Carrabba’s Italian Grill

The food was delicious and the server was really on point.
Appetizer was the caprese salad. So good! It went perfectly with the fresh bread they brought. The mix of mozzarella, tomatoes and balsamic vinegar was delightful to my tastebuds.
I got a dish with shrimp and scallops in alla vodka sauce. It was good but presentation was just alright. Looked like a bowl of pasta I could have made at home.
My husband got something new: breaded chicken with arugula. There was also a side of fettuccine alfredo. It was a lot of food.
Overall, kinda pricey but tasty.

We had such a good time at our first wine dinner earlier in 2015 that we looked forward to our second one on December 15^th. Unfortunately the service was not up to their usual competency. It took us three times to see if we could change two of the wine pairings with each other as I think there was a goof in the menu. They had paired a very heavy red (Apothic Red) with the first course, the excellent prosciutyo-​wrapped shrimp and a light white, a NZ sauvignon blanc (Kim Crawford) with the main course of sautéed chicken breast with tomatoes and shaved Parmesan cheese. The lady running the show said that is the way it was supposed to be and would not make the switch. Finally two tries later we were able to talk to the manager after she ignored us and he said no problem. The second course was a house salad that was good but had way too much dressing. It was paired with an Estancia pinot grigio. The third course, linguine positano was very good but a little too spicy, killing the Mark West pinot noir that accompanied it. The main chicken course was very dry and cold and practically inedible. The brûlée ricotta cheesecake was excellent. The wine pours were not very generous as in previous wine pairing dinners. They were equivalent to about half a glass or less. All the wines were of very good to excellent quality.

We’ve had great food and great service both times were went. Steaks are good with the house cab. We will definitely be back to try more!

We’ve had both lunch and dinner here. It’s delicious. The service is really good. We don’t eat out much, so we’re picky about where we go, and this is one of them.

Marvelous food! The stuffed Manicotti was the best I ever tasted. Wonderful service. Made our date night so much fun.

Ignore the complaints. Had to wait on Valentine’s Day? Had a bad server who dropped the tray? That doesn’t equal 1 star. We had great service and we knew what to expect. Although a chain, the food and service consistently are outstanding. This exit had tons of Italian places, and some just pizza joints. I’m sure some of them are good, but why take the chance on the unknown when you’ve just spent hours on I-​95?

This restaurant always serves reliable and sometimes outstanding quality food with very good service. We have dined here numerous times and the food and service remain consistently very good. We especially like the Mahi Mahi Wolfe and the brushette. Sign up tor their e-​mails and you will receive some really good discounts. We got 20% off the entrée our last visit there and a free appetizer the time before.

I am so glad I took a chance and went here! It’s always a challenge going to a new place because you never want to be disappointed and feel as though you wasted your time or money, but Carrabas in Palm Coast was AMAZING! Karlie is perhaps the best server I have ever had. She was able to guide us with menu choices and give us a quick history of the restaurant. I was so pleased with the service and the food. The lobster ravioli was delightful and the peach sangria… perfect! Thanks Karlie for making our first experience at Carrabas amazing and we will be back soon!

Always fast courteous service, food is always fresh and tasty. We just had dinner there tonight as a matter of fact. The crusted Parmesan chicken was a taste sensation. Our server Mike was spot on as always. We try to dine here about once a week over the past two years and have never ever had bad service or food. Well trained staff is always friendly and professional.

The service was great! Our server Michael was the best! The black berry sangria was delicious! We went on a Monday for the dinner special and the food was okay. The dessert was delightful!!! We won’t be going there regularly but I can’t say I won’t EVER go back.

Food was good. But all down hill from there. Our waitress spilled 2 full trays of drinks at our table and behind us the wait staff dropped a huge tray of glass in which we were showered with glass chips landing all over our table including a huge chip hitting one of us in the forehead. Terrible service, but the manager did take money off our bill. Never again will I dine there. If the waitress paid more attention to what she was serving instead of what wonderful service she was going to give us, maybe they wouldn’t have spilled, and she disappeared for awhile, saying she went to her car to get a different tray because the first one was slippery. It didn’t help, that was the tray she was using when she spilled tray #2. She also kept going over the receipt to tell us to call and give her a good rating.

HORRIBLE! I wouldn’t go back there if it was the last place on earth. I went there for a team dinner. We called HOURS prior to make sure they were able to seat us with their so-​called «call-​ahead seating.» We arrived on time and although we called ahead, they had us wait an hour plus! During that time, the manager, Brian, Brad, Ted, something like that, was very rude to us. We came as a team and wanted to sit as a team and when he asked if we wanted tables all over the restaurant and we replied with a NO, he replied with a very sarcastic, inappropriate answer. He did this repeatedly over the time we waited. FINALLY, when we did get seated, it took almost 2 HOURS to get our meals. It was insane. We would have left, but at that point it was approaching 10pm and everything in the area was closing.
I wouldn’t recommend this place to my worst enemy. They can’t handle a group and more importantly, the customer service and food were atrocious. They should be ashamed of themselves and the manager is more in line to be a manager at a used car lot.
Bloomin Brands should be embarrassed of this location and close it!
CM

Great food, great appetizers and happy hour. Staff is always attentive would recommend for family and date night. Love their Monday night specials

Average 3 – 4 times a month for dinner, food always comes out hot and tasty. As working professional couple we eat out often. Service is 2^nd to none. Hands on owner, nice variety of dishes, always tasty hot and delicious. …

My wife and I, along with another couple, have eaten a lunch and a dinner here in the past month and everything, from the service to the food, was excellent. The staff was friendly, courteous and attentive. They have really improved since our experience here shortly after they opened. We pretty much decided to never go back, but we’re glad we decided to give them another try. We recommend this restaurant.

Ordered a steak cooked medium and received it well-​done. If you don’t even know the difference between a medium and well-​done steak then there’s no hope for this place. Found food to be over priced for the portion sizes and quality. Won’t be too long before this location closes at its current standard. I’d rather travel to the Daytona location than support the current standards of this location.

Visited restaurant last night (mostly because it was convenient at the time). Waiter was really friendly and attentive. Food was so lacking in quality. Calamari was returned to kitchen — Luke warm and overcooked. Second time out was the same, plus very salty. Other entrée was overdone and unappealing. Manager offered excuses and deducted one entrée from check. He was very pleasant, but we left with the feeling that it was our last visit. Too bad — remember Carrabbas as being pretty good for fast food. Opinion has since changed. Again, kudos to waiter. He was nice and we tipped him appropriately.

Good food, good service. They brought the food out cold, but we complained and they redid the whole table in record time, and it was all hot and tasty. Sometimes it’s more about how you handle things when something goes wrong, and in this case they were brilliant.

I’m not crazy about chain restaurants either but this place does not compare to any of the other Italian chains. Arrived at about 5:30 and was seated immediately. Server that we had (Steve) was friendly, knowledgeable, attentive, presentable and whatever else a good server should be. In fact, this Carrabba’s has the whole customer service idea down to a science. Everyone was friendly from the greeting when we entered to the thank you when we left; and they all sounded sincere.
My mouth was happy with all the great flavors of the food. It was fresh and well prepared. I had what amounted to a tasting menu (I forget the ‘Trio’ name they gave it) so I could taste different items. Mezaluna (half moon ravioli stuffed with chicken, ricotta and spinach in a tomato cream sauce) was especially flavorful. Chicken Bryan from the wood burning grill is topped with goat cheese, sundried tomatoes and a basil lemon butter sauce was excellent but the chicken could have been pulled from the fire maybe two minutes sooner Fish chowder was fresh and had a nice little bite to it.
Wine list is excellent but a little pricy in my opinion Great dining experience!

I love Carrabba’s! We have one in our home town that I go to and the menu is the same here… I don’t think this place has been open very long because the meal took a long time to be prepared… the manager was very apologetic and gave us a drink to pacify us… Dinner came and we loved it just as much as our home town restaurant. The portions were so large we both brought home some for left-​overs! PS I love their Sangria!