Marco’s Cafe

I love to spend my Friday nights here, great food. Love the location also. Coloma ROCKS!

I’ve been going here for years.
I love the pizza! They are very generous with the toppings. Being mostly vegan that’s great! Most of the time when you say no cheese and all veggies the pizza is not very good. That’s not the case at Marco’s. The owners JB & Lily are great too!
Always a nice selection of good craft beer.
And good music on the weekends.
The are open seasonally. During the rafting season.

Terrible service: ordered 2 slices of pizza and i waiting for 45 min. Ridiculous, I’ll never go back

We ate dinner here on a Friday night before a two-​day rafting trip this summer with a company only a couple of miles away (Mariah Wilderness). It was close to closing time when we arrived and they had run out of their red sauce veggie pizza, so I ended up with a large slice of pesto potato. My husband had breadsticks and ranch, and a slice of a chicken pizza (since they were out of pepperoni). ($ 20.65)
The place was packed but our group of six found a table out front and drank some wine (purchased there) will we waited. There was a loud band in the back and even more people and some dogs. The pizza took forever to get to us — it was pretty good when it did arrive but the wait was awful.
There was a really long line for the bathroom, but the trees/​woods aren’t far away for the not shy. While one of our friends waited at the table, a woman came and grabbed her pack of cigarettes off of it, ready to help herself to one. Our friend stopped her, but realized later in the night that her phone was missing (she’d had it there with her earlier). Perhaps the same woman took it. When she checked back with the place the next day they said they had not found one, that more than one was missing, and not to have high hopes for getting it back.
The food was good and I really liked my second-​choice slice, but since there aren’t a lot of restaurant options in that area, I would imagine most weekend nights, especially in summer, will always be that packed — so expect a long wait for your yummy food.

Noticed a slow weeknight (it’s packed on the weekends!), so decided to stop in. We stayed out front and skipped the bar in back because we had the kids. We tried a variety of pizza… potato pesto, meatball, eggplant Parmesan, and also some breadsticks. All were very tasty. Good music and friendly folks. A tad slow, but not so slow that we were annoyed. You just have to remember that they are making your food, not reheating it. We’ll stop again.

Made reservations. Show up and kids get excited from the smell of pizza and the adults the same from the live music. Nice scene in the back but find out our table is in the front! The front is the parking lot and an ordering counter. They tell us once we get there that we can’t sit where the band is and be rude the whole time. So we left and went elsewhere. They seem to justify why communism failed. They are the only Italian show in town and they know it. Marcos needs a Maria’s next door

This is one of the only places in town, so saying you don’t like this place is a little like saying you don’t like the water in the middle of a desert. The café is charming in a rustic, backwoods sort of way… There is only outside dining. You order your food at a window.
The pizza, well, it is pizza. It is square, and it is thick. I take it they don’t really make the crust in the building… They don’t roll it out. If you are a family of four with four hungry people, you might consider at least one large per person.
We were a family of five, three adults and two children… There were no sizes on the walls as you normally see. We ordered two large pizzas thinking that would be enough. After being on the river all day, one pizza per person was not out of order. Needless to say, we went to bed hungry that night.
The pizzas are square, about 8 – 9 inches long and 4 inches wide… The pizza was decent, or what we tasted. It went so fast that we hardly had a taste of the pizzas. I would eat there again as it is the only pizza game in town.

Awful! We read some positive reviews on this place, and decided to give it a try while we were in the area. The live music was good. But it goes downhill from there. We waited almost TWO hours for a couple of pizzas. We paid upfront and then sat at our table, waiting, waiting, waiting for someone to bring the pizzas. I got up and inquired a few times (after 1 hour) and was shooed away by the staff and told «we’re working on it.» Okay, I get that they are super busy.
However, I couldn’t believe what ended up being delivered to our table. The pizza was burned! It was hard, dry and chalky. It looked like a pizza one would buy at the grocery store and bake in the oven at home. (Heck, I could have probably done that quicker than it took to get the pizza from Marco’s).
I’ve attached a couple of photos.
At that point we were starving, so we ate what we could and got out of there. There are far too many options — with live music — in the area. Nobody should wait 2 hours for lousy pizza.

Waited over an hour for my pizza one night. Tonight ordered a spinach salad and it contained a lot of rotten leaves. Tonight’s pizza was fast, but it was not very good. Please bring back the old Marcos.

Okay this place is hopping with a really great vibe. Great live music, lively scene, delicious frothy brews… BUT, the food freak’n takes FOREVER and the customer service at the food areas SUCKS. I recommend going to Marcos but hangout in the backyard patio for a nice chilly beer and one of their meat pies made by a local raft guide — they’re delicious and you get it right away. Avoid the Pizza… fooey. I do recommend the Curry but only if you a lot of time on your hands and your not hungry.

i come here a lot, for a beer and fun.5 stars. i have made mistake, ordered Marco’s Large chicken Pizza… what a nightmare. after 40 minutes, i got 2 squares of some kind of pie, or what it was, with shredded chicken and cheese on top and some disgusting dark brown matter flowing on it… after few bites did try to returne it, waitress said everybody likes it. did try returne to other employee, no response, no offer of refund, no offer of replacement, no customer service at all. paid over eight bucks for this junk… lesson learned… it’s great place to hang out… will come again, will recommend to a friend, absolutely… BUT…don’t buy that junk food of theirs, and don’t expect any customer service. I see you there on the bar… ciao.

This place is a quaint outdoor patio café near the American River. Great locals hangout along with rafters coming in for a bite. Wine, beer and live music. Dancing if you are so inclined. Foccassia style pizzas are good. A fun atmosphere for all ages. They even had a cool groovy tent on side of patio for a massage. Pet friendly too.

This is a decent place — the ambience is awesome. Super chill — and listening to a live band right now here!
The downsides: price to quality. If I’m buying a small pizza in tha large size, I expect it to be either really good tasting or really big quantity.
This business offers neither. Portions are small and the food is pretty good. Als, the wait was exceptionally slow — and the customer service about the slow wait did not alleviate my waiting stress.

Great place to hang out after a day on the river, have a beer and a bite to eat.

Sierra Nevada house hostess and staff were horrible so we went up the street to Marcos café. The food was delicious and priced great, the music and vibe was perfect! Marcos café is a great place!

We had a little get-​together with some friends at this little roadside café. It is all outdoor seating and resembles an old drive-​up restaurant from the 60’s. You walk up to the window, order and pay. They give you a number and you sit on the spacious wood patio under the shady trees.
They serve beer and wine and have live music on weekends. We had Sierra Nevada Summerfest ale and Lagunitas IPA. Then pizza, which was delicious. The crust was thin and crispy and the cheese was excellent.
They only have one tiny restroom for both sides. It lessens the confusion between multiple genders, but the wait can be long. Parking is sufficient for a large number of cars. There were no bugs out in the first week of May.
If you are on Highway 49 between Placerville and Auburn, consider Marcos as you pass through the eyeblink town of Coloma. There are quite a few places to choose from on both sides of the road, and Marco’s is one of the better ones. Seasonal from May to October.

I love the outdoors seating and the pizza is great !! Good drinks !! Totally relaxed atmosphere too :)

Stopped in after a day of river rafting on the recommendation of some of the rafting guides.
FIVE STARS for:
Place is packed and happening.
Live band on the patio.
Good drinks.
Totally relaxed atmosphere.
Patio was set up well with nice lanterns and ambiance.
Friendly staff.
ONE STAR for:
Food
Service time
We ordered one «personal/​mini» pizza and one «small» pizza.
Okay, this was a big joke. One was a 3″ x 3″ piece and the other was two 3″ x 3″ pieces. Delivery of those teeny pizzas was about 45 minutes. After a day of rafting you are expecting a personal size pizza like they have a Round Table, Shakey’s BJs, etc. We were still hungry after our four bite pizzas, but the wait time was so long we just couldn’t order another «piece» so we split.
The salads seemed to arrive for other tables in about 20 minutes.
If you’re hungry, go somewhere else.
If you want to chill with a beer on the patio with music, go to Marco’s.

Really friendly staff. Didn’t try the food yet, but we’ll be back for more kayaking, so it’s on the list!

I went to Marco’s one night after a guide from a rafting trip recommended it. It’s a casual spot with all outdoor seating, which I liked a lot. The kitchen was technically closed, but they served us anyway.
The best part was the live music. The band was only ok, but nothing says summer to me like sitting under the stars with friends, good beer and reggae.
The negative was the pizza and breadsticks. The crust was thick and very hard, so I gave up on eating about ¹⁄₃ of the way through. I noticed my friend and Tintin doing the same. It was cheap so not a big loss.
4 for the venue, 2 stars for the food, so 3 stars overall. It was a nice spot to hang out for a couple of hours before heading back to camp.