Mazzika Mediterranean Restaurant

Can't leave a negative star? Ok so I walk in this place & theres no music playing I look around & its some dudes in a corner doing something other than Hookah but I've been in sketchy places before so I wasn't tht concerned. But I refuse to sit on ripped up couches tht look like somebody threw them out & these guys said hey let's put them in our Hookah lounge. Sat @ the bar for about 6mins no service no bartender no nothing. Tht place reminds me of a crack house in an old 90's film

Amazing place, great staff, great hookah, awesome place, need to check this place out!!

We sat around waiting for out waiters Mercedes for long period of times, she even ignore us when we send someone to get her. Not just that our bill was charge 8 dollars for gratuity. Like really? After scrappy service.

Drinks were gd and strong. My friend had one of their special drinks. I ordered lamb sh-something. (I forget) its a wrap. That came out as chicken. After asking the waiter found out they were out of lamb......ok great. They replaced it with beef. Ok w me but hummus was ice cold and pitas tough and I didn't care for my beef thingy.
Of course I didn't want to send it bac and wait another long time. But the waiter was nice and was trying really hard to do a gd job. So even though they do auto-add %18 he deserved more
I've been again since I wrote this. Only thing if your unsure whether ur eating they sit u at benches w nowhere to put ur drink, the first waiter was not impressable at all, and I saw the guy that served me the first time and asked for him again. He sat me at a small table. An as before his service was gd. Thanks

I have a problem with places like this...places that don't follow the rules, and overall aren't great anyway.

So it was a few nights ago I decided to go up to Mazzika for a hookah. I get in, I order. My first problem is the wait. It shouldnt take more than 7-10 minutes to get a hookah out. It took 20, and the place was empty. I ordered my standard mix, 50% AF Orange and 50% AF Mint. It was okay, but I could tell that the hookah was not cleaned (picking up other notes than orange and mint) and for a ~$14 hookah should be a non issue.

So I finished smoking and decide to pay. Here's where it gets appalling. I added a box of coals (~$14) to my order and the manager decides to charge me the 18% service charge and 12.5% restaurant tax for my box of coals without letting me know or it being advertised, which is illegal. I still paid, as I didn't feel like arguing with the manager, but I promise I will never be back.

I walked in to the restaurant/hookah bar and was unimpressed to start. The Interior was cheap and uninviting. When I brought the food home to eat I could not finish due to the lack of quality. The bread was undercooked, the meat was overcooked, , The rice wasn't good,the hummus was good, but that was about it. I feel robbed of the $18 I was charged to eat the sub par food. The clerks working were nice but that's the only positive I can possibly give. I'm never coming back.

Horrible service I usually don't leave reviews but it took over 30 mins to get a drink and customer service was horrible.Also we never got the hookah we ordered.

This establishment is trash and the service is horrible. Don't waste your time or money coming here. They know nothing about operating like a professional business. The people working here are a complete joke. The drinks are weak as hell. The waiters are rude. I waited 30 minutes or longer for my hookah I ordered but yet people that came in after me received their hookah right away. Then they have the audacity to add a 18% gratuity, when in actuality they deserved NOTHING. Asked and received a refund for my hookah. Won't be back to spend a dime in this place!

Not sure where the beautiful pictures come from, I guess the hookah lounge in the back.

My husband and I had a groupon that was close to expiring do we decided to go there last night. The groupon states reservations required and has a phone number. That phone number belongs to someone called "junior" who hasn't worked there in over a year. So if you have a groupon, no need to call "junior".

We were greeted my the cook (a lovely lady only on her 2nd day). She asked smoking or non smoking we stated non smoking "please". She told us we could sit anywhere in the front. No one else was there (we got there just after 5 pm). The front does not look anything like the pictures depicted. Nor was there any music. Someone did ask if we wanted the tv on, but we don't need television while we are eating.

My husband ordered lamb kabob platter while I ordered falafel platter. The hummus was good, the lamb was totally flavorless and the falafel was ok (a little dark).

I felt kind of bad for my husband as he choked down the lamb (it was the only thing he ate on the plate), but he dipped it in the hummus and my tahini sauce to help give it some flavor. Since the lamb was so hard to choke down alone (dry), he couldn't eat it w/the white rice. So everything else on the plate was left.

Obviously there wasn't enough lamb alone to fill a grown man so he helped me eat my falafel platter. I have a small appetite so it was plenty & I still had 2 left over to take home.

We tried ordering baklava & rice pudding to go (when going somewhere for the first time, we usually try from different parts of the menu). But we were told they didn't have rice pudding so we took 1 order of baklava to go. The baklava was very dry therefore broke (separated) the layers & definitely wouldn't hold the nut layer to the rest of the baklava.

The waitress & cook were very personable and made us feel very welcomed however I wasn't sure how to feel. The whole front of the store was on surveillance. We counted at least 6 cameras between us & the kitchen area (which is one open area). We may or may not try this place again...not sure.

I am guessing they cater more to their back room customers over their non smoking customers which may not be a good thing. At least not to me.

They add gratuity on the check and it doesn't even go to the servers. The server told us he would rather we didn't leave a tip at all on the card because the owner doesn't give them the credit card tips. They have to ask customers to tip with cash or use cash app if they want to leave gratuity. Oh yeah, and the tiny vodka soda was $10. Apparently all drinks come with a $2 mixer charge even if you just get a shot. They said they had to do this because otherwise they would have too high alcohol sales and not enough food sales. So I guess the $2 mixer charges are all classified as food sales here. If you want to get ripped off go check it out for yourself.