Mauro's Italian Cafe & Bar

Menu online appeared to be inviting (authentic Italian cuisine However, that menu no longer exists. (Should remove it if it’s not current … for the last 3 years apparently! Food was disappointing. Cream sauce was thin. Poor flavour. Expecting fresh herbs, grated cheese, and fresh Chicken. Instead, the chicken seemed store bought/frozen. Will not return, nor recommend. Waitress was friendly and prompt.

We moved close to this restaurant and had to try it! Initial impressions were good, nice ambience, friendly staff. Food was meh. I like to get food that is prepared better than if I made it at home and this was disappointing. Pasta was dry and the garlic toast was like a slice of Dempsters. Too bad, was hoping to find a new watering hole!

A favorite place to go. Great Italian food and regular fare too. I usually go for Birthdays. Good value!

The lasagna was dry. I asked for extra sauce and they charged me for it. Pop is $3.98. The “sauce” is more like fried up meat and carrots. It is not saucy at all. The waitress was nice.

Mauro 's Italian Cafe Bar has been suggested to myself and my family by many locals as the best Italian restaurant in the city. Anyone we ask it 's, Mauro 's. How over rated!!!! My sister and I didn 't originally wanted to go there, we wanted to go to Boston Pizza and have their lasagna. So when we asked our server if theirs is just as good she confidently said yes. The lasagna is served with a side of Caesar salad (that has no dressing just cheese) and is worth twenty two dollars and of course plus tax. With that cost in mind and how this restaurant is SO talked up we expected it to be good. It wasn 't, it was extremely dry and the lasagna tasted at best ordinary, lacking any sort of spice to make it stand out from any other pasta I 've had. Even the sauce was dry, having the consistency of clumpy man witch filling. The only thing it had going for itself was the fact that it was given to us HOT. So we asked our server for sides of sauce for it. Waiting and waiting our food was getting cold. It came to a point where I got frustrated and got up to peak into the kitchen to hopefully see what was going on. Our server was just standing there talking to whom I 'm assuming was the cook instead of doing her job, like there is no excuse why it took THAT long to give us a side of sauce. I stomped back to my seat and waited a bit more when FINALLY she shows up. And when she does our food is now ice cold. So here we are my sister and I, sitting with cold pasta and a generous side of warm(ish) pasta sauce . The overly confident waitress not even giving us a chance to ask to heat it up just smiled and walked away. Meanwhile my mum and my sister 's husband had planned to order the same as us. However, there was only two servings of the lasagna. So they ended up ordering something that was seemingly generic, a suggestion from the server. They requested for it to be baked, thinking they wouldn 't get charged for requesting it since the waitress didn 't tell them. Overall in my opinion, the Mauro 's Pub Bar is over priced, highly over rated, and very plain.