Mellow Mushroom

Wow! So great, so so great! My daughter has a dairy & soy allergy and as a breastfeeding mom that means I have to have it too! It’s usually so difficult going out to eat, but they were able to accommodate us and do it with a smile. I feel more at home here than I do in my home state! (We’re visiting South Carolina this weekend from Michigan). Our server (Sydney) is SO nice and helpful and makes us feel like we’re truly guests in this establishment. Not just a customer. We will come here every time we visit!
Also — GREAT wines by the bottle! This is a «casual» pizza & beer place but they really turn it up a few notches with their premium wine & beer menu

Great choices in unique, tasty pizza! Love the choices in beers, and the staff is always professional and friendly. A great place to bring the family, friends or even small business meetings. Looking forward to the next family pizza night!

I don’t do thos often, but, what a fantastic place! The food is incredible, the staff is so friendly and accommodating, and you can tell they want you to come back! Shay was behind the bar when we sat down while waiting for the table. She was all smiles, which is so big for me! And I am not an avid beer drinker, but she was flawless in figuring out what I wanted and making an accurate recommendation; loved the Oberon :) James was our server. After meeting Shay it came as no surprise, he was able to answer all of my questions (I’m high maintenance, sorry). Anyway, the food was so delicious! I love the fresh ingredients they use in their food… yum! What a great experience. Mellow has won my regular patronage

So, if I could give this restaurant a zero, I would. Placed an order by phone for pick up, decided to go inside to eat… the 3 girls playing hostess had their minds completely blown over this! They actually tried to convince us to just set at the bar because they were unsure how to handle this situation. We actually wanted to eat outside, and after much deliberation they decided to accommodate us. When the pizza was brought out we realized the waitress never even gave us silverware and to top it off the bottom of the pizza was burned! After complaining the waitress said she would discount our pizza. Upon receiving the bill we were shocked to see a 10% discount. Personally I think we should have been offered a free pizza on our next visit. This would have secured another visit, but after this trip (which was actually the 3^rd time with lousy service) we will not be back.

Setting-​girls restroom.
Event-​waitress peeing in stall then leaving without washing hands.
Emotion-​pure disgust.
This is a huge health code violation. I absolutely do not want to eat food that has been handled by a server that has just touched/​dried their genitals without washing their hands, unacceptable!
I have heard many customers complain about the sink in this restroom. Each time I attempt to use it, the water does not come out of the sink. It takes several attempts to get the sensor to work. What can be more important than basic hygiene in an establishment that serves food?!
The waitress even stated that daily complaints are lodged about being able to get water from the sink to wash your hands after using the toilet.
Take care of this problem, Mellow Mushroom in Lexington! Some things are more important than making money. People can get physically ill after eating food that has been touched by hands that have fecal matter or urine on them. This is irresponsible. Give your customers and employees the tools they need to keep clean and healthy for Christ’s sake!!!
On my last visit, a piece of plastic was cooked into my pizza. The pizza was comped, mistakes happen, I get it. But I cannot get past the dirty hands, ever!
And another thing, the food takes way too long at this location and the food is grossly overpriced.
I will never return to this location.

While I think their menu is awesome, they’ve messed up my order each and every time I’ve been there. :(You wait so long for the food, you pretty much just want to eat it at that point no matter what. Even when I’ve gotten carry out (and again waited long past my designated pick up time) my order was wrong. One thing is for certain, they are not good at transcribing custom order. If you ask to substitute this for that, or leave off this or that, they just can’t execute it correctly. And the vegan calzone doesn’t list cheese in the description, but it comes with cheese. After three times, I’m done.
But I’m still giving it 2 stars, because the service personnel is friendly, I like the uniqueness of their menu, and they cater to those with gluten intolerance and vegetarian diets.

Mighty meat pizza! Yum! Also ordered a Samuel smith nut brown ale and it was really delicious! Very family friendly, service is okay and management seems to check tables. Food came out home and in an understandable timely manner! Located next to dominoes

I will not be a returning customer. While waiting for our pizza, our entertainment was watching the dust fuzz hanging off the shoes, wondering when and where they might land. I don’t want to risk a clump of dust falling on my food. Then we got distracted by a couple who came in after we had ordered, receiving a pizza before us by our waitress. Then we watched as it sit on their table for 10 minutes before they finally asked a woman «excuse me, do you work here? We didn’t order this» then they took the pizza back to the kitchen. Of course after that long, their pizza was up so the waitress took their pizza right to them.
Then we watched as our pizza sat there for another 10 minutes as 5 waitresses kept passing it up. We figured they would be making a new pizza since at every restaurant I’ve ever worked at, if anything comes back from a table then it gets trashed since you never know if they touched it or not. So finally after 10 minutes, our waitress finally brings us the pizza that’s been passed around the restaurant for 20 minutes. So our options were to say something and get a new pizza made and wait another 30+ minutes or just suck it up and give her a crappy tip. With 2 hungry kids and 1 baby who didn’t want to be there in the first place we just sucked it up and ate our not hot pizza.
If the waitress simply explained to us the situation and asked if we wanted them to make a new pizza she would have gotten a normal tip, but to act as if we hadn’t seen what had been happening to our pizza was completely wrong of her.
No, this was not a busy time, or after a busy time. It was Sunday at 4pm. There were 3 tables sat when we got there and 4 guys at the bar. The pretzels were good. And even if the pizza was hot, it didn’t taste like it used to. This location has gone completely down hill.

Unique and fun décor as you’ll always find at a Mellow. Did take a while to be noticed when we walked in. Cheese bread appetizer was so tasty; only bad part was getting full before the pizza even arrived. The creamscicle drink was alright but nothing out of this world. My advice would be to stick to coming here for the amazing pizza and food and rather than spending your money on pricey drinks.

Best pizza in Lexington hands down. My wife and I have eaten at this location several times. Unlike other posters we have never had any issues. In fact the only time we had an issue with them, the manager came up without us saying anything, and gave us a free appetizer. Servers are always nice. I’ve looked at the other posts and I don’t think people realize how much business they do and how popular they are. The servers are nice, the pizza never takes more than 20 minutes. And the only time we had to wait was when it was slammed and we only waited for 10 minutes when they had originally told us 40. Great food, great atmosphere.

Pizza was better than average. They have a good beer selection. Place was very dirty though. When we ate there last night, it wasn’t packed, so I don’t know why they couldn’t clean. To be fair, it looked like the floor was covered in food where children may have been eating at various tables, but it still was unappetizing.

I’m totally a fan of this place but the parking situation is terrible even during lunch. I found an old dirt lot behind the building today after work to meet some friends. If your thinking about making a left and heading to Columbia when leaving be prepared to wait awhile. So my only suggestion is to get here early and carpool to save yourself a headache. Oh and don’t park in the Dominos parking lot that is empty or you will be towed.

Wow! Lookin for something good to eat after a baseball game and remembered how good the food was last time we went here. Well I can tell you we will not be returning. After being seated we waited for more than 10 minutes before we finally decided to leave. We sat with menus waiting for someone to come and take our order or at least acknowledge that we were there. Multiple waitresses passed our table multiple times and none of them even made eye contact with us. Hey, wait staff; take your blinders off! Even if it’s not «YOUR» table be aware that there are guests sitting with menus and no drinks (possibly not waited on yet) and maybe you could ask if they’ve been helped yet!
And I have to comment on another review I read here about the wait staff lack of uniformity in attire. You should be able to distinguish between patrons and staff. Not to mention I think it looks un professional to wear leggings, a long sleeve t-​shirt and UGG boots even if it is a pizza joint.
Oh, and so maybe you won’t become totally complacent, we went to another local Italian restaurant and it was amazing!
Next time we are craving a pizza or good Italian food with a wonderful atmosphere and higher level of awareness of what a good dining experience should be we won’t be thinking of mellow mushroom.

Used Groupon tonight, the food was lower-​average, but when the prices are included in consideration, the food is well below average. There was a clearly intoxicated customer still being served drinks who was constantly yelling and cursing profanities which could be heard across the room. Everything from GD to the F word, not a single employee said anything to him, but several kept bringing him drinks. I looked for a manager on my way out, but none was in sight and could not distinguish employees from customers as they have no sort of uniform, name tag or anything to designate an employee. I will not be back and recommend no one patronize «Club Mellow Mushroom» on 378.

The food at Mellow Mushroom has the best Pizza so far in Lexington, the flavors were exceptional, but the flavors have remarkable depth. Presentation of the food was great. A host of items on the menu, offering something for the whole family. The shop is both clean and tidy, having plenty seating space and a nice bar. The hostess/​waitress was attentive at all times. Staff members there greeted us in/​out when we left. The small pizza was more than filling, loved the mushroom soup! I know I’ll certainly be returning soon and would recommend this facility.

Always enjoy Mellow Mushroom, be it here, there or everywhere. Two things are always constant (weather you get a sandwich, pizza, salad, or calzone): 1.) The food will always be good. 2.) Be prepared to wait. That is not always a bad thing as you know your food is prepared to order, and it gives you time to sample one of the many great brews they offer.

Mellow Mushroom has the best pizza, and so many choices to pick from! It’s really hard to pick a favorite. The enlightened spinach salad is out of this world. They also have a great beer selection. Highly recommended!

Awesome service! If you’re looking for to-​go they have drive-​thru!
For everyone complaining about the cook time this is not Pizza Hut, they actually knead the dough, and toss it on site. It’s not supposed to be fast — because it’s quality!
I have had nothing but wonderful service and quality pizza. :)

I like the pizza here. I really do, but why do all Mellow Mushrooms take so long to make their pizza?
I came here on a rainy Saturday with 6 family members. We were seated in one of the large booths next to the psychedelic wall (which my Great Aunt Charlotte really enjoyed). As soon as we sat down, one cousin realized she had to run an errand, so she told us her order and left. When she got back 40 minutes later, our food had still not arrived.
Four of us split a large pesto pizza which is my personal favorite. It comes with an olive oil and pesto base, cheese and tomatoes. The large is plenty for four people. The other two split a small pepperoni pizza. On the weekends and at night, they do not serve individual slices. Their crust is a highlight for me. Typically I think crust is edible cardboard, but Mellow Mushroom’s is actually enjoyable.
Our waitress was not the most attentive. It took a while for her to take our order and bring our drinks. If a restaurant is really busy, this never bothers me. The day we were in, the restaurant was maybe half full. Also, I would like to note that their floor is VERY slippery. I recognize that I am a really clumsy person, but everyone was seconds from tumbling over especially since it had been raining all day.
Moral of the story, I much prefer Mellow Mushroom as a take-​out place.

First and last time at this place.
Called and ordered two pizzas: bayou blue and Thai pizza. They said forty minutes. I waited the allotted time and drove to pick up the pizza. Was shocked on the bill (didn’t realize each medium pizza which equates to 6 small slices of pizza is $ 20). Paid the amount and then was told it will be a while like 15 minutes and they are speeding up the process since I was already here. Went and parked where they told me and a woman came out to tell me they were out of shrimp on the bayou bleu so would I like to change my order… That would have been nice to know before I paid because I would have told them to just give me the one since they were making my pizza when I arrived… I told them to double the sausage that already comes on it. Brought it home and the pizza didn’t even taste great.
Save your money and order somewheres else. This is a chain restaurant apparently anyways.