Mamma Martino's
624 The Queensway, Etobicoke
It was Sunday and we were hungry. My daughter and me, and one of her best friends vanessa and our "brandon" wanted some food and I knew just the place. I was buying so it was my choice.
Here was another place that I hadn't been to for a few years and had hoped that it hadn't closed or changed. I kept my fingers crossed as we began our journey.
It was caribana weekend so we forgot the queensway bus was not in service so we had to take a shuttle bus to the lakeshore, where they dumped us in the middle of the street and told us to walk up to the other streetcar? Huh? Thank god brandon was meeting us there or we would have been arguing about directions all the way. Well of course once I got on the streetcar, I got us a little lost and we ended up getting dropped off in etobicoke somewhere, and I hailed a cab, before Devin and I got into "one" of our arguements. We arrrived finally.
So in the future, just take the 80queensway bus and it will get you right there.
It looked the same, that was a good sign. We had to wait for a table, that was another good sign. The place was packed. I was very excited!!
The decor? How do I describe it? Best way is it just looks like someone opened up their house for a hell of alot of relatives to eat, and they ran out of room. So they just put you anywhere. It works!!
For us "munchacakes", its like going to your italian friends house, when "Nona" is cooking, you are stunned you can actually walk out. You are too full to move! As I write this, we(me and dev) had totally forgotten about the food here........the size.
The mussels were awesome, vanessa and I split then, while Devin and Brandon turned up their noses at us.
We orderd salads, they were big! that's when it hit us!!
EVERYTHING WAS BIG!!!
We ordered garlic bread with cheese, and brushchetta. We were not disappointed with anything we ordered.
The portions were amazing huge! Everthing was so good.
The girls had pasta, brandon ordered a pizza, and I had veal.
We are were so full by the time our mains came, it was laughable. But it wasn't as funny as when we saw the size of brandon's pizza, and the look on his face. It was horror and his pizza was a monster! Our sides hurt just looking at it. Needless to say he ate I think only one piece and took the rest home. As did the rest of us with all the leftover's we had.
Going to this place restored my faith, in "if it ain't broke don't fix it"!!!
They know what they are doing! and they are doing it right!
They haven't changed a bit. I LOVE IT!
I know the residents of etobicoke know and love this place. It's like their own little secret. They don't want the rest of us to find out about it. But really it's not that hard to get to on transit and if you drive its easier.
I will continue to come to this place, because, its good, good italian food at it's best.
I encourage all who read this entry to go and give it a try!
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