Non-existent service - is this a biker bar?
We thought we would try out this latest restaurant after the North Royalton animal fair. This location and building has gone through several management and name changes. We remember Marge and Tom's 82nd Street Grill and Pub which set the standard for fine dining and service. Later it became Caribbean Cowboy whose owner drastically "renovated" the interior with horrid corrugated metal awnings off the walls. She could not take food criticism very well and eventually shut down. Now we have Marios. we approach the front door and notice that the false brick front is still crumbling. Inside we are greeting with a chopper on display. So is this a biker bar, inappropriate for kids or is it an Italian restaurant? There are some mixed signals here. Very little if any renovation has been done to the place. The horrid corrugated awnings are still there but thankfully someone had the common decency to paint over that gaudy Caribbean Cowboy mural. The sign said that we should wait to be seated so we waited. There was customer at the bar and guy and his son at a booth. A waitress was seen by the kitchen chatting with the help and a bar tender was at the bar. We waited over five minutes by the door. We waived at the bar tender who looked up, saw us, ignored us and then went back to her much more important conversation. We left, never to return. If a restaurant is incapable of at least acknowledging customers waiting to be seated then it is doomed to failure. I can not recommend Marios in North Royalton due to non-existent service.