Mellow Mushroom Columbia

Pizza is delicious! Megan runs this business well. Place is clean. Love enjoying pizza and drinks with friends here.

Great customized pizza! The food here is awesome, but service could be a lot better - so just be patient, your food is coming, I promise....lol. If you are used to the service of the one in Greenville, this will disappoint you. But sometimes their pizza is worth the wait.

$23 for a large pepperoni pizza. An additional $3 for mushrooms and this is the amount I got. This pizza was not worth $26.

Unfortunately I can’t speak to the food as we weren’t seated. I coach a dance team and we were in town for an event and needed a restaurant for 25. This is a huge group and we understand that so we called ahead to several restaurants to see if they could accommodate us. When we called Mellow, the person who answered the phone informed us they don’t do reservations (not an issue— my husband managed multiple Mellow Mushroom locations for over a decade in GA and I’m familiar with their policies). She also told us it wouldn’t be an issue at all to accommodate our large group and I told her we’d come early at 4pm and we understood if we had to do 2 tables. We arrived at 4pm and when we go there the new hostess told us they’d be unable to accommodate us— even if we waited and even if we did 2 separate tables. I was left with a group of 25 on a Saturday night with no where to eat and little time to figure out backup options. I’m not sure why we couldn’t have been put at 2 tables or why they told us they could easily accommodate us the day before only to backtrack later with little explanation, compassion, or helpful solutions. They also requested we call the morning of to let them know we’d be coming in so I did. And after 7 calls throughout the day— no one answered once. When we got to the restaurant, we heard the phone ring and someone immediately answered. The hostess then told us the phones were down… which clearly wasn’t true. All in all, it was obvious they didn’t want us there and it was incredibly frustrating, disappointing, and unprofessional on their end and we wish they’d have just told us Friday when we called not to come in so we didn’t waste our time. We visit downtown Columbia frequently and now know not to return here. This stinks because we regularly dine as a group at the Mellow near us so just unsure why we were treated this way or why they made zero effort to accommodate our group after saying it wouldn’t be an issue at all. From reading the other reviews, subpar service issues like this seem to be ongoing and remain unresolved. Shame because Mellow Mushrooms are normally great and this one is far below standard compared to others.

Be careful about where you park. The food was tasty. Parking: Beware: parking is a big issue. They have just a few spots for Mellow Mushroom far fewer than appropriate and there's plenty of other spots that are misleading which will get you ticketed or towed. It's a parking trap!

They have a great beer selection, the pizzas are always fantastic too!

We got a medium Holy Shitake and a medium build your own with black olives, steak and fresh mozzarella. Adding the steak was $5 and there was barely any steak on the pizza. The taste was amazing but for a total of $54, I'm so disappointed that they barely gave the steak add on. Would recommend the Holy Shitake but idk if the build your own with meat would be worth it at all cause you'll be basically having a cheese pizza.

Take out took a while longer than anticipated, food is tasty, and fresh. Dietary restrictions: Gluten free, dairy allergy options.