I’ve always wanted to try Mario the baker food but always ordered from my usual - Sals. But when late night hunger took over I decided to try this place out on Uber eats. First impressions actually really good,.. food was hot, fresh and big portions, and garlic rolls were drowning in garlic butter. Yum.
I bit into a roll ... and , oh no......too much garlic 😭😩 butter, yes! Delicious, but the garlic, was too much. I didn’t know there was such a thing, but boy that garlic cleared out my sinuses. Phew! A Little disappointment. Oh well onto the baked ziti.
looks delicious. Melted cheese, two big meatballs in the middle. I break the cheese with my fork, take a bite,, cheese is good! Get into the pasta and realize it’s swimming in a watery sauce that honestly wasn’t nothing to talk about. Hardly what I’d expect for baked pasta, I wouldn’t even expect so much sauce in a regular bowl of pasta let alone a baked ziti. The meatballs, taste bland. They have some seasoning in them, but they are pale in color instead of being browned from being “baked” in the oven, they resemble something more like boiled meatballs, which thinking of all the sauce they were swimming in, might have actually been how they were cooked.
Half way through it and there’s about 3/4 cup of watery sauce at the bottom.
Overall a big disappointment, wish I’d just grabbed some penne and Prego sauce out of the cupboard and thrown it together myself for $2, cause honestly I wouldn’t have been able to taste the difference in flavor and would have felt more satisfied.
I also ordered a tiramisu, which again, looks gorgeous. But I’m hesitant to dig in in case it’s a disappointment like the rest of the food. I’m full, but not satisfied, and I don’t necessarily expect much when it comes to late night eats, but equally didn’t think you could mess up a baked ziti, and not for $17 I paid for it either.
Sad to say, I think tonight is the first and last time eating from Mario’s, all those times driving past wondering what the food tastes like and now I know. Not for me. Makes me wonder about all these great reviews, if the chef was having a bad night, or maybe they don’t take so much care in Uber eats orders. Guess I’ll never know
