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Carmelo's Italian

Carmelo's Italian

321 West Retta Esplanade, Punta Gorda, 33950, United States Of America

Pizza • Steak • Italian • Fast Food


"I have been to Carmelo's many times and usually love my meal and can't wait to go back. Tonight was a different story. My boyfriend and I made a reservation at Carmelo's to celebrate our anniversary as it's usually one of our favorite places. Tonight it took a very long time for us to get our drinks, my boyfriend asked for lemon for his water that he had never received. We then got our appetizer after a little while of waiting, which was fine. After we saw tables around us who were seated after us receiving their bread, we then had asked for ours because we never received it. After maybe a little over an hour of being at the restaurant we got our food. I got the shrimp and scallop limoncello, which I have gotten many times there. It had diced tomatoes in it that were uncooked (along with the usual sun dried tomatoes) and this wasn't something that was changed on the menu, if it was I would have asked for it to be left out of the dish. The sauce also seemed to be extremely watery tonight. Eventually our waiter boxed up our food and asked if we wanted dessert, we got one and asked for it to be for to go and for the check. At this point we have been here for an hour and a half. He brings the check and we put the card immediately in as we are sick of sitting outside and waiting. The waiter proceeded to take the bill and talk to the table next to us for over 10 minutes with our bill in hand. No exaggeration. Just five minutes short of being at our table for 2 hours is when we finally were able to leave, as we had a 7pm reservation. Maybe this was an off night for Carmelo's, I really hope it's not the new normal here, and I may just be exceptionally frustrated as we had sat there waiting for a lot longer than we had ever experienced at Carmelo's before. We saw many tables of two that arrived after us come and go before we had even received our check."

Lucca Ristorante

Lucca Ristorante

317 S Craig St Oakland, PA 15213, United States

Soup • Pasta • Italian • Seafood


"this restaurant came recommended by a few of my coworkers ! I pass this restaurant on my way home from work and thought it looked very charming. our table was directly across from the hostess stand there were four of us one of our 3 tables was extremely uneven , and wobbled so badly that we couldn 't put our dirty cocktail glasses or bread basket on it for fear they would fall off. The waiter asked to take our orders w/o asking if we wanted any starters we had to ask him it that was ok....he said , yea whatever you want to do there were only a handful of people in the restaurant on Sauturday evening so it wasn 't as though he was crushed w/ customers. our meal was ok at best. We wanted to order dessert but when we ordered coffee and Capuchinos, we were told there was no cream to make a capuchino and coffee was ok if we wanted our coffee black. He said ' we were hit hard w/ PITT graduation and our delevery wont be here until next week. He said they didn 't have cream for days we were surprised no one went to a local store to stock up until their delivery arrived I used the ladies room before we left and it was dirty and smelled the floor was filthy on our way out , I noticed the tile floor was very dirty, mostly near the hostess stand and the tile floor near the door on the way out of the restaurant was also filthy we were very disappointed! cannot go back ! if the floors are noticeably filthy, can only imagine what the kitchen looks like and other areas not in plain site!"

Prezzo Boca Raton

Prezzo Boca Raton

5560 N Military Trl, 33496, Boca Raton, United States

Pizza • Pasta • Italian • Chicken


"I really want to be as attentive and thorough with this review as possible. We've been looking forward to trying Prezzo for some time. We admired this plaza on many weekends that the Spanish guitarist plays outside. We hired a babysitter and made it a point to come specifically to dine in Prezzo. On arrival at the time for our reservation 7:15 a.m. to 11/26 (Saturday) we went to a very loud and indeed quite terrible (high school) sounding band playing very loud and out of tune music outside. The Spanish guitarist must have been free for the weekend. Apparently during the night the guests asked the band to turn the music.. I knew that because the band always said. Sorry guys we play as low as we can go?. the drummer was pouncing on drums. not the best choice at dinner. My wife and I have made the wise choice to feed inside. What we didn't hope, but we were there.. We actually noticed many empty tables outside.. We sat in a very unromantic table right behind the Hostess stand that stood against the server cleaning station where they held table bags, spray etc. David P. Who was our server was friendly, took our drink order, I ordered a diet coke, everything I drink... He quickly brought the drink. I took a sip. When David came back, I said I had to give this drink back because I ordered a diet coke and you gave me Pepsi. His answer was ?oh I can usually get away from it?. Why draw this with the customer? Be ahead, communicate that you serve Pepsi products. Don?t play a game and disregard the customer order. so after I sent it back, I ordered a ginger-ale, the mostly glittering water with little to no syrup, but I was beyond the care of the drink at this place. On the back of my head I felt that David might have messed with me at this point. We ordered a few bites for the table. Caprese Stack my wife enjoyed. The pear and Nuss Nuss Pasta app was drown in the sauce and maybe 1.5 slices of pear in it. We don't care. My strawberry salad would have been better if they wouldn't drown the salad in so much dressing. It was hard to eat. We ordered a Margarita pizza for 18 dollars and I must say that this was undoubtedly one of the worst and most dry pizzas I had in a long time. I have to say that I almost felt torn off. David fired the food immediately and I did not kidnap you, within 7 minutes of the order, everything was at our table. Almost felt like the whole food came so fast. We were from the restaurant in 25 minutes. It wasn't a night out. You literally robbed me a romantic night I rarely get with my wife. I feel so light with our experience. I didn't expect that. Very disappointed. I didn't want to send anything back because I didn't want to ruin a night. I just wanted to finish in peace and out. We came home within 45 minutes"