text: Billing itself as the Worlds Largest East Side Marios this location is the largest I have been at taking up two large floors plus bar with patio in the summers I think this place has been here for over years I prefer this location in Waterloo over the one at University Plaza that often gets a little uncomfortably busy and loud during meal times nnBoth locations are popular haunts of local university students and I had lunch here yesterday with clients and a colleague I had the Trio which is unlimited soup I had the Italian Wedding salad garden or caesar and bread for of course the softdrinks while bottomless are something like pretaxtip but that is almost par for grillbar places like this We had a late lunch at around pm and it was pretty much dead in the bar area One of the main reasons this place is popular particularly with the students is that theywe would have unlimited soup or salad with their dinner portion meals so what theywe would do was eat a few rounds of salad then take home on the actual meal itself Dinner portions now cost around pretax and tip Oh the memories nnOf course it is not nearly as cheap as it used to be but the meals are still reasonable for the area and what you get It is probably about as authentically Italian as say McDonalds pizza but the ingredients are generally fresh though prepared with the efficiency and bulk of a cafeteria and it often looks that way too