Wow, in an area where there is good pizza-a-plenty Mamma Mia manages to stand out amongst the others. This is now my definite go to spot on the NW side for some solid thin crust "za".
Lets start with the crust, it's not too thin, not too thick, and very crispy. The sauce has a nice balance of sweet and tang, very good. The cheese and toppings are also of good quality.
The service is great and the employees are very nice. The prices are reasonable and there always seems to be some kind of special going on. Support this place as restaurants that serve high quality food at a good value are few and far between nowadays!
By chance I found this place on yelp when having a serious pizza craving. I ordered the personal pizza and for $6, which includes a pop - this is now my go to place in the neighborhood. Their little spot is cozy and clean, and everyone I've dealt with whether on the phone or in person, is consistently courteous.
My family used to always default to Mama Luna's but their staff on the phone sucks, and their pizza has gotten pricey for the quality. I'd support the smaller pizzerias like Mamma Mia's ANYDAY! Not to mention, pizzas aren't cheap anymore (unless you're talking crappy Caesar's, Domino's or Pizza Hut) and Mamma Mia's has totally reasonable prices for large size pizzas.
I'm happy I found them and tried them out!
We had lunch catered from here and everything was good!
The pizza was good. Â the crust was crispy, and the sauce and cheese were good. Â It wasn't too greasy.
The BBQ chicken wings were good. Â I liked the BBQ sauce a lot. Â I ate a lot of the fries covered in BBQ sauce!
The salad was fine. Â It was a decent Greek salad. Â It went well with all of our less healthy food.
We had two pasta dishes. Â Baked rigatoni, and rigatoni with chicken, green peppers, onion, and mushrooms. Â I only tried the second one, but it was good.
It's hard to think of what to say about the food, because I'm in a major food coma now.
I was craving some buffalo wings and didn't feel like driving far. I first went to Cochiaros and they were out. I looked up on yelp and saw that this place has wings. I walked in and looked over the menu since they don't have one online. I ordered the 6 piece hot wings w/ fries and cheesy garlic bread.
I was expecting hot buffalo wings. What I received was hot bbq wings. I was pretty disappointed since I was craving buffalo wings. The wings were smothered in the sauce beneath some fries. I barely ate any of the fries since they were swimming in that bbq sauce.
The cheesy garlic bread was okay. I bit into a couple of big chunks of garlic...not good.
I wouldn't order these things again, but I will have to try the pizza one day. It looked pretty good.
Since my initial review I have tried lots of things at Mamma Mia. Â The pizza is really good. Â I usually get the veggie pizza that comes with spinach, garlic, black olives, mushrooms, onions and green peppers. Â The crust is really crunchy and delicious. Â
One thing I would really like to add about Mamma Mia is that their service is awesome. Â The owner is always there and is always throwing in special coupons for me here and there just because I am a loyal customer. Â He always remembers me when I call in and that says a lot.
I highly recommend Mamma Mia, Â It is so important to support a good neighborhood business, especially in an area where good restaurants options are slim. Â
GO TO MAMMA MIA TODAY!
I went to Mamma Mia with friends who were visiting. Earlier in the day we had walked by the restaurant and it appeared to be a nice sit down place. We came back later for dinner. The evening was warm so they had the front windows open. It looked like a nice place to get some pizza and also enjoy the nice Chicago night. The inside of the restaurant has been remodeled to look like an Italian Village; the detail involved in this process appears to have been quite painstaking. The walls are painted as a mural with scenes from the village. A ceiling fan as the propeller for an air plane toward the entrance is very cool. The place presented really well, but then the service took over and things dropped by three stars. There were two nice tables right by the windows, but a manager was sitting in one of them using his laptop. With the weather it would have been nice to have the best seats in the house available for customers. The only menu they had was for take out, and it seemed take out was really what they were open for. They gave us soda in cans and then later on Styrofoam cups to pour them into. An employee told us we could refill the cups at the fountain, which made no sense since we'd already been given cans. Finally, we ordered the pizza. Sausage and Pepperoni. The pizza itself tasted pretty good. The crust was crunchy and flavorful and unlike other thin crust pizza I've had, it was not too greasy. While it is more traditional for pizza in Chicago to be cut in squares, they cut their slices in triangles, unfortunately, they did not cut it all the way through. We had to rip the pizza apart to get the pieces out. This was made even more difficult because we were given no utensils to go with our paper plates. Mamma Mia offers a different type of pizza than most restaurants in Portage Park and the pizza itself is tasty and a good alternative to the general Chicago style. I hope we just caught this place on a bad night or too soon, because it would be a shame if all of the work they have done on the inside of the restaurant went to waste. I feel like if I had ordered the pizza and had it delivered I would have ended up with a much different opinion of Mamma Mia. My visit left it unclear if they wanted me to dine in or if they wanted me to order their product for delivery. With all the work they've done I would assume come in and sit down, but the impression I got was that they didn't know how to deal with in house visitors.
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