Mafia Pizzeria Southside

Good hot pizza! I used delivery to my hotel after a long day. I like to try local stuff when I travel, and these guys were spot on. Pizza was hot, crust good, toppings plentiful. Meatballs were a little too done for me, but may just have been a slip. If I lived here, they would be my regular pie guys.

The daily lunch buffet (11:00 am — 2:30 pm) was very good. You seat yourself, get your drink, and pay as you leave. I visited early on a Friday, and the place started to fill around 11:30 am.
The pizzas had plenty of cheese and toppings, with a very good hand-​tossed crust. You can always request your favorite pizza. The salad bar was extensive, and offered MANY choices. The pizza bar and salad bar were kept well-​stocked.
«Buy one buffet get one free» coupons are available if you live in the area, like I do. Otherwise, I believe the buffet price was $ 7.49, which is still reasonable.

This place really went down hill after ownership changed a few months ago. Pizza quality has fallen off and forget about being helped at all.

We got a coupon deal for them as we have for several other area eateries, but they skated around taking them and were a bit rude with their explanation. We found another pizza place that would honor the coupons even though it wasn’t their coupon so we know which pizza place deserves our loyalty.

Came in at 1 for the buffet, they had two pizzas up, that looked like they were there for awhile. The nice girl at the counter asked what pizza they could make for me. I waited 15 minutes for it. It was very greasy and lots of cheese, it was ok not good not bad. Bathroom is pretty bad, there’s a leak and smells like mold. Buffet with drink came to 9.70 a little too expensive for what you get!

New ownership… Pizza tastes so different. It’s not good. Papa johns is better and that’s sad.

Our flying club met at Mafia’s again this month and I’m still a fan.
The staff are very friendly and helpful. The salad bar is clean and stocked well.
Everyone has a different pizza recipe — from dough, to sauce, to toppings. I believe everyone’s idea of «best pizza» is totally subjective based on personal taste preference.
Mafia’s pizza tastes very good to me. I like Papa John’s and Pizza Shoppe, while Pizza Hut ranks much lower due to taste. I would put Mafia’s a close second to Papa John’s and tied with Pizza Shoppe.
Another positive is that Mafia’s has a pizza buffet at a reasonable price.
Although I haven’t visited Mafia’s except for our club meetings, I expect I will be visiting much more come October, when my company is moving to an office nearly across the street from Mafia’s. I plan to bring my co-​workers with me!

Food is excellent. However they can never get an order right and the last time I ordered there was a big piece of metal in my pizza. I really hope they can figure out how to run it better because I love the pizza.

I’ve given this place 3 chances in the last month. They’ve disappointed me 2 out of the 3. Every order was their free online delivery option, which is nice except for the «online fee.»
The 2 bad experiences were from the same order; pasta and wings. Delivery time is 45 – 60 minutes but both times they were about 15 minutes late. The worst part is that they didn’t even bother to give me a fork or napkins with my pasta! When I confronted the delivery driver about him being late and there being no fork, he simply smirked, said a few words, and turned back and got in the car and left. The only decent delivery was one pizza.
Other than that, I feel like they could do a better job with adding some more flavor on their food. It all tasted fairly bland.

The pizza was okay. We ordered a cheese pizza with sun dried tomatoes. They didnt deliver bc we were exactly 1 mile away and they don’t come out this far. The pizza was ready at the time we came by to pick it up. The bread is good, but the sun dried tomatoes in the pizza were super burnt. Not crispy, but black burnt! From experience making our own pizzas, we know u should put the sun dried tomatoes as the very last ingredient bc it will burn, apparently they didn’t know that. We politely called just to give them feedback on the issue and they put me on hold for 5 minutes before I decided to hang up… When we went to pick up the pizza there were only 4 people eating there. I am still not sure why i was put on hold for so long.

This place had some pretty good pizza. In fact all of the food was tasty except the cream cheese bites. Those things were a soggy mess and the strawberry icing is kind of gross too. We had «The Boss» which was good and the cheese sticks which was good.
The reason for the two stars is a place this size should have there website put together better. The site is super clunky to order through, menu is not up to date, and the pricing is more expensive. I saved a couple of dollars calling the store and ordering more food for a cheaper price. This type of business makes me not trust them very much.
Update :
Tried this place again to give them another chance. I ordered the «The Rat», which sounded good with extra cheese, cheese sticks, and the brownie bites. Sounds good, right? I was so wrong! The pizza was over cooked, and the cheese on top was hard. The cheese sticks were delicious and probably the best part. The brownie bites sounded good but when we finally started eating them they were almost bland. I say almost because the bites tasted a bit like the pizza. Mafia Mike’s seems to think that by heating up some Hershey’s chocolate syrup would fix the bland brownies but it didn’t. My son wanted the cookies more than the brownie bites. The delivery driver was nice but creepy at the same time.
I assume the buffet is good because they have to bake fresh pizzas all the time, but I won’t be ordering anymore from this place.

Still one of the best places to come for pizza. They have the right recipe for our taste buds, plenty of flavor without being a salt bomb. (Ever go for pizza then spend the night getting up to drink glass after glass of water?) Whenever we go somewhere else we always compare their pizza to Mafia, and most come up short.
Try the Mike’s All Meat specialty pizza, lots of meat without being overwhelming or excessively greasy.
And can I say how much I appreciate that they send coupons out all the time? Thanks Mafia! Without those to tempt us we probably wouldn’t come as often as we do!

This place has very good food but nothing compares to the amazing employee they have working here. His name is San Juan. This was the first time i have been here but from the moment i walked in the door he treated me like a valued regular. He is extremely polite with phenomenal people skills. He was very attentive and efficient with his work. He truly is one of the biggest assets of this pizzeria.

I’ve ordered their take out pizza several times and never disappointed. My fav is the grilled chicken, broccoli & artichoke with pesto sauce… so savory and delish!

I’m sorry for the poor folks who think this is NYC-​style pizza. I imagine you’ve never been to NYC or anywhere close to it, so you don’t quite understand what NY pizza is like. In general, not even close to NY style pizza. It reminded more of Dominos pizza more than anything. The crust was not crunchy as others have claimed — perhaps you have to order it well done to get that. I ordered mine with extra sauce and I don’t think they did that, so I can’t imagine what it would be like if I didn’t order it that way. The sauce is on the sweet side, which is okay, but not my style. The crust was medium thickness as others have claimed, but again NY style is super thin until you get to the edge crust.
I’m a pretty tough critic when it comes to pizza as it’s one of my favorite food items, so if you’re a Dominos fan, you’ll probably ignore me and love this place, but if you’re from the Northeast or Tri-​State where we know how to really make pizza, you may not like this place. Nothing terrible about it, but I’ve had better at so many place I can’t even count.

Fresh veggies, good salad bar, we enjoyed it! Great for kids and a group!

Nice neighborhood pizza place! We really enjoyed the pizza and the service we received from the Mafia. We had the Boss and it was awesome! Loaded with toppings – a lot like Tim’s Pizza as far as toppings go. The salad bar was really nice too and so were the fresh baked cookies.

Pretty good pizza. Very fresh salad and hot pizza. Good customer service. Been there 3 or 4 times.

When we arrived the waitress left us cooling our heels at the table for about 10 minutes before finally taking our order. Once we got the food it was hard to stay grumpy — the marinara sauce was outstanding, and the pizza was very good. All told, it was nowhere near as bad as we were expecting based upon our first impression.

Liked the chicken alfredo pizza, with a good crust and a pleasant white sauce, not greasy-​oily at all (as it can be at some places.) They also have a nice variety of veggies & yummies on the salad bar. We stopped in fairly late, but the staff was pleasant & accommodating nonetheless, even though they probably wanted to just lock up & go home. (As a result of the hour, we didn’t linger; they cheerfully boxed up the second half of the pizza for us & we enjoyed it the next day.) Overall, high marks! We’ll be back!