Marino's Italian Kitchen and Bar

21001 N Tatum Blvd Unit 40-1365, Phoenix
(480) 247-8660

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Connie

We had 4 adults and 4 kids and none of us like out food! Ordered linguine and clams waitress said it comes with shells comes to table no shells and drowned in lemon! All the dishes were not impressive. After paying $215 I would not go back and my last name is Marino. Very disapointed

Talyr

Marino's was so good for a restaurant in a mall. Would 10/10 recommend if you're looking for Italian food.

Evelyn

We celebrated a belated Father's Day. The food and service were great!! Will definitely return again. We loved it.

Tom

Some of the best pasta I've had in awhile. The pesto was great and the Chicken Parm was excellent. Kind of noisy and sports bar feel on where we were sitting not a typical homey Italian restaurant feel. That's my only complaint. Service was great and the food was outstanding. Like all restaurants nowadays, everything is so expensive and overpriced. I wish some restaurants would start lowering prices, especially for pastas. It can't be that expensive to make. Overall though an excellent food spot. Definitely will be back

Courtney

I was really excited to try this restaurant but was a little disappointed in my experience. When I got there, the hostess, who wound up being our waitress, wasn't very friendly. Literally didn't crack a smile from the time I walked in, to the time I walked out. The drink she made me was great, but my carbonara was not. It was extremely salty, and she tried to tell me it was because of the meat. Well, I've had carbonara in many restaurants across the world and this was the worst one. She did ask me if I wanted something else and initially, I said no. I ate a few more bites then told her I couldn't eat any more. She claimed “because I'd eaten half,” she could discount it. I honestly didn't eat “half,” because half of the meal was the meat, which I portioned to the side. I wasn't going to go back and forth with her, so I just accepted the 25% off the carbonara. I do think that was poor customer service on her part, but it is what it is. Maybe she should've taken a sick day today instead of showing up with an attitude.

David

 Excellent service and excellent food keeping it simple as that definitely will go back to try other dishes

Steve

We have been twice and have been extremely satisfied, one of the best things we have done is try a new place. Now we have a new favorite Italian restaurant. Marino's the best!!

Marika

Everything was excellent, except one small, weird misstep that took the experience from 5 to 4 stars. First, let me establish, the food is great. We went for restaurant week as a new local find, and we will be back. We started off book with the tuna tartare and burrata, the burrata with oranges is exactly as weird as it sounds, but the burrata itself was great and the tartare was tasty. For the actual restaurant week I got the crab cake and my friend got the squash blossoms. Both were really good, but the crab cake was excellent. I've had some underwhelming crab cakes in AZ, so this one was a wonderful surprise. We both got the chicken marsala, which was on point. So excellent. So much pasta. So many mushrooms. In the best way. My boyfriend went rogue and got a margarita pizza, also delicious. For dessert we had the creme brulee, lava cake, and cannoli, they were all great. Here's the misstep. The tartare was served with crostini toast points. I definitely used one for the burrata because of the weird aforementioned orange situation. We had a lot of tartare left with no crostini. So I asked our server if we could get more, she said, "Let me check," and then returns with 3 pieces of bread in a basket, with ramekins with a butter pat and oil and vinegar. We're all, "Great, thanks!" The normal bread totally doesn't work for the tartare, but was nice. Anyway, get the check, that was $4. So over a buck a slice for bread we didn't even ask for. It would have been fine if she just told us, "Hey, we have large portions, we're going to nickle and dime where we can, so I'm not giving you more crostini, but here's bread," and I would have been all, ""Cool, that's fine, but we have so much food we don't need bread, can I pay $4 for more crostini?" So, just be mindful if you ask for anything that you will be charged for it without them telling you, even if it's not what you wanted.

Daniel

Ordered 10 dishes total (apps, mains, desserts): 7 were FANTASTIC, 1 was Good, 2 were below average. Katie, our server, was awesome as was the bartender. Great people and great service. Nice ambiance. We will definitely be back!

Patty

The food is pretty ordinary, and it seemed like sauces came from jars rather than scratch. For the price point, there are much better restaurants out there. Everyone had pasta. Perhaps the pizzas or salads are better. The service was friendly, however.

Andrea

The service was exceptional! The hostess handled herself extremely well on Mother's Day and went above and beyond to accommodate all of the demands due to a very hot day outside. Our waitress was very friendly and went above and beyond to make our experience a good one. The Burrata appetizer was definitely our favorite! The eggs benedict was very salty and so was the Shimp so avoid these dishes if you can't consume a lot of salt. The pasta servings were very generous and delicious!

Miguel

The service was fantastic. The servers work as a team to ensure all tables are taken care of properly.

Julia

The pizza and bruschetta were really great but the other food we ordered were lacking flavor (charcuterie board and lobster ravioli). It was about 97 degrees outside and they had the garage door open which made for a lot of flies and it was HOT inside. We went at a very busy time so the service was understandably not as great due to short staff.

Richard

Great server quiet very well taken care of from the hostess to the server Mgr came by as well drinks are great will go back for sure

Treena

Very prompt service in a very cute setting. Flavorful pasta, although no bread service at the table. Nice wine selection.

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