Lost Pizza Co Columbus — Restaurant in Columbus

This place should be renamed The Mystical Mojo Experience. It's so eclectic and unusual it is hard to pick a starting point. The most obvious is in the funky decor. It is like an Italian cook designed the set for an Indian Jones movie and include some hat tips to prohibition gangsters but made it fun for kids as well.

The menu is an explosion of funky cool choices main sammiches and (brace yourself) pizzas. But they also had TAMALES! (More on those later) and sweet, glorious beeeer!

The one down side (for me!) was that you have to walk up to a counter to place your order. No table-side service. When I walked up, a young lad behind the register was thumbing his phone and not on the lookout for customers. (I get it. Gen Z and such.) Fortunately, the manager called out his name and he looked up to take our order with a smile. Nice smile. Pardoned him for his dopamine + phone addiction.

We had s Delta Melt, a MeeMaw, and a Mister G. All were sammiches. All had quirky stories and amazing flavor combinations. I had the MeeMaw which anywhere else would be called: a meatball sub. Ho-lee Baby Jesus! It was huge and triple cheesy and saucy and BOOM BOOM POW it asked me to marry it and we got hitched right there and I devoured the whole thing. Best meatball sub in the state. Anyone who says otherwise is lying!

I mentioned the beer? It was cold and delicious and served in a kooky frozen mug. I think my first mug was a mason jar and my second was from a mini-blender. Not sure but I did the drinking and said lots of thanking.

Y'all! Did you know they had TAMALES! What kind of faux Italian gangster hippie joint is gonna even TRY to rock the tamale action? Well Lost Pizza Co says they have (and I use quotes!) "Mississippi Delta Hot Tamales!" If you are not from Mississippi, then you have no idea that tamales are different in the Delta. Long historic story there but I ain't getting paid by the word so I'm not typing out the tale. Suffice it to say that GOOD Delta tamales are: small, tasty, and spice spice spicy! Somehow, the evil geniuses at LPC got all three covered. SERIOUS! Best tamales I've ever had outside of somebody's Mama making them in her kitchen. In fact, I even had MY MAMA with me and she said they were the best Delta tamales SHE ever had. And that woman is old. Like dirt. Seriously. She old. And she knows a tamale when she eats one. We almost knuckle up because she was getting too grabby grabby with my tamales...

Anyway, if you are within like an HOUR of Lost Pizza Company and the hunger comes upon you. Swing by and give them a try. Aside from the whiz kid on the FaceTweetGram behind the counter, I was completely in love with the whole adventure.

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Will not be eating here again: Dined in with my fiancé and his son. When we got there, there was a line, almost to the door, but it moved rather quickly. However, when we got to the front of the line, we were informed that it would take about an hour to get our food, which we said was fine. We placed our order, found a booth and sat and waited. When the food finally arrived, my partner and his son both got their food and it was correct; however, the food that they brought me was wrong. I informed the staff and he told me he would take care of it and even told me I could keep the order that was wrong. Unfortunately, this ended up taking an extra 30 or so minutes, and my partner even had to go back to the register and have them check on it. When it finally arrived, it was the correct order, but I when I originally made the order, I asked for no onions and what the brought out to me in fact had onions. By this point, I was quite upset and we all decided to just take everything to go. I understand being busy, but what I didn't understand is how they managed to get my fiancé and his son's food correct, but get mine...

On a recent visit to the Columbus, MS area; we were enticed by the favorable Google rating of 4.4 stars. Our experience was less than average.

A $70.00 take-out order was made which included two (2) signature pizzas and.Greek salad.

Thin-crust was requested and that was the initial bad decision. The thin crust is pre-made cardboard similar to what you can buy in the grocery store.

The toppings were bland and the pizza lacked any taste whatsoever. Coupled that the pizzas were over-cooked resulted in nearly half the order being discarded.

On a positive note, the location is easy to find. Once inside, the decor is fun and the dining area appears clean and well maintained.

Finally, the staff was very friendly and completed the order as requested.

The takeaway was the quality of the pizza. Not being harsh, but I’ve had better $9.00 frozen pizza.

Perhaps a bad night. Yet, for the amount spent; I was expecting a better...