Where is the Best Group Dining in Providence, Rhode Island?
When we heard that Carmine’s in New York was opening a branch at the Twin River (“casino”) in Lincoln, Rhode Island, wer were in heaven. We always visited Carmine’s when we went to New York, and now, with a branch about 25 miles away from us, we could go much more often. To get to the restaurant, you have to trek across the big parking lot, and then through room after room of slot machines and garish lights. The smell of cigartee smoke wafted readilyt hrough the air. Not a good introduction to the place, but nothing the management can help, certainly. If you don’t like casinos (that is, slot machine cities) maybe you should eat elsewhere. But even when we got to the restaurant, the disappointments continued. The decor is not as warm and comfortable as at the New York location we’ve been to: here, at Twin River, it’s more like a glorified food court. The service was friendly enough, but slow– young and not at all well-trained; needing to be asked for place settings for each person; a
I had fond memories of the original Tweet’s from my student years at Brown (in the 1960s!), so I returned there with friends while attending a reunion this weekend. The original structure had burnt down and was replaced by a rather boring family-style restaurant building, but they still sell tasty spaghetti (with red and white seafood sauces) by the the pound, and the steamers were even better than I remembered–cooked in peppery spices and served with water to rinse them off and melted butter (and lemon, in my case). Yum!Pros + Inexpensive, Informal, Friendly serviceCons – Boring decor
