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Caragiulos Downtown Sarasota
Restaurant Review

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Anonymous party of 6 had dinner at Caragiulos and rated the Lasagna, pizza, Veal Marsala very good because, "The food is always good" and writes on November 25, 2006, "Since we live in the small town of Venice, we will often drive to a restaurant in Sarasota. We have very much enjoyed the Italian food at Carajulio's on Palm Avenue. Tonight, we made reservations for a party of 6 at 6pm. The restaurant called and confirmed the reservations. Everything was fine until we ordered our coffee. A few minutes after our coffee was served (7:28 pm) and we had paid the bill, our waiter returns to the table and tells us that they need our table since they had 7:30 reservations for the tables we were occupying. My coffee was still hot; and, I was sipping it. We finished our meal and got up from the table. After saying our goodbyes to the other people in our party, I returned into the restaurant and asked for the manager. I explained that if we were allowed 1 1/2 hours to dine, we should have been told that when we made the reservations. The manager did say that they will allow 1 hour and 45 minutes and sometimes up to 2 hours for a party to dine. The manager said the waiter should not have said anything to us and said it would not happen again. I told the manager that we drove to Sarasota from Venice. We enjoyed Carajulio's; we brought other people to the restaurant, and have never been treated this way before. We are not snow birds - we frequent Carajulio's all year long. The manager told us that he had already apologized to us and didn't know what else we wanted him to do! The manager was young - perhaps in his 20's. It is interesting that Sarasota Magazine writes up Carajulio's as having service straight from Grandma's heart! Seems to me that this manager does not have a clue as to what good service is. It seems as though Carajulio's does not care. It must have been around 7:40 or so when we finished talking with the manager. There were only 2 people sitting at the table from which we were asked to leave!!"
Service Rating: 5
Ambience Rating: 3
Wine List Rating: 2
Cleanliness Rating: 3
Value Rating: 3
Overall Experience: 5

 

 

 

   
 
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