hearth pizza tavern

great pizza. thanks to urbanspoon, i found this place. arrived at 5:30p on sunday. restaurant was 1/2 full and i sat at bar.
ordered a beer (terrapin mosaic red ale) & the house meatball pizza.

pizza arrived in record time and was amazing. meatballs had good flavor. the small pie was perfect size.

6p & place is filling up. i'll bebackwith friends .

great food. my husband and i found this place by accident. we have beenbackfour times in three months.

service & attitude issue. first, hearth's pizza is not like real ny style pizza. putting aside their blather about organic this, and fresh that, their pizza is better than the mediocre fare usually served in atlanta.

they have an odd way of cutting their pizza into rectangular sections, which speaks to the fact that their pizza is not real ny style. we have been there several times and have learned to request the pizza be cut into standard triangular slices. this seems to be a challenge for hearth, even though their check prints out "triangular cuts" as the customer request. on several visits our request had been ignored and the pizza brought out anyway.

the problem is we would make it abundantly clear when we ordered that we wanted triangular cut slices - a request even most junior high graduates could grasp - but they'd still bring it out sliced in rectangles. again. it must be requested often enough that their computer prints out "triangular cut" on the check.

the last time they did this we requested the cook/server take the pizzabackand bring one sliced as we requested. he refused. no apology, just telling us, "that's the way we cut it." the waitress didn't seem to care either. hungry, we ate the pizza.

when the waitress brought the check we gave her the option of having the manager take $3.00 off the check (in other words, we'd pay for the food but not for their profit margin for refusing to serve what we ordered) or we'd simply not leave a tip. the waitress took the check back. a minute later another young man brought the checkbackwithout the reduction, dropped it on the table without comment, and left.

as promsied, we paid the check without a tip.

the check states "your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated." we went to their website and filled out their form. but when we pushed the "submit" button it returned an error message.

their check also offers 5% off if you "like" them on facebook. i wonder if that accounts for the many overly effusive reviews. their pizza is good, better than the mediocre pizza served around atlanta, but not great.

there are better local alternatives for pizza: blue moon on glenridge dr or il forno on roswell rd. we never had the staff at either have an attitude if they got an order wrong. like most respectable establishments, if they made an error they accept it and fix it.

loved it!. went here for my birthday meal and was very impressed. had the muscles which were great. tasty without relying on garlic. make sure to get more bread, you'll want to soak up the juice from the broth.

had the "great white clam" pizza, loved it, a 10
had the "ring of fire", good, very good, a 7.5
had the "omg", "oh my garlic", pretty good, others at the table loved it., i think 7, they thought 8.

loved the look, loved the feel, loved the food.

was told 4-6 pm was half price pizza, we are goingbackfor sure.

good food, rude owner. a good friend of mine is a regular patron of hearth. in fact, she tells everyone she knows to eat there. she recently made a reservation to celebrate her 75th birthday at hearth. the gm was gracious and very accomodating when he took the reservation. she calledbackyesterday to confirm the reservation and spoke with the owner, dave pazienza. mr. pazienza told her he would not honor the reservation because it is the policy of hearth not to accept reservations on a saturday. she explained the occasion and explained that she cannot stand without a cane only to be told she would have to "figure it out" on her own whether she stood or sat while she waited. i am appalled that the owner of any restaurant would treat any patron this way, especially one of the loyal diners who helped make his restaurant a sandy springs success story. needless to say, we will never eat at hearth again. it is sad how a rude owner can be the undoing of such a good restaurant.

didn't get to eat!!. we went there tonight hoping for a good experience. unfortunately, we left before we even got our food. after waiting for 15-20 minutes for a seat, we were seated at the end of a table at the rear of the restaurant. we realized very quickly that the seats were freezing. when we asked our waiter about this, he said that it was because they kept a door open nearby, and the cold air blows in (it's january!). when we said that we didn't want to sit there and freeze, he said he would take care of it. so we got up and headed to the bar to wait for a table to open up. after seeing several people get seated, we went to the hostess and asked about seating us. we were told that we were not even on the list, and if we wanted to getbackon the list we would be put at the end of the list, because we were given a seat already (regardless of whether one could tolerate the open door nearby). apparently, the lesson here is that you get punished for getting stuck in a horrible seat and requesting to move. the attitude of the host and hostess was clearly one of "we don't care if you're in a bad seat and don't ask us to move." we quickly left the restaurant, concluding that other restaurants would welcome our dollars.

ps: on a positive note, we called the manager/owner after we returned home. he was apologetic and told us that the treatment we received was not their policy, and that he hoped we would comebackon the house.

you must try this place. we wanted to try out this place since it received good reviews and we were very happy with our decision! the pizza is fresh, tastes wonderful and is very nicely priced! its one of the most flavorful pizza's we've had! forget california pizza kitchen, we will be goingbackto try each of their pizza's. the meatball pizza was a definite winner. you must try if you are in the sandy springs area. drinks are very inexpensive as well. the bar is fun and the environment is great!

hearth pizza tavern has incredible wood fired pizza with fresh ingredients and several other menu options. we tried the cure and paolo pollo as well as the seafood sliders for an appetizer. delicious! great simple interior design and architecture. helpful laidbackand attentive servers!