02.12.09
This is a 'blog' I wrote for South Jersey Magazine in 2005. Since that time my husband and I and my three children have been to Carlucci's at least once a month for either dinner or lunch. We shared very special occasions there, introduced friends and family to the restaurant and I've had my "girls night out" there several times. This year my husband and I will be celebrating our 27th anniversary at Carlucci's with our family and friends. Read on for my 'blog'...
Feels Like Family - 10/16/2005 by Geri Keenan. My husband and I along with our 3 children moved to this area 15 years ago from New York due to a business opportunity. Unfortunately, the opportunity just didn't suit us but decided to make this our home due to the the beautiful 'neighborhood' feeling and the convenience the Ramblewood area offered us. It was years before we could find that 'at home' feeling that our local restaurants in New York had given us. One evening my eldest son recommended Carlucci's to my husband and I. He had just started waitering there and thought we might enjoy the 'real italian cuisine' and family orientated atmosphere at Calucci's. Not only did they serve up the old-time italian custom cuisine we were used to but they immediately made us feel like we were the only patrons in the restaurant! Each time we went, they greeted us with sincerity and recognition. Something that's become almost non-existant in a lot of eat-and-run restaurants. The waiters remembered what we enjoyed and what we disliked from our previous visits and paid a lot of attention to detail. I'd like to find more of this fine dining with that old-fashioned, local restaurant feel we enjoy so much of, especially now that our children are grown up and romance is in full bloom again! Thankfully yours, Geri Keenan