Marco’s Restaurant
“Things to love about this place:
-great happy hour duration (4PM – 8PM)
-the free bread that they serve you when you sit down is amazing.”
“Great new place I went to for brunch.”
“The restaurant gets packed very quickly, I definitely suggest making a reservation.”
Marco’s Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Happy Hour: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
4 reviews
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I will update this review when I revisit this place after they are serving their full menu and, more importantly, WINE.
I have to admit, we were pretty miffed when they waited until after we had already sat down and the bread hit the table to tell us that they didn't have a liquor license and were serving only a few things on their menu (no gnocchi, no mozzarella sticks, no dumplings, etc etc etc). Luckily, I was working that night, so I didn't need the glass of wine, but was with a vegetarian who could have used some of those options.
However, the dishes they did serve were quite good. The bread was lightly toasted and the olive oil-friendly plates were a cool touch. The bruschetta flatbread was refreshing with cold mozzarella cubes and fresh tomatoes. The brick oven (definitely a plus) pizza with caramelized onions, fontina cheese, and arugula was delicious. The truffle fries, however, were average.
Overall, a welcome addition to the area, and will be back again to try their more extensive menu/wine.
I wavered inside of my head back and forth between 3 and 4 stars. Bottom line: the tapas really are tapas and quite small for the value of its heavily inflated price. Some of them (if you luck out) are larger than others. The good side of all of this is that the wine is fairly inexpensive. There is also a yelp check-in special for any wine in glass for $5. We went with splitting a nice South African Sauv Blanc for the table. It was my good friend's Mom's birthday. When you can manage to convince a bunch of your friends to come out and drink for their mother, you know its going to be an interesting night. For $20 and 6 people and some people re-pouring my glass to a very generous extent, I can happily say that I got drunk off of only $10 worth of wine and 3 bottles later.
Almost nearly everything I wanted on the menu had some kind of cheese in it and I had already given up cheese for the month: delicious flatbreads, pizza, tomato and mozz salad, an array of pastas that are now marked up at $16 when their online menu had said $10. Curious why they raised it so dramatically, especially when the portions still looked pretty small. Finally decided on just getting fish and chips. A bold move for an Italian tapas bar. It was shockingly pretty amazing. Lightly battered and fried mahi mahi fish with a side of tartar sauce and shoestring fries for $15. About four pretty large chunks but it had good flavor and wasn't too greasy. Other people at the table had ordered the crab cakes, the caprese and red beet salads, the poached salmon, Pepperoni flatbread (that comes out like a round pizza), the grilled lamb chops, calamari and chorizo, and the potato gnocchi. I heard a lot of good comments despite not trying anything else but what I ordered. Things that do annoy me when dining with friends, if you are limited on what you can eat and your few pieces of fish come with a small side of fries in your meal that you paid $15 for, it automatically I guess becomes free game for the table in noshing on your food after they finish their meals.
We finished the night with a nutella pizza that I only had a half a slice of. Fresh fruit with powdered sugar was piled on top of a liberal amount of nutella smeared on the dough. It was okay, but I could have lived without it which is why I said I wasn't up to ordering desert. Birthday girl got her slice of tiramisu.
I think the wine stands out pretty imminently as well as the complimentary bread basket. Not kidding. The bread has crack in it. It's light and fluffy and tasted like they smeared butter and garlic with little red pepper flakes on it. I could sit in this wine bar and eat just that bread and go home fat and happy.
I came here for happy hour with my co-workers as work is closeby. I really did enjoy their food; their proscuitto flatbread and penne calamari & chorizo are amazing! The calamari had the perfect amount of chewiness to it. My only problem was at how overpriced it was, I felt that the portions were too small for what they were charging.
I also tried the wine flights and this is where they lose their stars… especially for being a wine bar I thought their wine flights would be decent. I can honestly say that I'm no expert when it comes to wine, but am able to discern when wine tastes horrible. One of the wines they gave in their flights, I believe it was the one from Long Island(?), tasted so disgusting! I had to give it to my friend and I'm really not someone that turns my back to wine.
Another point I'd like to add is that the employees didn't seem too experienced with the wines. It looked like they had to refer back to the blackboard or their own notes to figure out which wines they were serving.
That terrible glass of wine, their prices, and the not-so-knowledgeable employees (when it comes to wine) made me take off some stars, but their food is definitely worth trying.
Solid new restaurant in the neighborhood. With a combination of decent food and VERY reasonable prices. Things to love about this place:
-great happy hour duration (4PM – 8PM)
-the free bread that they serve you when you sit down is amazing. Its spiced and delicious, even without any accompaniment
-they typically offer some sort of wine specials; even leaving that aside, they have plenty of options in the $30 range – something New York restaurants just dont do enough in my view
-Yelp coupon makes it even more reasonable
The menu features a lot of tasty sounding options, and nothing we ordered really disappointed (nor, I should add, were we particularly "wowed" by anything). Overall, solid and the price is right.