Sauce is great THE  BEST PIZZA I HAVE EVER HAD...Service so so, the pasta IS AWFUL. I WOULD NEVER ORDER AGAIN. I ATE THREE NOODLES AND TOLD THE WAITRESS WHO CAME UP WITH A STAMMERED STATEMENT ABOUT NEW PROCESS TO MAKE THEM. The cashier after I told her I could not eat the pasta, said, wow sorry it was not good. NEVER DID I EXPECT TO PAY FOR THIS AWFUL PASTA, SO I paid 8.00 for two meat balls, as that is all I ate and they would not take it off the bill. SO MUCH FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE. The waitress was not really wanting to be there that day and it surely showed to everyone in the place. Heard the next booth say the same thing. If she moved any faster she would have been going backwards. GREAT PIZZA AND SAUCE AND that was all. sorry I always look forward to my pizza fix when I arrive in town. Not sure I will do it again. I rate the Pasta  -1..UCK. PS I have over 25 years experience in food rest. and owned my own.
Review Source:This is one of those Aurora institutions that has been around for decades. Â We've been visiting for so long I really can't remember when we started. Â I know my now 36 year old son was still in elementary school. Â You can do the math...I'd rather not think about how many years have passed.
Don't really care for the spaghetti. Â It's more like noodles. Â But the sauce, meatballs and sausage they serve with it are so good I'll sometimes order it just to get those. Â What we really like, and usually order are the calzones or pizza. Â Yea, they're not like what you get in New York or Chicago - I'm very familiar with and quite fond of both. Â But guess what? Â This ain't New York or Chicago. Â Relax and enjoy the food.
I feel lucky to work nearby otherwise I probably would never have tried this place. It's in a King Soopers shopping center. So far, have only done the personal pizza's for lunch but to be honest, that's all really I need to try. They are very good and this is definitely a lunch time destination. Perhaps I will try the calzones soon. Check it out!
Review Source:A pizza joint, I believe. The calzones were fabulous, tender crust and well-stuffed, and smothered in some outstanding red sauce (I'd drink it out of a wine glass, I would). Near my work, so I know I will be back. I saw some pizza at an adjoining table, and I'm sure I will return for some of that. They looked awesome. I notice some bad reviews for the pasta - sad, but often the best pizza places have mediocre pasta, but I won't pass judgment until I give it a taste. Waitresses are very friendly and easy on the eyes too, which made me increase my tip, pushing my outlay to just over 20 bucks for me and my co-worker. Price is right.
One note - unless you plan on taking the rest of the day off, order the small calzone. It's plenty.
Mama Alvino's (Mama's) is one of my absolute favorite spots in all of Colorado. Â The pasta dishes are mediocre (for what I've tried) but the pizza and calzones are awesome! Â Be prepared that if you go during lunch, you will very likely have to wait for a table and it will take an hour to get in/out, unless you call ahead and place your order so that it's ready when you get there. Â If you do, you can easily do a 30-45 min lunch and get back to the office. Â Take-out is also well worth it!
Ordering advice: go ahead and get the large calzone. Â It's enormous, but it's only a couple of dollars more and then you'll have leftovers! Mama's is well worth the inexpensive pricetag!
Not sure what everyone else see's in this pizza...........but I didn't. Â My husband and I just relocated from Chicago and are use to a different kinda pizza........excellent! Â This pizza was greasy and salty and the sausage taste like lunchroom meat. UGH. Â We literally just finished.......well not really, we couldn't finish it. Â My stomach is upset and I'm not sure if I'll make it thru the night w/o some kinda OTC meds.
Review Source:This is a hearty A-OK, and I'd definitely try Mama Alvino's again.
I visited tonight with a group of about a dozen people, and it seemed that most everyone enjoyed their meal. Most people opted for the calzones, which seems to be what Mama Alvino's is known for, but I went with the Mama's Plate. It's a VERY large serving of pasta, topped with a their great, spicy sauce. On the down side, the pasta was pretty mushy and the meatballs had no flavor. I busted out the salt, which I very rarely do. But - bonus - like most Italian dives, they had red pepper flakes and Parmesan on the table, so you can add your own flavor if you like.
The service was quick and friendly - our entire group was in and out in less than an hour and a half. I doubt it was more than 15 minutes from the time we ordered to the time the food was out. Plus, I don't think there was more than a five minute lapse between when the first and last dish was brought out - a solid achievement for a group of this size.
So, even though I wasn't wowed by the food, I'd be happy to give this place another try.
Mama's Alivino's are known for their calzones, which I haven't had in a few years, but were always good. Â This is my first time eating in. Definitely a hole in the wall, so I ordered some cheesebread and the ravioli. The cheese bread was like cheap grocery French bread with a pinch of shredded cheese on it. The Ravioli was like frozen ravioli you buy at the grocery store with a weak bland sauce on it, in which you only get six or seven raviolis for $7.50 and comes with same weak garlic bread. Â I also order a pizza to go, which looked better than it taste, very bland home made taste .
Review Source:The first time we ate at Mama Alvino's my wife and I showed up at 8:30 on a Friday night. We felt bad after discovering that they close at 9. I guess we are used to New York hours, but closing at 9pm on a Friday night?! Really?
Despite our late arrival the waitress was very nice, and our calzones were very good. The next time we ordered a pizza for delivery which was also quite good, but the crust was a little bland.
Tonight was my second time at Mama's,its real good. I was first told about this place by one of my friends who's very picky about what they eat so I figured it had to be good.
We showed up about 6:30 and seated ourselves and with in a minute or two our waitress brought us menus and got our drink order.A few minutes later she was back with drinks and took our order,then about 15min later the 3 different pizza's we ordered were hot and tasty. We all left with to go boxes.
All in all its a pretty good pizza joint that I'll go back to for sure, Give it a try I'm sure you'll like it, I'm glad I did.
I have been going to Mama Alvino's, for several years. It is near work, so it is one of mine and my co-workers favorite lunch destinations. Â I have only tried their pizza and calzones, but I find the calzone's the best I have ever tasted. The Big Mama's calzone is my favorite, with the meat eaters a close second.
All the people there have been friendly, Â and helpful. The only downside I can think of is, it can get crowded at lunch time. We try and arrive at 11:00 to avoid the wait.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how this place has 4 stars. Â We got a calzone and a pizza tonight along with a hero sandwich. Â The calzone was dry and partially burned. I was so disappointed as this place used to be so good before I moved to Florida. When I came back to Colorado, I told my husband that Mama Alvinos was the bomb. I could not believe how the quality of the food had gone down. Â The pizza was huge with lots of toppings but absolutely tasteless. There was nothing outstanding about it and to add insult to injury, we got horrible stomach aches. Maybe they were having a bad night? I don't know. What I do know is we won't be going back.
Review Source:I was at work and was faced with eating at the cafeteria or starving. Â So I decided to order take out and have it delivered. Â Craving Italian I hopped onto Yelp and found this little mom and pop restaurant just down the road.
I ordered the pasta with meatballs since I wasn't in the mood for pizza. Â I was told it was a $10 min so I added the sausage. Â It still wasn't enough so I added mushrooms as well. Â The order came out to $11.24. Â Delivery time was estimated at 40-45 minutes and I was told the delivery guy wouldn't come into the hospital and will call me when he was outside. Â That in itself really did not constitute delivery for me but the idea of caf food rang strongly in my head.
The food was delivered in time and I had to tip the delivery guy just to run down to meet him and run back up to work. Â As soon as I opened the container I was a little disappointed. Â Since I had to make all the additions to meet the $10 minimum they crammed everything into the container and I think what I got was equivalent to one sliced mushroom for an additional 99 cents. Â Please use a larger container next time! Â The pasta itself was a bit mushy but I did like the meatballs and sausage very much.
I might have been better off with the pizza since it is called a pizzeria. Â Maybe next time I'm faced with the dreaded cafeteria food again.....
My wife's family loves Mama  Alvino's. They absolutely love the calzones. Me, well I'm just not a huge calzone fan, so it's just okay to me. Personally I wouldn't go out of my way to go eat there. The wife's fam likes eating there so I do when they want to. Otherwise I wouldn't go. Service is okay. The Arnold Palmer that was made for me wasn't bad, so that's good.
Review Source:Finding a hidden jewel in the city is always exciting, finding a hidden jewel that I have driven past for 12 years is intoxicating and I am still drunk with delight. Yesterday after riding in what seemed like a hurricane, several of us decided to celebrate our successful ride with lunch. I am the first to say Mexican but Jen persisted that we eat the best Calzones ever. Â OK by me; I am always up for the best ever.
In the King Soopers strip mall at Colfax and Chambers around to the east and back of the strip and hidden by trees is Mama Alvino's. We are greeted by friendly servers and I noticed a note on the door about not seating you until your party is complete, this says to me this place is really popular at normal dining hours.
The menu offers spaghetti, pizza, a few other Italian dishes and CALZONES. Three of us ordered the small veggie and one ordered the meatball. When the Calzones arrived, the size of a Nerf football, you could see the deliciousness of the crust. This is not pizza crust wrapped around ingredients, this is obviously such a perfect crust with sauce poured over the top (you can order on the side if you prefer). I tapped the top of my Calzone with a fork and it opened slightly to show all the veggie ingredients (fried before mixed with a sauce to give them extra flavor) and the perfect amount of cheese blended in with everything else. The first bite is heaven. These are the best Calazones I have ever had.
I could not wait to Yelp Mama Alvino's and then I saw I was not the only one to have found this hidden jewel. Look at the other reviews, all you see are happy Peeps singing the praises of Mama Alvino's. Â I will update Mama Alvino's to 5 stars when I take one of these treasures home to The husband, as he is the one with the discriminating Italian taste buds.
Best calzones in Denver hands down. The only place that comes close is a place out in Loveland but I forget the name of it. Its tucked away in the strip mall but if you are any near here and like calzones then you owe it to yourself to at least try it. I can't comment on their pizza but if they use the same sauce that they put on the calzones then you can't lose.
Review Source:Mama Alvino, u sexy bitch.
With the big big calzones, I want to bury my face in them.
Give me a big mama and I'd die a happy man.
I live in Arvada, but we'll roll to Aurora at the drop of a hat for mama's bosom of love. Â The spaghetti is home made pasta in home made gravy. Â Good stuff, I'd pour the sauce on my wife and lick it off. Â Thank God she inroduced me to this place.
A bunch of DND-playing geeks introduced me to this place. Â All they ever get is calzones. Â So that's what I've always had, never anything else. Â The calzones are good and rich, but don't necessarily make this place one of my favorites. Â That strip mall and the parking lot are the scariest I've ever seen. Â
I do stay away from whichever calzone has the anchovies--you can't taste anything but salt.
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