very unfortunate that we Had Allison as our waitress...We arrived at around 8pm there was one other table that had guests and one couple at the bar, So not busy at all. Allison never introduced herself acted as if she was super busy and was very short with us at every interaction. The food we would give 3 and a half stars. But Allison really kind of ruined the experience. Asked for a refill on my Coke (twice). She came by real fast mumbled something about machine broken and put a can of soda on the table and told me I could go ahead and refill my drink? We asked for more garlic bread. She told us "oh it's not complimentary" we didn't ask for free stuff Allison..... She spent the majority of the time we were there just chatting with the people at the bar. I usually leave a 20 percent tip at bare minimum. Our tab was $122 I left $15. She didn't deserve that.

We had reservations for dinner on Valentines Day - our first time here. The service was great; the servers share tables.We were very happy with food we ordered; the ravioli app and Grandma's pizza. Fresh mozzarella and great red sauce - Mmmm! Had the tiramisu and carrot cake; both obviously homemade and delicious!We'll be back!I counted only 9 small tables - definitely recommend reservations.