Hawthorne’s NY Pizza & Bar

What a great find. Tiffany was our server & so very attentive. Had a late lunch on Saturday & we all had pizza but agreed we would try something else next time. We are moving to the Charlotte area soon & Hawthorn ’ s is close to our new neighborhood. We’ll definitely be back #

Philly cheesesteak is great. Simple but delicious and the staff is incredibility polite. Normally I would say this if it was just me and my wife eating out, but this review is with a group of eight. Normally when I eat with large groups the food is extremely hit or miss.
Cooks don’t know how to time food to come out properly and wait staff doesn’t remember everything. Not this time! Everyone really loved their meals and nothing was wrong.

Love their special white pizza. Always have had a great experience, can get a bit loud as the dining room echoes.

This place is great. My family and I frequently dine here. The pizza is so good and the dishes are stupendous. I’ve had a few of the pasta dishes, the calamari, onion rings and fried jalapeño and a few of the salads. The garlic knots are fresh, delicious and swimming in garlic and oil, just like I like them. Recently I had their buffalo chicken salad with grilled chicken and ranch dressing and I almost licked the plate. That’s how amazing that buffalo sauce was! It was tangy and spicy and everything you’d want in a buffalo sauce and more. The food here is just so good!

I visit this Hawthornes about twice a month. Not sure why I have not ordered their wings before but did tonight and they are AWESOME! perfect combination of savory sauce, crunchy outside and juicy meat in a jumbo wing. I will be getting them again. The Long Island flavor was sweet with a kick. Yummy! My other favorites are the gorganzola salad, elizabeth pizza and chicken picatta. Staff is always great!

The best chicken parm in N Charlotte. My wife was also very impressed with the delicious food. Our server Rich was a rock star!

Called at the last minute to order a pizza on the way home. They couldn’t have been any friendlier. Upon pickup the staff could not have been nicer if they tried. I had to wait a few minutes and was offered water or anything else I might like. Usually places tell you to sit in the corner. Once I got home, the pizza was perfect — probably the best in the area and being from up North that says a lot. We will be back a few times a week I bet. Finally found our pizza joint!

Great pizza, great sandwiches. Have some great lunch specials. I know, it’s a pizza place but tried their chili today. Wow, got to be the best chili in Charlotte, yes even better than at that certain Restaurant on Monroe road. A little noisy on weekends but what the heck. Love this place and wife and I usually eat there twice a week.
Veggie Wrap is AWESOME.

Great New York style thin crust pizza! We been going there for years! Service is great and And many of the staff have worked there for years. Haven’t had any food there that I didn’t like! :-)

First of all if you want the best pizza in Charlotte go to any of their many locations and get their pizza whole or by the slice.
Second I just finished hosting an event for my corporate team for about 175 people Bram and his family/​team went above and beyond the catering call of duty helping me with odds and ends that the venue didn’t assist with. Plus their by the pan menu is to die for and gives you a great bang for your buck. I work for a company that due to religious background many of our employees have very strict dietary restrictions and they accommodated for us perfectly. I have never worked with a caterer who put their best effort and love into their food and service the way that Hawthorne’s did and I highly recommend them to anyone.

Went in for lunch today and was impressed. I didn’t have the pizza but had one of the best wraps I have ever eaten. It was the veggie wrap with fried eggplant, mushrooms, tomato, cheese, and horseradish mayo. It was the lunch special and came with a side salad tossed in balsamic vinaigrette. The dressing was way too oily for my taste so I wouldn’t recommend that. The portion was very large for lunch and brought the other half of the wrap home for dinner. Service was fine. Maybe next time I’ll try the pizza but it will be hard to order that over the delicious wrap!

I love Hawthornes! The food is priced appropriately. Kids menu is a coloring sheet (with two crayons provided). They also give the kids pizza dough to play with while the food is cooking. My boys ordered cheese pizza (round, individual size pizza). I had a calzone. Food was great

The food is actually not bad at all. The reason for the poor rating is that the place is way over priced. It’s $ 10 for a chicken sandwich and the cheapest thing on the kids menu is $ 6. Really?
The location is in an out of the way shopping center near Highland Creek. About the furthest thing imaginable from a high rent district. They need to do a little research of comparable establishments in the area (e.g. Pippa’s Café, Johnny Brusco’s, Afton Pizza etc.) and they’d quickly see the discrepancy.

Good menu, reasonably priced. A couple of good selections, as far as wine (but check the freshness)
Out in the middle of nowhere with lots of construction. Forget the GPS for now

When I went here with my family it was kids night so Kids meals were free. We enjoyed ourselves because they had a magician and balloon artist. However the service was a little slow. They were packed to capacity and we had to wait at least 20 minutes just to get some food. I had 2 kids with me and they were getting really antsy.
Also, SN, my youngest daughter spilled her milk on the floor. It took at least five minutes for anyone to acknowledge and bring over napkins. I had to ask for them and napkins and finally they sent someone over to mop it up.
Regarding the taste of the food, the pizza was really good. Reminds me of a Wolfman pizza a little. However I had a Stromboli as well and it was really oily and the cheese was not melted all the way through. Eeew.
I would definitely return on another kids tonight because kids eat free.

I went today in hopes of having some good pizza. By good I mean better than Pizza Hut or Dominoes. I had high hopes for the Luau pizza and the «spicy» chicken wings. The Luau pizza was nothing special. I have had better pineapple pizza at other places. The chicken wings were super dry. Ranch didn’t even help. They were super super dry. They weren’t spicy either!
The quality of the food was not worth the price.
The atmosphere was good. Everything look clean and customer service was also good. The food was definitely a disappointment. I probably will never go back.

8÷16÷13
Great pizza place in sister’s neighborhood!
My first visit here was a day shy of two years ago– I found a pic on my laptop of a Margherita pizza from here dated 8÷17÷11. I remember thinking the pizza and calamari were great, and my spaghetti-​loving sister enjoyed her selection, as well…
Tonight, we ordered drafts of YuengLing (BIL) and Honey Brown (moi), a bottle of Corona (with a lime wedge; sis), and waters all around. Our server Blair was kind enough to let me sample the Waterkeeper Hefeweizen (one of two specials on tap) and the HB
before I ordered a pint. BIL ordered the other draft special, Dale’s pale ale, but he didn’t like it, so sis asked if he could switch it out for another. No prob. For food, we chose the calamari to start,
and an 18″ half-​Elizabeth Special and half-Hawthorne’s Special White,
while nephew wanted the cheese pizza.
While I can’t speak for my sister and BIL’s usual pizza pick (Italian sausage, pepperoni, ‘shrooms, green bell, white onions, mozz), sister and I LOVED the HSW, which had ricotta cream sauce, mozz, (lotsa!) pesto, and sundried tomatoes. I really appreciated the thin crusts served here.
Sister already decided this combo is what they’re ordering on their next visit.
A great meal out almost always ends with something sweet, and I love tiramisu, so this was a must-​try.
Sis ordered a slice of chocolate cake for my nephew.
They were BOTH absolutely amazing! I like tiramisu that is rich in flavor-​sweet mascarpone, but not cloyingly so, and rich espresso taste, no greasy mouth-​feel, and not too light and fluffy, and this was perfect! (I asked for the powdered sugar to be omitted.) The chocolate cake is also a must-​have! It was a lot denser than the tiramisu– almost flourless in texture, or at least the part I ate from was (the outer edge of the cake). Too bad the busser threw out our take-​out containers of sweet treats… They’re pricey! (Tiramisu was almost $ 6, and the chocolate cake was $ 8, but come to think of it, the cake slice was huge.) I even labeled and dated them, but not even two minutes had passed when I thought I’d forgotten my phone and ran in to retrieve it, and our table had already been cleared, and the busser didn’t even bat an eye. We didn’t notice that the desserts were missing until we were home.
Make sure you check the tab for accuracy!
p. s. The Honey Brown lived up to its name, and I definitely preferred it after sampling the bitter hef, but the beer kept impressing me as I ate the calamari (awesome combo) and then progressed to the pizza. I had my sister try the beer after each course, and she concurred. I would order this again in the future!

I’m not mad at this place. It is what it purports to be — it is a bar and does in fact serve pizza. The menu was big, but it seems a little busy. That might explain the «just alright» nature of all of the food that I tried.
I enjoyed my Elizabeth Special — pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, peppers, onions, and delicious mozzarella. The crust was a tiny bit soggy, but it still held up well. My mom tackled the Greek salad, but it was too large. Fairly good, but overpowered with dressing. I sampled from the pizzas of my friends and had roughly the same experience. The combo of my flavors was better, though ;)
On the bright side, they have good table service and a good beer selection. I also liked sitting outside, even though the café next door allowed smoking on their patio. We were seated quickly and got plenty of attention when needed, so no complaints there.
Since I’m not in the area often, I’m not sure I’d seek it out again, though most places deserve a second go. Stick with the pizza and beer and things should be fine.

I have 1 more data point for takeout a couple weeks ago. The garlic knots were not burned, and did have some oil but were indeed ‘light oil’ as requested. I request light oil because by the time you get full-​oil knots home they are often soggy and not enjoyable. full-​oil works ok in a restaurant where it just goes to the table. The pizza was also excellent: not burned. So great job! Thanks!
This whole process through Unilocal worked; where I wrote a review, the restaurant saw it and made a change; now things are good again. I’m kind of excited about this :).

There are a few different locations which I have not yet been able to frequent but this venue seems to have it together– good location, great atmosphere, and great food. Although right around the corner from another (authentic) Italian joint, Due Amici’s, I usually tend to make it out here in the event I’d like to have a brew or two with some well crafted Italian food. This location is good for either a dine-​in or take-​out order.
The menu is decent. There is some variety, but I think they could always use a few more items. The salads are a little overpriced for what they give you, but if you are a fan of garlic knots, you really need to try theirs! They are VERY good.
For those dining-​in, the interior is impressive and much resembles that of a sports bar. Not quite an upscale venue, but great atmosphere nonetheless. Italian + brews + football = good times had by all.