Maria V's Bar and Restaurant — Restaurant in Shelton

I thoroughly enjoyed coming here! Very friendly staff, the owner & her son are often working, and they have a great team working hard to please your dining/drinking experience. The menu has lots of great appetizers, I recommend the house-made fried mozzarella, it's the large triangles with a very good marinara sauce. My friend ordered the sea bass, and loved it. Lots of Portuguese specialties too! We saw an excellent live band while there, and it was a nice place to catch a show. Plenty of parking and easy to find. Well...

It's a dive for sure - typical beers on tap, and decent looking food. There was a band playing, which was cool, but there were people actively vaping and smoking in the building, which was odd. It doesn't seem as if they are used to having a lot of people there, as they had reserved seating in the back (a sign said for staff, but I'm fairly confident a bar that size doesn't even have as many employees as were back there, and if they did, I highly doubt they'd be...

Outside sign says "Fine Dining" -- the 3 meals we saw served were (1) onion rings, (2) wings, and (3) a cheeseburger (after an iceberg lettuce wedge). In the ladies' room, the toilet seat was unbolted and ready to...