Maria's Italian Kitchen is another of America's great success stories.
It all started in Hoboken, New Jersey's Italian neighborhood, where Maria Aflano learned recipes for authentic Italian cuisine fr…
So good I couldnt resist from dashing this 2 nights in a row LOL... perfectly tender squid with a crispy and savory batter. The arrabbiata sauce option is sooo good! Perfectly spicy, tangy, zesty with heavenly chunks of garlic.
10/10 recommended
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Susie B
Local Expert • 269 contributions
Didn't like
• 3/12/26
• DoorDash order
Maria's is really full of itself. Very average food with mediocre ingredients and prepared on an average level. There's nothing authentically Italian about it. It's the same kind of cuisine as the Olive Garden. The prices at Maria's are ridiculous. That being said I ordered one of their sandwiches the other night because my Italian Market was closed. I wanted a sandwich on focaccia bread if you look at Maria's online menu it says it's on focaccia bread. What's really weird though, is there is a button that says choose Italian roll and they give you no option to turn it off it stays stuck even though the menu description right above that button says served on for katsia bread. The sandwich is almost $20 if you want french fries or chips or a small salad it is over $20. What I received was inexcusably below average. It was on a hard roll that actually hurt my mouth when I bit into it. If that weren't enough it was so dry. There was kind of an attempt to smear some pesto on it and maybe a
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Cathy G
Emerging Expert • 9 contributions
Didn't like
• 12/7/25
• DoorDash order
Eggplant parm is my favorite here but I ordered in this time and the eggplant and the pasta was put in one container with a lot of marinara covering the whole thing. All that marinara ruined the eggplant for me it.
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Linda L
24 contributions
Liked
• 5/1/23
• DoorDash order
I would have liked more garlic on my pasta. The portions were good. Everything was included and packaged really well.
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Kathleen C
29 contributions
Didn't like
• 8/25/24
• DoorDash order
I cant believe with.a 20 $ bowl of pasta you dont thr in a piece of bread . More tomatoe halves than pasta. Not order tha again
