Tuesday night 7pm; not too busy. However, as an event at the nearby Cain center emptied out, it did get a bit busy for the single server working that night. He was assisted by a couple kids who were doing their best. The Stromboli is positively huge. I had the Italian and better half ordered the veggie. Both were excellent. I will ask for extra marinara next time since I got 2 more meals out of the boli, but ran out of dipping sauce. It's a nice enough place; I'm going to have to try it for lunch some time. read more

Maola's Pizza and Restaurant - Italian Stromboli - Italian Near Me - Cornelius, North Carolina

Service, seating, and overall experience was great. We ordered the hot honey chicken burrata. The flavors were great but the burrata on the pasta was cold. The dish really would have been better warm. The chicken carbonara was good. The sauce was really thin but overall good. I'm glad we tried it... may try the pizza next time instead. read more

Delicious food! The seating area is fairly small so definitely make a reservation if you're going on the weekend. We really enjoyed the food and will be back for sure. read more

Good pizza! 4.25 Ordered 3 pizzas and a salad for a large group as well as the Pesto and shrimp pasta. Easy call in order and food was ready in 30 on. Saturday night. Pepperoni pizza Half meatball and half sausage pizza Veggie pizza (loved this- included eggplant which is always wonderful on pizza) Ceasar salad- basic salad- dressing in the side Shrimp pesto pasta- large plump shrimp-very good. Lacked in pictures, but food was hot, flavorful. Sauce is robust- good flavor and a decent amount. read more

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Quick lunch here yesterday. Ordered the Italian Hero which was the Friday special. 1/2 sub loaded with meats and veggies plus fries and a drink. Service was fast and the waitress was friendly! Loved the location of this restaurant in Cornelius with a laid back vibe. Bust at lunch but not too busy to turn out good service and food. You will not be disappointed! read more

My wife and me went there today and it was amazing. Food and service were outstanding. Huge portions. Everyone there was really friendly. It was very busy and our waitress still did a great job. read more

Maola's Pizza and Restaurant - Chicken Tortellini Carbonara Homemade Meat Lasagna - Italian Near Me - Cornelius, North Carolina

Went in for there lunch specials. The restaurant was spotless and appetizing atmosphere. Sort of a very modern NYC Manhattan style restaurant. Service was fast and the lunch specials were displayed on A frame placards on the Road entrance and on the sidewalk as well in the restaurant. We ordered both the Pizza special 2 slices with a fountain drink included cost $5 and the hot plate of Chicken Parmigiana with penne pasta $10 . Very good prices. Both came in timely manner. My chicken parmigiana was hot just made and generous potions of cutlet and pasta. The Pizza two regular size slices from an 18 inch pie. I would highly recommend the restaurant. Good value read more

Maola's Pizza and Restaurant - Italian Near Me - Cornelius, North Carolina

I have been to Maola's three times now and the food was very fresh and tasty. I highly recommend arriving early. It is a small restaurant and fills up quickly. read more

Very disappointed. Ordered sausage mushroom onion. Cost $35. Way over sauced, not good, especially for the price. Have had many other better pies from here in the past. read more

We just got cheese pizza and I specifically asked if it's newyork style. It's like a frozen pizza cooked. Really horrible and hard crust that is so thick. I am so disappointed, we are going out again to get another pizza, literally! I live in Cornelius. First time going here and very disappointing! It's not even cheap! $30 for a pizza and that tastes like a frozen pizza? read more

The margherita pizza here is a winner! The crust is thin and crispy, and the tomato sauce tastes fresh. I wish they were a bit more generous with the basil, but it's still delicious. read more

Maola's Pizza and Restaurant - Italian Near Me - Cornelius, North Carolina

It's hard to believe how good the food is. We found it randomly and had the best zucchini and grandmas tri-color something or other pizza that was just gorgeous and delicious. Service has been spot on both times! read more

Maolas offers exceptional service and an incredible variety of food options. The atmosphere is truly delightful! My wife and I highly recommend it! read more

The hot honey pizza was really great. we also ordered a salmon pasta that was very tasty. We ordered to go, so it took a bit to make but I bet everything would have been even better in store! read more

So this is a mixed review. We ordered take out for Father's Day. It was ready in about 15 mins so not long at all. I ordered the buffalo chicken pizza for my husband and I ordered the pear and Gorgonzola pasta and a side salad with house dressing. The pizza was large and tasted great! The pasta while tasty, was a SMALL portion, 20 pieces total with minimal sauce. The salad had a lot of middle "pieces" that I tore out but dressing was delicious! Both dishes were $28 each. For the price, we would definitely order the pizza again, but not the pasta! I would get the pasta if it was part of the $10 lunch special, but not sure how big the portion would be if the dinner portion was the small. read more

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Pizza crust was tasteless and not fresh. Cheese was tough and salty. Service was slow. When we ordered just a pizza, and we were the only ones there, it took a half hour. On a prior visit I had tried ravioli special and though ravioli was good, the meat sauce was dry with meat too broken-up. Instead of Italian music -in an Italian restaurant-, it was Hispanic, with all words in Spanish, and very annoying. There are too many better places so I will not be returning! read more

Well, I ordered the bolognese and was exited to try as it is my favorite. Sadly total disappointment. While the sauce itself was great the absolute lack of meat I. The sauce was almost laughable. How they get away with saying there is any meat in this sauce is amazing. Not sure I'll even give the restaurant another try as a result. read more

We came for lunch here around noon. There were 4 people in our party + small child. We all ordered the lunch special - two slices of pizza and a drink and then one kids Alfredo. After about 45 minutes of waiting, the waiter apologized and indicated the pizza was still in the oven. After about an hour and fifteen minutes of sitting, we couldn't wait any longer as we had a church event that afternoon. We went to register to pay for the food and ask it be made to go. They over charged for what we ordered but at this point we really just needed to go and didn't have time to ask for itemized bill. The pizza was mediocre. The waiter was very polite and kind, but he clearly had to manage far too many tables. He had nearly the entire restaurant and to go orders. We would not return here. read more

Best pizza around here by far! After living near great NJ/NY pizza, we are happy to have found this place

We were searching for some Italian food on a random Sunday and we're out this way so I discovered this restaurant, and I am so glad I did! The chicken Parmesan was absolutely delicious!!! I would definitely love to go back just for that! The portions are a great size, I am with chicken and pasta, no salad. 5/5. I did have to ask for bread, but it was worth the wait! The lasagna was also a 4.5/5. I personally didn't love the pizza crust, so I wouldn't go back for pizza. It was hard, not chewy at all, how I like it unless it's super thin crust. Service was great, our server was super sweet. We will be back! read more

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Good prices, decent food, friendly service. The two gnocchi dishes were judged to be very good. The spinach ravioli also got a good rating. The Philly cheesesteaks were said to be "just right" from 2 Philly-born diners. The one negative note was the Mediterranean pasta. Ingredients themselves were OK, but the sauce, if there was one, was without taste and left the pasta itself boring. The dish could also have used more than 2 pieces of artichoke heart. I know it's pricey, but artichokes are why I ordered it. read more

As of 5pm last Friday, we entered phase 2 of the Covid-19 redrawal from the lockdown. Still Susan does not want to go any sit down restaurant even if they are following precautions and social distances. We ordered take out again for 1:15 pm after Susan got to watch Judge Judy. Some of us have different priorities but go with the flow. Placed our order a little after 12 noon. Susan want the Sausage and Peppers Roll with Mozzarella Sticks and I chose the Meat Lover Lasagna. Arrived promptly at 1:15 and walked in to pay and still had to wait. Susan's Sausage and Pepper Roll was just going into the oven but no big deal. Payed for lunch and picked it us and made one more stop on the way home. We stopped at Centre Presbyterian Church Cemetery so that I could pay respects to some of my ancestors who served in the Revolution War. Got home and the food was still pipping hot. Ate on the balcony overlooking the lake. Portion sizes are huge and we had enough left over for another meal. Susan really enjoyed her Sausage and Pepper Roll. We shared an order of 6 mozzarella sticks. Consistency was bland and more like cardboard and the marinara dipping sauce did not even have the zesty freshness of tomatoes. The Meat Lovers Lasagna was good but looking at the packaging, I would hazard a guess that it came from a food service company like Sysco and just popped into the oven. Even so, it was still good. Looking forward to them being open with a full menu. read more

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Excellent service and food! Both my husband and I had huge servings that allowed for leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Our server Ana was amazing and the food was fresh and delicious. I recommend the meatball and chicken parm. The bread is excellent and the salads are fresh and crispy. read more

Maola's Pizza and Restaurant is located in the shopping plaza that houses the Food Lion as its anchor store. The pizza is good and as an added plus they have 18" pizzas. For whatever reason, most places here in the south consider a 16" pizza a large pizza. When I grew up in New Jersey, we just took it for granted that a large pizza was an 18" pizza. Prices are decent here, as well. In addition to their pizza, they also have calzones, wings, salads, subs and Italian food. I have only had the pizza here, so I cannot make any comment on any of the other food. The pizza was good and as I had said earlier, priced right. All in all a good place to go if you are in the area and wanting pizza. read more

I have contacted them to update them of the pizza order I made. I always go over $80 on my orders and my precious post vas utterly true, the pizza sauce tasted like Ragú sauce and there was not even enough cheese on any of them. My post was vile and malicious because my experience is true! It took months for the owner to contact me about the review. GET REAL and learn to manage your business!! read more

Maola's Pizza and Restaurant - Sicilian and pepperoni - Italian Near Me - Cornelius, North Carolina

First time there last night. The $12 Antipasto salad is a joke. It was all lettuce. Nothing as the menu describes as it to be. Waste of money. Bread was stale dinner rolls? Sicilian Pizza was not that great. Sweet tea wasn't even real. Tasted like canned nestea. The trainee waitress tried serving our pizza and almost dropped a piece but caught it with her hand and put it on the plate after handling everyone else's food, dirty plates and cup refills. Our waitress and her trainee never came back by our table until we were done so anything we might have needed was not important anymore. First and last time read more

Maola's Pizza and Restaurant - Italian Near Me - Cornelius, North Carolina

Normally good, but don't order the pasta and clams. Over half of them were empty. That means at least two people noticed and did nothing about it. read more

I have tried it over and over with the belief it would be good but it's just papa John's Domino's hungry Howies pizza to be much better they can roll out the crust make it crispy, and I would be much more happy. The pastas are over priced the Stromboli is huge, a greasy standard 6.2 food. read more

Two stops. The first stop was for pizza. Good but not amazing. Second trip was for Italian food. We waited 35 minutes for the food, but there is usually a good reason for the delay. Plus, this left more time to fill up on bread (always a plus). My biggest disappointment, and the reason for a 4 instead of a 5, is that they wouldn't honor a request for a kid's-size Chicken Parmesan. This felt greedy. The Chicken Parmesan was solid. The flavor didn't pop, but still better than any other in the area. Huge portion too. The Stuffed Shells were excellent, as was the salad. The Penne was good but lukewarm under hot pasta. Overall, I recommend. read more

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Three times here in the last six months. Great friendly service from Luis this visit and also from Clayton on a previous visit. Spaghetti carbonara, lasagna and shrimp scampi are all extremely well done. Comparing to my Italian grandmother's cooking.... These three dishes are closest to the best I've had. Chef has skills. Service is always genuinely friendly. Will be taking the familia there for wedding anniversary dinner very soon. read more

First things. The kids they hire are great. They're working their hardest. It's the owner, Miguel, who is unprofessional and quick to anger when challenged. When a customer calls to complain, in an even tempered way, you should start with, "I'm sorry you feel that way". Not try invalidate the customer's opinion and accuse them of trying to get a free meal. That, understandably I think, left me incensed. I called to complain about the portion size, about how it was much smaller than when they opened. I initially spoke with a worker and told them that I understood that maybe it was the hard times of the pandemic that caused them to start putting everything in smaller containers and decrease the size of the portions in those containers, but whatever, I wasn't happy about it and I wanted someone to tell the management the opinion of one of their customers. So the worker put the owner on the phone. I repeated my complaint in a very matter of fact way. It was then that Miguel escalated the incident, told me every reason why my assumptions were wrong (I guess because they shrank the portion size and changed the recipes years ago when he took over and not during the pandemic), and then rudely suggested that I was trying to force a resolution and get something for free which was never the point. He then had an argument with me, becoming increasingly accusatory and calling me out for raising my voice after he suggested I was some kind of freeloader. Then he hung up. All I needed was, "I hear you, I'm sorry you feel that way." Boom. Instead of considering a legitimate complaint (look at how much calamari comes in an order compared to other places some day), he chose to insult, enrage and ultimately, lose a good customer. The food is acceptable, pizza and other cheese and sauce dishes are fine, especially for this area. The picatta and carbonara are garbage. Stay away from them if you're Italian and know what those dishes are actually supposed to taste like. And never, ever complain because at Maola's, Miguel, the owner, will do his damned best to put you in your place. read more

Come here often, but have not updated in awhile. We had takeout last night. Pizza was excellent. My sons are buffalo chicken connoisseurs and said it was fantastic. As everywhere else their prices have definitely gone up ... but their pizzas are huge and they do not skimp on toppings. We live in mooresville, but this is still our favorite and we have tried them all. read more

Fabulous pizza! First time there today, and we got the meatza pizza and a margherita pizza. Best pizza we've had since leaving New York! This is our new go-to place. read more

We liked the food and the service was great. we would go there again. I had the chicken Marsala and my husband had the Cajun seafood with pasta. the Cajun seafood was a bit greasy but good flavors. read more

Pretty great! Our server this evening was so awesome, beyond pleasant. Very pleased with their pizza. We got a salad pizza. Delicious. Sauce was really fresh with the fresh basil. Yum! read more

Maola's Pizza and Restaurant - Pizza - Italian Near Me - Cornelius, North Carolina

I don't think this place is going to make it although this is a little too bad. Our server was very good and the prices were decent. Even the side salads were rather large. So what's the problem? The food is mediocre. Not bad, just this side of acceptable. And you had to ask for bread which is a no brainer with spaghetti but it turns out it wasn't worth asking for. read more

Going a full-on 5 Stars after one visit for take out and doing so with zero reservations. Maola's is a dynamite addition to the LKN food scene. What they offer is great NY style Italian with pizza and pasta taking center stage on a menu that also includes salads, hot heros, calzones/rolls and a variety of classic entrees. I can't comment too much on the pizza since we ordered one with extra pepperoni and no sauce to accommodate a picky son but with some side marinara dumped on, it tasted great and had a good thin, chewy crust. We tried three other dishes. Rigatoni with bolognese, spaghetti with meatballs and lasagna. Check, check and check! Huge portions (We're now eating leftovers for lunch) for a good price and really tasty. Re. the pasta offerings, check this out... Choose from four different types of pasta and then pick from THIRTEEN different sauces! Word seems to be out as every table was full when I walked in around 7:00 on a Sunday. Maola's is not as delicate and refined in their offerings like a Caruso's in Mooresville but they aren't trying to be either. They are doing quality, stick to the ribs Italian and doing it very well. read more

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Low key place. Food was excellent, so was the service. Lots of customers but did not feel crowded. Just what we needed! I got the veggie pizza and my wife got a delicious pasta dish. read more

We get takeout from here quite often. It's always very tasty and satisfying. It's not cheap, but portions are generous. I think we have tried all the pastas, which are addictive. I don't even like Alfredo sauce, but theirs is delectable. The appetizers are all delicious as well. I definitely recommend it. read more