This place sucks. The wait staff is rude. The decor is gaudy and tacky. If it wasn't for all the salt in the food that would be tasteless as well. Unless you order a beer or a glass of wine (which is almost impossible to screw up) you're pretty safe otherwise forget it. This place wants nothing more then to cater to singles trying to hook-up with one another like its Spring Break. When they have bands or performers (if you can call them that) scheduled they charge you a pretty high cover at the door. What for? Who do you think you are? This place is nothing more than a steaming bowl of s**t. Which would taste better then what they serve. If you're thinking of going to this place do yourself a favor. Order a pizza and watch a movie. You'll be glad you did.
Review Source:I will be back only because I like very thin pizza and because there are very few other restaurants in the suburbs. My husband, the nice one, said 3 stars, I would say more like 2. We ordered food, we waited,........ we WAITED and we WAITED a little longer. After about 20-30 minutes the waitress told us our food was going to take a long time because of the large private party in the other room. So we WAITED longer...... I was thirsty, was never offered a refill drink, WAITED some more,....... asked for some bread since it had now been about 45 MINUTES since we ordered, ........WAITED some more, asked for some bread again since we didn't get it after the first time and since it was then about an HOUR since we had ordered, WAITED some more......drank my husband's water.....watched our waitress pass by many times with other people's food......finally after about an HOUR AND A HALF we got our pizza, then finally got the bread. My hot oil pizza was way too spicy. Will order a different kind next time. Waitress comped our coffee, but she should have bought us a round of drinks or dessert after that kind of service, am I right?
Review Source:Great restaurant / bar / club. There is a full stage setup for live band. Aesthetics & decoration very nice. Simple but with attention to detail. Staff is friendly. Service is good and drinks are well made. Atmosphere was comfortable. I did not see any reason to give this place a bad review as other people have...
Review Source:I don't know what is going on with this place....maybe because it is one of the few places in town with a bar, that is what keeps the parking lot full. We went for lunch, sat down...asked to order a hamburger for my elderly Mom and could we have it on something other than an english muffin and the answer was a fast NO. This is NOT customer service. As I looked at the other sandwiches, I asked that she have some of the bread or rolls they were served on. What a crock....this should not have been an issue. Overall, the food was mediocre but the service for a $60 lunch for 3 people with no booze was poor. A smile does not take much effort. I was a waitress for many yrs during my college days....don't treat your customers like they are an intrusion in your day...they pay most of your income.
If in the same area, go a block closer to town and eat a Gianni's and the added bonus of a better food and service is they are attached to a bakery so as you leave you can get some treats!
Husband and I went here one evening. Â Pulling up we though this place is huge and has lots of cars in the lot it must be good.
First we went in the wrong door and had to walk through the bar (which was crowded) to the restaurant (almost completely empty) which was a bit odd but our error. Â We get to the dining room and it is decorated with so much red leather looking stuff and blown glass. Â While each piece was nice the overall effect was jarring.
The service was off, our waiter spent a lot of time sitting at the small bar in the dining room.  He didn't seem interested in bringing our drinks. food, or check  in a timely manner.  When serving my appetizer he accidentally dipped the back of his hand into the sauce on my dish.  He laughed and said, well don't worry my hand are clean and left it on the table.  I wasn't impressed.
On top of that the food was not good, we didn't finish our appetizers or entrees and left knowing we would not be returning.
Went there yesterday for lunch and we had an extra visitor on the chair next to us who no one knew. His name was Mr Cockaroche and he was alive. The waiter came over after I waived him down and he got a napkin and scooped him up. Needless, to say we lost our appetite. Also, one person in our group had paper in her food, she got her food for free. Marisa's has gone downhill.
Review Source:I was disappointed. Â When we first walked in, the only available seating offered was a small section with high bar stools. Â I was treating my elderly mom for her birthday. Â High bar stools was not going to work (DUH)! The hostess was clueless and hesitant to sit us at a more "comfortable" table! Â I will say that the food was good, although they forgot the salad that my mom ordered. Â Service & accommodations, terrible. Food not so bad.
Review Source:Don't know what all the hype is about.
Marisa's is competent, if a bit pricey, Italian food. Â The bar area is extremely narrow and loud, and it's hard to move around. Â There is better (and worse) food nearby.
Service is good, but the portions could be more generous.
All-in-all, very average.
I work in a doctors office and we sometimes will get lunch from drug reps. I tried to order the soft shell crab which they didn't have (no problem). I ordered the butternut squash ravioli and I was splitting the Shanghai calamari. My ravioli came in the form of DRY almost raw wheat pasta (or what looked to be wheat), raw butternut squash pieces, and it was swimming in butter... The calamari was chewy and soggy.
I have a g.c. to this place and I will never use it because the prices they charge for cafeteria food is outrageous.
Was a little skeptical eating here after reading some recent reviews...but armed with our $50 coupon for $25.....in we went. Walked right in on a saturday night with no reservations. I sense the bar area is still very active..the restaurant part just so-so. I just surmise  its a restaurant that has seen better days. Our meals were fine....i had the $35 prime rib saturday night special.....it was gargantuan and very good. You don't see slabs of beef like this in many spots any more. Wife had some pasta dish with butternut squash and said she enjoyed it. waitress(Linda) was very nice and accomodating. mashed potatoes(extra) were buttery and tasty...string beans cooked perfectly. bread very good. just believe the restaurant needs a face lift and the dinner crowds will return. thumbs up....tonight at least!
Review Source:The food is terrible, and that's putting it nicely. I went for a private function so I'm not sure if the restaurant part is any better but I doubt it. Their pasta is gluey with very little sauce, the chicken parm was overcooked and tasted like frozen garbage. Is it even possible to overcook microwavable chicken? If it is, Marisa's manages it. The vegetables aren't terrible, but they have way too much oil. Just skip it unless you're getting drinks.
Review Source:Man, as I read some of these reviews I was taken aback. Â I like this place. Â OK, I am not a foody but appreciate a decent restaurant. Â We come here maybe once a month as my wife is a fan of the Veal Marisa and I am more eclectic and try different items. Â My last was a stuffed swordfish and it was pretty good. Â The fish wasn't overdone and was stuffed with cheese and peppers and covered with tomato chunks. Â And there was a side of fresh green beans. Â Their menu is quite large with a full page of appetizers and they seem to keep up with current trends. Â I admit I like the calamari. Â Drinks are good size and they don't rip you off. Â If you want to dip your toes then go to the bar for drinks and bar food. Â What, you want a five star gourmet restaurant? Hey, this is Trumbull. Â But I still like the place.
After an absence of a few months we stopped in for dinner but something has changed. The bar was busy as usual and there were quite a few diners but the food was a bit off: way too much salt. And the service was a bit brusque. Drinks were still a good size but when I go out to a restaurant, the food is my concern. New chef? Or perhaps to push the booze, sodium content has been significantly raised. Will stop in again to see if dinner was a fluke or a flop. For the time being I have reduced my rating to three stars.
Horrible - Steer clear from this place. Â The word "Tasteless" describes my entire experience. Â This was once a decent restaurant but has taken a nose dive since the owners let their son manage the place. Â My last trip to Marisa's was truly - my last.
This restaurant is broken out into three sections. Â A typical dining room, a bar area in the center room, and then a large back room that starts off as a dining room and then is raucously flipped into a makeshift nightclub setting when the band starts setting up. Â This is the room where our large party (about 20 people) was seated. Â The way this room is decorated blows my mind. Â There are about five different hideous glass light fixtures that look like they were purchased at a bad art deco closeout sale. Â They're scattered aimlessly around a disco ball along with an additional six +/- cylindrically shaped fixtures made of glass balls. Â I'm not exactly sure what look they were trying to accomplish here. Â Sadly, this room did have the potential of being nice with the surrounding high windows and spacious area. Â
In past visits, the service has been terrible there but the waitress serving us that night was very pleasant and attentive. Â I ordered the butternut squash ravioli in a sage butter sauce - translation, a pool of oil. Â The dish had no flavor and the pasta was rubbery. Â The best I can say is that the food came out piping hot, rightly so as I am pretty sure it had just come out of the microwave. Â
When we were done with dinner and dessert, a few members of our party left. Â A group of us stayed to listen to the band that had set up and have a drink. Â A few chairs were now open including the chair next to me. Â Out of nowhere, two thugs (one, wearing a ratty T-shirt) came over and hastily grabbed our empty chairs, taking them away. Â In the process, my handbag was dumped off the chair and under the table. Â Upset about my things being thrown on the floor, I asked him what the hell he was doing. Â The way he was dressed, it didn't occur to me that he was employed there. Â He responded first by reluctantly barking 'Sorry', like a child who had been forced to apologize. Â I then asked him why he was taking our chairs and his retort was, 'If you don't like it, Get Out.' Â Taken back by this remark, I told him to get out (yes, the best I could come up with at the moment). Â His response - 'I don't have to get out, I'm the owner' and then stormed away while calling me an asshole. Â Several others witnessed this and also could no believe what they heard. Â
It was later explained to me that this person was the owners' son - evidently trying to be somebody. Â As far as I am concerned, he is an embarrassment to his family's business and hasn't yet learned the word 'shame'. Â Although the parking lot is frequently full at Marisa's, the bar crowd is most likely what is keeping this place afloat. Â That, and the fact that there aren't many places to go in Trumbull. Â
Moral of the story, go where your business is appreciated. Â Golden child lost a lot of customers that night.
I've been there a few times and it's always been 'eehh', but there's a particular experience I had there which inspired me to take it to Yelp.
I went there for a nice Italian dinner and they had bracciole for a special. Now I LOVE a good bracciole, and it's almost always good anytime I've had it so I ordered it, even though it was about 26.00, which is pretty expensive for Marissa's and for what you're getting.
Well, it was not good, at all - but that's not what threw me, it was that the bracciole, was microwaved. I don't mean maybe it was, I'm certain. The meat had a rubbery texture and that microwaved flavor (beef, pork, and lamb all get a certain flavor when microwaved, not sure why), the centers were napalm hot, while the outside was fairly cool.
I couldn't believe it - an Italian restaurant has microwaved their bracciole!
I can't imagine a more cynical act for a chef. What it told me was that they really just didnt care. Any Italian chef who would do that, has no pride in his cooking and needs to move along to retirement or worse.
Went here tonight for the first time and it was not a good choice.  The decor was silly and the service was not good.  We ordered a bottle of white wine and it was served to us warm and without a chiller.  We asked the server to put our wine on ice to chill it up and she did not return with it until we asked for the bottle along with the check.  We ordered appetizers and  my husband's salad arrived but my salad followed after my husband had finished his. (10 min.).  We also ordered the crab cake and it tasted like it had been frozen.  Our entree were okay but not great. Definately not worth the price.  We will not be going back.
Review Source:A story of buts....
Bolognese was good but the pasta was a little rubbery.
Philly cheese steak spring roll was good but just not enough considering the pools of sauce it comes with.
Spinach dip was yummy but served with stale tortillas chip from the bag.
Would go back... But....
Other:
Our first server was so nice... she ate dinner at the terminal while we watched and wanted to order so we could join her. She left us mid-meal, and another server took over, as I suppose she didn't enjoy the fact we wanted to send back our philly cheese-steak spring roll because we were under the impression it was $12 dollars.
Second server was very nice, attentive, and pleasant.... I hope she got the 20% as she actually stuck with us til the end ;)
Extremely "meh". I am consistently flabbergasted by the number of cars parked outside. Mediocre at best. Tries to be all things to all people and ends up being not a lot to most. $16 for sliders served only with an old, oxidized, wilted red onion. Barriers to entry are not exactly high in the restaurant world. Somebody please create a better restaurant nearby and steal half of the cars in the parking lot. The zombified patrons of Marisa's are begging you to put them out of their misery, even if they don't know it yet.
Review Source:This is the first negative review I've done on yelp, so let me be clear: DO NOT come to this restaurant. I will keep this brief:
CRUSTY, dirty silverware on my table
Bread arrived during the entree (not before the APPETIZER) and had
MOLD in it!
My waitress vehemently denied the bread having mold in it, even after I showed her the bread...smh.
I was not greeted at the dining room, instead the host answered MY questions of how she was doing and if we could have a table...???
I will not return here and their only saving grace was the perfectly cooked asparagus.
I'd like to relate the very poor dining experience we endured at Marisa's
We reserved the Red Room for 15 people at 7:30 p.m. Upon arrival, we were informed our table would not be ready for 10-15 minutes, and that the 10 of us could wait in the small front foyer if we chose - where we were continually pushed and shoved by in-and-out traffic. Nearly an hour later, we were escorted to our "table"...though not in the Red Room since it was still occupied by dining patrons. Instead, we were asked to wait at the bar where we were treated as though we were in the way of your waiters and waitresses as we endured another 75 minutes of trampling and shoving and rude attitudes by the wait staff before we were able to be seated.
One chair shy, a few in our party was forced to be seated awkwardly at a makeshift extension round table. As a good faith gesture, a tray of shots were sent to our table, alas, some members of our party are recovering alcoholics and several simply abstain. The gesture, obviously, went to waste since we were never asked if we would even want a tray full of shots.
Our waiter attempted to take orders from 15 people without pen and pad. Naturally, food requests were forgotten and he was asked twice to bring a drink and a side order. Before we even managed to finish our meals and review a dessert menu, we were being forced out of our dining area by under-dressed women and party people, loud music, bouncers who began setting up a dance floor, speakers and DJ staged right next to our table. No one offered us coffee or dessert. The message conveyed was that it was time for our party to leave so the drunken brawls could begin via Trumbull's nightclub.
Wont be coming back.
Summer Thursday nights, looks like NASCAR pulled into town. Pickup night for singles and divorcees. I read all the reviews and several comments jump out that I happen to echo:
1. Stick to the bar menu...filet tips, pizza, calamari. I have yet to eat a decent meal off the main menu.
2. Expensive tap beer
3. Disjointed setup: old fashioned formal dining room, skinny bar area that is impossible to walk thru, new funky nightclub area
4. Trumbull HS and St. Joe's HS reunion night, every night. I guess that's cool if you went to one of the schools.
Bottom line...we have next to ZERO restaurant choices in Trumbull, so people go there by default. There are better sports bars, better Italian, and better live music venues. They have a little of each, just not really good at any. Too bad. The O Bar was supposed to wake them up, but I doubt they're worried. It's even worse. (sigh)
came here twice.. and this place is ok.. service was good food was just decent. there arent many restaurants in this area, so i guess you gotta do with what you have.. apparently they have two rooms, ones a bit more formal, like your normal sit down italian restaurant and the other side has open tables and a bar.
dinner- the first time i got:
- sashimi tuna over seaweed salad- defintely not what i expected. (i was expecting something more asian) however realizing i was in trumbull, i had to readjust that. the sauce was a wierd combination with the "sashimi" tuna. the tuna was seared so not really sashimi.
- linguine and clams. the clams were good however the noodles not so much. and it was a bit oily. too much sauce.
- tiramisu - cant go wrong with dessert! not the best but good.
lunch- came here with a group of coworkers. apparently the veal is supposed to be really good, however i dont eat veal so i passed. got the shrimp marinara instead. it was ok.
Not bad. Service is good. The swordfish was a little salty for my taste (and i love salt!) Not the best in Trumbull by far- but its pretty much one of like, three options in Trumby. I go with my boyfriend when we are visiting his family. The dining room is set up so weird and open......but tacky....the whole decor is tacky to me.....soooo borrring. Mauve colored tablecloths and pink old chairs with the brass backs= ew. The bar area seems more like a high school reunion and of course in each hometown, there are always one of those places. It was cool to watch boxing there.....lots of people......bartenders are friendly and fast! Okay so why do bars in CT close at 130 again?
Review Source:Sooo.....Marisa's. If you grew up in Trumbull, Monroe or any of the surrounding areas, this is where you go for an informal high school reunion. I can't go here without seeing some one I know from years ago. I've been here to eat for  catered affairs and the food was pretty good--I've never been here for a regular dinner though, so can't speak for that. The drinks are decent--strong and well priced--and the crowd is a good mix. It can get super crowded though and it is not the biggest place. For the area, it is one of the better places to hang--if you are too lazy to drive the few miles to Milford,that is!!
Review Source:I have never eaten at Marisa's and I probably never would have even known the place existed if I hadn't been sent there for a Grand Marnier promotion. Everyone was very friendly and this was probably the most "upscale" place that we attended: people actually enjoyed their Grand Marnier with dessert, as it is supposed to be! The drinks were well-made and generous and the food certainly looked fabulous. Maybe I'll go back again soon :-)
Review Source:Too bad the food here isn't nearly as good as the entertainment. Â We saw Steve D'Agostino tonight and, if you like Sinatra-esque lounge singer acts, this guy does it as well as anyone. Â But to say the food is mediocre is giving it way more credit than it deserves. Â My Caesar salad looked and tasted like it was made with mayonnaise. Â That's unforgivable, but it gets worse. Â My fettuccine bolognese (simply, fettuccine with meat sauce) was served with a heaping cold scoop of ricotta plopped smack dab in the middle of the plate. Â Ricotta? Â Are you kidding? Â What should I do with the ricotta? Â Mix it together with the warm bolognese sauce to make a tepid meat and tomato spackle? Â OK, maybe someone in the kitchen made a mistake. Â It happens. Â But when I told the waitress I wanted fettuccine bolognese without ricotta, she took the dish away and returned a few seconds later with the same dish. Â Sure, the ricotta had been scraped out and replaced with a spoonful of tomato sauce, but it was the same dish I had just rejected. Â Jeezus! Â At least pretend like you're trying to please me. Â She may as well have scraped the ricotta off onto the floor, slammed the plate back on the table and said, "There. Â Better?" Â Thanks, but no dinner for me tonight. Â And no dinner at all was better than what I was served.
The bar here is crowded and lively, but the whole place always seems a little disjointed to me; like one of those old houses that people buy and then build an addition that just never quite seems to fit right.
If you go to Marisa's, go for the entertainment, the drinks and the action, but stick to the bar menu. Â If you're in the mood for good Italian food, take a short drive to Fairfield. Â There are plenty of Italian restaurants there that would NEVER ruin a bolognese sauce with a cold scoop of ricotta.
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