Carmen's Deli
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Bustling deli known for its Philly cheesesteaks & hoagies also offers salads & party trays.
attractions: J95 Studios, restaurants: Dominics Tavern, Club Diner, Vero Pizzeria by Antimo Lamberti, San Pedro Mexican Restaurant, Andi's Pizza, Paradise Pizza & Pasta, Beck’s Bagels, Yummy Yummy, Wendy's, Burger King
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Description
Bustling deli known for its Philly cheesesteaks & hoagies also offers salads & party trays.
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On Tuesday Feb 1, 2022, I excitedly entered Carmens upon arrival from Florida. I was looking forward to one of their wonderful cheesesteak sandwiches. I noticed that they had double the size of their store or maybe they rearranged it but it looked expansive and clean. It was around 5 PM and I noticed that there wasn’t any other customers in there besides myself. I ordered two custom cheesesteak with fried hot peppers and onions, the roast pork sandwich and a panzarotti. I also ordered some extra Hot peppers and onions on the side. It came to $64. When the girl gave me my order she forgot the panzarotti. Thank God I noticed it and I reminded her. No problem so I go home expecting to eat a lovely dinner. Takes 10 minutes to get home and I have the food in an insulated cooler. Roast pork was disgusting, I couldn’t even eat it. There was very little pork for the money but that wasn’t the problem. There was so much provolone cheese and it was all chunky instead of one or two slices he had chopped up the provolone cheese into the roast pork sandwich and you couldn’t taste anything but extra sharp provolone cheese. I moved onto the cheesesteak and That too was a big disappointment. The meat had no flavor, there wasn’t enough of it, And I think they forgot the cheese. I had a Couple bites of it and decided to eat the panzerotti. The bread was doughy. The sauce didn’t taste the way it’s supposed to taste for a Tarantino panzerotti. I’ve been eating them since I was 16 years old and I am now 70, so I know what a panzerotti taste like I get one every time I’m passing a store that sells them. I cut it in half and shared it and ate half. It was very disappointing. I’m just never gonna go back to that store. This is a review of the cheesesteaks only and pork sandwich and panzerotti. I’ve always found their cold hoagies to be delicious. I don’t think I’ll return to that store because I don’t trust the people that are preparing the food but there is another Carmens inside of Del Bono’s bakery and I will never turn down the opportunity to have a delicious cold Italian Hoagie. I hope that when I do get one of their hoagies it doesn’t taste as bad as they’re hot food. I hate for someone to lose their job but that chef at Carmens on Browning Road should be replaced or they’re going to go out of business. I am not kidding I’ve been eating cheese steaks and hoagies my entire life and that order was among the worst garbage I had ever eaten (or tried to eat) I don’t know how you can possibly ruin a cheesesteak as bad as Carmens did. And I don’t even want to talk about the pork, that just made me wanna throw up. Next time I go to Dinicks for my pork, it’s right up the street, and I’ll just drive over to South Philly to get a good cheesesteak if I can’t get one in New Jersey. Anyone that reaches this review should take it to heart. $64 is a lot of money to waste on such poor quality food.
Kristen AdamsKristen Adams
140
I honestly don’t know where to start. We used to order from this place weekly. Something changed idk if it’s management, staff or what. My family started to constantly get the wrong orders. Missing condiments, added condiments that we did not order. On several occasions we even received a cheese steak instead of a chicken cheesesteak. We stopped ordering from here for a very long time. My husband decides to try again. We get 2 chicken cheesesteaks. Very different condiments but both had the common thread of meat and bread (my husband doesn’t like cheese) we get home and the sandwich smells spoiled. I open my steak and the same thing. The chicken was rotten. We call and call no answer. We drive back and the place is closed (even though the hours say they are open until 8pm) I WILL NEVER ORDER FROM HERE AGAIN. I am pregnant and have a 2 year old. My family could have gotten food poisoning. This could have done harm to my unborn child. DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE! PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL!
Raven AdenijiRaven Adeniji
10
Carmen’s used to be a South Jersey institution. I rarely write bad reviews but their phone doesn’t work and I want Carmen’s to stick around. They forgot my sweet peppers, had to get back in line and wait when it would be pretty easy to see and get that taken care of. No big deal. I used to get a gooey, disgustingly delicious buffalo chicken cheesesteak here. This was a totally different sandwich. Chicken cheesesteaks shouldn’t be entire pieces of chicken. Maybe they’re out of chicken cheesesteak? Fine, but there’s no hot sauce, we are south Jersey degenerates, we want a nasty drip of chicken fat, blue cheese and hot sauce to run down our arm. I’m not on the Jenny Craig diet. I really thought they forgot it or I got someone else’s order but if you look close someone tried to put a little on there.
Shaun ReissShaun Reiss
110
So I stopped in early about 11 a.m.after reading some of the other reviews they said that it gets very busy so I wanted to beat the line. I ordered a simple turkey and provolone. I asked for lettuce tomatoes onions hot peppers mayonnaise oil vinegar and oregano. there was one person in the store and the phone was ringing like. So I proceeded to eat my sandwich 1st thing the bread was some what stale. I was very disappointed about that. 2nd thing was no hot peppers? That was another big disappointed. I repeated three times what I wanted on sandwich. 3rd the sandwich had a ton of onions. 4th the sandwich had a ton of oregano. The sandwich was made with Dietz & Watson. I think the meat was pre-sliced. I was very disappointed with the sandwich but the people working in the store area very nice.
AngryGoat 6.0AngryGoat 6.0
80
I found this place searching online for best cheesesteaks in NJ & couldn't believe it when one of the highest rated places popped right up in Bellmawr since I have a business there. Inside the place is clean which I like because so many delis are not so. I've only ever ordered the cheesesteak & honestly it was a big let down considering the hype surrounding the place. I would consider it so so, its actually rather bland & very average tasting, and not something I'd look forward to ordering again & I didn't have the "this is so good" moment at all. I'd rate taste a 2, but gave a 3 because portion is big & deli is clean. Update: knocked off a star. saw another reviewer post that Wawa tasted better so I tried a cheesesteak there.....Wawa tastes better
Robert A LRobert A L
10
5/25/2023 First of all No prices are displayed for the hoagies ,then she didn’t tell me it is a charge for peppers (50cent)..so let me know peppers don’t come with the hoagie (wow), now mind you the price of the hoagies are ($13.30). So for 3 sandwich’s & a pickle I sadly paid $51.03 this is madness I was Robbed.. Something in my GUT told me to leave and go to somerdale cold cuts ..way better.. if you have a family to feed you will go broke.. and they need to tell you if you sub your cheese out it will cost you a dollar more (wow) she didn’t say anything to me and it’s not displayed.. Never again I’ll go broke buying from Carmen Hoagies .my recipe is posted for truth
Poohwe CampbellPoohwe Campbell
100
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