Mozzarella Italian & Pizzeria

Obligatory one star. This TOOK OVER 1:30 to deliver. Pizza wasn’t worth the wait, sauce and dough was nasty! Dominos pizza are better.

Placed an order at 8:12 pm. Was informed 30 – 60 minute wait. Was then called an hour later (9:11 to be exact) to be told they haven’t made the food yet and once they finished it would be ANOTHER hour before they come. Not happy at all! Couldn’t they have told me something at the initial order? I will tell you Dominos took 15 minutes after and was delish and less expensive. This place doesn’t deserve a second change at all!!!
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From: Mozzarella Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria
1280 S Powerline Rd
Pompano Beach, FL 33 069
Order Date: ⁶⁄₃₀ 8:12 PM
Order Require Time: ASAP
Order #: 19 782 484
Order Type: Delivery

Ordered twice from here with the second time being just desserts but I was a little disappointed both time. The first time we ordered on a rainy night so I expected for it to be a minute before the food got here. But it took almost three hours for delivery and the shrimp scampi was not really good. I ordered out again this time only getting desserts. I got their chocolate cake, key lime pie, and strawberry cheesecake. The chocolate cake and key lime pie was good but the cheesecake looked like the just put a scoop of strawberry jelly on top. Maybe it’s different if you actually go; but I don’t think I’ll be ordering out here anymore.

Awful.
Powdered mashed potatoes. Vodka sauce was like blush colored water. Gnocchi was mush. And the soups were worse than anything I’ve ever gotten out of a can. My boyfriend and I both had to spit them out.
But to be totally fair, the garlic rolls were delicious.
Any recommendations for delivery in the Ft. Lauderdale area?

I’m leaving 1 star because I can’t leave 0. My boyfriend and I ordered from here at 8:20 and we were told the wait would be 45mins-1hr…it’s now 10:10 and STILL haven’t gotten my food. 2 hours is ridiculous, especially considering how close I live to this place. Never ordering from here again and if the food doesn’t end up coming I’m going to be furious because we’re hungry and wasting time when we could have ordered from somewhere else. This place sucks.

I’ve ordered from Mozzarella a couple of times in the past and to be completely honest, the food is good. Certain menu items are very good. The salmon, not so good. Subs are awesome and most of the appetizers are delicious. What makes this a 5 star rating is the result of my most recent order. I ordered a bunch of food, which included two subs, but when the order arrived it was short by one. I called to let them know. No big deal. These things happen and I’m not ready to start World War 3 over it. I told them that I would be satisfied with a credit for the cost of the item that was not delivered. The gentleman that I spoke to, who I think was the manager, told me he would take 15% off of the order AND send the missing item. Fantastic! It arrived with guess what? Another beautiful surprise… an order of cannollis. He certainly didn’t have to go to that extent to right this very insignificant wrong. But he did, and I truly appreciate it. I will certainly consider this place for any future orders, simply because they showed me this courtesy. A certain owner of Pizza Time in Coral Springs could take several lessons in customer service from this establishment (see my abysmal review for the horrible experiences I had with Pizza Time — they are the worst).

Ordered an XL supreme and if there was $ 2.00 worth of ingredients on it I would be surprised. When I picked it up he said he ran out of sausage. What pizza place runs out of sausage? Added bacon for another $ 2.25 and barely a hint on the pizza. My suggestion, just go to little Caesars next door

Delivery took over an hour in the middle of the day, I don’t live far.
Pizza was very similar to a Little Ceasars $ 5 pizza. Crust was pretty burnt making it tough and pizza was luke-​warm, not sliced.
Wings are not jumbo, they are regular size and even a bit small. Sauces weren’t put on them as we requested and they came pretty dry and over cooked.
Perhaps dine in Italian dishes may be better here?

I had some sort of Groupon credit a little while back and ended up using it for Mozzarella because it is pretty close to where I work and live, and I figured it would be a good spot to grab lunch, or a pizza for dinner. The Groupon was something like $ 15 for 3 $ 10 meals. You couldn’t use them all in one shot, but I figured it would be ok, because even if it was bad pizza, bad pizza is still usually pretty good. I ended up placing my first order here on my lunch break through Eat 24. I ordered a veggie stromboli, which was something like $ 12, so I figured it was a large meal I could have for a day or two for very little out of pocket. All of this seems like a no lose situation, right? Not really.
The Eat 24 order processed, but it wasn’t really clear to me how long before it would be ready for pickup, so I just gave it 10 – 15 minutes then headed over. By the time I got there I had placed my order probably 20 minutes prior, and it turns out they hadn’t started on it yet. The place was pretty empty, but I think they do more takeout than anything so maybe that aspect was busy. They began to make my stromboli and I took a seat. As they were making it they informed me that they were out of spinach. That wasn’t a big deal to me, I just wanted dough filled with veggies, I’m not picky. I had to hang out for quite awhile because stromboli does not cook quickly… the quick pickup lunch was disappearing.
I finally got my meal and headed back to work to eat it. The stromboli was huge and serve with a large cup of sauce for dipping. I cut off about a third of it and put the rest away. I was less than thrilled with the taste. First of all, their sauce is AWFUL. It’s watery and tastes way too strongly of raw garlic. The stromboli itself left a lot to be desired in terms of flavors, and despite being freshly made the dough seemed kind of stale. I wasn’t really that impressed with the veggie to cheese ratio as it was mostly filled with mushrooms, and although I love veggies, I just expected more cheese in there binding things together. I brought the rest home and cut it up, leaving it on the table for the night as my brother and I had a game night and some drinks… I threw most of it out the next day. If a drunk person skips on your stromboli, that’s not a good sign.
To this day I still have two $ 10 Groupons left to eat here, and while I could pick up a pizza, I’m just not very inclined to do so knowing how bad the sauce is… I guess there IS such a thing as bad pizza. On the plus side the staff was pretty friendly and had no issue processing the Groupon.

OK, so I went by there Monday afternoon only to find out they are closed on Mondays…
Does this place double as a hair salon? That’s the only other type business I know closes on Monday. Bad sign number one… Anyway, I returned Tuesday to a rather dark place that had nobody in there other than employees. Bad sign number two… Anyway, it looked a little dirty but if they are closed on Mondays then the dining area should be clean I would think.
After a quick glance around, I noticed a few things. In the front window are holes in the tint where signs must have been at one time or another. Then I looked up and noticed that there are holes in the drop ceiling covered by metal gang plates that electricians use for electrical outlets. I don’t understand what that was for, however it didn’t seem very safe. The other part I noticed was that where the glass counter is, they have old pizza boxes shoved in front so you can’t see through to the cutting boards where they are preparing the food. Not only would I suspect that the other side of that cardboard to be disgusting, but why is it there? Must be hiding something.
I challenge you to eat pizza at this place and not think of one of the following things…
Close your eyes and take a bite of the pizza, immediately I had flashbacks of Chuck E. Cheese, Sbarro and an old roller skating rink that used to serve us pre-​made crust that was hard on the bottom and partially soft in the center. Cover that with some watery pink substance that I assume was supposed to be tomato sauce… Then on top was canned pineapple and bits of ham and some cheese. When I opened my eyes I didn’t know if I was ready to put on some roller-​skates or go buy some more tokens for the arcade games. YUCK, now I have to go get that «film» taste off my tongue. I still cringe thinking about the crust.
Anyway, funny enough I drove by the next day and there was a «closed» sign on the door.
Hopefully it’s permanent.

They left a flyer at my house in west Lauderdale and it was a friday night so i figured Id give them a try. I thought it was cool that they delivered so far away. So I called, a boy picks up the phone says can u hold next thing i hear is a dial tone. I called back, a girl picks up the phone and says are you such and such? I say no Im just trying to place an order. She puts me on hold and what do you know A DIAL TONE AGAIN! So then my last ditch effort I called back for the third time and she picks up again and just put me on hold and what a surprise??? she hangs up again. I was hung up on three times. Who ever works here sucks at customer service, why should I trust them with my dinner or credit card info or anything! They dont even know how to take an order!

Probably the worst pizza in town
YUK!!!

I guess I should have looked through all of the reviews prior to ordering. Let me start by saying, this is my first time EVER writing a bad review, I try to not let my bad experiences alter my thoughts on a business.
However, I placed my lunch order with Maritza– when I was done placing my order, she asked me for credit card information for «security purposes» which I found strange but she stated since it was my first time ordering they would need it. Understood. I told her we were paying by cash, but when the delivery guy showed up, my card had been charged, without my authorization. SO BEWARE WHEN GIVING YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION TO THEM… When I called to let them know the charge was unauthorized and that I wasn’t told it was going to be charged she told me I was wrong. Argued with me about it, then finally gave in with a «yeah you’re right»…
The food was SUBPAR, they charged an extra $ 2.00 for a side of fries that was smaller than the dollar fries from Mcdonalds. Everything is over priced and not tasty… So I highly recommend you go elsewhere if going out to eat. Don’t waste your money like I did.
Terrible customer service, and terrible food. Take your money elsewhere!

Well it just goes to show you can’t always go by the reviews unfortunately we did not have a good experience of this place we first found out about them from Groupon that went to the website we order from the website full price and extra large cheese pizza and some cannolis well the pizza came it was lukewarm and Burnt crust was very tough so that when you got a bite of it half the cheese came off The cheese was tasty but we can only about a piece and a half each even though we were very hungry the rest we threw in the garbage good luck

Ok, so I read a few reviews before posting mine. I was going to give one or two fewer stars but you know what? I’ll give them four. At first I was very upset that it took my food an hour and twenty minutes to get to my house but I didn’t know where this place was located when I ordered. Honest to God I thought this was situated somewhere on university or sunset but it’s actually all the way in pompano which is a 20 minute drive with no traffic to my house. Had I realized the distance I wouldn’t have ordered. Obviously because of the distance the food did not arrive hot, not even warm. It was cold. And stuffed shells and tomato soup doesn’t taste all that good cold but after I popped both things in the microwave their deliciousness came through lol.
My son ate a garlic roll and he said he liked the tomato soup which we’re talking about a kid who’s very picky. VERY PICKY. I can count in one hand the foods he will eat. This fact on its own earned you guys a star :)
The delivery guy was very nice and polite but too quick with his interaction. I forgot to add tip on the app when I ordered and wanted to tip him but he literally handed the food to me and left a smoke trail from how fast he ran away!

Ordered delivery of large pizza and a side of wings. Both really good. The pizza was thin crust with a tangy garlic tomato sauce. The toppings of sausage and meatballs was excellent.
Wings were big and juicy. Came with a side of fries that reminded me of the ones at the fair.

The customer service is ok. But the food is delicious. I got a Caprese salad that was 2 thumbs up with mild wings and a cannoli. Everything was to die for!!!

It took me all weekend to decide if I should even write a review. If you’ll notice, I don’t just throw out one star reviews without a valid basis.
I happened to be at the shooting range on a Groupon and we wanted to stay in the area afterward to explore. The food was subpar, and the service was okay. I should have expected less from all the mixed reviews. The mozzarella sticks tasted like they came out of a box. If you’re going to have the the word «mozzarella» on the title of your restaurant, you should probably have decent mozzarella sticks. The meatballs in the sauce were good, and the garlic rolls were yummy also, but just a bit too much garlic for my taste.
I guess the kicker that made me sick to my stomach was that I overheard the staff after an apparent commotion, stating that the owner wasn’t going to pay an employee the money he was owed. I’ve worked for scumbag bosses and this is nothing new, but I will not be supporting this company with one more dime. The number one priority when you own any business, is that you PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES.

Worst pasta ever! Run from penne ala vodka, the worst I have ever had.
Pizza and keylime pie are good, sandwitches are just ok.

I had the meatlover stromboli and my friend the five cheese stromboli… Both were delicious! Its refreshing to find a place with real italian taste!
The place is nice and the service very friendly. This is exactly what we were looking for in the area. Definitely coming back and recommending it to friends!