Mr. P Pizza & Pasta

Pizza was excellent and the beer menu was full of great local beers. It was exactly what i was looking for. The waitress was knowledgable and the food was fresh and hot.

Their pizza is BY FAR my favorite in Delaware! Not a huge fan of the sauce (personal preference) but the crust is spectacular! I always receive friendly service. The place only accepts cash but they have an ATM in the restaurant and if you have to use the ATM to withdraw money they take $ 2.50 (or something like that) off of your bill. I try to go to this place any time possible, only complaint is that they don’t deliver!

While the food is good, the service is below average. The wait staff barely pays attention to you. You have to almost jump out and tackle them to get you a refill or another drink. I have been there several times and the service never changes. Sometimes I wonder why I continue to go.

I’m kicking myself for never coming into Mr. P’s before today. I ordered 2 slices of pepperoni pizza for $ 5.50 and the slices were enormous! They have wood fired stoves which definitely adds a different but DELICIOUS flavor to the pizza. Plenty of pepperoni without over doing it. The crust was soft yet crunchy!
I didn’t have a beer but there are about 30 different brews in house. Plenty of local breweries available and wide variety of tastes.

Delicious. Get it extra well done, nice and crispy. Get there early, otherwise the wait will be long. Long wait and crowded means it’s worth the visit! Yum

Waited 50 minutes for my small pizza which never came — even though the server kept saying it was on the way. By the time my husband finished his sandwich and fries I decided to leave without ever seeing my pizza. Unacceptable– especially since I ordered the special pizza thinking that would be quick– what a joke!

Wow… One hour and 15 minutes to bake a pizza? I was so stinking angry as I saw tables that were sat after my family get their orders, eat, pay and leave. Just such a let down after our friends recommended it. I will say that the pizza cooked in the wood fired oven was tasty and for craft beer lovers there are many to choose from. The last really disappointing thing about the place was the lack of organized service. Our waitress didn’t seem to care about us and finally another waitress took over our table. Total bummer of an experience. AND, cash only?! Really?! So after all that you’ll make me pay $ 2.50 to get cash from your ATM?! C’mon man!!! First and last time there, unfortunately…

Let’s start with the good things about Mr. P. They have a huge selection of local craft beers and will let you sample them before you buy. As a showcase for local beers, this place is awesome, and the beer is fantastic. The Natural Potato Chips ($ 2) are lightly seasoned with Old Bay and are both tasty and a great bargain. The Sweet Potato Fries ($ 5) are clearly machine cut and frozen, but are served in generous quantities and perfectly crisped. If you go to this place for beer and fries/​appetizers, you can’t go wrong. The chicken wings are also crispy and well executed. 5-​stars for this part of the menu.
The food is another matter entirely. When it comes to sandwiches, if you use good bread, it doesn’t matter what you put on it, it will taste good. By the same token, start with stale or flavorless bread and there’s nothing you can do to make the sandwich taste good. The same principle applies to pizzas. If the crust is good, it doesn’t matter what you put on it, the pizza is going to be delicious. If the crust isn’t good, there no way to make it taste good. The pizza crust at Mr. P is not good. The wood firing helps a little, but it’s fundamentally an inferior crust. Consequently, the pizzas are not good. Some reviewers have complained about the marinara sauce used on the pizzas. I couldn’t get my palate to consider this, because there’s no point in looking beyond the crust (see above). Knowing that I didn’t like the pizza, on a subsequent visit I ordered Pasta with Sausage ($ 13) and got a Greek salad to go with it. Now I can talk about the marinara: it was watery and bland, and the sausage lacked personality. A good Italian sausage is loaded with fennel seeds and bursting with flavor — this was not that sausage. The salad was a salad, but the dressing just didn’t taste good. I regretted dumping it on the salad before tasting it. The food at this place put in a solid 1-​star performance, for an average of 3-​stars. Come for the beer and enjoy a few appetizers, but avoid the pizza and pasta if you have a discerning palate.

Mr. P’s is trying to be a local restaurant in a tourist town and is stuck in the middle of being both. They’re located on a rural road in a crusty strip mall (poorly paved, little parking, aged facings). They have a small local feel on the inside with local tees and pictures of locals. Everything the tourists want to see when they visit a small town. Where the restaurant isn’t local is the tourist prices. They don’t accept credit card «to keep overhead down» but they have an ATM at the door that they’ll charge you to use. If no credit cards are supposed to keep prices low the prices would be more down to Earth, but as it is you’re going to pay more than other local pizza places. Considering the usage of credit in the world today, it has to be costing them more not to take your card. I get paid by direct deposit and rarely get to my bank. I usually skip places like this. So for the high price you think maybe you’ll get great ingredients. Sadly no. I got the pepperoni rolls and it was like biting into frozen ice crystals. Warm enough on the outside but still frozen on the inside. I wasn’t upset that someone didn’t cook them long enough. It’s more disappointing that a little local pizza shop won’t freshly make their own pizza rolls. The pizza is genuinely wood oven baked which makes the pizza taste better than it would otherwise. They have a huge selection of artisan pizza styles. But the toughness of the crust is a telling sign that the dough isn’t fresh. The cheese is clumpy but not too greasy. It’s not overly bad, but it could be so much better. If you have a fixing for pizza and don’t mind paying a bit more rather than driving down the road, you could go here. It’s more like watching an episode of Kitchen Nightmares right before Gordon Ramsey has shown up where the restaurant has given up and started using cheap products just to get by.

Husband and I ate here for the first time today. We’ve been looking for a great pizza place — and we found it. The pizza crust has great flavor and the sauce and cheese profile is perfect! Cooked in a 100% wood fire over. A must go to place in Lewes.

Pizza would be a lot better if they used sauce that didn’t taste like it was straight from the can with no seasoning and took care not to burn the bottom of the crust.

Hokey, this place needs cleaning, and a redo. It looks like it opened in 1970 and
nothing has changed since. 7 dollar beer?

Terrific wood fired pizza, great selection of craft beers and friendly staff. One of our favorite spots! Cash only, atm on site. Worth checking out!

I’ve been coming to lewes all my life and just found out this place thanks to Dogfish Brew And Eats. Great pizza and craftbeers on tap.

Very long wait– 45 mins for 2 pizzas but very good. Had the special white pizza with spinach, garlic and bacon with fresh (and RIPE and good) tomatoes. Margerita pizza had good fresh basil.
They need a bigger oven. Kids were getting hungry and cranky but everyone loved their pizza when it finally came.
Bring a snack but worth the wait.

Used to love this place and made a point of going there every year while in town. Unfortunately its gone way downhill, especially in terms of customer service. They won’t answer their phone now for orders when they’re backed up. When I went in person to order, they wanted to know why I didn’t call it in. Told them because they didn’t pick up the phone — which they then said, «well we don’t answer if we have more than a 45 minute wait.» Not the way to handle being busy, and not the way to handle customers
I’ll be back when they figure out how to handle customers. Trying Pizza Villa down the road instead.

Great pizza!!! Go here now, they do not take phone orders on weekends– must order in person here. Large pie will run you about 30 bucks. Cash only

Unilocal. You let me down on this one. To start… Seating — it’s seat yourself and very limited seating at that. We were lucky enough to get a free table but 10 min after there were people basically hovering over us and annoyingly starring at us while we were eating to see how far along we were. I’m serious… People were literally walking around the tables in the Restaurant to scope out what tables were going to be freed up and then just hovered around them. When we were done, a group of 6 swooped in before we were 10 feet from the table. The waitress didn’t even collect her tip yet or clear the table. This place desperately need a host/​hostess.
Next — the food.
Pizza — great crust. Terrible marinara. Great cheese and toppings. The sauce tasted very similar to what you get out of a jar of Ragu. The waitress said the white «sauceless» pizza was very popular. Now I understand why.
Meatball appetizer — these are basically wood oven baked balls of unseasoned ground beef. They were so dried out and flavorless that I was only able to stomach one bite. Plus they were served in the same tasteless sauce which made them worse. No flavor at all.
Service — can’t say much about this as they are only as fast as the brick oven. I understand that there is limited space in a brick oven so I can’t blame them for the slow service.
Last. Place is cash only. I can only think of 3 reasons that a restaurant doesn’t accept credit. 1. To evade taxes 2. Bad credit. 3. Cheapskate.
Oh and the bathroom looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in days. I Attached a pict of the sink.
So needless to say. We won’t be back.

Tried calling in a take out order for Friday at 5:00. Answering machine said they were not taking orders due to the heavy volume. Pizza took 28 minutes from when the waitress left our table. Atm not working. Waitress never checked on us or even acknowledged the delay in service. Pizza was ok, lots of crust. Garlic sauce would be a good offering a la papa johns. Sly Fox cask on draft was a hit. Ceasar salad was only avg and skimpy. Really disappointed to only give two stars to an otherwise popular local establishment.

The pizza was great and the huge. If you think you can eat it all think again.
I would highly recommend.