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East Side Mario's
Categories: Restaurants Canadian (New) Restaurants Italian Canadian (New), Italian [Edit]
450 King St NWaterloo, ON N2J 2Z6
(519) 886-8388
- Price Range:
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$$
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
4 reviews for East Side Mario's
4 reviews in English
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Review from S F.
8/13/2011
i too can reheat a frozen dinner and put it on a plate.
super friendly service, but the food is blah. a below average copy of a buca di beppo. -
Review from Lauren A.
Waterloo, ON
5/9/2012
Oh god, people, please don't eat here. You deserve better than bland, gloppy pasta and pre-frozen bread smeared with margarine. I ate at this location when I was young and dumb, and my reward was a live, mid-sized cockroach in my salad. The manager kindly comped our desserts, though I can't say my appetite was really raring to go after that.
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Review from Rob W.
3/12/2012
Terrible. Avoid this crappy food. The service was a little on the creepy attentive side. The meal was overpriced, the salad overdressed, the penne under seasoned, and the theme overblown. I hope to never set foot in this lousy chain again.
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Review from Clement W.
Waterloo, ON
10/27/2010 3 photos
Billing itself as the "World's Largest" East Side Mario's, this location is the largest I've been at taking up two large floors plus bar with patio in the summers. I think this place has been here for over 10 years. I prefer this location in Waterloo over the one at University Plaza that often gets a little uncomfortably busy and loud during meal times.
Both locations are popular haunts of local university students and I had lunch here yesterday with clients and a colleague. I had the Trio - which is unlimited soup (I had the Italian Wedding), salad (garden or caesar) and bread for $7.99 - of course the softdrinks while bottomless are something like $2.99 pre-tax/tip - but that's almost par for grill/bar places like this. We had a late lunch at around 2 pm and it was pretty much dead in the bar area. One of the main reasons this place is popular particularly with the students is that they/we'd have unlimited soup or salad with their dinner portion meals - so what they/we'd do was eat a few rounds of salad then take home on the actual meal itself. Dinner portions now cost around $12-16 pre-tax and tip. Oh the memories.
Of course, it's not nearly as cheap as it used to be, but the meals are still reasonable for the area and what you get. It's probably about as authentically Italian as say McDonald's pizza, but the ingredients are generally fresh, though prepared with the efficiency and bulk of a cafeteria (and it often looks that way too).
