Maru’s Pizza & Italian Bistro

Today I ordered delivery here based on Unilocal reviews. I was scrolling through the pages and the pictures of food caught my eye they looked kind of homemade in a way. So I ordered a 10″ pizza with olives and no sauce which they actually cared not to put sauce and a cannoli. The pizza was good it was just a normal pizza I liked it, the cannoli was okay but not the best I ever had. I mean it was $ 20 well spent because I was hungry and craving pizza but I could get a large pizza like that for $ 5 lol but nonetheless great timing on delivery and probably will try other menu items from here soon. Thanks !

Just was craving some Calamari & pizza — as usual the order was delicious & delivered a lot soon than expected! Well done Maru’s!

My original spot for pizza is now closed on Tuesdays so I decided to Unilocal around for a new one. This wasn’t the best pizza I’ve had. Something is missing about their pizza. I ordered the pepperoni and sausage pizza, very bland and just completely flavorless. For the price I was expecting more. I think I’ll skip out on them next time.

Maru’s COMPLETELY changed my mind!!! After writing a bad review, Maru’s’ owner Rosa called me the next day, apologized, and offered anything from their menu free of charge. Loved the customer service getting a call from the owner.
We ordered the stuffed pizza and wings. The stuffed pizza originally comes with sausage, pepperoni and ham. We substituted bacon for ham added meatball and added ricotta and bleu cheese. The cheese was so delicious and rich made for a great slice of pie. All the meat in that was stuffed made it like a meat lovers calzone. The bacon was authentic and tasted right, the meatball were fresh and the crust was crispy and filled with cheese. Would highly recommend their stuffed pizza!

I’ve never been more torn about a review in my life.
I ordered the Margherita pizza and it looked BEAUTIFUL! it’s super fresh too, it’s just…
It needs some seasoning it’s kind of bland, also when you pick it up the toppings slide off the pizza.
I bet it will taste perfect once I put it in the oven and eat it later.
Which is kind of sad.
I’ll order one more time from here, the delivery guy was nice.
The $ 6 delivery charge is bogus though…

I tried this place out on my sister’s recommendation and came for just some bolognese.
I’m not sure if it was just my perception but it seemed like the owners were a little snappy with one another. Perhaps, it was a long day.
Observation: they are right next door to Laser Tag and walking in I could hear some obnoxious and illiterate conversations outside, in front of the place. I can imagine that Maru’s gets a lot of young and/​or disrespectful… OK, let’s say «trashy» people in, being loud and annoying. I’m not saying that the laser tag crowd is all trashy, but just by observing the location, I can see that often, this is what would happen to be there…
On to the food: the bolognese is Very decent. Not the greatest ever, but it totally does the job. The con for me is the meat. It is quite chewy. Perhaps an upgrade in quality of the meat will improve the taste and overall texture. It’s $ 10 for this dish and I would not mind paying $ 13 – 15 if they upgraded the ingredients used.
The dish comes with a salad. I did not eat it now (too full) but the vinaigrette was okay. It wasn’t spectacular and maybe a little sour. As if the balsamic used is mixed with white vinegar or if it is just. Young/​not good quality. But, edible and does the job of a free salad.
The dish also comes with garlic bread. It is not really the typical, crispy and delicious garlicky bread. It’s more of like a dry focaccia soaked in butter/​garlic sauce. It’s a bit soggy and missing that great garlic bread crunch. It is tasty, but not what I was expecting or looking forward to.
Couple of suggestions:
–Please do not staple bags so much — Oh my gosh.
–You do not need to put salad leaves in a container and then put it in a paper bag and staple it all around.
–There is not need to use SO much foil to wrap up the dressing container. A simple piece of tape across the lid and onto the sides would have been enough.
I feel that the paper bag and all that foil and extra plastic bag to put all this stuff in is such a waste and it could save the establishment significant money (and to the customers, the waste) if this step were to be avoided. It’s completely excessive.
Nice place. I’ll come back and try some other stuff. I saw a big dough mixer and I’m hoping that they are putting it to excellent use.

Being from NYC, I was surprised that the pizza here was so good! I had the chicken Alfredo pizza and the Margherita. The pizza was made pretty quickly and the service was also very good. The waitress was friendly and helpful on helping me decide on what to order. I will definitely come again when I visit Las Vegas again.

Four stars??? Really Unilocal?The pizza was some of the worst I’ve ever had. No real taste. Very disappointing folks. Usually Unilocal doesn’t miss. It did here. We were in the dining area for a half hour solid. NOBODY came in. It was just us. Most of the time, popular lunch places are slammed at the lunch our. They were not. Bad food, nice people.

Nothing good about this place to be honest. The pizza sauce is a bit sweet which gives the pizza an odd taste. I ordered garlic knots and found them to be covered in raw garlic and butter. The dough is good but it’s definitely not enough to keep me coming back here.
Also, the delivery man didn’t have a pen…
First and last time I’ll be ordering from here.

Tried the pizza again (owner offered to send us a free one) turns out that the wrong cheese was used on the first one and the second one was much better. Good crust and my roommate liked the vegan meatballs a lot. We look forward to trying them again.

Terrible. my husband and I ordered the chicken wings and pasta carbonara. chicken wings were dry, watery potatoes and pasta seemed to have only white cream, nothing tasted good. we order food for pick up at 2:25 pm and they were ready at 1:55 pm when we arrived and all had much time to be done and tasted bad. not return to this place. by the way the food made us feel sick and my son threw up a couple of hours later

I have to say, I’m always open to new spots to enjoy a good pizza. Maru’s became the guinea pig night of UFC 187.
We got the wings and a large pie. I’ll say this, the dough was on point. It was so soft and sweet it almost didn’t seem real. I loved the wings. My dad prefers them to be a little crispier, but he’s a little picky. I enjoyed them to the fullest. They were each a great size and were no slouch on meat.
The delivery man even came with a smile and took the alternative route as to not bother us even though there was a shorter route to take. He made sure the first time we saw him, he’d have the order in hand instead of having us get up to open the homeowner’s gate. That alone earned an extra on the tip!
Great service, great pizza, great wings. Great job Maru’s!

Some good pizza, got the gluten free one. A bit pricier then most places but good pizza. Worth a shot and have a pretty big menu I’ll definitely look to try other stuff off of it

Will never come here again.
We came here after a few games of laser tag next door. My friends were all super amped up from the hour of laser tag, so we were being a bit silly, but I’m sure they are used to questionable late night customers.
We only ordered two slices for our friend (most of us had eaten earlier). I put a tip in their jar. Pizza was good! Nothing special, but nice and hot.
One of my friends made the mistake of putting his hands behind him on one of the tables and the granite top flipped off and hit the floor, coming undone from the base. Most of the tables in here were already really shaky, including the one we were sitting at, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this happens again, or if it’s happened before.
The owner demanded he pay for it on the spot. We thought he was joking… he was not.
He was immediately on the phone with someone about the repair cost. He was speaking Spanish, so we couldn’t understand him. My friend paid the owner in full: $ 75!!! I felt that the owner was really rude about what was a small accident. He didn’t even thank us for owning up to a mistake, which may not even have been our fault.
I highly doubt another customer would’ve been so quick to pay for an accident without an official estimate on the repair, but we are nice people.
I will never go back here.

Not life changing and not awful. We got the cheese bread and veggie pizza. The pizza was cooked well and the crust was not too doughy or too thin. The cheese bread was nothing to write home about. Not a bad little place. We called on and picked up. No problems and the price was reasonable.

Update. 2 ½ hours later, I heard knock knock. Who is there? Maru’s! The owner saw the review and sent another pizza.
This time it was as I remembered. I’m happy to find out that it was just one time thing. As the delivery person said, the last one must have had too much veggies=soggy pizza.
Now my question marks have disappeared, it’s time for their tiramisu!
I wanted to thank the owner taking a review seriously. I never expected another pizza.
Previous review:
It’s so sad. I loved it when they first opened. Pizza was delivered in great condition last time I ordered. Hot and not soggy. Now I don’t know what happened. It was delivered within 30 minutes. The store is about 10 minutes away. The crust was baked nicely but it was not hot. The half of the pizza was inedible. Has it been previously frozen? I don’t know. The meatball pieces were also mushy. It was just so awful. The whole time we picked at the edible part of pizza, question marks just went through my head. Imagine soaking a pizza slice into water… ugh.
I know I should eat it at the store first before judging on their pizza but it was too disappointing for me to even think of trying it again. I also ordered tiramisu. I have no desire to try that either with my nausea at this point. Really. I would never said no to sweets unless I lose complete trust in the food.
That being said, the service was very good. I really liked the gentleman who took my order as well as the one who delivered. Hence, two stars for service. Someday I will try it at the restaurant… someday.

The food here was good. The take out service was friendly. The atmosphere was not welcoming. I never understand a restaurant that doesn’t get how a restaurant needs to fulfill multiple items or why be in business? If you want done in customers, cater to dine in customers. Have a real coke soda fountain… Try a freestyle. Use real restaurant commercial napkins, utensils and cups. Don’t try to be frugal with the small stuff especially while charging premium prices.
Pizza, lasagna and zeppoli’s were good!

The menu is a bit pricey but the quality is fairly solid– didn’t try their pizza, but $ 14 for a GF cheese pie special doesn’t sound like a bargain to me. Their site is easy to navigate and online orderings are super simple.
Eggplant parm app, $ 9, 4 slices of breaded eggplant with a sprinkle of cheese and a cup of marinara to sauce yourself to the preferred level. Forgettable.
Empanadas; $ 2.10 each, don’t ask me why an Italian joint has empanadas on the menu, just know that they’re really good. The spinach initially caught my eye but the beef was way better– even taking into account that the cheese inside wasn’t even melted. Whoops.
Garlic knots; $ 5, oiled and seasoned well but somehow a bit lackluster. Wonder if the dough is the same they use for pizza, seemed on the plain side.
$ 20 takeout order was fine but I’d only return for the empanadas or to give their pizza a try. They offer gluten free and sicilian, I just don’t typically shell out the prices they’re asking for takeout pizza– price is more on par for specialty or high end shops.

After reading a story about Maru’s, I decided to give it a try. I drove there and ordered a Sicilian style half pizza with four cheeses. The gentleman wanted to make sure that I knew that each of the cheeses was an extra topping. I also ordered mushrooms but there were none.
I waited for the pizza to be baked and then I brought it home. The pizza was good and large enough that it provided 1 ½ meals. They gave me a small bag with lots of napkins and extra cheese and three packets of crushed red pepper. That’s a nice touch.
I was pleased with the pizza but I’m not sure the value is there. $ 20 for a half Sicilian? And, it’s an extra drive for me to go here. I can get the same or better only 2 miles from home instead of going to Maru’s. I;m glad I tried it but I’ll stay with my tried and true pizza vendors.

Let’s begin with this is a review for delivery, not dine in.
Us fat girls at work (shout out to my sweethearts, Amanda and Nichelle) decided to try a new place. We had the menu dropped off and couldn’t stop drooling over the options.
After picking over everything and deciding to share we ordered; chicken strips with fries, garlic bread, garlic knots, spinach salad, an extra order of fries and two chicken empanadas.
Pros;
–garlic knots were delicious. Smothered in garlic and herbs, dripping in olive oil.
— chicken strips were good not overly crunchy. Pretty nice sized.
— empanadas were very good. Loved whatever was in them. Full of flavor.
Cons;
— Fries were soggy. No salt to them.
— delivery took longer than expected. They said 30 minutes and it took them 40. Wouldn’t have been such a big deal if it wouldn’t have been for the meeting we were expecting to go to, so had limited time to eat.
— they forgot our ranch and marinara and so they had to drive it over
— ranch was not homemade. Tasted like hidden valley. I would know cause I hate the taste
— marinara was okay. Very watery. It was eatable.
My boss ended up saving the spinach salad for herself at home. She said the next day it was tasty.
Overall for delivery I wouldn’t come back. Next time I will go for dine in and try sandwiches, pasta and pizza.