Carrabba's Italian Grill — Restaurant in Saint Augustine

Honestly, I’ve been here before, but don’t recall anything about service … and very little about atmosphere, but no long-term impression that it was anything but excellent. I have however, been ordering their food on Uber Eats, and fell in love with their spinach dumpling and sausage (appetizer?). Sadly, I was trying to look it up before writing this review and it seems it’s no longer on the menu. I have to say, I was shocked to even find it on a restaurant menu. These are not spinach, gnocchi, but actual spinach dumplings as in almost nothing but spinach). I have made these myself a number of times – long before I ever saw it on any menu anywhere. The reason for my shock at it even being on any menu, as well as my explanation for it no longer being there, is that they are very costly and labor-intensive. A huge bag of Costco spinach, for example, we will make enough for possibly three or four servings. OK, I guess it’s more than that for the restaurant since you only got four – as opposed to it becoming a full meal. Still, the time & labor involved in washing the spinach, steaming it, allowing it to cool before adding the flour, eggs, the cheeses, etc., as well as having to refrigerate them for hours (overnight is best) before putting them in the boiling water, must make it prohibitive. That is exactly the reason that I was shocked to even see it on a menu. These were absolutely delicious. Though I prefer mine with a simpler sauce – either a prosciutto, mushroom cream sauce, or simply butter, mushrooms, and garlic…as opposed to a tomato sauce they served it with. Of course, both of my options have some Parmesan over it. If you want to treat yourself, like cooking and eating(!), search for the recipe online. I don’t have a pic of theirs, but am attaching a...

We arrived there later than expected, but we wanted to celebrate.

I hadn't been to Carrabba's in several years. But I remembered typically great service and incredible menu.

My favorite appetizer there has always been the calamari which is so tendered it almost melts in your mouth! My girlfriend said that she had never tried it but even she enjoyed it for her first time eating it.

She ordered the muscles, shrimp and linguine I think and I had the chicken parmesan. They were both absolutely delicious! The salad was plentiful and delicious also. I like blue cheese dressing on my salad. But they don't offer blue cheese dressing. However, the waitress suggested that she could put some blue cheese crumbles on my salad and wow it really made it incredibly delicious! The waitress was so nice that we invited her to consider being one of our calendar models for our pin up girl calendar company and she said it sounded like a lot of fun.

We then decided to splurge and get the cheesecake. Oh my gosh, that cheesecake was absolutely so rich and delicious! It was a little pricey $8. But we ate it for two days because it was so it was so big! So it was well worth every penny!

Even though it was late, our waitress was very pleasant and kept our wine coming without any problem. Our dinner was served hot and I'm glad because I cannot stand cold food that's been sitting too long because the waitress didn't pick it up when hot.

My girlfriend remarked that the food tasted much better than she had ever had at the Olive Garden. I told her that it cost a bit more, but the quality is well worth it! We will be going back for more delicious food and...

Good place to eat and convenient. The food offering is approximately 90% consistent which means no surprises/disappointments. We started coming here in 2016. Since, we have tried just about every item in the menu, and developed some favorites. Prices are reasonable and the Daily Happy Hour presents an excellent value. The only Issue we had was with a particular staff member. The server identified himself as Tony and was too friendly in his treatment and demeanor, with comments and crossed a major boundary by of placing his hand touching my wife’s shoulder as he was hanging on the back of the booth serving us. I Brought the trespass to his attention immediately and originally backed-off but insisted in giving me attitude by pushing back. On our way out I complained to the Manager On Duty at the time and she did not believe me or did not think the inappropriate touch was a big thing. We stayed away from the restaurant for nearly one year as a result and to avoid a repeat incident. At an average dinner expense of roughly $65 per visit, I calculate that our absence cost the restaurant slightly over $3,000. -Not much by the restaurant’s revenue standards, but significant from our perspective. During the time we stayed away, our business was given to other local restaurants. Finally, we decided to give it another chance again today, with some concerns. -And after being seated, -there was the same server on the last booth at the end of the bar in a similar posture with his right arm over the back of the booth not touching but hovering above the shoulder of an elderly dinner. Hmmm. This is an area for...