Carrabba's Italian Grill is warming up to the winter season with seasonal specials including a new Short Rib Marsala featuring a tender bone-in short rib served over garlic mashed potatoes and topped with their signature Lombardo Marsala wine sauce – yum!

Carrabba's makes every pasta dish by hand with the freshest ingredients. Pasta is cooked perfectly every time and signature sauces are made from scratch daily.

Bloomin' BrandsCarrabba's Italian Grill / Parent organization Carrabba's Italian Grill (or simply Carrabba's) is an American restaurant chain featuring Italian-American cuisine. It is owned and operated by Bloomin' Brands, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

When placing your order, please let your server know that you are ordering a gluten-free menu item. Grilling over an open fire has been a part of authentic Italian cooking for centuries. At Carrabba's, we use the high heat of a 550-degree wood-fired grill fueled by natural hardwood logs, such as oak or pecan.

“Short” ribs come from the beef chuck portion of a cow and there are usually five of these small pieces of meat that are too small to be sold as good steaks. So, they are exactly what the name implies; short (small) ribs.

Beef short ribs are a cut of beef that comes from the chuck, plate, rib, or brisket section of a cow. They earned their name because they contain “short” pieces of rib bones encased in meat. While they offer less meat than steak, they have more meat than other beef rib varieties.

LUNCH MENU At Carrabba's, we are dedicated to the craft of cooking great food. Everything we do in our open kitchen every day reflects this – from using the freshest ingredients to using time-honored Italian cooking methods such as grilling over a wood fire.

Warda gourmet pasta is a premium quality pasta made from 100% durum wheat semolina. They are drawn with a bronze mold, which gives the whitish pasta a rougher and more porous surface. Like traditional pasta, the gourmet pasta is made in a slow drying process with low temperatures.

1986 Carrabba's Italian Grill was founded in Houston, TX by Johnny Carrabba and Damian Mandola in December of 1986, who set out to create a restaurant experience where people felt like guests in their home.

Patrick (Pat) Hafner has served as the President of Carrabba's Italian Grill since May 2022. He is responsible for leading the domestic operations and development of more than 220 restaurants nationwide. Pat brings more than 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry.

All purpose flour: The base of the bread. Italian seasoning blend, garlic powder, dried basil, dried rosemary, and salt: Yes, the bread at Carrabbas is very plain but it does have a little seasoning in it.

“Short” ribs come from the beef chuck portion of a cow and there are usually five of these small pieces of meat that are too small to be sold as good steaks. So, they are exactly what the name implies; short (small) ribs. Braising is a cooking method where you brown the meat and simmer it on low heat.

There are 13 ribs in a steer. First let's separate the hindquarter from the four-quarter. And that always happens between the 12th and 13th rib.

The classic dish is made fresh every day in-house at Carrabba's, and the meat sauce is made with fresh ingredients like ground beef and pork, chopped onions, celery and finely chopped carrots.

Su filindeu pasta is the stuff of legends. For over 300 years, only a handful of women from the remote Sardinian town of Nuoro have known the secret to making this unfathomably intricate pasta. That makes it the rarest and one of the most expensive pasta shapes on earth.

Pasta products contain milled wheat, water, and occasionally eggs and/or optional ingredients. Pasta manufacturers typically use milled durum wheat (semolina, durum granulars, and durum flour) in pasta production, although farina and flour from common wheat are occasionally used.