Marinelli’s Pasta Bar

At first We split the Caesar salad and cheese sticks. Both were good but after that it went downhill. My ravioli arrived at room temperature. If that. I’m not one to usually send food back but I’ve never received food that cold so I did. When they brought back the pasta I noticed that one of the raviolis did not even have cheese not the middle! I was frustrated since I already sent back the food once. My third ravioli had something hard (plastic?) in it! I was so disgusted that I couldn’t eat anything else. My boyfriend said his meal was just eh as well, def not worth the price. The server was very nice though and comped my pasta as well as a desert and took a discount off the rest of the food.

I took my mother for her birthday to Marinelli’s restaurant they just finished a remodel The food was very enjoyable and the customer service was impeccable… I would recommend this place to anyone that is looking for a quiet well crafted Italian meal…
Ask for Laura as your server, she made excellent recommendations and took great care to make my mother feel super special on her birthday thank you…

Great food, I was here for a convention, sat at the bar where you can watch the chefs in action. Great choice, chef Erika does a great job.
Had the Halibut 2 nights with spinach and broccolini. Also had shrimp scampi which was great, 3 large whole shrimp.

The spaghetti and meatballs was terrible. Very watery sauce, meatballs did t taste like any kind of meat that I’ve had. Pasta was blah, seemed over cooked. Save your money and just hit up a Olive Garden instead.

What a disappointment! I have always like the M Resort. It used to be the best Buffett in town. I had wanted to go to Marinellis Italian restaurant as I wanted some great looking food you see in gangster movies. However, some the Marnelli lost control of this once great resort things have fallen apart. To begin with Italian restaurant has been relocated and gone from a family style to gourmet with small portions. 4 waiters standing around with our meals sitting ready and appetizer at same time? Food was OK. Nothing special. Not worth $ 19 for a small pasta dish.

Plain Jane pasta shop. Bread bowls are served cold. Bread may have spent to much time in the microwave at some point. Olive oil is the thin cheap stuff on the table. Not the thick rich bursting with flavor kind you may have come to expect from a vegas resort. Once again, vegetarian options had been limited.
We had shared a salad and pasta penne dish. The salad popped with flavor and was surprisingly good. The penne was also pretty good in a zesty red sauce. When it comes to past I just expect something near perfect and anything less is… well a letdown.
We ended up going off property to eat after our first visit.

My husband and I were really looking forward to eating here. However, we ended up walking out of the restaurant because after patiently waiting for 30 minutes, they didn’t even come by to get our drink order. Don’t waste your time and go somewhere else where they actually appreciate your business.

I ordered chicken parmesan. I’ve had better. I was disappointed that it did not include any pasta, in a restaurant with the word pasta in its name. Any other place I’ve had this meal included pasta/​spaghetti so I assumed they would as well. It’s so inexpensive for them to add a little pasta. If by chance l do go back I will order something else but will likely eat elsewhere.

This review is based strictly on the food. It is poorly prepared, tastes horrible, and is an insult to Italian dining.
How they get away with charging people to eat here will forever be beyond me.
If you enjoy overcooked pasta. Sour tasting dry veal. Dry salmon that tastes like chicken. This is your spot, if not, I suggest finding another place to eat.

Don’t go there! All the sauces taste the same too spicy and the pasta is undercooked. Vodka sauce is the worst!

Very limited menu. They started out with a really cold bread roll which was an omen. We ordered the caprese salad which had tons of arugula (but no basil), tasteless unripe tomatoes and uneven pieces of mozzarella. The white bean soup was tasteless. The beans were undercooked and the soup was under seasoned. The calamari was average. The penne a la vodka was good; however my penne was swimming in the sauce. My partner had the spaghetti with meatballs. He said his was average. The pasta was al sentence. The meatballs were okay. Nothing to write home about. At least the service was good.

I ate at marinelli’s pasta bar last night for a late Christmas dinner with my girlfriend, the pasta was great. Our entrees were chicken piccata and veil marsala they were really well made dishes. What I most enjoyed was the pasta which is additional but well worth it because it really completes the dish since they pour the sauce over it. The sauce was a little watered down but all in all they were both pretty good.
Now my biggest disappointment was the calamari which was an epic fail. I took one bite and had to spit it out. It was rubbery, not crispy the batter didn’t taste well. It really made for a bad first impression.
When it comes to the service it was really great. He checked up on us often and treated us very well so the service really elevated this rating. I don’t think I will be making it back to this pasta bar doesn’t have much to draw you back.

This is another 3.5 star restaurant on Unilocal that I feel is a little more deserving of 4 — 4.5 stars rather than the 3.5 it actually has.
As you can see by my checkins, I’ve been here a couple times. I started coming here right before they moved. I was actually quite worried because I had fallen in love with one of their dishes and was told by my waiter that the restaurant was closing for remodeling in a week and they weren’t sure if they would even have a Marinelli’s at the M Resort anymore. Just my luck! And whatever they were putting there was top secret and even staff wasn’t privy to what was happening. I was so bummed because I had finally found a place where I could get my pasta with vodka sauce craving in check, as evidenced by the Unilocal tip I left here & now, in the blink of an eye, everything was all in limbo.
Well… what ended up going down was that they remodeled the old Marinelli’s spot and gave that space to the new Jayde Fuzion restaurant and moved Marinelli’s to where the old Anthony’s Oyster Bar once was & renamed it Marinelli’s Pasta Bar.
I was pleased to see that I didn’t lose my beloved restaurant after all! I have major issues with losing a faved place to order Penne ala Vodka ever since Ago in the Hard Rock closed down. I still have yet to recover from that whole experience and have been searching high and low for a similar place to get my fix ever since. So… I always order the same thing here. I get the Penne ala Vodka off the menu but then I get all high maintenance on them and have them add prosciutto (to make it like the dish I fell in love with at Ago) along with roasted garlic slices & crushed red pepper flakes. I recommend my fave concoction with a glass of the Prisoner wine. I also really enjoy their Caprese Salad.
Service is excellent here… Particularly if you sit at the bar. The seating is very comfortable and there’s plenty of room, so you aren’t giving up anything by sitting at the bar as opposed to a table. Plus, if you need anything, there are at least two chefs right there cooking in front of you that you can ask as well as your waiter.
I must say a big thank you to the M Resort for keeping Marinelli’s around. I am going to keep patronizing their restaurant for as long as I am eating carbs. :)

I tried.
The space is beautiful and upscale; suggestive of competing with those other joints further north on LV Blvd. The views are great. And we had a lot of people «attending» to our table. Those are the hits… all three of them.
We were here on a Thursday night for a birthday dinner. There were three other dining parties seated throughout the restaurant. Despite it being that empty, not a single table was seated near a window to take advantage of the sunset view… but perhaps that’s just how things are done.
To service the four dinner parties were several waitstaff: it appeared we had two servers and two bussers assigned to our table. Unfortunately, we did not see them very often past the appetizer course. Maybe they got to go home. Maybe they went on break. Maybe it was the fact that we were there for three hours.
Three hours can be broken down (roughly), as follows: 30 minutes to place our order, 30 minutes for our appetizers to come out, almost another hour before we received our entrees and 30 minutes to get desert (which we also asked for the check concurrently so that we could leave). Keep in mind we had two kids with us, who, by the time their BUTTERED NOODLES came out 2 hours after we were seated, were absolutely famished and inhaled their dinner. I guess we should have asked for the noodles to come out with the appetizers (our bad), but who would’ve though it would take ONE HOUR for entrees to follow the apps?
So, needless to say we weren’t all that happy about the service and timing of the food delivery. That in and of itself does not warrant 2 stars. To say the food was a disappointment is far too kind. The salad appetizers were decent… just salads. The calamari was cooked nicely and had a really good lemon sauce. Out of the five different entrees, only one was good: the osso bucco had a good sauce and was fairly tender… though the accompanying risotto was severely overcooked. The lobster and shrimp risotto (ordered by two people) were also overcooked and had absolutely no texture to them, on top of smelling overly fishy and tasting like sea water… in other words: inedible.
I really wanted to like this place. Even though the food was sub-​par, the restaurant was was nicely decorated. But I already said that didn’t I? Oh well, I tried.

Staff was rude.
Thank God at least our food was delicious… we had penne alla vodka, linguini con vongole, alaskan halibut, and lobster and shrimp risotto.

Excellent service! Great hospitality and good food.

This was our first time staying at the M and dining at Mainelli’s. I have to say we had an incredible meal here on Saturday. Our service was excellent, the prices reasonable and the food exceeded our expectations.
All 5 of us had different menu items and we all agreed that each item was excellent. In my opinion, if you are looking for a good Italian dinner you will be very happy with this choice.

3.5 stars
Came here for the first time as a party of 7 for a friend’s birthday party. The setting is intimate with comfortable and simplistic décor and live piano entertainment. When we arrived to check in with our reservation there was no one to seat us for a couple of minutes. This is a big no-​no to me. I think someone should always be manning that front area. But once we were greeted it was service with a smile from there on out.
Our server gave us space and time to look over the menu while never leaving us alone for too long.
I ordered the four cheese ravioli and, although the sauce and ravioli were delectable, I ended up not being fulfilled. I admit, I’m not one of those «I’ll have a salad and a diet coke» kind of girls, so I may not be the best judge of this, but I felt my portion was too small and I was actually still hungry afterwards. The ravioli are not large and there were 6 of them. As far as fine dining goes, the prices were not horrible but, for the price of the dish, I hoped to be satiated at the end of the meal.
The guest of honor was given a complimentary crème brule and the musician sang happy birthday for him and personally greeted him towards the end of our meal. A very nice touch.
The wait staff was very attentive and service was terrific all night. They were very gracious when the birthday boy was mistaken on a type of wine he ordered and they happily returned the bottle and helped to figure out which one he was thinking of.
Overall nice décor, good service and food, but prices and portions don’t seem to match.

Met some friends here for a surprise birthday dinner.
The restaurant ambiance was very pleasant. Everything was clean and spacious. Our waitress was absolutely wonderful. She was very attentive and gave us great service throughout our meal.
I had the Pacific Salmon. The portion size was good. It wasn’t overly filling but enough to satisfy my appetite. It was cooked perfectly but lacked in flavorful sauce or marinade. I had expected a little more for a $ 30 piece of salmon without sides.
I suppose the average meal brought down my rating for this restaurant. This was our first visit to this restaurant. I can always give it a second chance and see if they can bring up my rating.

Came here on a Friday night with a date after hearing that the butternut squash ravioli was pretty good (which my date agreed with).
The setting here is very nice, with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the pool area and Vegas skyline and modern décor (similar to the resort itself).
I ordered the lasagna which was OK. I was disappointed with the portion size being small and not very fulfilling. It also was a lasagna which didn’t have many layers and was very cheesy making the meat separate a bit. Bread and oil was served before the course as well.
The service here was crazy inconsistant. Refills were prompt and prior and during the meal the waiter was very attentive and checked on us frequently (almost too much) But then when it came to get the check he took forever to drop it off and pick it up (approx 15 min). We were trying to catch a movie @ South Pointe and ended up having to re-​route to Town Square because of this.
I think the ambiance is awesome, the food can be found better at another restaurant in town and the delay in service left a bad ending impression.