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I was really excited to try Carmelina's, but it's SO bad.
I asked for bottled water, and the server didn't even let me know there were different sizes available. For a place that charges $25-$50 per entree, I was given a 500ml plastic bottle of Nestle Pure Life--yeah, the ones where you can buy a whole two-four for like $2 at No Frills. I thought it was all they had, but then I saw other tables with glass bottles of 1L Aqua Panna. I was like wtf? Couldn't find my server anywhere for like 15 minutes, and I asked anyone I could find that worked there for the larger bottle of water. My server came back and was like "I'm really confused, but whatever, what do you want to order?"
Friend had Ragu and I had the seafood risotto.
Tried some of my friends Ragu it was just okay. My seafood risotto was soooooo gross. I know seafood is supposed to be fishy, but this was like an overly rotting fishy smell and taste. It was a wet goopy mess, worst risotto I've ever had.
I don't know what we were thinking having dessert there, even after gross entrees, but we ordered the tiramisu. Tasted like it had been sitting in the fridge for weeks. Not smooth and creamy like tiramisu is supposed to be. and the chocolate sauce drizzled on top was the crappy Nesquik syrup stuff, that only tastes good if you're like, five years old.
Service was non-existent, could never find our server, had to wave people down for help--and I've worked in lots of restaurants before, I know waving down is bad, but honestly we were being completely ignored.
Worse part is they charged me $3 for the crappy Nestle water and another $7 for the Aqua Panna.
Will not be returning.
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