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Carmine's On Penn
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terribly rude owner, hard to rate food honestly as experience was so bad...wasted my evening here, sad
Never Again for me. We placed a large take out order for a party we were hosting. We picked Carmines on penn (even though it was more expensive than other local italian) because they appeared to cater towards diet restrictions. We called before we placed our order to make sure they could make a vegan meal, we double checked when we placed the order and when we picked it up that one item was in fact vegan. We went to serve the food at our party for 20 people 2 hours later only to find out then that the item was not vegan. (we still have the receipt that says the item should have been made vegan). It was embarrassing for us as hosts to not have vegan food available. There was nothing we could do, but leave in the middle of our party and drive there to get a new meal. We were not able to do that. They did refund the one 'vegan' entree - but that was the least they could do and that is all they did. Overall I thought the food was only ok for the price. After this experience and the quality of the food I will try another local restaurant instead of returning here. There are too many good restaurants in Denver to return to a restaurant after a mistake like this.…
Will Never Go Back. If you like over-price quantities of mediocre food, Carmine’s on Penn is the place for you. The Veal Parmigiana was boring with small proportions for $40. The Baked Ziti was dry with some sort of crust on the top. Certainly not worth $28. We had to order extra marinara sauce just to add some flavor. And if course the marina sauce was as unremarkable as it gets. Perhaps they haven’t heard of garlic and spices. It’s more boring than even Olive Garden. I can’t understand why this place is so popular. Perhaps they are living on their previous owners coat tails. I will never go back.…
Eh..
This is a popular place but I find it blah.
We had our company party here and were put in the back room, where it was really quiet (not in a good way). Trying to get the employees in the 'party' mood, I asked the server if they could play some music in the background, and was told that there are no speakers in the back room. Wow, way to create such great atmosphere, Carmine's.
The server was fine but she was in a pair of jeans (this was over the holidays and we were all dressed up) so I thought, would it kill her to put on a pair of black pants?
Also, I hate it when the servers tell you that 'one dish serves 2' when really one dish serves 4. The portion sizes are out of control. So then they just end up dumping the leftovers in styrofoam (not very environmental) for you to take home- and when you (try) to eat the stuff the next day it's just greasy and soggy mush.
This place seems to get away with serving average food, making people over-buy these massive platters of grease, and then making the place 'hip' by putting butcher paper on the table, which I assume just ends up in the landfill (along with all the styrofoam containers).
I don't get it.…
