Milana's New York Pizzeria — Restaurant in Long Beach

After working there for over 7 months i have to say this family business is anything but friendly nor authentic to the italian American experience. They say that all of their product is made in-house. This is an outright falsehood. The dough from their pizza is shipped in frozen from a kitchen supplier called Angie's. This is naturally devoid of nutritional value and flavour. Their chicken wings are equally suspicious and awfully greasy. Don't even bother ordering the Italian sausage as this contains the toxic preservative known as MSG which i was horrified to find printed on the packaging label. Management there is both immature and wholly detached from the realities set upon their overworked underpaid employees. I was fired recently for asking why a fellow cashier was being charged the price of half a pizza. They recently upgraded their POS system to a faulty bug ridden mess that no one had been properly trained to utilize. It seemed to me criminal to penalize and harass your employees like this. This was not an isolated incident. The efforts my coworkers went through to serve the downtown long beach populace was consistently undermined by the management's crass, archaic and brutish treatment of its staff. These are good people being needlessly stressed and overworked for what amounts to overpriced food. I wished I had a better experience working at this pizzeria given how much potential the location and product has so offer for the people of Long Beach. Sadly that was not the case. Final word of warning: take extra scrutiny of the dish ware your food is being served upon if you dine in. Frequently management would demand the dishwashers to towel dry their plates and silverware which so happens to be a violation of safe California food...

Dine-in only review.

Been here several times and no matter what we ordered, was always satisfying and delicious. The crust is thin, chewy, just the right amount of crunch. We usually order off their NY specialty menu. Hells kitchen (aka hangover pizza), white pizza, margherita pizza (classic), the Italian pie pizza, and the red and white. Also have tried the sausage & mushroom calzone, this was a treat! This was a hefty, dumpling, filled with delicious goodness! I couldn't eat this by myself.

The decor definitely has that New york vibe, subway signs, with subway tiles, and various movies/tv with NY themes. They also got 3 TVs, they usually have some kind of game on or movie. There a parking structure near by, 2 hours free and there's metered parking out front.

I'm not familiar with NY pizza but I've heard that this is the closest it gets to "home'. Thank you for bringing NY style pizza to downtown Long...

I can't say enough about Milana's! I was coming from out of town for an event at the end of January with about 20 co-workers and had reserved a spot at another nearby pizza place, only to have the owner rudely cancel on me last minute. I quickly googled the area and found Milana's. Cameron saved the day. He happily accommodated our group and assured me it would go off without a hitch. When we arrived, we were greeted with a smiling and happy staff and the place was clean and fun. I let Cameron choose his favorite pizzas for us and oh my gosh, they were INCREDIBLE. Especially the white pizza! It was heaven! I definitely recommend this place. The pizza is seriously the best we've ever had and the service was awesome too. Thank you so much for saving the day! Next time we're in Long Beach, we'll definitely be stopping by for...