Mario Luigis Downtown

East side and good dining do not usually go in the same sentence, but seriously people. Not to be a food snob, but this is not italian. In fact, I would not be wrong in saying that Olive Garden has more inspired dishes than this place.

Service has never been good here, and the food is just plain bad. Why do I get wilted lettuce every time with my salad?

Why do you serve freezer burnt chicken????

Why is the Chicken Picatta an ugly oily mess.

Don't get me started.

I really don't like to rag on the mom and pops, but this gives everyone a bad name. Blah.

The food is good Italian food.  If you like Italian sausage, the lasagna is good (if you don't, you're going to be disappointed!  It has plenty in it).  They have arancini as an appetizer, which you don't see in a lot of places - and it's delicious!

The only negative is that the service can be slow.  Our waitress was hustling all night, but it seemed that they understaffed the servers - don't go here if you're in a rush to catch a movie or something of the sort.

After visiting the downtown Mt Clemens location over the years I figured we give the new Hall Rd location a try.  It's a brand new location and looks exactly the same as if they just picked up and moved all the decor to the new location. Not exactly sure why you want to make it exactly the same? I was expecting something updated, fresh, new, exciting, but that not the case.

It was a Friday night and the place was fairly busy, no waiting we were seated in a booth and greated right away. We started with some calamari, nothing to right home about a little rubbery. This is were it kinda made me have a flash to the show on Food Network Restaurant Impossible , the wife's Chicken Marsala was not what she expected kind of look like some one dumped some canned gravy with canned mushrooms over some chicken for a hefty 18.00

I ordered the whitefish siciliano it was nothing like what I was expecting, kind of way overdone crusted/battered fish.

I wish I would have stuck with ordering a pizza, I could see Robert from Restaurant impossible critiquing this place.