East Side Mario’s

VERY VERY difficult to eat here if you have a parsley/​cilantro allergy but Michelle our server worked her butt off to make sure that there was something I could actually eat.
My only complaint was their total lack of ice removal on a snowy night … I am bruised from head to toe and sporting splints on both hands over top of the stitches I had to get. BUY SOME SALT AND A SHOVEL.

If you want to Carbo load with travel hockey teams, screaming kids, and wait staff that screams off label birthday songs while drinking from plastic cups… East Side Mario’s East Side Mario’s Hey Badda Boom Bada Bing.
It’s like the olive garden but with a more North American idea of authentic Italian food from cans and freezers. That being said it’s likely one of Sarnia’s 3 or 4 best restaurants.
The free bread is hella good, it’s way easier than making dinner at home and the shirley temples come with cotton candy.
Bonus: If you sit at the last booth on the windows you can see this guy’s butt

Waitress was rude and argued with me about a menu item. When the fine print is clearly stated in the menu. Maybe she should know her menu. Took about an hour for food to be brought to the table. Waitress did not check on us during meal. Was very unimpressed with the service and the meal. Definitely far better service in the city will not be going back to this location

I hadn’t been to this place in years, maybe as long as 10 or 12 years. I went there on a date with a new guy and couldn’t believe how horrible it was!
First of all, the restaurant was completely packed. We were seated near the front door, right by the hostess station. We had constant cold air from the door. I was bumped into by people coming and going. It was so incredibly loud in the restaurant that we couldn’t even hear each other. I understand the restaurant has absolutely no control over that but the food? They sure do.
I ordered a simple pepperoni pizza. How hard is it to make a pepperoni pizza? Apparently really hard!
It came out on a board and it was totally misshapen. The waitress even commented on it as she put it down on the table. I figured it didn’t matter as long as it tasted okay but it was honestly the worst pizza I’ve ever had. It was so thin that it was falling apart and it was completely soaked in grease. When you lifted a piece up off the board it dripped grease down. I had to cut it up with a knife and fork just to eat it because of how flimsy it was. I ate 2 pieces and got a takeout box for the rest.
I probably should have complained but I’m not that type of person. I learned a lesson that night and won’t ever be back to East Side’s. I have no idea how they’re still in business!

I had a good experience and a bad experience. Quesidias were good on my first visit (I guess it’s hard to mess up throwing some chicken chunks and cheese on a tortilla then grilling it) but on my next visit the food was absolutely terrible, worst I’ve ever had. I ordered lasagna and a Caesar salad. The lettuce tasted weird and the dressing was awful. Not to mention it was like eating salad soup; way too much dressing. The tiny piece of lasagna wasn’t fit for a dog. You could easily tell it was frozen and thawed too long in the microwave because the edges were too hard for my fork to cut through. There was no sauce on it and the meat looked and tasted like sawdust. The bread they gave us was rolled in dry parmesan an inch thick, my lasagna had a bottom layer of dry Parmesan and the plate had a thick layer of dry Parmesan shaken all around the rim. Needless to say it was a tasteless, dry disappointment.

Worst Italian Food EVER
SO we ordered spaghetti and meatballs
And to make a long story short, it was like
They scooped some sauce out of a 5 gallon pale put the sauce on some spaghetti heated up 3 tasteless meatballs and said herrrrre ya go folks
Took 1 bite then caught the waitress walking by and asked if I could speak to management. She said ok just a minute, 20 min later the manager comes by and says is their a problem sir. At that point I laughed and said you know what the problem is yaaaaa I know he said well if you really want Some decent Italian food you won’t get it here! Yikes lol and promptly refunded my money and offered me a 25 gift certificate which I politely declined Ha what a friggin joke that place is
Signed unbelievably bad tasteless food

Disgusting. This place is horrendous, the food is total garbage — it’s a chain, so it’s the equivalent of eating at a fast food chain. Everything comes from frozen; the chicken is vile and comes frozen, pre-​packaged and is cut into identically sized cubes (typically of low quality chain restaurants).
I honestly can’t believe that people can eat this trash and claim that it is good. If you think East Side Mario’s is good, then you need to give your head a shake and stop eating low quality crap, because that is what this is. Go to a real restaurant that serves real food.
All of this food here is very low quality. Just more chain food crap that, for some strange reason, people seem to put up with and eat. Everything on their menu is so unhealthy, the portions are unhealthily and unnecessarily big (American gluttony style), and I literally make food 50x better than this at home by Googling a recipe.
Don’t waste your time or money on this unhealthy fast-​food like, chain restaurant. So gross. It doesn’t even deserve one star. Ew!

You get a lot for your money and there’s good staff. The sauces are bland compared to Olive Garden. Other than that the Cesar salad and bread is very tasty.

Always loved coming here when I was a kid since we were frequently crossing the border for hockey. I usually stuck with the pizzas and they were always incredibly fresh tasting — perhaps more than anywhere else I’ve ever been. Unfortunately I haven’t been back since I went on my 18^th birthday, but I still have the keychain that I won when I spun their birthday wheel that day.

Chain. Same as others in chain. Food good.

It is clean and the people are friendly. I wouldn’t rave about the food but it was good. If you like an Italian setting, it’s pleasant. The staff was very good.

East Side Mario’s… where do I start. I haven’t been to this place since 2001, but frequented it from 99 – 01. Favorite memories include pre-​drinking before heading over to Campbell Street aka Statutory Station; spending my lunch breaks from SC4 here, trying to figure out the exchange for a tip while drunk, taking a shot for the ride back over the bridge, our fave waiter Dave who reminded me of a tall oompa loompa, etc etc. The food? Can’t remember…