- Jan 3, 2001
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I just went to Carrabba's Italian Grill for the 3rd and final time. They pass themselves off as "authentic family recipes", but about everything on their menu is "blah" at best. The sauces and recipies are overseasoned and doused with way too much wine to cover up the fact that they really have no flavor at all. Here's a summary:
1st visit: Got Chicken Marsala, wife got Pasta Weesie. Marsala was bland and tasted strongly of alcohol (it's supposed to cook off while baking), chicken was a flavorless sponge swimming in the sauce. Wife's pasta was so overpowered with basil that she couldn't taste anything else. She complained and the manager let her pick out anything on the menu. We politely refused because we didn't want to wait, but the manager insisted. Got a Margherita pizza on the manager's recommendatation- it was a greasy baked wad of dough with tomatoes and basil (which would have been fine if IT TASTED LIKE ANYTHING).
2nd visit in Orlando Florida: Got Lobster Ravioli- it was so overcooked and sat on a hot plate so long that it stuck the plate and the edges became hard. Again, the sauce was overpowered with wine and spices, while whole pieces of uncooked garlic cleared your sinuses if you bit into one (the waitress claimed "the dish is supposed to be like this").
3rd visit: Got give cards from Christmas, so we used them up. We got chicken and spinach cannelloni (which I make myself at home). They were stuffed with a sliver of chicken, and the FUNKIEST fontina cheese I've ever had. My wife will eat a chunk of feta and blue cheese like nothing, but this tasted like eating 3 day old sweat socks, and the taste would not leave...ugh!!! Again , we mentioned that it doesn't taste right, and the manager let us pick out anything from the menu. We settled on a Pasta Sotsanza, which tasted like bland spaghetti with huge flavorless shrimp and way too much basil. We got a $8.00 dessert (Sogno di Cioccolata), which must be Italian for "stacked .50 Little Debbie's Brownies, whipped Jell-O pudding in the middle, and covered with Quik chocolate syrup".
Absolutely one of the worst places I've eaten at. I wouldn't be so hard on them if they didn't try to make themselves look so "high class", but they honestly believe they're like a 4 star restaurant, when in reality you'd get better food from the frozen isle at Sam's Club.
Cliffs: Carrabba's food is awful :|
1st visit: Got Chicken Marsala, wife got Pasta Weesie. Marsala was bland and tasted strongly of alcohol (it's supposed to cook off while baking), chicken was a flavorless sponge swimming in the sauce. Wife's pasta was so overpowered with basil that she couldn't taste anything else. She complained and the manager let her pick out anything on the menu. We politely refused because we didn't want to wait, but the manager insisted. Got a Margherita pizza on the manager's recommendatation- it was a greasy baked wad of dough with tomatoes and basil (which would have been fine if IT TASTED LIKE ANYTHING).
2nd visit in Orlando Florida: Got Lobster Ravioli- it was so overcooked and sat on a hot plate so long that it stuck the plate and the edges became hard. Again, the sauce was overpowered with wine and spices, while whole pieces of uncooked garlic cleared your sinuses if you bit into one (the waitress claimed "the dish is supposed to be like this").
3rd visit: Got give cards from Christmas, so we used them up. We got chicken and spinach cannelloni (which I make myself at home). They were stuffed with a sliver of chicken, and the FUNKIEST fontina cheese I've ever had. My wife will eat a chunk of feta and blue cheese like nothing, but this tasted like eating 3 day old sweat socks, and the taste would not leave...ugh!!! Again , we mentioned that it doesn't taste right, and the manager let us pick out anything from the menu. We settled on a Pasta Sotsanza, which tasted like bland spaghetti with huge flavorless shrimp and way too much basil. We got a $8.00 dessert (Sogno di Cioccolata), which must be Italian for "stacked .50 Little Debbie's Brownies, whipped Jell-O pudding in the middle, and covered with Quik chocolate syrup".
Absolutely one of the worst places I've eaten at. I wouldn't be so hard on them if they didn't try to make themselves look so "high class", but they honestly believe they're like a 4 star restaurant, when in reality you'd get better food from the frozen isle at Sam's Club.
Cliffs: Carrabba's food is awful :|
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