I don't really get the obsession with Mellow. I mean it's good, don't get me wrong. But it is overpriced (in my opinion) and there tends to be a long wait, especially on weekends and especially when there are lots of parents / families in town. It seems to be the place to go with parents. While it appears that there is little to know parking available, there is plenty of street parking a block off of Main Street, both ways. There is also a parking lot a few blocks away, which is nice. Mellow is good for a dinner before going downtown, because it is right in the middle of the action. My friend did dinner there for her birthday and then we walked to the bars, so that was good. I guess to sum it up, the food is pretty good but overpriced and not worth a long wait. read more

Yes the wait is long, but we definitely expected it. What else do you expect from a new restaurant opening in Blacksburg? We put our name on the wait list and they texted us when our table was ready, which was nice because it gave us a chance to do what we needed to do and once our table was ready, we had about 10 minutes to get there. Once we arrived, our beer, appetizers and pizza came out in a timely manner. Awesome beer list! When we got our food, I accidentally dropped a slice of pizza on the ground and the manager saw and brought me an entire free pizza when our check came out even though dropping the pizza was my fault! The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because the host on the phone was not very nice when I had called to ask about the waiting list and the phone line was busy for about 10 minutes before it finally went through. read more

Mellow Mushroom Blacksburg - Pizza Near Me - Blacksburg, Virginia

I wish I could give it 0 stars. They never EVER give me my food with the rest of my party's. I have been here multiple times and it has happened. She literally said "my bad" when giving me my food. Don't get a hoagie here, you'll never get it! :) read more

The three star average hits the nail on the head for the myriad of reasons s listed and it all comes down to inconsistency. You can go and have great food with good service or it can be under cooked and your server can't get your order straight. Overall the pizzas are unique and delicious but way WAY too pricy, you can easily order two specialty pizzas elsewhere for the price of one at mellow mushroom. One great advantage is the huge beer selection of quality draft beer covering the spectrum of brews! read more

I love Mellow Mushrooms everywhere so I'll always give the pizza a 4*. However, this location has a never-ending wait that makes it annoying; I have never gone there, students or not, week night or weekend and not waited for at least 30 minutes and usually 45-1.5 for a table. The pizza takes forever, but I hope this is something they perfect over time and as they do, I hope the wait time shortens just a little. Otherwise, the GM is super cool, the pizza is great, and I'm glad it's in our town. read more

For fake hippies who like to spend $$$$$$$ on a delicious pizza. Great vegetarian and vegan options.

Whole bunch of taps but pretty safe selections. Would like to see more risk in the rotating taps. Nice pizza, but at the price it should be. I have been before and will be back, but this chain could be so much better with just a few tweaks. Of course, with lines at most franchises, who cares about my opinion? read more

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20 minute wait at 6:30 pm on May 12, 2015. Kate was server and she was very nice. She was running her legs off but did a good job taking care of us. We got the White Pizza and pretzels for appetizer. The pizza took awhile. It had fresh tomatoes instead of sun dried. Good crust and good toppings. This location of MM still has room to improve on slowness. Tables needed to be bussed. The pizza was cooked correctly which we appreciated. Just don't be in a hurry! read more

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I walked into this establishment with low expectations, but I ate my own words after I tried the pizza I ordered. From the moment I walked in with a large group, our server treated us like real human beings and constantly smiled and helped us out. I haven't had such great service in a really long time! Also, his mushroom art (not that kind of mushroom, get your mind out of the gutter) was superb. The food was also amazing. The pizza was flavorful with just the right balance of sauce to toppings. When there was a pizza with *almost* everything you wanted, adding an extra topping was painless and relatively inexpensive. The crust was crunchy, but not burnt-- as it should be! Needless to say, it was delicious. To drink, I ordered some IPAs they had on draft and was not disappointed by their selection of draft beers overall. I'm very impressed. And thank you to the server-- I didn't catch your name, but damn it, you are awesome and I wish you much luck on visiting Hawaii (or maybe Costa Rica) very soon! read more

Soooooo good! My friend and I each got a 10in and halfed it with different pizzas. I got buffalo chicken and kosmic karma. The buffalo chicken was great! It had the taste of buffalo sauce but wasn't overly spicy (I wouldn't have cared if it was, though). The kosmic karma was also good. It was very light with fresh ingredients. My friend got the funky q & philosophers pie which were both good. The funky q was my favorite of her choices. I will definitely be back again! read more

Mellow Mushroom Blacksburg - Kosmic Karma & Buffalo Chicken. Sooo good! - Pizza Near Me - Blacksburg, Virginia

The MELLOW MUSHROOM is one of the BEST Pizza places I've ever eaten in. Their salads aren't all that great , but then again what do you expect at a pizza joint?! PEPPERONI PIZZA was perfectly cooked with a nice thin crispy crust. Just overall really good pizza. Highly recommended. read more

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Alright, I love pizza and this place has great pizza but for what you get I don't think it's worth the price. When students are in town there is always a wait. If your in Blacksburg there are other places such as PK's & Roma's that have way better pizza for half the price. Staff is hit or miss. Parking sucks- small lot behind or you can park across the street (after business hours) or hit the parking garage at Kent square. If you've never tried Mellow Mushroom it's a super cool atmosphere and they do have some very unique pizzas. read more

This place used to be bomb before covid. Definitely used to be my favorite pizza place in town. I just ordered a pizza today, it was ICE COLD, tasted days old, thin as cardboard, and made me really sick. read more

Super friendly, kind service. Came in 4 minutes from close and served us like normal customers. Shalyce was especially helpful.

Great customer service! Very clean spot! I stopped in to grab a small pizza for a late lunch. Tristan's customer service skills were so good, not only did I get my Veg Out pizza but somehow I ended up with the Enlightened Spinach Salad and a yummy brownie. Great job! read more

Mellow mushroom is good. The food is good. The service is decent. The food literally takes forever. I think they only have one oven that's on the small side. Get an app or make sure you don't have to be anywhere for a while. read more

Krista was our waitress and she was so sweet and attentive. The pizza was so perfect. We have tried many mellow mushrooms but for some reason the pizza just tasted more amazing than usual. read more

As a former employee it's not as good as the one in Roanoke. The service is very similar to all of the restaurant in Blacksburg,they all a high turnover rates. It shows in the quality of food and it's presentation of the dish at the table. Most of all the cook's attudes are short for special requests! read more

We love Mellow! The staff and atmosphere are wonderful. We always have a great time here. Excellent beer selection and the food is always delicious. Highly recommend! read more

This is my first visit and I was a little underwhelmed. Service was not great and the wait for the food was well over 40 minutes. The food itself was good but not great. I had always wondered what the attraction was and now that has been resolved. Not a place I would go to a lot...fun to visit but no real reason to come back. read more

I placed my pizza order by phone and the employee repeated it to me and excluded an ingredient, I repeated myself and he said he got it. After waiting the 25-30 minutes he told me it would take, I opened up the box and half of the pizza did not have the correct ingredients. I then had to order, PAY for, and wait ANOTHER 25-30 minutes for a second pizza with the missing ingredients! (Yes, I had to pay for 2 pies.) Needless to say, the first pizza had to be reheated after I Finally got home. RIDICULOUS!! I'll never go there again. read more

On Super Bowl Sunday at 6:00 pm the place was empty. After trying to pick up an online order I was told by a server who was busy reading that she couldn't help me. I should go to the bar. I waited for my pizza and soup. The bartender gave me the pizza. After about 5 minutes I noticed that the soup was sitting out with no one to get it for me. There were at least 4 servers standing around doing nothing. I went behind the bar and got my cup of soup. I complained to the manager on duty and she seemed to care less. I left and upon going home noticed that my pizza had 3 inches of dough around it and a small pool of toppings in the middle. Holy shiitake! The $6 cup of soup was too thick but good. No wonder the place is empty on a day I thought I would have to fight the crowds. read more

Typical mellow mushroom experience, good food, service was good, but beer selection was pretty spectacular read more

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Don't waste your time here. First off, it takes FOREVER to get your food. 2 hours for a few pizzas. Second, they don't give you refills for certain drinks that you should get refills for. Third, the food isn't even that good. Fourth, he double charged us. Fifth, we told the waiter it was our friend's birthday and they didn't give us anything when they told us they would. Sixth, it's expensive for no reason. Never coming back. read more

Waiter was not good and they did not offer refills on drinks that are free refills. Also didn't bring out my friends birthday desert. Also tried to double charge another friend. Bad experience read more

It's a chain, though it doesn't feel like it. If you like a loud, pub like environment and yuppified pizza, you will like this place. It has a wide selection of beers, and pretty good service. Fun place to take the family for lunch on game day, though be prepared to wait. read more

Ordered take out using their online page. Put the order on 11.37am, indicates order would be ready at 12.17pm. When I showed up at 12.15, I was told, and I am not kidding, "oh, we don't look for the online orders"! Waited until 12.45, when I finally asked to talk to the manager. She also said "we don't check the on line orders, you shouldn't use it". Order on line is advertised on the box of your pizza!!! My order was for lunch of a group of people. 3 pizzas and pretzels. By 12.45 I had 2 pizzas offered. This is the 3rd time I had unacceptable service and food served in this place. It is the last though. read more

I have always liked Mellow Mushroom, even though their prices are pretty high. I choose MM over other pizza places because they offer Gluten Free crusts and (actually decent) vegan cheese. And the pizzas TASTE GOOD! I always order my food to go through the website because parking is awful and the service is hit or miss. read more

I can say that by the look from the outside of the place, I probably wouldn't have ever ventured in, had it not been for a friend of mine telling me to. That being said, I was pretty impressed with what the restaurant had to offer. The amount of offerings was comparable to those that other pizza joints had, not to mention, they had a lot of specialty items that caught my attention as well. My friends and I decided to get the 'Holy Shiitake Pie' which from what our waitress told us, would "blow our minds". So at this point I was pretty excited. It took a pretty long time for our pie to get out. In fact, a couple who ordered after us a table over, ended up getting their pizza about 8 minutes before we did. So that was annoying. We could also see a bunch of serving staff screwing around in back, which caused us to be frustrated, considering we were pretty starving at this point. Once the food came however, it was all very delicious. The pizza was cooked perfectly and the mushrooms really came out in the flavor of the whole dish. I'm eager to get back to a town with a mellow mushroom again to see what their other pizza might taste like. Over all - I'd say, this is a college town, so expect college level service. Otherwise, the food is pretty delicious, and the atmosphere is in line with what they offer. Try it for yourself! read more

Mellow Mushroom Blacksburg - Pizza Near Me - Blacksburg, Virginia

Like the Brookhaven Atlanta location, this Mellow Mushroom has a cool atmoshere and friendly employees. However, like the Brookhaven Atlanta location, the restaurant is poorly managed. Terrible wait times for food and beverage seems to be the norm. A floor manager needs to be walking the restaurant directing employees, helping with tables and talking to customers. A bus person would also be useful so the host and wait staffs can do their jobs instead. Maybe then the menus would not be covered in grease and there would be napkins and utensils when seated. Maybe management is too mellow to be in the restaurant business. read more

Great pizza and friendly staff. The pretzel bites are absolutely amazing! Nice, casual environment with TVs is good for watching VT football games read more

Waited for our food in blazing heat outside for 40 minutes until we finally got out food. And it came out cold, not fully cooked. Sent it back and got our second food but could not finish it because one of us got heat stroke. They apologized and offered 50% off the bill,but in actuality we got 50% off entree only that we could not finish. read more

Let's face it. Blacksburg is a food wasteland. Having said that, Mellow Mushroom is a disgrace to pizza, even in competition with bottom of the barrel stores - Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Papa John's. Just so nasty and unrefined it's pathetic. Assume eat in is better than carry out, because our carry out was seriously like joke food. Can't imagine anyone who dines in would pay for such crap. read more

Their beer selection is awesome. There's a bunch of different beers here on tap. I would recommend just coming here for that. The pizza is delicious, but I feel like it depends on what pizza you order. I've had some that were okay to some that were great. The buffalo chicken is one of my favorites. It's a way better experience dining in than taking the pizza to-go especially if you like beer. read more

We were not smart and went here after a home football game. The wait was over an hour and we decided to wait. The actual wait was 40 minutes so that was good. We decided to order fast knowing it could be awhile. We had a free app coupon and the manager gave it back to us and said our app was free anyway. We also got free chips while we were waiting. We were happy and did not care that we had to wait. When food finally got here food was great! read more

This place is mediocre on a good day. The wait is obscenely, ludicrously, ridiculously long. The pizza tastes like pizza with butter sauce drizzled over it randomly with parmesan covering their slack approach. Silly monster crust framed a very chewy almost jerky esque texture to the dough, sauce from a can that fell off the back of a truck, and cheese from Overstock.com. Now lets mosey on to my foremost complaint: the wanky slapped together faux-yuppie decor. Its like a Optometrist office barfed a head shop, also lets not forget the incredibly annoying Mellow "mascot". Actually so irritating it makes me want to punch someone in the face. Its overpriced hipster food disasters like this that make me yearn for the culinary prowess and true skill of Backstreets Inc. Go eat at Greeks instead. read more

I visited Mellow Mushroom on January 17th and I never need to visit Mellow Mushroom again. My girlfriend and her friends wanted to go, so I said sure. I was in town visiting from Arlington and love trying new places in Blacksburg. There were 7 of us on the reservation that evening. The girl who booked the reservation received a message that her table was about to be ready, so we all rushed to get to the restaurant. Once we got there, we waited another 20+ minutes to be seated. One might think that 20+ minutes isn't that bad (even if you had a reservation). To be honest, I didn't think it was that bad either, but the night got worse. I will just quickly bullet everything to save everyone's time. * The waiter was a young male (likely in his 20s). He was working way too hard for his tips. He took being friendly to a new level. Not nice friendly, but clearly wanting more money friendly. * The waiter instructed us to order appetizers (there was a 30 minute wait for pizzas). The table was completely ok with this suggestion and everyone ordered the Pretzels. The pretzels came out no more than 5 minutes before the pizza. The waiter should have told us that the pretzels also had a long wait time. * I spent 15 minutes waiting for a beer. It was only after I reminded the waiter that I received my beer. * The pizza was absolutely disgusting. My girlfriend and I decided to split the white pizza. I apologize that I do not remember the name. The pizza was to have sun dried tomatoes. If you look at the attached image, these do not look like sun dried tomatoes. I was thoroughly disappointed. After picking off all the tomatoes, the pizza was still not good. I will update this review once I receive input from the rest of my party. I would not recommend this to anyone in Blacksburg. I know there are slim pickings, but there are much better options for food. I would consider giving it a second chance, but I am not sure that they can recover. read more

Mellow Mushroom Blacksburg - These are the "Sun dried" tomatoes that my girlfriend and I had to pick off our pizza. Disgusting. - Pizza Near Me - Blacksburg, Virginia

The way this place is talked about I expected the pizza to be better. I feel like they got too artsy and forgot about "good" pizza.

We got there around 7 and were seated and told it would be 40-50 minutes. Ok, Saturday and recently opened, understandable. Waitress comes around 40 minutes says it will be ready soon, fine. About 15 minutes later, she said she screwed up, and it be another 10-15 minutes. Ok, mistakes happen, fine, she offers a free appetizer. We order the artichoke thing, she brings us some bruchetta, and that the artichoke will come. Ok, don't need that much food, but whatever. 15 minutes passes get the artichoke thing, and then notice the people next to us, who came 40 minutes after us get their pizza. We ask to get the pizza to go because of appetizers. Around 8:45 waitress says it will be 2 minutes. 8:55 no sign of pizza. Basically, we decide it is time to just cut our losses and leave. As we pack up, waitress comes by. No pizza, offers a free coupon for pizza and did not charge us. No real explanation except that she screwed up, which by this point sounded bizzare. I have had places screw up and then knowing there was a screw up, prioritize fixing it. If it had been an extra 15 minutes, after the first estimate, that would have been fine. But the fact that it took another hour and still no food, when people who came much later got served was pretty bad. I almost wondered if it had to do with the fact that I was there with my mom. Somebody mentioned the staff focuses on friends and people under 25. The pizza looked ok, good beer selection. read more

I should have read some of your reviews before we went to MM last Sunday. Sure enough it took an hour to get our food. After we were seated, server took our order right away. 50 minutes later she comes back and says it's the pizza that is taking so long and it would be another 10 to 15 minutes. She brings the pizza but no sandwiches. They arrive in another ten minutes. Server said they were holding the sandwiches to serve along with the pizza. Huh? Food was luke warm; obviously sitting under a warmer somewhere. It took another 15 minutes to get the check, then process the credit card. We won't be back. The quality of the mediocre food is not worth the wait, believe me! read more