Cafe de Marco

Terrible experience! We love exploring restaurants and I must say this has been the worst place we’ve been to on Marco Island. Manager got in a verbal altercation in front of a patron who ordered a cup of lobster bisque. The patron was in the right and the manager failed to alleviate the situation and made a scene in front of my family and everyone else in the dining room. It made us all very uncomfortable. THEN we ordered steaks medium well. They all came back rare. We had them sent back and they came back medium rare!! What a disappointment for what they charge with such horrible kitchen performance. We went on to pay our bill and had a cute 9 dollar comp! Save your money, don’t go here.

AWFUL SERVICE AND FOOD! Go to Joeys, Ciao Bella, or Snook Inn instead! REASONS TO NOT GO HERE (from a few locals of Marco): ~Took OVER 2 hours to get our main meal ~Never got my glass of wine that I ordered and the waitress kept saying it was coming. Don’t even get me started on how long it took for the beers to arrive. ~My table was charged for 10 beers but only 6 were ordered. Luckily, they fixed this when we showed it to them. ~Hardly saw our waitress. ~Waitress asked each of us what salads we wanted with our meals, however, when my group received the bill- the salads weren’t included with the meals and we were charged for each of them. So I’m not sure why she even asked us what kind of salad we wanted when we placed the order for our main entrée. ~When our waitress wasn’t anywhere to be found- we asked one of the waiters to help us find out what was going on with our order and he REFUSED! We had to wait for the waitress. ~They ran out of food for 2 of our orders but didn’t tell us until an hour later. We had to order something else. ~Food was very, very plain. No taste. Not one person at our table (out of 6 people) liked their dish. Actually, the bread and butter were good but that’s hard to mess up. ~A different waitress came by and put bread and butter on our table but then came back and picked it up and gave it to another table. We were all incredibly shocked! 15 minutes later we got our bread and butter. STORY: Arrived at the restaurant today at 6:30pm and by 8:30pm we were still waiting on our main course and my glass of wine. I had to leave since I had a toddler who couldn’t sit another minute. My husband stayed behind to box up my food which arrived around 8:45-9pm. We were with 6 other people. They also were upset with the food and the service. When my husband got home at 9:30pm and I ate my dinner- I was so disappointed. It wasn’t even worth the wait and bad service. My husband, in laws, and their friends have been here before and they said it was good in the past. We are wondering if they have new owners. Either way, we will NEVER go back! You couldn’t even pay any of us to go back here. Worst restaurant on Marco. Go to Joeys, Ciao Bella, or Snook Inn for good quality food and service. Marco island is our second home and those three never disappoint.