Carmine's La Trattoria Restaurant

I absolutely love this place. It's got the best Italian food ever. Excellent service. Excellent location and super friendly staff. I've been around the world having all kinds of foods but this is definitely the best Italian food we have ever had, my husband and I. I really like their bread dipping sauce. It's delicious. We liked it so much that we had to go some of it at the next door market that they have. I used the sauce as I replacement for chimichurri sauce for my churrasco steak.

Posting my review while it is fresh in my mind, went for HH early dinner today 12.03.2025. Food: Arancini was good; Alfredo sauce was watery like milk. Service: I asked the "bartender" (gray-haired dude on the right in picture #3) three times for a menu, he did not respond nor look at me. Alex (young man on left in picture #3), stepped in and gave me a menu, took my order, and got me a side of fettucine alfredo which was not on the menu, very sweet of him! He was very attentive except I asked for a wine pairing which he gave me a recommendation but never delivered the wine - oh well! I also had another waiter standing by the bar ask me if I wanted grated cheese added to my alfredo, very nice of him. I went to Carmine's huge market next door to pick up tiramisu for take home dessert. V

There are very few restaurants that I give five stars to, but this one is absolutely deserving. I visited it upon recommendation from the bartender at the Hilton garden inn when I asked him where the best Italian food in town could be found. It's a lovely little market with lots of goodies attached to a beautiful little restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating. The restaurant was fairly quiet which I appreciated to read my book over dinner. They had an excellent $30 special which included salad or soup and an entree. Now, I have never been to Italy and I am not Italian so I have no place to be saying whether something is authentic or not. What I can say, is that this was the best spaghetti and meatballs I have ever had in my life. The meatballs were well cooked and well seasoned, and hug

The service was excellent and the atmosphere very welcoming. The food was well presented, but the flavors were a little light. I felt it needed a bit more of that real Italian flavor. That said, I highly recommend the profiteroles; they were delicious. In short, great service and atmosphere, just know the flavors are on the mild side.

Surprisingly bland. I felt like I'd bought and was eating a can of chef boy-r-d for 99 cents at walmart, except I paid ..$38. Maybe I'm a food snob, but I don't think so. I've traveled the world and been exposed to a lot of amazing cuisine. This is definitely not it. I think people just don't understand what great food is anymore. Ihave no idea how this restaurant can have more than two or three stars and attract the number of diners that it does. This is an absolute mystery to me.