Maria's Taverna - Vancouver

Hand sanitizer on every table and every table wiped down when vacated before the next diner.

The server was attentive. The trout was cooked to perfection. The hummus was superb. Most enjoyable dinner.

Love this place. Service and food always exceptional. We sat close to the door so was cold every time it was opened.

Although we showed up to this Restaurant more than 20 minutes early for our reservation, we had a granddaughter with us. We asked the young hostess to change our reservation to 3 instead of 2 people. The restaurant was very busy but I could see from the reservation list she was waving at me that there were at least 4 tables for 2 people on her list. She said they were too busy and there was no space. I asked if we could perhaps switch with one of the 4 tables for 2 on her list and she insisted no. Another young hostess approached and stated that the restaurant could see what they could do but the first hostess insisted that there was nothing that could be done. The second young lady rolled her eyes at us and turned around and walked away. We found the extremely non-helpful attitude displayed was very disrespectful and so we had to cancel our reservation and walk away. We managed to eat at another Italian restaurant several blocks away who were also serving a Dine Out Menu and had no problem accommodating the 3 of us. We will not be returning to this restaurant and will be mentioning our negative experience to all of our friends and family.

My first impression was them catering for our wedding impressed! My second impression was eating at their restaurant equally impressed!