Mario’s Pizza
Mario’s Pizza
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
5 reviews
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Yay for Chicken Parm sub (er, hero…sorry, I'm from Massachusetts, but hey, the guy behind the counter understood me.)
At Mario's they are made all fresh and melty and delicious. I crave chicken parm at least once a month and this funny little neighborhood pizza and hero joint will whip one up for you extra fast and full of yum.
It's nothing much to look at – but earns extra bonus points for being open at 8pm on Easter Sunday when seemingly the whole neighborhood was shut down for the night.
The plain slices were fresh and very flavorful, although messier than average. Bill de Blasio would prefer a fork here. The chicken part of the chicken parm was nothing special but the sauce and cheese were good.
In theory if you've traveled this far for pizza you might keep going for something five-starrish, but Mario's has quick service, late hours and a location near the N and D train stops.
This pizza place been here for a really long time. Never tried it till recently. It is an old school joint. They are a little further for me since I have a pizza place right at my corner but think I will be getting my pizza from here instead.
Ordered a large pie to go. They are about $3 more compared to my corner place, but well worth it. It was prepared quickly and tasted really fresh and good. Decent amount of tomato sauce but just a tiny bit too much cheese.
Will be coming back in the near future
If I allowed nostalgia to dictate my reviews, I would have given Mario's five stars. Such as the time I looked across the street from Mario's and realized that Burger King used to be a fruit stand and Dunkin' Donuts used to be an Italian supermarket. Womppp womppp… I was standing there looking around at the place realizing it hadn't changed one bit since I was a kid. In a way, I think that might be a good thing.
Anyway, my friend was begging me to order from Domino's parlaying that their so-called "new and improved" pizza was "SOOOOO" good, but I wasn't having any of it. Truth be told, I moved back to Brooklyn over a year ago and still hadn't returned to Mario's, so the choice was simple.
It's basically your good old fashioned Brooklyn corner slice joint, replete with Italian religious icons and inoperable Christmas lights just for fun. I ordered a spinach calzone which was very good (not haute cuisine, but for the price, very good) and my friend ordered a couple of slices which looked familiarly large and saucy. Overall, perfectly passable and that's exactly what life in Bensonhurst is.
My boyfriend and I got pizza from here tonight and it was pretty good. We got a large mushroom pie ($18.50). It was a little pricey and the mushrooms were not fresh…they looked and tasted like canned mushrooms.
The plus side was the pizza was really big! Almost too big for the box.
There are better and cheaper pizza places in this area. This one is just average.