Mona Lisa Restaurant & Bar

This is a local Pizza spot in Norfolk. The atmosphere is a family owned establishment, that treats their guest like family. I came in on Thursday for lunch with my son and tried their lunch specials $3 burger with a $1 slice of pizza for a guest. Now That's a great deal. The service was friendly and willing to serve. A great place to meet a friend, have a drink and watch a sports game. Parking lot is located to the left of restaurant towards the back.

A total dive with delicious food, an amazing staff and great prices. This place is not for everyone but I liked it. There is a restaurant side and a bar side which has music and a pool table. Lots of regulars and a chill vibe. Run down. Yup. Bathrooms are ehhhh.....but the food is delicious. We had wings, lasagna and fettuccine Alfredo. All delicious. Prices were so good and they have nightly specials. I will be returning. I feel it's the kind of place you go a couple of times and the staff will recognize you and say "Norm!" Or maybe my name. Great staff!

Do not bring kids here!! The parking lot is dark and sketchy. Check out the cardboard rest room sign with shared sink by the tile wall outside the actual potties. The problems have nothing to do with the staff. It is old and rundown and needs to be redone or rebuilt entirely. Staff was great, especially in what is essentially a hip hop club with an Italian joint attached to it. Sorry; it's just that simple. Photos tell the sad tale. Went there because it had 4 stars on Google (600+ reviews) for "restaurants open near me", after 8PM on a Saturday, after picking someone up at Norfolk airport. Long drive home to NC, and we were starving. Yelp stars were much lower, and I don't know why I didn't check that first. My bad.We walked up to the counter with the large menu and obviously the place to order from. No one came, and we finally asked one of the line cooks who directed us to "ask one of the girls", and pointed to the open doorway to the club, with its loud, thumping jams.Waitress is also one of the 2 bartenders in the very busy club, and she was as nice as she could be. (We left 100% tip for her.)Sis ordered a house cab, and we were told they had no red wine. So she ordered Pinot Grigio, and were told they were out of white wine too. "Do you have any wine?" "No, they don't come til next week".Why didn't she just say that instead of this little banter? Anyhoo..."Can the full bar make a martini?""We're out of olive juice too."Head slap. Sis ordered a cosmo, and the photo shows the multiple lipstick stains on the glass, which the waitress then transferred to plastic after a while when sis complained.Food was fine, but essentially, if you make it past the doorway and decide to stay, then the food is really irrelevant.

A place I probably would pass up going down Military Hwy in Norfolk but I was with my best friend who said let's go to Mona Lisa they have the very best BLT pizza.Well, the place looks like a dive but in I go around 3 in the afternoon.We are greeted by this older women whom I later found was Mama by all. She told me at check out she was 81 and I told her I was 85.Anyway, we got a table and ordered the BLT pizza, one cheese burger shared and ice tea.Absolutely the best BLT pizza I have ever had.Mama served us and promptly saw to our drinks and food.THANKS for a great meal in a real dive and a special thanks to mama.

Amazing food and extremely kind and courteous staff. "Ma" is absolutely the sweetest, and you can tell that the food is made with love!-Stacy F.

I really hesitate to give bad reviews unless I find something to be completely outrageous or didn't enjoy anything. I hesitate because I can imagine how hard it is to keep a business open. However, as a customer working hard for their money as well, I don't want to feel I have wasted it. Unfortunately the food we ordered for delivery was not good at all!I ordered the shrimp alfredo which comes with a breadstick & a cannoli for dessert. My husband ordered cheese pizza. Upon opening pasta with a decent amount of sauce on top & completely unseasoned plain shrimp. I mean, it's a restaurant. You couldn't Sautee those suckers a little bit? Seriously, they just thawed and tossed a few in. So you get no flavor from anything but the very plain alfredo sauce. Then I opened the breadstick... it's dry & overcooked. I had a sweet tooth, and I was really hoping for something better with the cannoli. After all, the online menu says it's made to order. Nope- fried bland crust filled with some weird bland white mouse with a few almost nonexistent specks of chocolate in it. It had a chalky aftertaste, so I didn't finish that either. My husband said the pizza lacked flavor. One positive is that the restaurant packaged the food for takeout very well. I appreciated the extra effort to wrap the containers so that no liquid would leak out. That's the only positive I can scrape up. So disappointing. I was exhausted today but would've been better off just cooking myself.

So, I got a few things off Uber Eats from this place. I should have listened to these reviews on here.Cheese sticks are greasy, and they have a bad after taste. Mariana sauce was no better. Kinda tasted like Mint was in it? Just gross.The alfredo pasta IS as bad as it looks. So bland and like a glob of cheesy glue. The noodles were overcooked mush. Got the grilled chicken pizza and also very bland. Nothing like taking a big ol bite of greasy cheese, and bland af pizza sauce.This place is not good. Very angry I wasted money on this.

A dive place with Amazing food. I would easily in my opinion say Best Calzone in town. .. and HUGE.. not sure how my friend managed to eat an entire one by himself. He couldn't stop its that good.They have the restaurant side and also a bar side. Needless to say we sat in the bar side. Sever was Brittany she was friendly fast and very nice. They have great drink prices . Good selection of beers.. We kinda hit the jackpot here. 3 of my favorite things in one place.FOOD/BEER/Trivia.. yes Thursday night is live Trivia and I can not express how much fun it was. Going back next week for more !Even the customers were friendly and welcoming!Main reason for 4 stars and not 5. Parking sucks. You have to park around back and its a little shadey.

I should have walked away as soon as I seen this place. It was disgusting and dirty. However, I tried to convince myself it was just dated, and it looked like a family business and worst worth trying. However I trie I ordered 2 slices of pizza it was absolutely the worst food i've ever had in my life. 2 and a 1/2 stars on Yelp with 57 reviews. I wish I did listened and went somewhere else. However google showed six hundred reviews and a four star rating so I tried it. I'm sorry I did. There was a sweet elderly lady that served. That was the only saving grace for this restaurant.

Whole in the wall. Try the food. Just try... trust me. Sometimes they even have a Groupon. Wing sauce is wonderful and pasta is amazing. If they burn it they fix it and you wait longer. It is worth the wait. Beat place in VA we foundBy accident. Pool table in second room. Tuesday night is 50cent wings.