Anna Maria’s Pizzeria

Loved the pizza I got! Even the special order, got everything I wanted! Will eat their pizza again!

My family and I used to eat here all the time, but things have changed in the past 6 – 8 months. There is never the same wait staff, the food is consistently going downhill, the employees in the kitchen are usually standing around chatting instead of cooking making wait times longer, and 3 out of 4 times our to go orders are wrong. There is always two different types of music playing loud enough for customers to hear — one usually Mexican and another a soft rock. Tonight we wanted something fast, just a few slices, and stopped by at 8:34 and the doors were LOCKED although the sign clearly says they close at 9pm on Sundays. The staff heard us trying to open the door and never even looked up. A customer had to beat on the door in order to get them to open for her to go order she already placed. I think this is the final straw for us. The service sucks and the food is either wrong or just so so. I wonder if the owner knows that they close the doors prior to closing time! No mas!

I ordered a cold sub the Italian it was awful, the bread was stale, the meat was thrown on top with a pickle in the middle. There was very little lettuce and tomato it was just awful. I will NEVER order a sandwich from there again!

The food here is great! The pizza is amazing and the pasta dishes are too! The waitstaff is small. They also offer a buffet at times (dont know the times). They do deliver also. They have flat screens and the Head waitress who is the manager is an awesome person who always gets it right!

This is our favorite pizza place in Hillsborough. It is very good pizza with a fantastic crust and great sauce! We have never eaten in the restaurant — have always done take-​out — so I can’t speak to the service.

I’d like to give this place more stars but the service really needs help. The food had been good but the overall experience isn’t as good as it could be. Every time I order, it’s a lengthy wait– with no explanation or apology. A little more attentive customer service would go a long way.

Got lunch today to go – first time dining here and will be back. Can’t speak to the atmosphere/​ambiance really, although it’s very casual and the dining room was not crowded at 1PM on a Friday.
Service was okay, not particularly friendly and they don’t really have a good system for getting to go orders out, other than saying «excuse me, excuse me» repeatedly until you look up and realize they’re speaking to you. I got the Greek Salad Wrap (lettuce, tomato, feta, black olives, cucumber, onion) without onion and it was light and crispy and seemed to be fresh aside from the tomatoes, which were a little soggy.
They have an expansive menu and I look forward to trying out some other options.

Situtated in a run down, half empty strip mall you kind of get the impression this place won’t be so great, well it met that assumption and more. The place looked worn down and the bathroom was a mess. Usually Sundays afternoons are busy times, so having more than one waitress would of been ideal, especially one who can take down orders. Food was slow coming and some in our group never got their salads and or meals. Pretty much a disastor and one of those you scratch off your list of go to places.

Good pizza, especially when compared to the chains available in Hillsborough. It’s basic, foldable, soft, thin crust pizza. They have a white pizza option, which I enjoy. Never tried the sandwiches, so no comment there.
FYI, they make the pizza at the Orange County Speedway, which I go to catch a race from time to time. They actually make the pizza fresh there, along with a couple other dishes. It’s not quite as good as getting it at the regular place, but it’s fresh, and well made.

Weened on pizza from first generation Italian family run restaurants, I’m hard to please. I go to Anna Maria’s occasionally because it’s convenient, but I never get stoked about their thick, soggy bottom, pies. Hole-​in-​the-​wall, as others have said, fits.

Good pizza. I was surprised that the pizza was white (no tomato sauce) but this was a good surprise.

Let’s see: a hole-​in-​the-​wall pizzeria in a decades-​old, less-​than-​stellar strip mall on a corner in a small town, not *quite* in the Triangle and they STILL get three stars? Yep. That’s Anna Maria’s pizzeria.
Shortly after getting employed in Carrboro in the mid-90’s, a friend turned me onto the local Anna Maria’s. My first bite (a slice of ‘plain’ pizza) elicited a spontaneous «That tastes like home!» The guy behind the counter responded, «Not unless you’re from Long Island, buddy!» It turns out I *did* grow up on Long Island, and I really HAD tasted their pizza before — in the late 60’s when I was in high school, these guys had the pizzeria next to the bowling alley in East Meadow — and I used to eat there regularly! (Who knew that the taste of their sauce would leave such an indelible memory?)
Well that’s how I became a fan. Anna Maria’s sauce has frankly changed over the years, and their pizza no longer tastes quite like «home.» …but they are still my favorite independent pizzeria, if only for the nostalgia.
Imagine how happy I was when, after having moved to Hillsborough a few years ago, finding that they’d opened a shop there.
Perhaps my heart strings cloud my judgment, but… I really like this place!
Just FYI — the wait staff is friendly, the food is served hot, and the beer (or soft drinks) cold. The salads are rather simple, but… the place is definitely worth that third star!

Huge portions, great for next-​day meals.
The sausage-​meatball baked ziti sounded good, but the meatball part was excellent. Not for the cheese-​averse faint-​of-​heart.

This place has grown on me lately. While sometimes inconsistent, the pizza is fairly good, especilly with a couple of toppings. Ocassionally the pizza is served a little undercooked. Generally it’s better to order a whole pizza then slices.
I’ve also had the sausage hero sandwhich and found it to be OK. The Garlic Knots are killer!