Maria's Pizzeria & Restaurant — Restaurant in Cape Coral

I was treating my neighbors to nice dinner for a thankyou for a special favor they did for my wife and I. While I have eaten at this restaurant for a number of years and always been delighted with both service and food, my experience last night was less than impressive. Server seated my party (4 adults) and as she was taking our drink requests, darted off to something else, returning approximately 10 minutes later to complete the beverage order. After a reasonable time the drinks were served, dinner orders were taken. After a while dinner started to arrive, the ladies dinner came, and nothing for the guys. After approximately 10 minutes my dinner came and my friends dinner still had not shown up! I got up and went to ask the server about it and she said that it would be right up, a few minutes later his meatball sub showed up, along with a handful of I'm sorriy's from the server. I asked to speak to the manager and he showed up and in a very loud voice discussed their shortcomings in regards to the service, mis-communications in the kitchens etc., all of which was very embarrassing for both my wife and I. My read on all of this is that when the server brought out the two dinners for the ladies she should have gone right back to the kitchen to get the other two, where she would have discovered that the other two dinners were not even prepared yet! I found the entire evening distressing and not what I had intended for my guests. I know that Maria's has done better in the past and the food has always been very good. Please review the service and how to make sure all meals arrive for a small group more or less at...

December 2018

Maria's Pizzeria & Restaurant, SE 46th Ln., Cape Coral, Fl. Here is my 2 cent on the food and chatter.

I went here for the Sizzle Week. I am glad I did.

For 16 bucks you get a soda, appetizer and entree. I chose the lasagna.

I drank raspberry lemonade. I got the house made wedding soup. Well balance and filled with meat.

Along with hot buttery garlic rolls to dip in a wonderful olive oil. Messy, but lip smacking good.

The main event was the lasagna. WOW... delightful...No need to add pepper flakes or salt. Just plain delirious tasty! The portion were bigger than most places I have been to. I needed a doggie bag to go. As my server stated you never leave here hungry.

Roy my server was outstanding.

There is only 1 big hiccup. The parking lot. It only has 3 spaces and 1 handicapped. Difficult to park. So when busy you must park on the street. It seemed to be a safe neighborhood.

Maria Pizzeria & Restaurant, SE 46th Ln., Cape Coral, Fl., Here is my 2 cents on the food & chatter. I had a restaurant week entree for 25 bucks. I got meatballs for appetizer, chicken Marsala and tariasu for dessert. Ah yes old skool free fresh buttery bread with a olive oil dip sauce. Lip smacking good. Though only 2 medium size meatball, they very much melted on the tongue good. Chicken was cooked so tender. Though a tad more garlic for the day. At least for me.The dessert light sweet & chocolate mmmmm good. For later on and manana pepperoni/mushroom pizza. Good fresh good cold. Service was...

This used to be a really good place to eat. I hadn't been in awhile; but it was very disappointing. We were seated, got drinks & ordered. Bread was brought out; 2 bread plates were damp, mine was smeared & looked somewhat dirty, but I didn't say anything about it. There were 4 of us. Three got Italian wedding soup & 1 got a salad. They weren't included in the meal, which was a change for us, as it used to be. All 3 soups were brought out ice cold. They looked unappetizing to begin with & touching the cups confirmed they'd never been heated at all. We declined to have them heated & had the waitress take them away. When our food came out 2 people had oven baked entrees & 2 didn't. The oven dishes were hot, the other 2 were deemed "lukewarm" and not "hot." We were given a table in a back wall section with a music speaker over our heads; it was too loud for that space & made it difficult to hear each other at the table. After we paid the bill my husband wanted to use the restroom. There was an "Out Of Order" sign on it, so he skipped it. When leaving there was no "Have A Good Night" or "Thanks for coming in" from the person at the front desk area. The waitress was personable & apologized about the soup. But honestly a manager could have stopped at the table & said something about the situation. Offered free beverages or something. We won't be going back anymore, after going...