We had a good meal here the other evening.
I started with :
Mushroom Stuffed Mushrooms
Roasted garlic mushroom caps filled with a mushroom and cream cheese stuffing, all topped with our blend of cheeses and baked until golden brown. Served with grilled Ciabatta bread.
East side marios Waterloo Ontario
Main course :
Firecracker Shrimp Farfalle
Large black tiger shrimp sautéed in extra virgin olive oil with fresh green chillies, snow peas, Roma tomatoes and basil. Served with bowtie-shaped pasta tossed with our herbed garlic olive oil.
This was very spicy!!
For dessert we shared a funnel cake, with ice cream and caramel sauce.
East side marios Waterloo Ontario
East side marios Waterloo Ontario
This was of course served along with lashings of Ciabatta bread and butter.
This is my third visit to this particular branch, and it’s highly recommended.
East Side Mario’s is a Canadian casual dining restaurant, managed by its parent holding company Prime Restaurants, which operates in Canada and the United States. The restaurant specializes in Italian-American cuisine. Individual locations claim to recreate the historic ambiance found at the corner of Canal Street and Mulberry Street in Lower Manhattan. The brand is marketed as “A taste of little Italy”. It is best recognized by its old logo featuring the Statue of Liberty holding a large tomato instead of a torch, as well as the jingle containing the catch phrase “Hey, budda boom budda bing”.
It has over 100 locations in Canada as well as some in the United States.
East Side Mario’s was developed through the merger between several restaurants and began as a subsidiary of Yesac Creative Foods.
East side Mario’s
In 1980 three entrepreneurs from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada opened the first Casey’s Restaurant. The restaurant’s success prompted the opening of a second location in Elliot Lake, Ontario. The company moved to Burlington and introduced a fourth partner. The Casey’s brand was developed through the company name of Yesac Creative Foods. In 1982, the first Pat & Mario’s Restaurant was opened in Whitby, Ontario. The objective was to establish a takeout pizza and pasta business. The venture was successful and the Pat & Mario’s chain expanded into the North York area, as well as Florida, U.S.A.
The first East Side Mario’s restaurant was developed and built in Aventura Mall in Miami, U.S.A. To expand the business on both sides of the border, it was necessary for Yesac to raise capital. To do so, the collective brands of Casey’s, East Side Mario’s and Pat & Mario’s were sold to the Prime Restaurants holding company in August 1989. Prime Restaurants has become a major force in the current Canadian restaurant industry largely in part from this acquisition. By 1993, Prime Restaurants had expanded East Side Mario’s throughout the United States through an American subsidiary. Due to the high potential of this restaurant chain, the American subsidiary was later purchased by Pizza Hut and Prime Restaurants retained exclusive rights to the Canadian trademarks. As of February 2000, Prime Restaurants has re-acquired global trademark rights to East Side Mario’s Restaurants Inc. On July 22, 2002, the parent company made an initial public offer for the Prime Restaurant Royalty Income Fund, allowing for public investing into the brand. Currently, management retains 25% ownership under the company Prime Restaurant Holdings Inc.
