The service is worse than horrible!

My girlfriends and I went to Mafiaoza's this past weekend (2/28). The food was very good. We had to sit at one of the high-top tables so our table was very cramped by the time we got water, wine and an appetizer. The service was not great. Our server was a little rude and seemed anxious to get us out of the restaurant. There were also children running around everywhere. I will go back for the food though! Their bruschetta is a little different, but VERY good. I got "the omerta" which was shrimp and scallops over angel hair with a creamy pesto sauce. Sauce was great, pasta was perfectly cooked and seafood was well seasoned.

This place is one big joke. I am stunned that the distributor for Sassicaia would allow their wine to be sold in a place of such low standards. This is just another chuck e cheeze and I still cannot get over how out of place the wine menu is.They should stick to Glen Ellen and Estancia and stop trying to be what they could never be.

We can't wait to dine with you. We've heard many great reviews. (Stan must be trying to impress his girl friend and doesn't know how).

This place is a joke from the word go. This place won't last a year unless Mountain Brook people actually want another Chuck e Cheeze to keep their kids entertained. The food is straight out of a sysco bag and the service is totally applebee’s.

This place is great. Love all the great tap beers and the food is to die for.Have been a regular since they opened and have not had a bad experience yet. Stan...are you hard to please?

Hey Stan, it's been open more than a year now.

Their antipasti is some of the best in town but some of the apps are lame. Decent pizza although the crust is a little thick.

Weird, this weekend the crust was thinner but too soggy (except for the outer crust) and this was only with red onions and "spicy" italian sausage. Antipasti salumi and cheeses were excellent, as was the tapenade.

THIS RESTAURANT IS AMAZING!!
it has been open two very long and successful years.
Yes. Parents bring children here. People complain way too much. All the kids have a great time anyways.

TASTY FOOD. GREAT SERVICE.

YOU WILL LOVE IT!!

We have eaten here several times in the past but prefer to avoid it. It had gotten to where we only go to mafiaoza's when someone else insist on trying it. But we heard there was new management so we thought we would give it a try. I never liked the old manager, Nick I think it was, he seemed not to care at all about the customer, or much else for that matter. One of the owners, with his greased hair style was a wanna be mafia don type. He was a flat out jerk. I can't remember his name, but it was Scandinavian not Italian, which made us laugh and made sense when we tasted the food. Poor example of Italian cuisine. It is not fair to compare it to our favorite places in NY but this was not even a close representation to the real Italian we get up there.

On this trip (and our last): We had 45 minute wait before we got our table, not bad, but surprising once we tasted the food. It was actually consistently worse than what we had in the past.

I am not sure we ever saw the manager at all, even walking around, even though our waitress said she would get him after we ate less than half of the meal. Checking out took almost 40 minutes after we asked for our check, so we thought he had plenty of time to come by. Never did.

The food. The Good; The cheese sticks were very good, except one had almost no cheese left in it, the taste was good. The Italian meat sampler (can't remember the name) was very good, perhaps a bit small for the price.
The Bad: Pretty much everything else. My wife loves lasagna and so does my son. They both hated it. My son said Chef Boy Ardee was better. The meat taste burnt, there was too much thyme, the ricotta had a gritty texture, there was almost no cheese and the sauce much have had a pound of pepper in it.

One of our companions had a white sauce dish with cheese stuffed pasta. The pasta was cold in the center, the sauce clearly did not use butter, I am not sure what it was but it was not butter, it was horrible. I had the bolognese which tasted badly burnt.
The Ugly: The pizza was burned on bottom so badly that it overwhelmed the taste of anything else and was inedible. Toppings were sparse and the pizza had so many bubbles pushing the cheese off that almost 1/4 of the pizza had no sauce toppings or cheese. We all shared taste of our entree's hoping to find at least one thing we like, all it did was reinforce that there was nothing we liked on the entree menu.

The wait staff was pleasant, just never around. The prices would have been fine, maybe a touch high, if the food had been good, but way to expensive for the experience.

Several tables around us were complaining about the place as they left. The menu concept is great, but they fall flat on execution. If you want pizza or Italian in Birmingham there are numerous and much better options. But don't take my word for it, just give Mafiaoza's a try, but do it soon because I cannot see them being around much longer. .