Mario's Restaurant — Restaurant in Forest City

The owner is the rudest man I have ever met. I am not generally the type to leave a review like this, but his behavior today was unacceptable. I came with my husband and daughter after seeing good reviews online. When you look on Google it says the hours for the day but nothing about a buffet only. I came in first and saw he was serving from a buffet and asked him if you could still order off the menu (my husband is not a buffet person). I had a hard time understanding his thick accent (which is not my complaint) and I could tell he was hesitant but said something about talking to his wife. It didn’t help that this childish grown woman sitting in a booth behind me was giggling at his response to me so loudly it made it harder to hear him. I was a little embarrassed at this point but walked down to talk to the wife who was very sweet and never rude. I tell her what is going on and that I was unsure of what his answer was and she goes to ask him herself. He then starts yelling at me to leave and waving his arms towards the door, all while the immature woman continues to laugh hysterically and other people were staring. It was very embarrassing, and not the way to treat someone who drove 30 minutes to spend their money in your restaurant. If he would have been nice and explained that they didn’t have enough chefs to do menu food and buffet food then we would have come back another day, but who wants to go back to a place where you are yelled at and embarrassed in front of...

Oh man, where do I start? We stopped by to grab a quick bite before heading to the Equestrian Center to see Christmas lights. We arrived at 6:30pm. It was freezing inside. He all were wearing hoodies or jackets and were still cold. I read some other reviews online about the excruciating slow service but we thought how bad can it really be? Well, we ordered appetizers that did not come out until over 1-1/2 hours later, for just cheese bread! The rest of our food followed about 15 minutes after that. My girls ordered chicken fingers from the kids menu. They did not eat them and told us they tasted like fish. My wife tried them and agreed. We let the waitress know, and while she was apologetic, there was no offer to get them something else or remove from the bill. We didn't ask as we felt that was the restaurants place when confronted with this information. Oh well. My cheese ravioli with pink sauce was pretty good but I was disappointed in the amount for what I paid and it did not include any garlic bread. My mom said the baked spaghetti was pretty good as well, but again was missing the bread to go with it. My wife got primavera but did not care for it and barely touched it (yeah, still no bread, it must be ordered as an appetizer at $8). She didn't even want to box it up to take home. The environment left a lot to be desired both outside and in. It's has a very run down look and aura about it. This will not be a place I choose to return to in the future...

It was one of the worse visits there I have had. There were only 2 tables that had anyone at them when we went in. It took the server about 10 mins to get to us to take our drink order. We ordered an appetizer of cheesesticks at that time. Then another 10 mins for her to bring them which is when we ordered. We ordered a lasagna, 10 hot wings,and a salad. Then a few more tables had came in and she took their drinks. To wrap it up we ran out of tea, salad came first before appetizer. The appetizer was at least 30 mins after we ordered and were absolutely awful, cold and tasted funny we could not eat them. Then only 5 mins later our meal came. The lasagna was barely warm, the wings had no meat on them and she never came back to our table. Yet by then 5 more tables had come in and she had not even waited on the first 2 completely that had came in. I did hear the last table that had came in which sat behind us. They must have been regulars cause she said it had been a long time that that many people had been in there. Now I know why, we won't be back...