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Carino's Italian-lubbock - Lubbock - Photo album
I am always amazed when you go out to lunch and encounter a half empty restaurant with a 30 minute wait. Sure, I get that staffing dictates the number of people that can be seated and served, but a wait like that begs to have management serving and seating patrons as well as taking their orders. The
Ugh this is a difficult review to write because I wanted the experience to be so much better. Never mind the fact that it was the dinner choice on a much-needed date night with the wife and was decidedly underwhelming, but I suppose much of my previous positive reservations about this place were loc
Pros:
Seated fast
Welcoming staff
Appearance of food
Bread & oil was good
Great waitress
Cons:
Took long time for bartender to pour a glass of wine for waitress
Dirty on wall beside table I was sitting in...bread and dust
* The food was good, however if you like thick spaghetti sauce, this is not
Shame on me, but I was so hungry that I forgot to take a picture of the food!! I can assure you that the shrimp scampi was wonderful!! My favorite thing is the bread and garlic/oil dip. I tried an Almafi strawberry lemonade made with Captain Morgan rum.....that will be a repeat on our next trip!
Possibly the worst service. Just to get our salad took well over 30 minutes. We didn't get cutlery at our table. One of the cooks had to bring it. The restaurant felt like the whole building was in Alaska. We asked twice to turn up the heat and they said 'we'll see what we can do.' It felt like Carl
Took the family here last weekend. Got seated quickly. Had a great server and service was on point. Things turned bad when part of a rubber glove from the kitchen area ended up in the dough of my son’s pizza. We all lost our appetite and had just started eating. I brought the situation to our server
We used to love this place but have not been back in a few years. I did like the new updated menu and it still had many of our old favorites.
When we walked in the restaurant was half empty on a Wednesday evening at around 730 pm, my initial thought was uh oh... When I asked for a table for eight,
VERY slow service due to the kitchen staff. Server didn't clear dishes. At all. I ordered the Caesar Salad which was drowning in dressing. Dining companions' meals were hardly touched. The place was nearly empty at the dinner hour; now I understand why. The bathroom was clean. Parking was easy.
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