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| - All in all, our visit to Mellow Mushroom was a good one. There were 11 of us because we were celebrating our niece's birthday. So, we got to try a lot of different items.
For Starters we tried the wings, pretzels (with the beer cheese) and the spinach artichoke dip. They were out of the mushroom soup, which seems a little odd. The wings were hot on the outside, but frozen in the middle (yes, actually frozen). At first they didn't believe us that they were still frozen, but we finally convinced them. They were apologetic and replaced the order. The pretzels were really good, but the beer cheese was a little thick and gummy. The marinara was great. The spinach artichoke dip was excellent. As a matter of fact dipping the pretzels in the artichoke dip was the best combo of all of the apps.
Next we had our entrees. We got three pizzas (each had two different toppings), one calzone, one salad and one stuffed portabella mushroom. The pizzas were good. One was really good (I think it was the one that was half ham and half pepperoni). The "Loaded Potato Pie" that was on half of one was tasty, but a little weird (not sure that I can get used to sliced baked potatoes on pizza). The other half of that one had the "Rib Eye Pie" topping and although it was OK, for the price it was very sparse on the meat and therefore not very meaty tasting.
My biggest issue was the Calzone. First of all I think $9.49 is a little pricey for a cheese calzone, but I wanted to try them, so I bit the bullet. I noticed on their website that they had a "Steak and Cheese" Calzone, so I asked the waiter and he said they could make one (I didn't ask how much extra, so I guess that's my fault). That brought the price of my Calzone to well over $12.00. I would accept that since I didn't ask the price, but I could barely find any meat on it and fully one half had no meat at all.
My other complaint would be the extremely slow service. I will cut them a little slack on this since there were 11 of us and they are fairly new with obviously inexperienced staff. They were nice enough and you could tell they were trying.
I think they have a pretty decent Happy Hour offering and I will go back a couple of times to see if anything improves, but right now I can't go over three stars.
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