Carmela's Restaurant

Carmela‘s is still one of my favorite Italian restaurants. Every time we have guests in town that I wanna go out for a nice dinner with, I would take them there. Their house wine is very nice and the lobster ravioli is very good. Love love love their Italian wedding soup that you can add on for $5 to your entree. You don’t get a free dessert for your birthday because we’ve celebrated a couple of birthdays and they still charged us for dessert but they always check in to see how our dinner was which I appreciate. The espresso martini is good, but I would probably skip the other cocktails since they’re a bit sweet. The bread with oil that they give you at the beginning is very tasty. Their arancini and mozzarella stick are very good as well and I really liked their vodka sauce so I’ll need t

The food here was so amazing! We sat at the bar to eat and the service was perfect. Friendly staff that also can make amazing drinks! It gets busy, so reservations are recommended. Put this one on your bucket list!

My husband and I drove around 3 hours to be able to celebrate Valentine’s Day at the place where we had our first date-Carmelas. Unfortunately, the experience was disappointing to say the least, heavily impacted by the deceitfulness of our server, Crystal (according to the receipt). I ordered the cod that was on the Valentine’s Day Specials piece of paper. There was no mention of soup to my knowledge around the cod dinner and certainly no mention of it being an extra cost anywhere on that paper either, so following when I told the server I was going to be having the cod, she asked “and what soup?” So I thought perfect it comes with soup. Saying what she said sounds like it’d be included, right? Wrong! It was $5 extra for about five spoonfuls of soup in the flattest bowl you’ve ever seen in

My husband and I are from out of town and decided to make a reservation here to celebrate our one year anniversary. Everything from start to finish was wonderful. Kaylee, our waitress, was exceptional. She immediately greeted us with a smile, she was very attentive to us during our entire dinner, and even surprised us with a little congratulations dessert at the end of our dinner. The food was amazing. We had the bruschetta, Lobster Ravioli, and the chef’s special soup. Everything tasted fresh. If we ever return to South Bend, we would absolutely return to Carmella’s. And while we’re at it, we’d also go back to their bakery, Macri’s. 5/5 for us.

Carmelas has an amazing little snippet of Italy however it falls flat when it comes to cuisine. Came in with my girlfriend for a birthday dinner. Was warmly greeted and sat down in what looked like a carving of italian scenery. Which was cool. We ordered fried calamari and bruschetta for appetizers. Never in my life have I seen, nor is it italian, to have diced jalapeños or pickles on the calamari. Strange but okay. Lastly the bruschetta was good and loaded with tomatoes. Lastly I ordered the Carbanara and my girlfriend ordered Vodka Gnocchi with meatballs. The carbanara was Not Good but its acceptable as its Indiana but I appreciate the effort but it was missing the egg base and resembled more if an Alfredo. My girlfriends gnocchi was better reheated but was good in the moment with the