The following is a press release issued by America’s Best Restaurants:
Local restaurant Marino’s Pizza & Ravioli will be hosting a visit from America’s Best Restaurants (ABR) in mid-March 2024.
America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently-owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on March 15th. Popular dishes will be highlighted, along with an extensive on-camera interview with owner Michelle Marino about the restaurant’s special place in the community. The episode will be aired extensively on social media channels at a later date.
Marino has owned her family’s namesake eatery since 1996; her parents opened it in 1987. She had no restaurant experience prior to taking over, but has established the eatery as a mainstay in the area. Over the years numerous family members have also worked at Marino’s.
“A lot of my kids have worked here, my nieces, my nephews, so many different people,” Marino says. “My brother worked with me for twenty-five years.”
Pizza and Italian food is the mainstay of the eatery, and it includes freezer meals to-go and catering. The menu offers an extensive selection of homemade Italian entrees and pastas, salads, sandwiches, wings, and soup, which she sells by the quart to-go as well.
Marino does the cooking herself, and is proud of the community support she has received.
“I was probably one of the first or second pizza places around here,” Marino says. “Now there’s tons of pizza places open here in Ukiah. But I have a following of people that are regulars. I do a lot of catering, and it’s good food because it’s made with love.”
America’s Best Restaurants will be filming on location on Friday March 15th from 9 am to noon PST. The press is invited to attend. The restaurant’s finished episode premiere date will be announced on their Facebook page and will be featured on America’s Best Restaurants’ website at https://americasbestrestaurants.com/rests/california/marinos-pizza-and-ravioli.
Restaurants featured on the ABR Roadshow are found through customer nominations or by a restaurant applying to be featured at www.americasbestrestaurants.com.
About Marino’s Pizza & Ravioli: Open Tuesday through Saturday, Marino’s Pizza & Ravioli is located at 142 Talmage Rd, Ukiah CA 95482. Telephone is (707) 468-9386. For more information visit www.marinos-pizza.com.
About ABR: America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and restaurant marketing company based in Florence, KY, travels the country telling the stories and highlighting the unique food of locally owned independent restaurants as part of their ABR Roadshow. Restaurants are featured not only on ABR’s Restaurant Network of social media channels and website, but also each individual establishment’s Facebook page. With over 1000 episodes filmed, America’s Best Restaurants is the premier marketing agency for restaurant owners and operators to have their story broadcast coast-to-coast. Visit AmericasBestRestaurants.com to learn more and to view the episodes and profiles of hundreds of America’s Best Restaurants!
A miracle that place made it through covid and now they are surviving their storefront being taken over by homelessness. Thank you Marinos!!
I am at the Bottle Shop a couple times a week and constantly see human feces and used syringes on the east side. Stay strong Marinos!
Thank you recallnewscum, finally got the car wash approved to demolish it, and putting in a new one , that should help a lot.
That’s wonderful new! I love the bottle shop and Marino’s. Been going there since the 90s. You guys definitely deserved the award your getting. Keep up the wonderful job.
I remember your Philly cheesesteak place also.
Appreciate you all
I’m glad to hear the new car wash was approved. That’ll clean up this corner.
Maybe Newsome can come clean up the area like he did for Jinping before they visit. Glad she’s persevered through everything to maintain & continually put out great food & service! Congratulations!!
Marino’s pizza has ALWAYS been the best darn pizza in the west! I worked there with her parents ooh so many years ago, and then worked for Michelle who is one of the hardest workers I’ve ever worked with! Her foods show her love and dedication to her customers! She so deserves to be in the spotlight to show off her amazing foodies!!!
We love Marino’s food! The best lasagne and three bean salad to grab and go. We’ve been eating from there for years! They do close early…6pm, which seems too early for a food place.