A place that honors reservations, checks in often, clears the table after apps and quaint lighting- sign me up. I saw a picture of a bar pie and that it was byob so jetted to make a reservation. 7pm on Friday place was packed. All good signs for a night out. Most patrons had wine glasses, I wanted to keep it crazy and poured a beer since it is byob. Paired with home made crusty mini rolls, a large bowl of soup and big chairs to unwind great spot to bring the whole family. Not to mentioned there's a pizza type for everyone. From thinnest crispiest crunchiest cheese edge bar pie to a fluffy Sicilian or Detroit, I can't wait to try them all. read more

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We hadn't gone here for years. We heard they upgraded the dinning room and menu. We had the Caesar salad and Bolognese, maybe four times, and enjoyed our meal each time. But, last time, we didn't like either. I don't know if it was an off night or they changed something. The new bar pie is very good. A little well-done, which we love. It remains the standout here. I'll probably give them another chance. read more

You MUST try the bar pizza!!! It's a thin-crust pizza that's cooked in a pan to give the edges a crunchy, almost fried texture. The cheese is spread to the edge, so that it caramelizes where it touches the pan. The sauce was light and sweet. Just amazing!! BYOB recommended as it goes great with a beer. read more

Mezza Luna - Pizza Near Me - Manalapan, New Jersey

We enjoyed a delicious dinner at the newly renovated Mezza Luna, trying out their new menu items. The elegant decor featuring family photos and warm lighting created the perfect backdrop for a perfectly cooked and incredibly flavorful meal. The skirt steak was so tender, it was melt-in-your-mouth with a fresh, tangy chimichurri sauce. The crab fritters offered a satisfying crunch on the outside while remaining soft and moist in the center. The octopus had the perfect amount of char, crispy exterior and a tender interior. The short ribs were fall apart tasty as well as the pork chops. We enjoyed fabulous desserts which included their signature zeppole fries. The combination of fresh ingredients, expert preparation, and a beautiful, relaxed setting made it a truly memorable evening. Congratulations to Anthony Salvatore Imperiale and Melissa Imperiale! read more

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Our 1st visit during lunch time today. Great lunch menu. Start off with minestrone soup which was more broth than vegetables. Penne ala vodka was super al dente. Salmon was ok but pasta again very hard. read more

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Looking for the Best cheesesteak around? Mezza Luna will blow you away! I ordered a cheesesteak and what a great surprise. Starts off with a seeded semolina bread followed by moist delicious shaved Prime Rib meat with cooper sharp and sautéed onions. The flavors were a harmony of succulent meat and cheese on a perfect semolina bread . If you're looking for something amazing check out Mezza read more

Mezza Luna - Cheesesteak was much better than the picture - Pizza Near Me - Manalapan, New Jersey

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Get the Sicilian pie! YUM!!! You won't be able to stop eating it. Went there a with my son and the place looks pretty fancy. read more

Mezza Luna - Sicilian squares VERY DELISH OMG - Pizza Near Me - Manalapan, New Jersey

Great pizza and great meals. Meatball parm sub is great. Their pizzas are one of the best in town. Fast delivery and friendly help.

Best bar pie I've ever had. Order early they are selling out nightly. Absolutely fantastic!!!! read more

Mezza Luna - Bar pie - Pizza Near Me - Manalapan, New Jersey

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Our 2nd time here since it's been renovated and it's one of our favorite Italian restaurants. The French Onion Soup Pasta is to die for! Chicken Antonio is delicious, pizza is on point, calamari perfectly breaded and so good. Our server Nicole was the sweetest girl and made sure our drinks were refilled and was always smiling. Loved the entire experience! read more

Solid pizza. I recommend the bar pie. Its a little more upscale then your typical pizza spot. Awesome job guys. read more

Mezza Luna - Very nice looking bar pie. - Pizza Near Me - Manalapan, New Jersey

Update: owner responded. We appreciate you writing back and will return. Thank you for your quick response. We've been wanting to come here after reading the reviews on social media about how they're the best, etc. We came here one day after work and were excited about eating here. The restaurant is very romantic, with the place being dimly lit to set the mood. Disc pendant lights hang over the restaurant and each table has a small lamp in the middle as well. Black and white photos on canvases adorn the walls, along with decorative plates and shelves too. There are cylindrical sconces on the walls as well, while tomato sauce cans line the mounted shelves. Victoria was our server. We had ordered the following: Large calamari fra diavolo with linguini over medium spicy sauce- this was ok but they were cheap with the calamari. There wasn't much seafood but there was a lot of pasta. Large caesar salad - Hubs thought this was no big deal and tasted like they bought it from Costco. Extra Large pizza with half sausage and half garlic- we did this because Hubs is on Lent diet but daughter and I weren't. I was very disappointed with the pizza. Like I said, we ordered half sausage and half garlic, but we got a couple of slices with mushroom and the rest were all garlic. When Victoria came with our other orders, I even asked her which slices had the sausage because the place was a little dark and we couldn't see. She was looking for it and pointed to the slice. She lied because it was a mushroom but we were waiting for her to come back to check on us so that we can tell her that we didn't get sausages on half the pie as we ordered. But, she never came back. At the end, she handed the check to us and ran. We didn't realize that she wrote the wrong order down and wrote half mushroom and half garlic, until we got home. There were only 2 slices that maybe had some mushrooms and the rest were garlic. I was upset because this was a $30 pie and it wasn't our fault that she wrote down the wrong order. Needless to say, service was blah and not there. Will not be returning to try other items on the menu. I know other people may have more positive experiences than we did but I didn't experience anything positive here on the evening we came here. read more

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Very good and fresh food. Pizza is excellent and staff is very good. Overall great food

The food was excellent. Service was good. Ambiance a bit noisy. On balance, nice evening. Will probably return.

The pizza here is out of this world. I love eggplant and their Melanzane pizza is superb!!!

Hadn't been here in a while so we stopped in for a slice and to try out the bar pie we've heard about. The grandma slice which I liked in the past was dry and the sauce has no flavor. The pepperoni and sausage bar pie that we ordered was made with peppers and sausage. Not impressed and most likely won't be going back. read more

Used be great. I recently returned here after growing up eating their food. The red sauce was overly sweet, the chicken looked and tasted old, and the service was extremely slow. I hope the pizza is still decent but probably wouldn't return to even try. read more

Consistently excellent. Bar pie is outrageously good. Definitely worth trying. Highly recommend.

This is Bob Smith, the restaurant has my phone #, if they wish to call me. Been at the restaurant several times; this time, the waitress did everything wrong. She wanted to take our order almost as soon as we sat down. We asked for bread, and once again the waitress asked us for the order. This request for our order was asked again and again! My wife ordered a meal from the special menu, and asked for the meal to be served very heat hot, it was served warm, NOT hot. I asked for a medium fresh made pizza with pepperoni and sausage. And I requested that the pizza needs to be made crispy! It was served with peppers and sausage. I never ordered peppers AND the pizza was NOT crispy! read more

Handsome redecorated dining room. Really excellent food, very nicely presented and friendly service. Instituted an outstanding early-bird special with many options, including quality desserts. read more

This place was reasonably priced and generous with their pizza toppings. I also really liked the bake on the pizza, nice and crisp. The problem is 1) they practically skipped the sauce on the pizza, and 2) the dough just tastes like nothing. So a bland, dry pizza, with a bunch of toppings. I won't be going back. read more

I really like this restaurant, been coming here for years. The restaurant is nicely decorated. Had dinner last night with a bunch of my friends. The salads were very good. Some of the main dinners came with vegetables that were not fresh they were frozen. Actually a few of the broccoli pieces were still frozen on my plate. The pasta sauce is very sweet. I highly recommend using fresh vegetables. read more

Great customer service! Food was excellent, arrived on time and exactly as requested! read more

Mezza Luna - Custom pizza - Pizza Near Me - Manalapan, New Jersey

Mezza Luna has a very nice lunch menu. It offers soup or salad, an entree, a dessert, and a soda or coffee. Our favorites are the minestrone soup, the chicken Marsala and chicken cacciatore, and the cheesecake and cannoli. Carrot cake is also a great choice. A special shoutout to our server, Pedro. He delivers excellent service throughout our entire dining experience. read more

Want to let you know that the owner of this restaurant donates gift cards to my Disabled Veterans Organization. Not only is the food and service top shelf but they are very generous to Disabled Veterans Walter Cooper read more

I had Jill as a sever a month ago and she was awesome! So sweet and helpful!! Would definitely recommend going to eat at Mezza

Pizza was burnt and tasteless. One and done with this place! People rave about the bar pie, really?

My bf and I have always come here when we are in the mood for pizza. However, we just saw their lunch specials and decided to try it out! This is our second time coming in for lunch and we love it! Both times our waiters were friendly and fast! The meals were a great size for lunch and we took our dessert home! Highly suggest trying out this restaurant! read more

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no no no. Lazy cooking, no flavor. Tomato sauce just not that great. Chucken Cacciatorre was a preslugged chicken breat filet with some mushrooms and o uons thrown into the tomato sauce and poured over it. Never heard of that when most restaurants use whole chicken pieces as is proper. The chicken parm was tasteless, and the mozzarella a stiff unmelted cheap piece of what tasted like supermarket mozz or a sliver of white plastic. Thats was my 2nd try there. The first the Chicken Franchaise was made by someone who just doesnt know how to make it. No wine, no butter, and what seemed to taste like that reconstipated lemon juice squeezed from a toy bottle. Pay a lil more and try a local pizza place for better food. Two stars for a nice eating space and good tasting butter chip packets. read more

Vincent was our waiter the other night for dinner.. He was so respectful and helpful.. wonderful dinner.. will be back soon

Mezza Luna is a great spot in Manalapan with really good food and a nice atmosphere. Vincent was an amazing server; super friendly, helpful, and made sure we had everything we needed. read more

I love Mezza Luna!!! Noah is amazing & quick at his job. The music is also fire, adds to the vibes.

My food came out almost immediately. The pizza was great and I will definitely be coming back. Jason was my server and he did a fantastic job. He checked in on me multiple times and we had great conversation. What an amazing restaurant. read more

I enjoy it the good is good and staff is very nice . I do wish to go back but may not bc they seem eager to go home and verbal about they are closing soon and they wish to leave ; maybe a bad night . read more

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Wow! After being a customer for close to 20 years, what a poor experience we had tonight for dinner. Had we gotten there 10 minutes earlier, we would have been able to have a complete meal under the early bird. 10 minutes later only the early bird caught the worm, because we were not given bread or salad, offered to order appetizers and our off the regular menu entrees came out so fast as if they were pre-made and they weren't anything close to spectacular like the old days of Mezza Luna! We didn't even know salad was nit included even though their online menu says it does. So disappointed! We won't be back at any price!!! read more

used to love it here. recently ordered baked ziti. was given penne with red sauce and two slices of melted cheese. no seasonings or cheese in the sauce. disappoinited read more

I have a habit of making sure my silverware is clean when I go into a restaurant. At Mezza Luna I had to check all the dinner ware. My glass had residue from the dishwasher drying agent, the pitcher of water had a brown substance on it that you could wipe off with your (dirty?) napkin, every plate was chipped (seriously! Every plate was chipped!) and I was scared to eat off of my dinner plate. I complained to the waitress and returned all the dirty dinnerware and water pitcher. I embarrassed my friend who I went with so she had to leave an extra tip! Some (most) people probably overlook these things and no I don't have OCD but I'm warning you to always check these things because restaurants don't! Mezza Luna was a horrible experience and I don't understand why they get so many good reviews. People age but that's no excuse to be stupid! Our waitress was great! read more

Food is always good ...but the Early Bird Special left me kind of needing more food! Portions were less than half the regular portions.. Will pay full price off the regular menu to insure I had enough to eat read more

We eat at Mezza Luna for dinner every few months. Decided to try the Early bird special twice this month. Was extremely disappointed in the consistency between the first and second visit. Initial visit had a more complex salad than expected, protein/pasta portions were a good size. Second visit, salad was now the usual lettuce/cuke/half grape tomato. The entree/pasta portions were extremely small. We had salmon which barely looked like 3 oz and irregularly shaped. The chicken francaise was much smaller than first visit and there was barely any pasta, even for a lunch size portion Not sure which visit was the exception. Service was good as always. Desserts that come with the dinner should be reconsidered. Cakes were much too dry. read more

Five stars. I have been coming here with my family for years since we lived down in the area. The appetizers are always excellent we always get the hot antipasto the pastas are enormous. I am a creature of habit and I get their vodka sauce no tomatoes no peas and prosciutto with bowties. You can eat out of the bowl for three days straight. Chicken Saltimbocca is also a entrée that I always tend to stick with as well. The service has always been wonderful and I love coming here, great pizza as well!! read more