Johnny Carino’s

Went there today with my friend and her teenage grandson to jointly celebrate a birthday and Valentine’s day. Very slow service for a restaurant less than half full. My friend’s food was inedible and after literally two bites she had it boxed up to take home to her chickens. The dough on my pizza was raw in the middle and my soup was lukewarm. Teenage boys will usually eat anything. Not todayNever agai.

Horrible experience! Waited forever for even water and bread, because the hostess didn’t tell the waitress we were there. Then they couldn’t serve a beer because they ran out of glasses, and the food was mediocre at best. The other staff were rude and unfriendly. Took forever to get the check. Don’t come here!

Sent my son to pick up takeout from a restaurant that is like Johnny Carino’s and he spaced on it and showed up here. The staff was rude to him about his mistake and pointed down the street to where he had intended to go. Way to make a potential customer feel all warm and fuzzy. Guess I won’t be dining here anytime soon.

My favorite place in town for italian food! Bacon mac n cheese rocks! Happy hour menu fantastic! Italian margaritas melt in your mouth! ! I could go on and on… staff is friendly, fun, and professional! !

Staff was very friendly. Bread and garlic oil were awesome. Chicken parmesan was really good and I took half home.

This is probably the best chain restaurant in the Italian sector i’ve come across. Happy hour begins at 2pm till close. Derrick at the bar — my spot of choice.- is an exceptional host. I love the Italian wedge and chicken tumble, both great deals, and Bombay Martini was 5 bucks and well-​made. My go to spot for prices, quality and service.

Great dinner experience for our family. Loved the minestrone soup and lasagna. Casual dining experience.

Thoroughly impressed, they know how to make an amazing chicken parm. The sampler drinks were amazing as well; they give very generous portions. The food also came out VERY quickly. Absolutely loved this place.

Food was great I would give 4 stars for food but the service and bar wait for drinks is the 3 stars. We waited 10 minutes before the hostess even appeared and said she be back in five. 12 minute wait to get a very bad drink then another 10 minuets to get a draft beer. They looked to have enough staff but we’re not very efficient in their efforts.

I don’t like writing long reviews.
I was craving pasta I found this place and thoroughly satisfied and very full for $ 35.
Prompt and at ease service from a young staff. I will come back.

There are few things that I am absolutely sure of. The sun comes up in the morning and sets in the evening. I will die someday and until then have to pay taxes until that day comes. Now I am sure of one other thing, the pizza my wife and I had last night at Johnny Carino’s in Bend was the WORST pizza I have ever tasted anywhere, anytime. It was basically cheese on very bad pizza dough, served Luke warm and tasteless. I have never been to a Johnny Carino’s before and did not know what to expect. They got my initial order wrong (no apologies) so we sat there eating a cheese pizza waiting for the one they got wrong (did I mention no apologies?) and at that point should have asked for the check and left. Instead they delivered our other pizza which unbelievably was worse than the first. I left feeling only one thing, I want my money back.

When you’re too tired to cook and you want some tasty options with outside pickup — this is it! Service is always spot on and very friendly. Lots of food options but keep in mind it is a chain restaurant — with that said, we’ve never had a bad meal.

We went in knowing this is a chain and we were pretty impressed! We don’t have one in Eugene and I must say I would much rather have one over Olive Garden! The happy hour prices are impressive and we really could have eaten off of what we ordered off of that menu but we had not been here before so we wanted to try a variety of things. The bacon mac with jalepinos, smoked chicken and jalepino ravioli, and the combo skilletini. We had left overs because there was obviously a bunch of food which was made to perfection. I would come back again if we are in the area. Now I know what I like and what the portions are like.

Just moved from beaverton and I enjoyed the food Derrick was our server. He was great!!!

My family and I went here last night for dinner. You guys never fail to impress. So happy with our meals and our waitress Melody. Always attentive and smiling. We will definitely be back! A must try! Especially over Olive Garden! Oh yeah and very affordable! :)

We came here for our anniversary. One of the reasons we chose Carino’s is the gluten free menu. My wife has celiac and it is so hard to find a restaurant with a decent gluten free menu. Our server Jordan was excellent. The was our first time here and it won’t be our last. Thank you!

We’ve been here twice since moving to Bend, and I’m impressed! We took the kids here one evening, and everyone enjoyed their meals (spaghetti and pizza for kids, salad and pasta for parents). Service was super friendly.
They also have a great lunch menu (not sure if weekends are included). Soup/​salad/​sandwich combos, pasta dishes for around $ 10pp. We’ll be back.

We used to live in Bend and frequented this restaurant. We did limit our choices each time and had 3 staples we always ordered.
One was the bowtie chicken, dynamite sticks, and the italian nachos.
These are all great items and taste awesome.
The only thing is that the price is a bit on the high side. Otherwise the setting and staff are always great.

Great place! Service was wonderful and they made me chicken piccata which is not in the menu. Great lunch prices. Highly recommend ;)

We received a couple of free birthday entrees and dollars off coupons from Johnny Carino’s in the last month, which led us back in to give it another try. We were pleasantly surprised. We’re new fans of Bend’s Johnny Carino’s for what it is; a comfortable and well managed chain Italian restaurant location serving pretty darned good food. We’re getting down off our high horse as it relates to chains and going back in here again.
Here’s why:
MENU & PRICES:
New menu offers more interesting choices at very reasonable, I’d even say low, prices. At lunch time there are «power lunch» options of about ten items all priced at about $ 8 that also include soup or salad.
FOOD QUALITY:
The place smells good, like Italian cooking, when you walk in and what we’ve had, in particular at lunch yesterday, delivers on the promise of the aromas.
We chose two things. One, a vegetarian spinach stuffed mushroom appetizer ($ 10) off the regular menu and it was plenty generous to share or use as a main course. Six big mushrooms perfectly cooked to tender but not overdone served with a light tomato cream sauce and fresh ch oped tomatoes on top. The other a Spaghetti Carbonara ($ 13) off the daily specials menu. So many restaurants, in particular chain restaurants, make this bacon and egg pasta with a white sauce instead of using eggs as it should be made. It is also tough and go in kitchens that do use egg as to getting the eggs fully cooked when tossed with the hot pasta. So it was a true test of the kitchen for my husband to order this. They passed the test as this was as a very good dish. And it could easily have been shared to serve two.
Three other big thumbs up for this kitchen. 1) The food was served hot by a runner from the kitchen — dressed in cook whites — when the server was tied up with other guests, 2) the runner came prepared with fresh Parmesan and a cheese grater to offer same, and 3) the food was appropriately seasoned, that is not the least over salted which seems the bane of chain cooking elsewhere.
SERVICE:
Now as before, friendly customer care from the moment you walk in the door. And our server at lunch, Cari, was friendly and efficient. Plus she knew the menu and could make recommendations and answer questions.
AMBIANCE:
Someone’s idea of Tuscan Italian décor, much more tastefully done than other nearby Italian chain. Everything is sparking clean. The sound system is turned comfortably low enough to be able to talk over it. But if I could wave a wand, I’d have the change the 70’s, 80’s 90’s popular rock music mix to something either Italian or more «Starbuck’s like». Let’s face it… some of these old rock standards weren’t even very good in their day (Diana Ross’ «Upside Down» anyone?)
THIS N THAT:
1) CONVENIENT CURBSIDE TAKE OUT: Call ahead to place an order and you don’t even have to get out of your car to pick it up. They have parking stalls for those orders which allow you to push button and have the food delivered to your car. With Bend winters what they are for snow and cold, that sounds like something we’ll try this year.
2) ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible parking in lot and level in to restaurant and throughout.
3) WEDNESDAY HALF PRICE BOTTLE NIGHT: On Wednesdays all wine by the bottle is offered at half price. As is true with most chain restaurants, the wine menu here isn’t a deep one and the options lean to plebeian, but it works for what it is and has a couple very drinkable wines.