Reviews for Carmine's Italian Restaurant - Upper West Side in E St NW, WA

Conveniently located family share style Italian restaurant. Made a reservation for 8 and they accommodated an unexpected add on... with no issue through the reservation system. Was seated promptly with drinks and food served very quickly. Probably best garlicbread I've ever had. Drinks were delicious and strong. Tried a variety of dishes with the huge servings. Very comfortablesetting and could easily hear everyone at the table even with it being busy and lively music being played. Would like to go backas soon as possible. Read more

Restaurant had a good feel to it. Located in heart of DC. Food was very good and the size of portions family style. Family of 4... and we just did sides, glad we did, plenty for the empty stomachs after walking the Mall and plenty to bring back to the hotel.Place was packed and full of people. Meatballs and eggplant made the family happy. For post dining though not on the menu, a fewglasses of limoncello, only the Italian might ask. Food was priced for area. Read more

Excellent Italian restaurant! We had a great dining experience. The server was very friendly and professional, she started by... explaining a few things about the restaurant and told us that the food is supposed to be shared by 2-3 people per portion. Foodstaste great and the price is reasonable. Read more

Looking for an Italian food in the downtown area, and found this decent Italian restaurant. Overall, we had a great dining... experience. The server was very friendly and professional, she started by explaining a few things about the restaurant and toldus that the food is supposed to be shared by 2-3 people per portion. Foods taste great and the price is reasonable. Read more

The portion size of this place is HUGE! Good thing is they serve lunch sizes all day for certain items. Lasagna wasn’t one of... those so this was definitely dinner and lunch for the next day. Food wasn’t bad, however, you could taste that everythingbasically comes from a can. Taste a lot like chef boyardee. Drinks were a bit too sweet but not terrible. The highlight wastheir garlic bread! Now that was amazing!!!! I could just sit, eat that, and be extremely satisfied Read more

Carmine’s offers family style dishes. By family style, I mean big portions. We ordered a shrimp scampi with linguine for 2 of... us. We couldn’t finish half of the portion. It was huge as you can see in the photo (the knife for size preference).Carmine’s is perfect for a family of 4 or more because you can get the most for the value. Reservation is recommended. Read more

First time dining and didn’t realize it’s family style but luckily I’m old enough to sit at the bar where smaller portions... are offered. Ordered the Rigatoni with Broccoli and Sausage with a Red Sauce. It was a busy Saturday night and the food tooklonger to arrive than I’d have liked but once it did I was instantly impressed and very satisfied with the meal. Also worthmentioning that the service at the bar was exceptional and truly professional. Read more

Great food, however for less than 3 or 4 people not well suited. The only regular tables are available for a menu that only... serves family-sizes. So if you go there alone as I did, you either have tons of leftovers or ruin every diet you’re on - also,whatever you order apart from drinks comes multiplied by 4 basically and costs accordingly. So ordering a simple garlic breadsets you back 15 USD and you get like 9 pieces. No issue if you sit at the bar to get human-sized portions, however it taintedthe experience a little. Nonetheless, the food was gorgeous and the staff great! Read more