text: Yawn After an unsuccessful attempt to hit Mardenelys in Mesa tonight it is out of business we wound up at Mac Grill I knew what we were getting into as I have been in a few of these joints in the past I had a salad and bowtie pasta in meat sauce with sausage The pricing is tame but the salad is not included so by the time you get to the bottom line the pricing is not so hot especially for the quality of the food The salad was fine but the pasta was a weaksauce effort The sauce had NO flavor right in league from what I would expect from Stauffers It was thick with ground meat but it too was completely without flavor and was rubbery to boot I almost thought my sausage had been left out but closer inspection showed it was there along with the ground beef and had so little flavor that I could not distinguish it from the ground beef I would give the food a star review and I will round to only because the server was pleasant and attentive If you cannot even ace a bowl of bowtie pasta something is seriously wrong Time to find another local option for Italian