Diners who like a place with pumped-up volume -- in plate clatter, musical entertainment and food quantity -- will be interested in this busy, fun and noisy niche toward the southernmost end of Volusia County.

Old-fashioned food does not equal a tired menu at Mario's Restaurant in Ormond Beach, as copy editor Sherry Mims and her husband, Amir Fleminger, discovered during an outing to the family-owned restaurant.