Cara Mia — Restaurant in Town of Hempstead

UPDATED 30 APR 2021 One more fine meal see liwinedad.blogspot.com for details. MAR 2021 In Seaford, NY, Cara Mia's is a great place, delicious food and the best team. They have no problem adjusting the menu to your taste. Cara Mia is one of our favorites go-to places, and we have been here many times. You know your is a good place when you walk in are greeted warmly, and all the team members also greet you on the way to your table (With all proper covid precautions observed), and your preferred cocktails arrive tableside as you sit down. The food and wine are outstanding. The wine list is well balanced and refined for a classic Italian family restaurant. If you are looking for a special bottle of wine, ask Sergio it is impressive what he can find in the cellar. The food is outstanding. Our cocktails arrived promptly during our latest visit, a Woodford reserve on the rocks for me and a fine Cosmopolitan for Jo. Along with the cocktails came a warm bread basket with both butter and oil. We opened with a Caesar salad and Italian Egg rolls. The Caesar salad is a generous portion with very crisp fresh romaine lettuce, crisp full-flavored croutons, and a rich tangy Caesar dressing. The Egg roll is a delicious invention of broccoli rabe, crumbled sweet Italian sausage all pack into a traditional egg roll and platted with a rich marinara sauce and dusted with grated parmesan cheese. For the mains, Jo had the Flounder Francese and I the grilled veal chop paired with a glass of Amicone (a baby Amarone). The Flounder Francese arrives at tableside, piping hot, lightly battered, and sitting in a light white wine and lemon sauce. The fish was moist, flaky with a beautiful golden crust. There was more than enough to take home or share. The veal chop was done perfectly with a light golden-brown char while the center remained tender and moist. The chop rested atop a generous portion of broccoli rabe sauteed in oil and garlic. A large side of sauteed spinach accompanied the dish. I could have had one of the side portions of pasta with a wide selection of sauces, but I was attempting to limit my carbs (OK, saving them for the wine). They are quite a few beautiful desserts, but we were both stuffed and had lots of take-homes, so we passed on the desserts this time. Cara Mia's is a fine place to visit, and I look forward to the warmer weather and the opening of the outside dining. For more local food and wine commentary check out...

Classic Italian, well established restaurant. A small place, cozy and personal, nicely decorated, and table cloths makes this place stand out. Your water glass is never left empty! We lived down the block, it was convenient and frequently ate here but have moved away now and took the ride, but unfortunately we'll think twice about making the trip again. The acoustic are terrible, you can't hear the people at your table unless you want to compete with everyone else in the restaurant, which causes the problem in the first place. The Calamari Arrabbiata, was not up to par... Very little sauce, made it dry, but also a little too chewy to recommend (probably will not get again either). Oh one more critical opinion before I get to the two excellent meals we had. Only two entrees were brought out and it took forever for the other two in our party to get theirs. This happens quite often in some other restaurants, and I haven't noticed it here in the past, hopefully it was just a one time occurrence. I want to believe the two Sicilian dishes we were waiting for were having something special done to them, because they are unique and so delicious! If you like chicken parm. and eggplant parm, this is the perfect "marriage"...a must try. Also another cool alternative to chicken caprese is the grilled chicken bruschetta, super tender nice balsamic flavor, so good! ( See pics of both of these entrees) Ahhh, we had the small hot antipasto and overall it was pretty good, but small is "small" I guess(for example, one shrimp, one clam) and lots of breading on top, still could be a good choice. Check out their menu for lots of other...

Me and my wife ordered delivery 2 pasta dishes with breaded chicken. I was so disappointed in the food. The fettuccine Alfredo sauce was basically liquid had no cheese flavor was all milk. The penne- alla vodka was not pink,It was a deep red and it had no flavor what so ever. It’s so sad because we was excited to get a nice italian meal. I needed to add salt and pepper to both pasta dishes, the bread that they gave us had no flavor. It tasted like yeast and water there was no seasons on it at all , I was very disappointed because that was not Italian food coming from an Italian restaurant that is highly recommended in the Massapequa /Seaford area . And to have spent the amount of money I did on the food which was outrageous , and was very unpleased. I will never be dining in or doing takeout from here again. To be an italian person that was the worst italian food i ever had. The only thing good was the breaded chicken cutlet which wasn’t the best but was eatable. i hate to write a bad review but when its the truth it needs to be heard and they need to do something about it. Doesn’t matter what day of the week it is the food should always be good. I paided for it! So when the customer isn’t pleased then what you still took my money and i had a dinner that i had to toss in the trash. You guys want to say Inflation is for high pricing but yet my money was wasted because the food was horrific and i...