Mama Lena's - Waxhaw

Our family enjoyed a wonderful authentic meal this evening. Our waiter, Robert, was professional and on the ball. We couldn't decide what type of wine to have,Robert suggested a Cabernet, this went perfectly with our meal. Ofcourse the dessert was the best part, a lemom chello cake, yum!

DO NOT EAT HERE!!! Food is fair to poor but the worst part of this place is the servers and owner! The owner is rude, bitter, angry, and unaccommodating even to children under the age of 5! Servers are unprofessional and poorly trained if trained at all. We have given this place chance after chance and once again it has fallen short. I just hope the owner gets the same **** service and experiences when he eats at other restaurants. This man does not desire to have his own restaurant and I hope that this deters others from eating here.

The only reason I gave it any stars at all is...the food was pretty good. However, I have never had worst service anywhere! After waiting to get our beverages, we sat an hour before our waiter came by to tell us the food was almost ready. At that point we had to ask, Don 't we get a salad? Oh yes, was his reply. He finally brought 5 salads w/ dressing on the side. I started to pour my dressing on, when my daughter asked what kind it was. His answer was, ranch. She asked for Italian he went got it. Do they not believe in asking what dressing people would like before they bring it? He finally brought some of the food, which some was wrong, off he went again. After another 10 mins., he came back told my daughter her meal was almost done! At the end, we never got the bread we asked for, I ate a couple bites of salad because I didn 't care for ranch dressing, almost 2hrs. after we got drinks, and 4 of us ate, $80 later, my daughter had to get her meal to go!! And, this dinner out was because she was leaving in the morning. Needless to say, this was a first and LAST visit to Mama Lena 's!

I used to have eaten there years ago and it was good food.

The food was not great and when we told the waitress that we were unhappy not once did the owner come by to talk with us or try to make things right. The vegetable pizza hardly had any toppings. Each slice only had 1 tomato slice, 2 tiny mushrooms, 2 chopped pieces of onion and 1 chopped slice green pepper. The owner was very unfriendly and was in a bad mood. He still charged for the pizza because my husband and I each ate 1/2 of a slice. This was our first visit and definitely our last visit. The owner did not give us a good impression, I would not recommend this place.