Offering authentic Italian cuisine passed down from our founders' family recipes, Carrabba's uses only the best ingredients to prepare fresh and handmade dishes cooked to order in a lively exhibition kitchen.

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.

Watts said the gluten-free dishes are made with casarecce pasta, which she described as "a short pasta similar to penne or rotini made with corn, rice and quinoa flour." When Carrabba's launched a new menu in the fall, it added several gluten-free dishes, including the pasta entrees.

Offering authentic Italian cuisine passed down from the founders' family recipes, Carrabba's uses only the best ingredients to prepare fresh and made-from-scratch Italian favorites.

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.

Carrabba's slogan, “Non c'e amore piu' sincero di quello del cibo” (there is no love more sincere than the love of food) might be better phrased: “There is no love more sincere than the love of great Italian food at reasonable prices.

What is Gluten-Free Pasta? Coming in all the classic pasta shapes and sizes you love, gluten-free pasta noodles are those that have been made without wheat or any other gluten-containing ingredients by replacing them with corn, rice, and even potato flour.

While traditional pasta is made from wheat derivatives, gluten-free pasta uses other types of grains. In Italy, gluten-free pasta tends to be made from a combination of white rice flour and corn flour. There are also higher protein varieties on US supermarket shelves that are made from quinoa, lentils, or chickpeas.

Carrabba's Italian Grill will pay $690,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency said in a news release Dec. 9.

7 Signs of Real Italian Food

1. Seasonal Ingredients Cooked to Perfection. Authentic Italian food uses fresh, seasonal produce in its dishes.
2. They Serve Traditional Italian Dishes.
3. Italians Eat There.
4. They Serve Proper Pizza.
5. Several Courses Served at the Right Times.
6. Real Italian Cooking Techniques.
7. They Keep Things Simple.