Marinella Simply Italian - Toronto

Great Food Service<br/ <br/ We love this restaurant. Fresh food and great staff, the owner makes sure your experience is a good one. Highly recommend eating here.

Melt in your mouth pasta. I was in town for work and had an intense craving for Italian food, so thought the best place to get it would be in the neighbourhood of Little Italy. I came across Marinella and was immediately taken in by the ambience and charmed by the energy that I felt when I walked in the door. The service was excellent and very attentive and my food was to die for. I consider myself to be pretty well versed in italian cuisine and I have to say that the fettucine pomodoro that was served on the side of my Catch of the Day, was hands down the BEST pasta I have ever had. It was melt in your mouth, fulfill every taste sensation in the book. The owner popped by to quality check and after telling him how much I loved the pasta, he went so far as to give me some pointers as to how to make my pasta sauce taste the same at home. I can't wait to be in Toronto again so that I can go back to Marinella

Friendly and some great Italian entrees. Very friendly staff, without attitude and some great Italian food. I had the Seafood Fettuccine Marinella a house special that was piping hot with a fair amount of seafood and a delicately balanced white wine sauce reduction. My hubby had the special a pork Rigatonne, a rich tomato sauce also piping hot. However our evening could have turned out poorly as our first dish a Spinach salad with goat cheese arrived limp with mushy rotten leaves and we sent back, but we got some attitude from from a second server (a female was not our original server) who argued that the spinach was fresh when it lay limp on the plate. They graciously replaced it with a Caesar salad which they did not charge us for. From then on we had two servers a male who was more subtle and the female who hoovered a little too much and having two servers ask about each plate was rating. The dessert of chocolate cake was touted as home made but it was a boxed cake with a purchased frosting and not an in-house butter cream but it was not overly sweet. Hubby liked it. The best part of the dinner was the main course the worse part of the evening was the smoking on the outdoor patio. Enough to not bring us back to eat on the patio again but we would eat inside and would return.

Great food!. Having passed by this place so many times, finally decided to try it out and was I ever surprised!! Very attentive staff, with great suggestions and recommendations. All bread and pasta made in house, which definitely adds to your meal. I highly suggest the Shrimp Marinella to start. Overall great customer service and GREAT food!

Best Italian I've had in Toronto! Incredibly friendly atmosphere, and clean decor. Had the salumeria tasting, loved the cured meats and cheeses. Pasta is fresh and made in house, pizza was so good. I got the fettuccine chicken Alfredo which was perfectly creamy and rich, and my boyfriend had the prima Vera pizza which was well sauced and not dry at all. Tiramisu is also homemade and the mascarpone is light. We were served by one of the owners, who informed us that his brother and mother were doing all the cooking that night. I would highly recommend!