"Salt.... It 's what was for dinner. Okay... I hadn 't been back to Garabaldi 's for 5 years. Had a horrible experience, never thought to mention it, just never returned. Fast forward to April 2024... should have done the date night somewhere less 'salty ' We started with a Caesar and their delicious garlic bread. They were true perfection. Then dinner came out... we ordered the HUGE meatball and pasta to share, and, unfortunately from the over-salted pasta to the over salted meatball, our dinner was inedible. I thought it was my palate at first, but my guy, who is a huge fan of the salt shaker, could only choke down a couple bites. I had noticed that the young woman seated behind us had ordered the same dish and was struggling as well, so I leaned over and asked her if her food was quite salty and her face said everything She was as grateful as I to discover that we weren 't alone in our pain of a salt shaker debacle. To say that the meatball was as dense as Tahoe snow-fog would be an insult to the snow-fog Gods. Even with a knife, it was like sawing through a pine branch. With that said, we all knew that there was nothing to say, other than, doggy bag and check please! We never complain. We just don 't return. As we only wanted spaghetti and a mega meatball, it was obvious that the pasta, pre-made sauce, and hand-formed meatball was all going to be the same salty Karen at the table. Two stars because their waitstaff is the sweetest. Our server was the best and she deserves the most. So I gave her a 5, the food a -3, and it all averaged out in the end because our 2 dogs didn 't give two spits about the saltiness and made out like it was THEIR date night and we stopped for ice cream on the way home. Needless to say, we didn 't have the Salted Carmel"
