Really good from start to finish. Some of their dinners are not served at any other restaurants…read more Bring Your Own Bottle, with no extra charges. Great staff.

Amazing restaurant! The "best Italian restaurant reward" is well deserved. Make sure to save room…read morefor desert. All the food was amazing. Never had anything bad here. Service is amazing. Ambiance is casual and very nice. Everyone's meal was 5/5. Can't wait to come back! Gluten free pasta available.

The food is fantastic as is the wine list Make sure u have…read morethe meat ball, wow it is great Jackie is a great waitress and really the management here is fantastic

Excellent service, Isaiah gave us great tips on what to order for our Supper Club --Brussels…read moresprouts are a must to order! Great cocktails, great ambiance inside (don't let the conference lobby setting turn you off!) and overall great experience. Will definitely come back.

Meatballs just ok nothing special, stuffed shells and fettuccine with garlic and oil the same ,…read morebig portions but still nothing stood out as far as flavor was concerned service seemed a bit slow within a nice little 10 table restaurant casual ambiance

Been coming here for years. My parents, it's their favorite spot. They know my parents by name…read morewhich is a nice touch. Super friendly. Good always delicious. I would say the Alfredo is not my favorite but had so many dishes everything else is excellent. Get the shrimp app! So freaking good.

My wife and I heard good things about this place. First off the hostess and waitress were great…read more Lots of great laughs. As for the food we started with the meatballs. They were good. Looked like cafeteria size so I was worried. Tasted great maybe a little Less breadcrumbs. 1-10 (7). My wife had the chicken parm and had the eggplant parm. My was ok. They didn't have enough layers of eggplant. It seemed like only 2. Wasn't impressed. My wife's Chicken parm was solid. Breadcrumbs had great flavor and the chicken was the perfect thickness. We both had a side of pasta and it wasn't anything fancy. The grated parm was in a shaker. Not a fan of the generic grated cheese. Overall it was cool little spot! Would I go again? Yes I would but I wouldn't be jumping through hoops. Overall rating in my opinion is 7 out of 10.

We had a large group going to dinner and this is was the restaurant of choice... as I waited for…read morethe group to get there I had a Stella draft at the bar and looked around the dining room. It's basically one big room with a porch out back, and I was surprised it wasn't louder in there. Ordered a cup of pasta e fagioli soup and the penne with portobello mushrooms and sausage for my main. Since there were ten of us it was interesting to hear some of the other choices... three people at the table ordered an appetizer for their meal - spinach, sausage and beans soup and when it arrived I could see why - it was huge! My soup was very good (sorry no picture) and the penne with sausage and portobello was good too, I think I'd have liked a little more sausage in the mix but the flavor was good and I couldn't finish so I had lunch for the next day. All in all a nice place - the waitress was especially nice and explained everything perfectly.

Have eaten here twice. Delicious food both times and great service. My meat sauce could have been…read morethicker, but it was tasty. The veal was a bit tough but also very good. Reasonably priced. Not an extensive menu but what they do they do well. Love the butter with cream cheese that comes with the bread.

Cute little place in Palmetto! The owners are from Rome and the food is authentic. Focaccia bread…read morewith mortadella and Barata and pistachio pesto was amazing! My wife had the homemade fettuccine with shrimp and pistachio pesto (yes) and I had the lasagna Bolognese. The shrimp dish was amazing and quite different than the same old same old... The lasagna was good, but not over the top. I found it a little bit too "soft." and I prefer a hardier Bolognese made with pancetta, pork and beef. This was just straight beef. The homemade desserts of tiramisu and cannoli (pistachio... yes, again) were excellent. After moving here from Rhode Island, where there's an Italian restaurant in every corner and everything down here seems to be fairly mediocre...We are super happy to find this place and we'll definitely be back!

Pasta wheel as a shared app, was good, very good!! OssoBuco…read morew/ risotto excellent! Lobster ravioli was good. Service was very good

Unfortunately, this is a one and done restaurant for me, and not one I would recommend. Sorry no…read morepictures! We were seated right away, and our server was attentive, almost a little too attentive at times that we felt rushed. The atmosphere was nice, but the restaurant is small, difficult to move around, and the lighting was darker than I prefer. We started with the fried calamari and meatballs. The calamari was good, but the meatballs were disappointing. They were about the size of golf balls which is ok but lacked flavor. For our entrees, we ordered the penne alla vodka, chicken parmesan, gnocchi, and I had the spaghetti special that was finished in a cheese wheel tableside. The presentation was fun, but the food itself just didn't live up to it. The marinara sauce across the dishes was bland, the gnocchi was forgettable, and my spaghetti portion was surprisingly small, more like an appetizer than an entrée. I almost always take leftovers home from Italian restaurants because the portions are generous and the food is rich. This time, there was nothing left because there wasn't much there to begin with. The biggest disappointment was the bread. When I go to an Italian restaurant, I expect warm, crusty Italian bread. Instead, it tasted like ordinary sliced sandwich bread. I actually like Publix bread, but that's not what I'm looking for with an Italian meal. Overall, nothing was terrible, but nothing stood out either. For the prices, I expected much more flavor, better portions, and a more authentic Italian experience.

Awesome! Last dinner with Gaetano in the kitchen. He retired and turned the restaurant over to…read moreBrady and his wife. Wish them the best of luck! Service was excellent and the setting is cozy like the kitchen in a Sicilian home.

This place is a 5 other than Mel . Service is so bad I have to draw back and give a 3 this is for…read morethe class they are not open regularly anymore so, if you plan to purchase anything after the class just double check before actually sending money . She's seems nice and in shadows most of time but the money there was miss communication she was absolutely ready to tell I wouldn't be getting my money back at all .....turns out she's is bad at hearing and misheard and created a ball of drama for no reason but yeah... what can you do she's the Help after all you can't expect more from someone that clears tables and fill glasses. È la vita ! What ya gonna do ? Awesome ! food is great! beware of her (Mel) trying to scam you at the end of the night with extra purchases . Double ask before handing your card or cash . It's def giving SCAM for bottles and olive oil since she was so against anything I said even tho owner quoted me on price and i paid Venmo ........ she still didn't believe it . even though have known this place for 12 years . Food is a 5*** help you get what you get. Also expect to get back in your car and get fast food or go out to eat again ....cause you will still be hungry it's a small dish but also it's a cooking class I wouldn't expect to be full after learning a few quick dishes ! :) they will def load you up with lots of red/white wine though .

This is painful to review this establishment because I normally LOVE the pizza but tonight was an…read moreoff night for us. The restaurant was buzzing with customers which is good to see. Our wait staff Jennifer was very good and courteous. It was just the two of us and we each order our own Pizzas if you compare my pizza photo from my last visit to today's you'll see what I mean. Either the oven was too high or the pizza oven chef was overwhelmed because as I looked around ours weren't the only ones really dark. I did mention it to the wait staff and she was more than apologetic but it's not her fault. Anyway, I will probably be back and specify "light on top" you want the crust to have a bite not a chew that's tough. I know that sometimes you just have an off night. Pretty hard to screw up a cheese pizza tho. Sigh.

Ambiance - right next to the movie theater, cute little place. We asked about Specials, were told…read morethere are none. The White pizza was good. He got Angel hair with Spinach and Shrimp. Came with several large shrimp, Spinach was uncut and still had stems, massive leaves of uncut spinach - too much, not cooked down. The spinach almost ruined the dish, and frankly the prices for the pasta and chicken dishes are high for a place that keeps napkin dispensers on the tables. Service was okay. We were one of four tables and there were two servers. Had to flag down for refills. She was never available - counting her tip money at the counter. Had to ask for a plate. This seems to be more of a pizza place... wouldn't recommend it otherwise.

Carrabba's for the win!…read more Yesterday my boyfriend and I headed to Carrabba's on Cortez in Bradenton, and I have to give a special shout-out to our server, Isabel, who was an absolute delight from the moment she arrived at our table. She was friendly, efficient, helpful, and somehow always one step ahead of us. Case in point: partway through dinner, my Diet Coke and water were about two-thirds gone and, without me even asking, fresh ones magically appeared. Now THAT is my kind of service! She also made sure we knew about their $10 take-home entrée special, because apparently Carrabba's understands that the only thing better than a good Italian dinner is having another one waiting in your refrigerator for tomorrow. We both ordered chicken dishes with pasta, and I'll admit, I rarely order chicken when I'm out. Nine times out of ten, restaurant chicken seems to arrive somewhere between "a little dry" and "could be used as building material." Well, Carrabba's proved me wrong! My dish featured chicken prepared three different ways, and every single one was tender, juicy, flavorful, and perfectly cooked. Not a hockey puck in sight! Are there fancier Italian restaurants? Absolutely. But when it comes to great food, terrific service, generous portions, and getting plenty of bang for your buck, Carrabba's is pretty darn hard to beat. And Isabel? Give that woman a gold star...and maybe a raise!

WALKED OUT- INEXPERIENCED HOSTESS VANISHED BAD MANAGEMENT…read moreSHOWS Walked in at 6PM Asked hostess for table for 2, saw empty tables and booths. Hostess voice unable to hear due to music drowning her out. Hostess gets a phone call, many minutes go by as she talks, so we sit down. After 10 minutes, we ask Hostess again. She says, "I have to wipe the table first" and vanishes. Never to return. Other workers see us looking for help and whisk by, avoiding eye contact. WTF At 6:17 - We WALKED OUT. Absolute FAIL on customer service Wrong person for hostess -unable to hear her teenage voice, NO TRAINING.