Reviews for Cardone's Restaurant & Bar in Westerville, OH
We arrived at 8:09, went inside staff came up asked if we had a reservation, (we did 8:15) said they were getting our table... ready for us, and we sat down, our waiter came over and was just very short with us. He wasn?t like this with anyone else. Hewas very friendly with every other table but ours. The waiter who waited on the table next to us offered them freshly groundpepper and told them about how the owner cooks for the restaurant, he was nice to his tables aswell. Unlike our waiter who wasvery just rude with us and unwelcoming. I saw him bag another tables food and gave them a nice to go bag and everything, wedidn?t get that option. He barely came to our table to ask us how things were, he wasn?t very attentive to our table. Westarted to notice things the longer we sat there. He was a blond. Very rude. We thought maybe because we weren?t dressed in asuit and tie he didn?t think he would get a tip or anything like that, but regardless of how rude he was to us we ended uptipping him 20%, would of been more if he was a better waiter. We were very excited to try the restaurant because of thereviews. The food was amazing. The wait staff wasn?t. And that?s why I can only give this restaurant two stars. Read more
Definitely not impressed. Ordered the Lamb shank dinner and food was BLAND. It?s as if the meat was taken straight from the... butcher thrown into the oven with just a touch of some herbs, no salt at all or seasoning. Read more
I left hungry. Except for one of the soups, everything was bland. I mean BLAND. I have had a fair share of lamb shanks in my... life - this one distinctively ranks at the bottom of the list. I had to shower it with salt and pepper in order to force someresemblance of taste into it. One extra star for the server, who was nice. Read more
It?s okay. Service was nice. Food and bread took a bit longer than you would expect on a slow evening (not the servers fault,... though). The bread was probably the best thing I tasted lol. The arancini didn?t have a lot of flavor. The salad was eh, Icould tell the tomatoes were kind of tasteless/not super fresh. The entree (chicken caprese) was a very nice flavor (balsamic +pesto). But I had to add olive oil to my spaghetti because it was a little dry, and a lot of salt/pepper for flavor. Theparmagiano cheese wasn?t the flavorful reggiano you see at a lot of nicer Italian places. Not bad, just had higherexpectations. Nothing WRONG with the place though and again, very nice service! I wouldn?t tell somebody NOT to go there by anymeans. It?s just kind of hard to recommend it when there are a lot of better places nearby, for the same price. Read more
Wow. Hands down best Italian food in Columbus. The arancini tastes like nonna's!! The house salad and bread were even... phenomenal. ???? We had a cod spaghetti special and scallop fresco with angel hair and everything was so light and tender. Theservice was absolutely amazing as well. The food is worth the wait cause its all made from scratch! We will be back, this wasfantastic. Cin cin to the chef! Read more
Everyone there was very nice. Food was good. We popped in during a weekday to get dinner. Unfortunately service took a very... long time. We were there from a little after 7 to 8:45. All we ordered were entrees. No apps, drinks or desserts. They must haveonly 1 chef. Pizza came out 1st and a bit later our pasta dish came out. Just too long for a weekday dinner. We all had workand school the next day. Overall I do recommend checking it out, but make sure you have time. Lots of time. Read more
The food was delicious! I had the manicotti and my boyfriend had the sausage arrabbiata. We also split a bottle of Super... Tuscan. The food and wine went perfectly together. Our waitress was friendly and knowledgeable. We can?t wait to come back. Keepup the good work! Read more
This is a quaint and old-fashioned, family-run type place. Jared was our server. He was great. The dining room is small so you... better make reservations. It really filled up. I had Chicken Caprese, wife had Chicken Carbonara. Hers had more flavor thanmine. Prices were very reasonable, and my only wish was that portions were larger. Read more