My friend and I stopped in here on a fluke; we wanted to eat somewhere we hadn't before and we usually tend to go for Italian anytime, anywhere. We came upon Carmine's and decided to go in.
It was kind of a mess from the start. The boss's daughter (who looked to be about 8 or 9 years old and was wearing a Justin Bieber t-shirt) got our drink orders. That struck both of us in an odd and uncomfortable way, you know, with child labor laws and all.
My friend ordered a water and it came with a lemon in it; he told them could he have a water without lemon in it and the girl just took it back, took the lemon out, and served it right back to him. Come on, we're not stupid, we can taste if there's been a lemon in the water.
The plain cheese pizza we ordered took a good 20 minutes to come out to us, and I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty "meh". The cheese was falling off in clumps. We only ordered the cheese pizza 'cause the prices were definitely outrageous. The 18" pizza we got was $14. We definitely wanted toppings and all but each additional topping was $2...so cheese pizza it was.
Service was kind of slow, which is bad, considering there were only 3 other people in the restaurant.
I wouldn't exactly recommend this place to anyone; Carmine's Little Italy on the West side of town has a better atmosphere and better service (the prices are somewhat similar, however).