Mario’s Restaurants

Came in here for a late lunch one day with two friends. We all ended up ordering a pizza! How adventurous of us all. Two of us ordered veggie pizza and one ordered a meat pizza. I had the goat’s cheese one and the toppings were really nice and it had a really nice flavour to it, I quite liked my pizza, the base was thin and crispy but veered towards soggy in the middle, as is quite common with veggie pizzas. The other veggie pizza was also quite soggy in the middle. The meat pizza looked a little better in terms of how well it held together. The staff here were lovely and attentive although it was quite quiet when we were there. We didn’t have any drinks. Overall, a pleasant experience but not the best pizza in the area.

I was out for a walk with a good friend around noon on a Saturday we got hungry and decided to eat, the weather was very nice for late October so we wanted to sit outside and we stumbled upon Mario’s.
My friend and I both have a gluten intolerance and when we got the menu we were a bit frighted as everything looked like a stomach age in the making, we asked the staff about it and to our delight we were informed they did GF pasta. I did not hesitate to order a creamy pasta dish that was to die for. My friend has the principessa chicken and was also very happy.
The food was great but the service was out of this world and the reason I am giving this place 5 stars. I have rarely experienced such nice staff anywhere in Dublin.

Relatively good value Italian Lunch menu in the heart of Ranelagh. Around 9.95 for most items, quick service and food is consistently good.

Mario’s is one of my favorite Italian restaurants in Dublin, we go there now and then to catch up with our friends, food is always tasty and fresh and staff makes real effort every time we come, it’s a very small place but real cozy, they have heating there and it’s not noisy so we can enjoy our conversation :)
Highly recommend!

Lovely place for a family Italian meal. Reasonably priced and tasty food. Went there recently to celebrate my birthday with family and everyone enjoyed the food, wine and service. Particularly liked the way you can have a lot of adult mains in a smaller portion for kids. Makes a change from nuggets and chips! Kids were well feed and happy. We’ll be back again.

Service wasn’t great. Spent more time waiting to get served then actually ordering and eating the food. Took just as long to get the bill too. Food was average, it nothing to write home about.
Restaurant was clean and reasonable, good atmosphere.
Reasonable pricing

Best pizza I’ve had in a long time! Nice cozy atmosphere with a friendly service. Not overpriced either!

Ordered take away tonight
Waste of € 18.50
linguine bolognese= Very Bland
Garlic bread= very poor, hardly taste of any garlic in it & the bread didn’t taste fresh.
It tasted stale
Man who took my order who seems to be the duty Manager not friendly at all & actually quite cold.
I tried to chat with him telling him we used to go Mario’s lots before & asked him if the lady who’s the Manager still works there as i haven’t been in a good while
All he said was yes. He didn’t seem very pleased.
Will never ever go back again here.
Not even for take away.
Lots of nice places to eat in Ranelagh
Go across the road in Tap House if you want tasty food & friendly service.

Great service, good location, not busy and the food is very good

I’ve been here twice in the last few weeks. It’s funny the way that I’ve always walked by and never really gave them a credit. (Things are different now).
So, my last experience there was lovely. I had mussels in a tomato sauce as starter, it comes with some bread on the side and I swear, I want it as my main course. It was go tasty and a perfect combination. As main course u went for the traditional spaghetti bolognese… I have a problem… Every time I go to a place where they make spaghetti I always go for it… It doesn’t matter what’s on the menu … Anyway, let’s talk about my main course again… Yeah, coz I am a big fan of that dish I know well to describe it when it’s good and this one wasn’t great, just a little bit blend, I was expecting to be a little more succulent, but still, I don’t think it would be fair to give them less than 4 stars because of it… Service is fine.
So, I’ll go again, probably to give another try on that spaghetti.lol.

We normally order pizza via Justeat but on a Sunday night that can equal a 75 minute wait and last night I just wasn’t having it. J had to go into the office so said he could pick up something on the way back into Ranelagh. We like the pizza from Antica Venezia and the pizza from Martino’s is okay but thought we should give Mario’s a try. I called in our order of a caesar salad and a large pizza and despite the rude hostess, J was able to leave with our food maybe 20 minutes later. As with most caesar salads I have had in Dublin, this was just average but edible. The pizza however was a nice surprise. It came with pepperoni, goats cheese, caramelised onions and a spicy tomato sauce. Nice flavours and good crispiness to the crust. I think she said the name was the Antica but I can’t be certain. I still prefer the pizza at Paulie’s but given my location, I am glad to know that Mario’s is around.

Very nice restaurant and well priced. Warm and welcoming atmosphere and great smells, which always bodes well. The «Pollo di parma» is particularly excellent!

Meh, and that’s generous. I was tempted to go with bleurgh.
I went here last night for a friends birthday, a party of 10. We arrived and were seated and all was going swimmingly, until the food was brought out. 8 full minutes between the 1^st being served and the last. My bruschetta was lovely, but when my main arrived (daily special veg cannelloni) it was vile. A scant portion with a tiny bit of salad on the side, so dry I could have used it to mop up spills. For € 15 I expected a LOT more both in size and quality. Another gripe is that we were left without water for the duration until I finally got a waiters attention, and then, the height of bad service — our waiter started to clear the plates as people finished before the last of our party had even come close to being done. Surely that waiter 101!!! I wouldn’t bother with here again, not with so many other options moments away.

A very bold me had a nice Spaghetti Carbonara here recently. It was wickedly tasty, of which the bacon impressed a lot as it wasn’t too fatty (says me who just ate a bowl of carbonara).
My partner didn’t fair too well and has reviewed as much. Suffice to say his dish did not live up to the expectations the menu set. And I would agree from a visual perspective. Stuffed chicken wrapped in parma ham. Half a slice of parma ham and it looked dry. Our orders arrived very quickly, which is fine for a Carbonara. But I very much doubt the stuffed chicken would be so quick if prepared from scratch. With a price of 16.95 EUR, very disappointing.
The staff were pleasant enough and the food came fast (too fast perhaps). Pity 50% of our order was as bad as it was.
I might go back for the Carbonara.

Decided to go to Mario’s one day when walking around the area. It looks great from the outside and inside and the menu looked very good.
On walking in I saw a few Pizza’s coming out and they looked great.
However on the menu was a very tasty sounding meal of chicken stuffed with spinach and cheese and wrapped in Parma ham, in a sweet pepper sauce served with chips.
That my friends sounds like an amazing meal in my book. How wrong could i have been.
First of all we ordered and I not kidding it was on our table with 5 minutes. Now I’m not a chef, but I do a bit of cooking and I know that a chicken breast takes about 30 minutes minimum to cook from fresh. So far enough maybe they partially cooked then finished off somehow? Surely no microwave?
Anyway the meal arrived on the table. The chicken was tasteless and obviously not freshly cooked in any sort of way. The edges of it were particularly dry so not sure how this was re-​heated? The menu said wrapped in parma ham, yet there was a very thin slice on top about the size of half a fiver. The sweet pepper sauce literally tasted of nothing. It was like eating thick water. I used it to try and soften up the chicken.
The chips were ok. Acceptable in a burger van, but not a restaurant.
All in all it was pretty bad.
How much for this delight you ask yourselves? 16.95 ridiculous.
My partners meal was somewhat better than mine she had spaghetti Carbonara which she quite enjoyed hence the two stars rather than one. Also the pizza did look very nice.
The inside is nice and the staff were ok, although didn’t think they were the most friendly I’ve ever dealt with.

Went here for a Sunday lunch. I had the tagliatelle with salmon and pesto. My Girlfriend had chicken in tomato sauce with fries. Hers was nice, mine was bland and I couldn’t finish it. I was greatly disappointed.
If I had gotten my gf’s dish this would be a higher mark but I can only base on my experience. Great value, wine menu, service and atmosphere, but my food was very mediocre

I had a family meal here last night. It was very busy for a Thursday evening but that’s Ranelagh for you apparently — this was the only restaurant who had a table for 5 without a booking!
The service was pretty slow but we were pleased with the food when it arrived. We had both types of bruschetta for starters (the tomato one was nicer) and our main courses varied. The only main course that wasn’t great was the pollo milano. The chicken was very dry and the taste was bland.
I had the starter Mediterranean prawns and side of aubergine and courgette together as a main course. The veg was a bit overcooked but both were extremely tasty, especially the prawns! I also tried the rose pinot grigio which was beautiful and at only € 6.25 a glass it is WELL worth trying.
Overall this place has good food and a good atmosphere, just don’t go here if you’re in a hurry!

If you are looking for a nice Christmas spot to catch up with some friends before you break for the holidays, I would recommend here.
They have a very good fixed priced menu for Christmas and an extensive menu that is impressive too.
For a Sunday night it was bustling and the the soft lighting is very homely and works well during this season.
I got the spinach filled cannelloni which was a bit of a cheese overload but tasty non the less. The dessert was apple pie and was terribly over priced for what you got. My companion asked for a dessert off the fixed menu and was told no which we both thought odd as they would make more money that way.
Service was painfully slow and not overly friendly but there seemed to be a lot of parties going on in the room next door so maybe they were just busy etc.

Service was pretty slow in the very beginning – walked in and stood there for 3 min without even seeing a server. It was a Monday night and pretty packed considering that; I think that they called in more servers while we were there.
Garlic bread was a bit burnt, but really good regardless.
I got pasta with mushrooms and broccoli and cream sauce – the mushrooms were an odd texture but the sauce was good and the broccoli was cooked to perfection.

I’m pretty jealous of Ranelagh. It seems to have more good restaurants per square foot than anywhere else in Dublin. Mario’s is just one more to add to the list.
The food is really good, but I really enjoy going there for the atmosphere. If you’ve spent the day cooped up in a stuffy office, then the stone and wood of Mario’s is the perfect place to unwind.
Nobody wants to go from computer monitors and filing cabinets to eating in a place that looks like a surgical theatre. Mario’s gets four stars for putting as much thought into their restaurant as their food.