Mauro's On Riverside - Medicine Hat

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 in a restaurant. Even the sauce was dry, having the consistency of dried up 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 Cafe Bar is over priced, highly over rated, and very plain

This is one of my favorite neighborhood pub/restaurants. Western and Italian cuisine with fresh Quality ingredients. Steak and pasta on Thursday night special, all-you-can-eat pasta on Saturday night. A good wide variety on the menu.

A party of three just finished supper all three orders were just excellent service was great and the beer was cold

Its a good place to have a drink and some apps. alittle dated, but nice.

Stopped at Mauro's on Riverside for lunch. The best pasta I have ever had, huge portions. Tristan our server was amazing! You have to come here!!!! Service: Dine in Meal type: Lunch Price per person: $20–30