Marino's Restaurant

01/02/05

It's heartbreaking!

by unclejolie

Once upon a time, this was my hands-down favorite Italian restaurant in Manhattan, and possibly the world. Marino, the owner and chef, was warm and friendly and welcoming, not to mention his talents in the kitchen. Once you had been there a few times you were treated as family.

Then tragedy struck. After a few months without a visit, I stopped in and was shocked by the change in food quality. The menu was the same, the servers were the same, but the food was not. I learned that Marino had sold the restaurant complete with name and menu.

Sad as it is, this is now just an average Italian place in an out-of-the-way neighborhood (for this Chelsea chick, anyway.) Wahhh!

11/09/03

Don't even bother

by allie_sundance

We received a coupon and after reading the reviews we tried to place our order. The owner told us we are now called little prince and that coupon is no longer valid (extremely rude) and he hung up on us.

We promptly called again and said I don't know why you hung up we wanted to place an order regardless. This man was very rude and unprofessional and I would not recommend going and or ordering.

I can understand changing names, owners but regardless you are never rude to the customer. Who cares if the coupon is no longer valid we simple wanted Italian food! This comes from someone whom's family owned restaurants and I think the whole thing is questionable.

• Cons: rude, changed names!

11/08/02

All the Wine you can Get

by jennem

Yes, we were lured in by the coupon for 3-course dinner, $23.99, all the wine you can drink. Well, fabulous, but it took almost 45 minutes to get seateddespite visibly empty tables, and later arrivals being seated more quickly (they put the waiting people in different areas then forgot the order of arrival). When we were seated, we had to catch waiters and busboys repeatedly for each and every course. And forget about the wine, we managed to get a few glasses when we could grab someone to bring them. The food was OK, the wine was OK, but the staff seemed to find us invisible.

• Pros: Good food, Good wine, Good value
• Cons: Horrendous service, Irritating evening