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When I tell you all this is a hidden gem found during the perfect vacation! Come here and get the pizza.The service I can't say all servers were a bit slow but ours was a bit slow. I saw other patrons receive faster services after sitting after us (different servers). It was weird but it is what it is. I will say the server ,when at our table, was very nice. I'll say it was just along day .If we received the same level of speed as the others this would be a full 5 star just being transparent.Back to the pizza! Not only is phenomenal but it surprised myself and my hubby. I didn't enjoy the drinks as much but they were ok. We did sit during happy hour so the $5 drinks are worth a try. I believe everyone's cocktail preferences are different ad the drinks were too syrupy for my taste. Be it that this is a college beach town it's not unexpected. I still enjoyed myself! There was a special going on for $10/2 topping pizza and it was perfect for the kids! Back in Chicago our pizzas would easily be $30 each . I love Virginia Beach it's the cutest gem to vacation. There's always something to do for parents and the kids! Kids of price got pepperoni, hubs sausage + banana peppers, and I had the Truffle Pizza . If you're looking for an aesthetically cute & delicious place to eat come here. Come find it off the beach when you're in town or being a tourist in your own city.

Just needed a quick bite at 8:00 for dinner. They had live music on the patio, but we wanted to chat - so we sat inside. Service was fair but our pizza was delicious.

Decent food but way, way understaffed when we went. One server handling the bar and the whole room!! Waits were insane, had to hunt down silverware and napkins myself. Not her fault but whoever runs this place is running it into the ground.

Came for a drink after checking in the hotel. We met Akira the bartender and she was fantastic! We ordered a couple pizzas and our favorite was the rainin meatballs. For dessert they have ice cream sandwiches in three different flavors . We chose the strawberry and it was very good. This place is big with plenty of seating at the bar and table seating as well. They also have outdoor seating with live music but we preferred to watch a little football on the TVs. Akira made great recommendations for restaurants in town and places to visit as well. She checked on us often and took care of everyone at the bar as well as takeout orders with a smile on her face. The food was good and Akira was terrific at her job and made us feel welcome. Can't wait until our next visit!

Family and I ended up here after a massively disappointing experience at Oscar's Oceanside up the way, and WOW, did it turn our entire evening around!!!Our server was absolutely wonderful - charming, personable, and warm - she made the whole experience stellar. Perfect timing, great check-ins, genuine connections. 20/10.On top of that the pizza was EXCELLENT. I like pizza, but am not the biggest pizza aficionado out there by any means. By contrast, my husband *cares about pizza* and he was over the moon. Phenomenal balance of flavor, great crust, marvelous variety of toppings, and obviously made fresh. Honestly we might go back tomorrow night. Well worth it.

Great pizza, something named gouda, al fresco dining oceanfront. good service. We only had soft drinks so we cant judge the bar

Our last night in Va Beach and we were looking for something different - having stayed on the other end of the boardwalk and been to all the restaurants that met our parameters down there already. We took the trolley to the north end of the boardwalk and began our trek back. We struck out at a couple places either too formal or not our type of food. When we came upon Zzas, I tried to pull up the menu on Yelp, a website - anywhere. But I couldn't find one. Finally we walked up to the patio and looked for a wait staff person. A waitress finally walked by and I asked if we could see a menu. She pointed inside and in we went. Where I stood again looking around cluelessly as there was not hostess desk around. What turned out to be a waitress at the bar pointed me to a menu. It offered salad but not as entrees. I asked if they could add a protein and was told yes. Hubby knew he wanted pizza so we opted to stay.Apparently this place was uber casual and seat yourself. We started to wait for outside seating but was told it would be a long time. So we went back inside and tried a table for 2 - but found the chairs were weird so moved to another one. FINALLY seated the nice waitress came about brought menus and took our drink orders - Diet Coke and water. Cheap dates. We took a few minutes for hubby to decide on his pizza and put our food order. While we waited a LONG TIME - understandably as hubby did order a pizza - I figured out that this was a hotel and the area must be used for breakfast seating - as I saw the common coffee pots and coffee set up at the end of the room.I polished off my drink quickly at it was a small plastic glass packed with ice I got a refill pretty quickly when the waitress returned to take my order. I went with the Greek Salad - dressing on the side and added grilled chicken. Hubby had the Raining Meatballs pizza. Once we put the order in - we waited. What did we do before smartphones? No TV or entertainment except for maybe a cranky lady sitting at a table near us and a loud, immature off-duty waitress (?) sitting at the bar and talking to the help and wandering around occasionally. I guess that was our people watch opportunity indoors since we couldn't sit outside and watch people on the boardwalk.Food finally came - YAY! We were already hungry and our wait only added to it - and perhaps that added to how delicious the food tasted. Hubby's pizza was thin crust with sliced meatballs and 3 little scoops of ricotta cheese. He didn't want the cheese - couldn't figure out what to do with it - so it went on my salad YUUMMMMY! Hubby said pizza was good - he ate 4 slices for dinner and polished off the other 2 for lunch on our drive home today. I had very low expectations for the salad - when salads are incidental to the menu and an after-thought - usually only to meet the needs of a side salad offering - they usually stink. So I was delighted to find that this was NOT one of the aforementioned salads! There were substantial greens - NOT iceberg lettuce - with plenty of banana peppers, olives, feta cheese and the like. And the grilled chicken was moist and flavorful. I did try the side of dressing and was underwhelmed. But no big deal as I often end up eating my salad dry - if they don't have oil and vinegar (hold the oil), then it's usually a no-go. But I at least ask for it on the side and give them all a taste or two.So what started off as a very confusing and poor service situation - having to figure out how the seating worked - we were good to go. Pleasant waitress, excellent food. And the location was OK. Would have preferred to sit outside, but the A/C inside and comfortable chair were also welcome with a long walk ahead of us.Highly recommend if this type of food and experience sounds good. For us it was perfect.

We didn't eat here so I can't speak to the food but the initial impression was off putting. The outside atmosphere was nice if you like live music and the bar seemed good, but the inside of the restaurant was barren and it was awkward as if you're eating in a hotel lobby. It was not in keeping with what I was expecting based on the images and reviews.

Pizza was great and so were the appetizers. Family of 7 and we were filled up with 3 pizzas and apps. Tab was VERY reasonable too. Our waiter was very cordial and helpful. Would definitely go there again.

I'm coming out of Yelp retirement to share that the food at ZZAS is absolutely fantastic! We happened to arrive during happy hour and squeezed in drinks, wings and mozzarella sticks right before the buzzerat 6pm. Both mixed drinks came in festive tiki glasses that were a nice touch. The wings had an asian flair and an appropriately sweet and spicy zing to them and were cooked to perfection. Even our 4 year old had seconds. The wings came with a kimchi dipping sauce that I used but didn't need- we all agreed the wings were great solo. The mozzarella sticks came in an order of 2, but they were very generously sized, and came with a very tasty marinara. It was a little chunky and tasted homemade. It was so tasty we saved the extra to use and compliment our pizza. We ordered the pepperoni (also on happy hour special) and the truffle shuffle, a mushroom, arugula, truffle oil combo - both were excellent. The sourdough crust is the perfect crispy and chewy combination that we loved. The pepperoni pizza had small and very crispy pepperonis- our preference. We left with almost an entire pizza to take home which I can report to say held up just as tastily the next day. One of the exciting parts was that they are located right on the Boardwalk and we could watch the cars and lights from our table. Our son loved it.The restaurant is located in the back lobby and main thoroughfare of the Hampton Inn. We came on a Thursday evening and it was totally empty when we arrived and stayed completely empty while we were there, so my expectations were very low- but it pleasantly surprised all of us and was truly delicious on all accounts. Come here. Seriously. All of the food and drinks were great, reasonably priced, and our server was really wonderful. Don't sleep on this one. My husband tells me that I can be very picky- but we left with only rave reviews.