East Side Mario's

12/28/07

Fun friendly feast

by jwhung at Citysearch

Mario's has a very NYC-college feel to the restaurant. The service is friendly and welcoming. We've gone there late a few times too, and we didn't get any attitude from the servers, unlike some places where they try and hide their annoyance for those "last-minute" customers! The food YUMMY. The portions are huge! I can never finish and always doggy bag for lunch the next day. Some of the dishes can be very oily and the tomato sauce really tangy though - but that's just when I"m not in the mood for either. I love their eggplant dish, but this is also oily too. Maybe that's why it tastes so good!

• Pros: Service, large portions
• Cons: nothing - unless you count the large portions that I can never finish!