Annabella's House of Mozzarella Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "FOOD IS AMAZING! Highly Recommend."
• "Food---❤️❤️❤️❤️ big portion, great quality, perfectly seasoned and cooked...true Italian food"
• "Food is excellent!"
• "The Mozzarella is incredible and the Annabelle sauce will bring your sandwich to another level."
• "Best Italian food in NJ!"
• "The best italian I’ve had in the state of New Jersey."
• "This is hands down the best Italian food you can find on planet earth."

Cons:

• "Went for a Valentines Day dinner and honestly it was dreadful."
• "Bread was not fresh. Tasted like bread they heated up from yesterday."
• "The desserts are very mediocre - if they upped their game there, this would be an easy 5!"
• "Dinner took a long time to come out and when it did, it was cold."
• "The penne vodka, which I asked for extra sauce, barely had any."
• "All food was cold, and the more we had to say something the more our server was getting upset to point of, we were put on the pay no mind list."
• "The food is nothing special. Very bland and sloppy."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff is very friendly and helpful."
• "Service was very friendly."
• "Everyone was very friendly and family oriented--made us feel very comfortable and welcomed."
• "The Staff was very friendly and the owner Bill was so nice and made us feel welcomed."
• "Service and conversation were a great time."
• "The staff was very friendly, we even were treated to a song."
• "Staff was incredibly friendly, quickly seated, served bread, and had our drink order taken."

Cons:

• "Every time I visit the service is terrible."
• "The first server couldn't explain the menu and the service was slow."
• "Service was almost nonexistent."
• "Service took forever, there was only one server."
• "Long wait times to get a table (when only 3 tables are full)."
• "We sat at our table for 20 min before someone even acknowledged us, and it wasn't even busy."
• "Service was stellar with Donna and the music was straight off of my high school playlist with late 90's hits!"

Ambiance and Entertainment

Pros:

• "Nice atmosphere, great and friendly staff, wonderful live entertainment."
• "Definitely worth a stop and the close proximity to Metlife stadium makes this place hard to miss."
• "I think this place is awesome great service the food is amazing the cheesecake and the tiramisu is light and airy omg its so yummy the waitresses and the owner welcome u with open arms its a true Italian place to eat."
• "Beautiful family friendly restaurant with enjoyable entertainment."
• "what a cool place, we really enjoyed the live jazz band covering Frank Sinatra, the food was delicious, service was really good."
• "I love the home feel of the restaurant and the music was golden oldies."
• "Just a great experience all around."

Cons:

• "Elvis show last night was a disaster got there at 6 o’clock nobody looked at us for 40 minutes."
• "Also this place has an identity crisis. Is it a restaurant? Is it a sports bar?"
• "but the restaurant was very dirty and sloppy, the floor was very dirty and all the glass looked like it never had been cleaned."
• "Sometimes we forget about this place because the location isn't great."
• "The place was overly packed. To move your chair back a couple inches in order to go to the restroom meant hitting the chair behind you causing them to have to move."
• "The restaurant acoustics were awful. The super loud table behind us echoed off of every surface."
• "Came here on a Saturday for a date night. Website and sign outside states open until midnight. I Was surprised to learn they were closed at 9:30."

Value

Pros:

• "Prices were also very affordable."
• "It's a reasonably priced establishment. A dish will run you about $20-$25."
• "Price is moderate but for quality its just right."
• "And $12 for a small loaf of Italian bread and tiny piece of mozzarella cheese?? It wasn't THAT good."
• "These are high end Italian style subs. Delicious crusty bread, made in-house each morning."
• "The food was incredible and plentiful."
• "Food was hot. Cooked perfectly."

Cons:

• "The cost was a bit disappointing."
• "They just changed the pricing for their menu. Make sure that you ask for the current prices."
• "But when you order something and are charged for the extras you request and don't receive them, it's disappointing."
• "Don't go here expecting menu prices to look anything like what they post online."
• "The olives tasted like metal."
• "The owner is in La la land and is full of excuses for bad food and bad service."
• "The steak was well seasoned but so dry... So so so dry."