Carmine's Coal Fired Pizza — Restaurant in Jupiter

4/14/25- 5 Star service from Donna! If I could give 10 Stars I would! We were a group of 7 for our Annual Birthday Celebration.. Set up in the back room which was perfect! On a Monday night we had the room to ourselves.. Then came our server Extraordinaire! Donna! She is amazing! The host ordered bottles of wine and appetizers for the table before all the guests arrived! Donna never missed a beat! Always smiling and her customer service skills are outstanding! Of course the food is absolutely delicious! The calamari appetizer is crispy and tender! Yummy! Huge portions! For dinner: The short rib special was the favorite of the night! Wow! Huge portions and our guests raved about it… took half home! I ordered the escarole and beans since I was fasting for Holy Week. Delicious! The veal, salmon and chicken dishes were amazing! We’ve been celebrating my brother in law’s birthday here for years and years and always loved it! I will say this year was exceptional! Donna contributed to the amazing experience! We finished the night with a bottle of Prosecco and a delicious cake!! Thank you for your consistent service and food! See you again soon! 4/14/24-Our annual family Birthday Celebration at Carmine’s and it did not disappoint! We had a group of 8 and we were set up in the back room. It was a perfect setting a Sunday evening and we had the place to ourselves! Jessica was our dedicated server and was very attentive. We ordered bottles of red/white wines and appetizers of calamari, artichoke cheese flatbread and margarita flatbread for the table. All delicious! Paired with warm yummy bread, butter and pesto! Our main entrees were: Veal Parmesan, ziti’s al la vodka, spaghetti carbonara, short rib pappardelle, ravioli di zucca , Yellowtail Francese and Veal Francese! All the food came out at the same time and everything was piping hot!!! Yay!!! Satisfying One of my pet peeve’s! I had the ravioli and it was absolutely delicious! Creamy and buttery! Everyone was raving about their food! My sister made her famous pineapple upside cake for the birthday 🥳 cake and they provided the plates etc! Once again Carmine’s provided a festive, delicious amazing Birthday celebration 🍾! I highly recommend! ———————————————————————- A delicious family dinner celebrating my birthday. Rob was our amazing server! Attentive, professional and knowledgeable! We ordered from the dinner prix fix menu! Fabulous choices.. fettuccine Alfredo and Cesar salad, chicken Milanese over linguine and Cesar salad, ziti a la vodka and Cesar salad. All the entrees were delicious! Huge portions! The salad is huge and delicious! Truly i ate 1/3 and took the rest home for at least another meal. Rob was kind enough to bring us some bread to take home! The house Chardonnay is crisp and cold! Fabulous choice! Too full for dessert! I highly recommend especially the prix...

Where do I start?…I guess from the beginning.

The hostess was not even at her desk when we arrived. We waited until she showed up with a mini dress a little too short.

We get to the table and the hostess placed the menus so that we had to seat in front of each other, basically she chose for us how to seat without saying a word.

Then comes the waiter, they guy had always a big smile; however, did not know the menu. Every question we asked he had to leave us and come back. He seemed a bit deaf, I say that because we had to keep repeating ourselves over and over again.

I ordered the “Insalata Mediterranean” and I cannot not regret it more. The menu described it as arugula, radicchio, fennel (which I asked to not add), dried apricots, pears, candied walnuts, Gorgonzola cheese. All salads had the option to add some type of protein. I requested grilled chicken. The pears were soaked in red wine (not described in the menu) and they tasted horrible because of the wine and because they were hard as wood. The chicken was absolutely bland, no flavor whatsoever. The dressing according to the menu was “citrus dressing”, it was definitely sour, not a drop of olive oil or anything to smooth it out.

It was dinner time and I had barely eaten anything in the whole day, and that is the only reason I managed to eat the salad and half of the bland chicken, while I left out all the disgusting pears. The saddest part is that the main reason I ordered the dishes was because it had pears but most definitely not what I had envisioned.

After eating, I decided to go to the bathroom. The inside of the toilet is all stained with black marks. The trash can a huge stainless steel bin had a broken pedal, therefore it does not open with the push of the foot. I had to take a paper towel and open the lid with my hand. The wall tiles are obviously the kind that you see in a fast food restaurant and they have been painted in grey in an attempt to disguise how old they are. However, in the area where the wall tile meets the sink you can see the scratched paint and it makes it obvious that there is no upkeep of the facilities.

The atmosphere wants to be pretentious at glance but even the hanging lamps over the table are scratched and old.

I would have overlooked all of the flaws regarding the property upkeep if the food had been good but that salad was beaten up even by the salad of a place as ordinarily as Ford’s Garage, where the literally the door handles are gas station nozzles.

I hope the owner reads this and has a serious talk with his chef and cooks, the waiter that knows nothing and the hostess and her dress that barely covers her, she might as well go in hot pants, it will make...

I worked hospitality for 15 years in the 70's and 80'. Hotel dining rooms and room service. I also had a catering company and farm to table restaurant in the 80's in Princeton, NJ. I love making people feel special. I enjoy feeding them good food that is wonderfully presented. Carmine's did almost all of this. It's a lovely restaurant. Wonderful menu. Attentive staff. Tasty food. So why not give them a 5 star review? I decided to have a salad from the mozzarella bar. I chose the Burrata. Here is how it is described. Burrata $19.40 Creamy Mozzarella, Served with Gold and Red Beets, Pear, Prosciutto and Arugula. Served with House Made Foccacia.

It was a nice presentation. But it was small. The mozzarella was the size of a golf ball, if that. There was maybe a tablespoon of beets, a teaspoon of pear. 2 small triangles of focaccia. I honestly didn't see any prosciutto and the arugula barely covered the bottom of the plate. To be fair it was very tasty. But for roughly 20 bucks I should feel as if I've eaten something. Up the price if you have to, but my biggest pet peeve is dining out and leaving hungry. Even our daughter in law offered us some of her dinner. We declined. (My partner had the same dish as I did). We did have a laugh as the 2 grandkids each ordered a kids cheese pizza which had lots more food to eat...