Dante's Trattoria — Restaurant in Town of Carmel

Went here on Saturday May 13th, as a party of 20, after a funeral at Yorktown Funeral Home. We went towards the back, which is their party room. Food took an awfully long time to cook, but maybe it seemed longer because we were hungry, and it was busy for mother's Day weekend. Appreciate them for accommodating us, as many other places were booked. Because we were in the party room, it was a limited menu meal- so only 3 options were listed and available. The training server gave us a hard time because he didn't know if the meal came with anything, nor explained the menu. it was also our first time here, so apologies for not knowing the menu! Other server seemed a bit nasty too, but someone in our party wanted their meal to go, and probably talked to the manager, and the server was better after that. We started with an appetizer of fried mosseralla, fried zucchini, eggplant parm, and clams. We had to ask what the food was when it first came out though. It's important because what if someone had a fish allergy and didn't want the eggplant touching it? we also got salad. I asked for my dressing on the side, and got it when it was ready, but the server was kinda nasty about it. I put my dressing on the side because sometimes there is too much dressing! the dressing was delicous though. We also were served Penne ala vodka, which was pretty good. As far as our entrees, we had a choice of chicken parm, flounder franchuze, and steak. many ordered the steak and the chicken parm. I ordered the fish, however, it would help to explain what the dish looks like, what it comes with, including any opinions like is it cheezy? i liked my fish, but it was kind of salty. i ate all of the string beans and the fish though. the potato croquet that was served was very cheezy, didn't like it, perhaps would have preffered more string beans if it was offered. Finally, we were served some pasteries like carrot cake, something that looked like an eggclair, chocolate cake, neopolitan, and some coffee. again, would have helped explaining what the food is, some is obvious but others, eh. Anyways, overall pretty good food, and maybe sometime we'd check it out again to order things from their...

My family has been coming here close to 30 years. Recently ordered a plain cheese pizza to stay. The pizza came out right away and it was clear that is was old, pre made pie that was re heated. The top was burnt, the bottom was rubbery cold, off colored and the cheese was coagulated where the slices were pre cut. The staff insisted it was made fresh but it was apparent it wasn’t. They made us another pizza (taking double the amount of time than the first one) and it came out looking like a normal fresh pizza. The differences between the 2 pizzas were so clear. The owner came out at the end and said sorry we didn’t like the first pizza it was “too well done for us” and that is was because it was they “were too busy tonight” swearing they didn’t serve us an old re heated pizza. I can’t believe the audacity that they would first serve that to someone and then still claim they didn’t. And mind you the restaurant was basically empty. Only 4 tables including us. Very disappointed will never...

I generally never write reviews but Omg, anyone giving this place more than 1 star has never eaten Italian food!!!

Sauce tastes like watered down cheap can sauce, as if the sauce wasn’t bad enough.

Had the muscles and those too were horrible. Smelled horrible, tasted worse. My girlfriend had one and spat it out before she was able to even chew it. I ate three with a lot of sauce but felt like I was gonna yack when one was super disgusting. I ordered chicken parm because no one can screw that up right?! Wrong, super thin overbreaded cutlets with very low quality cheese.

This place...