Cariera's Fresh Italian

The Fettuccine Alfredo and Chicken Parmesan was delicious, the bread was nothing special. It's close by and had a nice menu. We did take out. It's a bit pricey but was delicious.

FiVE STARS!Stopped here en route to home. Delicious everything! They make everything from scratch. Old traditional flavor! The chicken with spinach and artichoke with Sun dried tomatoes was out of this world! Mushrooms were saucy and delicious. A delicious Cesar Salad again made from scratch. My daughter loved her Lasagna and Chocolate Mousse! Our server, Dana, was so kind, professional and gentile! She made great suggestions and made the meal a pleasure to enjoy! Mixed a mean peach tea too! Clean restaurant. Accessible restroom clean as a whistle and easy parking. Don't miss dining at this gem in Winter Park!!!!!!

We ended up at the restaurant for our Aunt's Birthday because we were turned down by another business. I would like to point out the friendliness of the staff. Some items on the menu were not available. But what we ordered had a lot of flavor. If you have children, they offer kids' drinks that are presented in a fun and unique way.

First time here. Relatively empty at this between hour, 4:00pm on a Wednesday. Greeted by who I think is the owner and made to feel right at home. He mentioned that he usually plays Italian music, but was rolling with the Rock music while the place had only a few folks. And he just flopped to the Italian standards. I ordered pasta fagiola soup. Excellent!! Just the right temp and full of flavor. For the main entree I got the Chicken Sorentino (thin sliced, spicy white wine butter reduction with cherry tomatoes and scallions). Broccoli on the side. Delicious!

The environments is really nice, staff friendly. They have TVs showing live camera in Italy, that made me feel like traveling.Meatballs were good.Italian beef rigatoni was ok.Gnocchi carbonara was delicious.

Everything is amazing and super fresh. I visit this establishment frequently and I've never once been disappointed. In fact I'm ALWAYS impressed. Anything with Alfredo sauce is amazing. Best Alfredo I've ever tasted. The meatballs are fresh made. You can tell by the taste and texture they were never frozen. Two Thumbs up.

Sue and I have not been to this place since they converted to sit-down and order. Finally joining the real restaurant world. We have eaten here about 20 times in the last few years and have always enjoyed the food, but felt strange with the get-your-own-drink aspect of it.Anyways, we are seated at our favorite booth, Perry Como, Elvis, Dean Martin, and Sinatra (the usual suspects) crooning at a comfortable level, with decent speakers. Oscar greeted us and took our drinks order, leaving a couple of rather impressive menus with us. We spent some time looking at the menu, as the format has changed somewhat. I ordered the shrimp marsala on linguine, Sue ordered the same on some other pasta noodle (You choose). After a reasonable interval, our food arrived. 2 huge bowls of deliciousness thick enough that it could have been called a stew. Lrt me tell you, I've been to restaurants that the orders contained little meat, little mushrooms, and a LOT of broth. Not here! These bowls were crammed with a ton of food. Shrimp, portobella mushrooms and pasta that was not overcooked.I gotta tell you, Sue and I dine out a LOT...various venues all over WG/Ocoee/Windermere/Clermont. This was probably the finest meal I ever had. The improvements the restaurant made are A+Definitely worth dropping a hundy on.

You stand in line at the counter to order your food then sit down and they deliver it. You get your own soda from a fountain station that is basically behind the counter. This in itself is odd; especially since they request a tip when you are paying when you order at the counter. I could be ok with this if the food was really good. I had to go up to tell them when we were ready for our dessert . Employees were not friendly in any way. I really regret giving them a tip once I realized how this whole thing worked They are an Italian restaurant, they don't have fettuccine. Ok, no worries. They do have pasta with Alfredo sauce. At least they called it Alfredo sauce. It tasted like raw flour. I don't even put flour in my Alfredo sauce so this really confused me. You can see how pasty the sauce is in the photoMy mom got the lemon chicken. It was ok but not great. To me the sauce tasted like chicken stock with a little bit of lemon We also got a piece of lemoncello cake to share. The piece was maybe 1/2 the size you get on any other restaurant . I had originally asked about the blueberry cheese yin the menu, said they can't get it anymore. The warehouse no longer Carries itWe won't be backNote that my first check in was to get take out for my SIL , I didn't get any food

I wish I could have given a better review, there are not many good Italian restaurants, but this isn't one of them. My wife and I had dinner here and I ordered the beef with rigatoni and she had the chicken parmesan. First, I had to ask for bread as none was put on the table. I didn't think it was served and was going to order it, but the server said she had just forgotten. Ok. When the food finally arrived (almost 20 minutes later) mine had no cream sauce as the menu stated. It was instead covered in a spicy brown gravy. Pasta with brown gravy? I'm Italian and have seen that. It tasted as bad as it looked. I sent it back and rather than wait another 20 minutes, I asked to cancel the order. I shared my wife's dinner, which was completely average. However, the bread and the marinara sauce that eventually came was good - the reason for the 2 star rating. We won't be going back, and you should explore better options.

Food is delicious. We order take out since inside seating is generic and not like a regular restaurant.