Carrabba’s Italian Grill

Have to say that you get very good value here for the $. Thoroughly enjoyed the shrimp and scallop linguini. Definitely a step up from Olive Garden with very little difference in price.

We love Carrabba’s, but this one sucks. Took my husband here for a late lunch on his birthday (12÷23÷15). Service was incredibly slow considering we only ordered appetizers. I received my appetizer first, but my husband had to wait for his. And they were all out of one of their signature dishes… the chicken soup! We will not be returning to this one.

I ordered online — food was to be ready between 6:45 and 6:50. I arrived at 6:55. People kept getting agitated and going to the take out door to get their food. Finally at 7:30 I went to the door to get my food, still had to wait. A woman that looked like a manager came back and made a half hearted attempt to help the take-​out girl and then said she wasn’t sure what to do and said she would leave it to the take-​out girl. When I finally arrived home the food was cold. I had to heat it up in the microwave. Once heated the food was ok. This restaurant seems to have gone down hill in the last few years.

I ordered sixty dollars of food for dinner and curbside pick up. Went to get the order at the proper time. Servers were nice. Food was ready. I left a tip and went home. When i got to the Chopped Italian Salad with Chicken that i had ordered (at 15.00) i realized that they had forgotten to put the chicken on it. I called them up and told them and the person who answered the phone said «she would go and check to make sure the chicken was not in the bag»
…i’m sorry what? I dont know where the chicken i ordered is… i just know where it’s not: in the bag. She checked and found the chicken (of course) and said i could come and pick it up.
Great…this all kind of defeats the convenience of curbside pick up, but a fresh salad i can just eat the next day for lunch.
except…
When i got back up to the restaurant they handed me a bag that had the missing grilled chicken and a couple slices of bread… no new salad. So i guess i was supposed to take the fresh chicken and throw it on the salad that had now been sitting around missing its protein for going on forty minutes now.
so yeah…“meh. I’ve experienced better“
Edit: they were busy… so i dont fault the error, the solution on the other hand…

Amazing food great service and the environment is clean and amazing the people know me and they love me

I’m giving 5 stars because of Ashley in curbside. I called ahead and ordered and when I got there, there was no record of my order. When I called in 30’minutes beforehand, the woman who took my order was extremely rushed. She needed me to repeat things and I think she was very stressed out and very very busy.
Ashley apologized for the fact that my order was not only NOT ready but they didn’t even have record of it. She was a sweetheart and she got my order taken care of really quickly!
Human error happens. Caring about it and fixing it is awesome. Thank you Ashley!

Good to just grab some «Italian» for a night in with the hubby and night off from having to cook. I’m from Jersey, a transplant, so we don’t do Italian chains but Carrabba’s is the best you’re going to get down here, that I’ve found so far anyway! We have gone into this Carrabba’s before and enjoyed a nice meal with some of the rest of the family visiting us from a little further north in FL. The staff was very nice on that occasion, everything was brought promptly, and we all enjoyed our meals. You just can’t replace authentic Italian food from up north!!!

Live the chicken soup… I don’t always eat Italian but when I do… I eat at Carrabbas.

Love the chicken soup. It’s made fresh every day and you can tell. The manager stops by during the meal most days and it’s refreshing to speak to her. They treat you like family here.

Carrabba’s over the years has been a favorite of mine, until my visit this past Saturday on June 20, 2015. My friend and I sat at the bar and ordered dinner. The entire evening was a disaster from the beginning to the end. After a short wait for the bar tender to wait on us, we finally gave our drink orders. 20 minutes later… ice water (no lemons either when asked), and no drinks! She finally came back to get our order. The funny thing is, she looked absolutely clueless when we asked about our margaritas. Before we could give her our dinner order, she took our appetizer and flew off. Now it’s been about 30 minutes and margaritas finally were delivered. Someone else brought out the appetizer of coconut shrimp. When we asked the wait staff if it was cooked in peanut oil, we got a deer in the head lights look and his response was, yeah I think so. Explaining one of us had a food allergy, we then asked the bar tender, she responded with a, I don’t know. The THIRD person finally came and told us that no the oil is lard and not peanut oil. Another 15 minutes went by… the restaurant was not busy and the bar where we were sitting only had 4 other people. Finally, we called the other bar tender over and said, we need to get our dinner order in, we have a long drive ahead of us. I ordered the Salmon with steamed veggies. When it was delivered, I cut into the fish to find that it was RAW inside!!! GROSS! We had to wait another 5 – 10 minutes to get the horrible bar tenders attention. When she finally came over, she looked at it and said, «Oh.» The manager came over a few minutes later and asked me if I was alright? Me? How dumb is that? I was fine… it was there terrible cook in the kitchen that obviously didn’t know how to cook right. I sent the meal back and only ate a potato and a few veggies. Some meal! This was the sorriest Carrabba’s I have ever dined at and we will NEVER go back! The manager was a young girl, probably a college student and clearly not managerial material. Our check should have not only been covered, but they should have been apologetic and bent over backwards for us. The Salmon was RAW inside and that could make someone extremely ill. Terrible!

Food is pretty good. I like the chicken and spinach pasta they serve here. service is always good, never had a problem. Good spot.

The past few times i have eaten here the food and the service was amazing. But tonight it all was nothing but a disappointment and awful. I was there celebrating my mothers birthday. And i feel bad that she had to celebrate here. Our server seemed like she could careless about anything and would rather be anywhere else. I would tell you her name but she never told us. Never mind after looking at my receipt it was Jennifer C. Well i explained i didn’t know what one of the side items was and i fumbled how to pronounce it. But instead of telling me what the item was (no description on the menu as well) she chose to correct my pronunciation and didn’t explain anything about it. When asked about the soups, she rattled them off so fast and under her breath my husband just answered «yes that one». To which she stated «which one did you want.» we all looked amazed that she gave more than one option since we couldn’t understand her. My food was bland. Like the service. When we mentioned it was my mothers birthday, the server just ignored us. I then had to ask «umm do you do anything for birthdays». Needless to say we got a melted sundae. Probably because service was horribly slow. And the building wasn’t busy. The bathroom was disgusting, and on my way back to my table, i got cut off by multiple waitresses that didn’t have anything in there hands or I would have understood, or even a excuse me gestured. One actually cut me off as I was walking and stopped less than a foot in front of me to where I had to walk around the restaurant to get back to table. And again no excuse me or anything. Awful experience.

The salad and the wine were great, we ordered a pasta and the salmon, the tomato based pasta was extremely watered down and then the pesto pasta that came with the salmon was extremely oily

We, a family of 6, of which 4 are teenagers, didn’t want Olive Garden! It was our first time at a Carrabba’s and we couldn’t say enough positive. We had 5 different entrees and we were all very pleased, and very surprised, at how good everything was. We didn’t have any expectations-​good or bad, and went in with an open mind. The staff was pleasant, efficient and on top of everything. We would go back in a heartbeat.

Way better than Olive Garden! More authentic vibe; I recommend sitting at the grill, you might get hooked up with some free «taste testing»!

5÷17÷2014
Went to this Carrabba’s for a friend’s birthday on a Saturday night and prom night to boot. Line was out the door, as expected, and we had to wait about 45 minutes to get a table. Inside it was jam packed with people. Walked over to the bar to kill the pain of waiting and it was stacked 2 deep with people waiting on drink orders, but the bartender acknowledged me and told me he’d be right with me.
We had a party of 12 people and the service was perfect. We had two ladies who were waiting our table and they were friendly, prompt, and on time with every course. No asking for drink refills, they were right there.
Excellent food, super customer service on a busy night with the chaos of prom to go along with it. 5 stars.

Ok I should hit myself with a ball peen hammer for expecting something from this place.
I’ll sum it up. I’ve never tasted saltier food ever. Poor service and sad sad food.
Uggh

First, let me say that this is one of my favorite restaurants, go there often. The rating is for a dish on their new $ 15 or less menu.
Today I thought I would order something new, instead of my usual favorites. So I chose the Baked Ravioli Parmesan dish. The ravioli has 5 Italian cheeses, that have been Panko breaded, deep fried, baked, and a small amount of pomodoro sauce. It is bad!
I think it was in the fryer too long, it was hard, crunchy and dry. Save your money on this entrée! Did I mention it is bad?!

I have eaten at several Carrabba’s. I have never had a disappointing experience eating there, until last night.
My friend popped into town unexpectedly for a visit. We wanted to take him out to dinner. I figured why not take him to Carrabba’s, it’s good. No, it was not good. It was a poor choice on my part.
We were seated quickly which was really nice. Our waitress came over & took our drink order. She was only gone a few minutes & came back with the drinks. We told her that we needed a few minutes more minutes more to look over the menu. The restaurant was not busy. We wanted to have a nice leisurely meal. Five minutes later the waitress came back over & asked me what I wanted to order. No, she did not ask if we were ready to order. Basically we got the idea we were ordering THEN.
My husband wanted the wood grilled salmon & she told us that it takes too long to cook! So, he ordered the grilled salmon. My friend & I placed our orders. A moment later the waitress came back with a basket of bread. We asked for some butter. She told us that it might take a while to get the butter because, «the pizza chef is busy.» I have no idea what the pizza chef has to do with it. Our food arrived in about 15 minutes, That was pretty quick! After our food was put on the table we again asked for butter. The waitress said that she would be right back with the butter. In approximately 15 more minutes the waitress came back to the table & asked us how everything was. We told her everything was good except we sure could use some butter. We finished our meal. The food was good but, we never did get the butter. If I go there again to eat I guess I will need to remember to bring my own butter so that I don’t inconvenience the pizza chef. On the way out the door we told the host about the butter issue. He gave us the oddest look. So remember BYOB… Bring your own butter to Carrabba’s!

Love Carrabba’s! We go every Christmas Eve without fail. That’s not the only time we go though. We love their Scotty Thompson as an app. This is goat cheese medallions on marinara sauce with toasted slices of bread. It’s creamy deliciousness is perfect!
The minestrone soup is the best I’ve ever had. Take that Olive Garden. I have tried to do the copy cat recipe and it’s close, but not Carrabba’s.
I always have trouble with picking an entrée, but that seems to be my pattern every where I go. I’m an appetizer person apparently. I have tried the chicken Parmesan and it’s good, not great, but good and it comes in small or large portions. I do like the manicoti and mezzaluna, they never disappoint. My husband usually gets the stuffed chicken marsala or the chicken bryan. He never has a complaint.
My favorite thing about Carrabba’s is the dough they give to children. I remember coming in here when I was younger and getting the dough to make into whatever I wanted and the chef’s would throw it into the oven to cook and bring it back to the table for me to eat. It’s their way of bring the kids into the kitchen.
Also, if you sit at the bar, you get to try things. Little bit of this, little bit of that, this way you’ll come back and try something different next time. I love the homey feel you get at Carrabba’s the service is always pleasant. I love this location, and the people who work there.

Can’t really give it a rating as we waited 40 minutes for a table, gave up and left. but I will say, I called ahead for a table, they say they couldn’t find it. Hostess area needs to have someone that knows what they are doing. Crowded beyond belief.
Went down the road to La Porta’s got seated immediatly and the food was great.

One of my favorite Italian restaurants. We only had to wait 10 minutes because we called ahead. Once we where seated our waitress came quickly and got our drinks. After that she was kinda slow. Once we ordered our food we got our entrees in about 20 minutes. The food was delicious. The food was more than we could eat so we had to get to go trays. Our waitress overall did very well. I may not go back to this Carrabba’s again but I will definitely go to another one.