Johnny Carino’s Italian Restaurant | Only One In Tennessee | Fusion Nachos | Full Review | Date Spot

Today is a different day! Something we don’t normally do! Reviewing a chain restaurant! Johnny Carinos Italian in Pigeon Forge is a franchise but this location is the only one in all of Tennessee! It doesn’t hurt that they have some really fresh Italian food and Christy loves the Italian Nachos! So on a work day, I’m gonna treat her out to a little early dinner date and have a little dessert too! This menu is so good and has so much to choose from! Come along with us for a full review of Johnny Carinos!

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What an absolutely beautiful day in Pigeon Forge it’s a work day but I wanted to treat Christy to something nice today sometimes it can be a little bit of a tongue twister but we’re here at a great place because she loves Fusion food Fusion what are you thinking how

About some Italian and Mexican mix and we got a place it is a chain which we don’t normally do but you won’t find many of them around here so come along and join us because this is Johnny Corino Italian you can find Johnny corinos at 2425 Parkway right in the middle of Pigeon Forge ladies first thank you guys Hi how are you good how are you good how are you all righty we’ve got specials of the day at Johnny corinos steak pasta soup of the day is potato and the drink special is a green goddess there are several dining areas here at Johnny

Corino’s and they are all very cozy and they’ve got that old feel kind of like an older Italian restaurant that you might find in New York lots of tables of boobs a wine Celler and you’ve also got some high tap tables as well as more Booth seating here at the bar all right I’m ready for my my lunch date and there he is hello my love Mr Handsome himself you’re too kind no I’m just Honest look what we have here it’s a wonderful fresh loaf of Italian bread it’s an herbed bread look at those Italian seasonings that are in that loaf and yeah yes fresh herbs here fresh Italian herbs so and they know how to do it right because we have the olive oil

Extra virgin olive oil so we just slowly drizzle it drizzle it drizzle it and then you just let that marinate for a few minutes and you use that for your bread in place of butter cuz that is the way it is done In yes yes that beautiful herb Italian bread herbed crusty Italian bread that’s beautiful and this wonderful Evo with the Italian herbs so really all you do with that is give it a dip and then you eat it Yes oh that’s really good well first of all it’s got a garlic flavor in the bread as well as the herbs and the herbs are just delicious you can taste a little bit of sea salt in that uh Olive in the olive oil herb mix and that is

The way they do it in the more upscale restaurants in New York so J coros is doing it right when it comes to the bread love it so Christy always loves to come here for the Italian nachos remember when I said Mexican Italian fusions that is what we were talking

About so these are pasta chips they’re not tortilla chips black olives pepper and CIS there’s Roma tomatoes jalapenos alfredo sauce and then mozzarella and Parmesan and we did a combo so that is actually sausage and chicken correct love correct so my dear what do you come to Johnny corinos for the Italian nachos

Yes although their menu is fabulous and we will post that at the end of our review um for those who are new to smoking Mountain Fe food and fun we always post the menu at the end of the video so that we don’t take up time in

The beginning in case you don’t want to see that part but um their Italian nachos are wonderful um but I’m going to try them for you the these are pasta chips as Brooks mentioned they are not um they’re not tortilla they are pasta and I got the

Mix of sausage which you can see the lovely sausage there yes sausage and chicken both I’m going to of course Christy always has to build the bite that’s correct and we’ve got the rack pack singing pretty loudly behind us some Christmas carols so yeah hopefully YouTube won’t mind that all right there we

Go I know what you think about those already but yeah for twirl coming up Italian nachos are just different yeah you got alfredo sauce mozzarella sauce their sausage is finely ground which is my favorite kind of Italian sausage yeah chicken is good you’ve got the the uh

The bell pepper or the uh what do you call those Bell pepp not bell peppers the banana peppers yes and the tomatoes the olives it all just goes together really really nice so that is honestly one of my favorite appetizers in Smokies all right first of all who doesn’t love

Something that comes in a cast iron skillet but these are baked stuffed mushrooms they’re spinach parmesan red onions and garlic that’s a lemon basil cream sauce that you see inside and then beautiful Roma tomatoes and basil on top and I just cannot wait to get into that very excited about this always one

Of my favorite dishes it does not matter where we go I love stuffed mushrooms I’m going to cut one of these those pretty incredible looking they smell if wish we had smell a vision right now cuz that just yeah this lemon cream sauce beautiful fresh basil you can just smell it that

Is one thing you definitely smell here at Johnny Corino is the herbs they look so good I can’t imagine that they’re not it’s just a good flavor like I said the lemon everything the fresh vegetables the herbs very very nice awesome yes all right so something about

The Italian nachos I forgot to mention is that it comes in three sizes oh yeah you have your small plate size which is what I got that’s what we got here look at that that’s a small plate that’s a small plate so that’s $6.99 then there

Is the regular size for $1.99 and then they have a family size which is really big one so I think that’s pretty awesome so you know like if I just wanted the nachos and I wasn’t going to get something else I would get the regular

Size and that would be my dinner and I did try br’s mushrooms fresh and delicious oh my goodness wow yes well now that does not look like uh Mr PB or Dr Pepper or Coke or something like that it is a what is that lovely thing you have in your hand it is

A Blackberry Italian cream soda wow which you can see the Blackberry down there in the bottom and then you see the cream cream with the top and boy is it a refreshing yummy drink that is something not too sweet either I mean there’s sugar but it’s not okay really sweet but

You definitely taste the Blackberry great flavor though oh it’s yummy wow so a little refreshing drink and so that is uh something different that differentiates them from other Italian places they have other flavors like lemon Blackberry orange I think there was a vanilla raspberry a raspberry yeah

There I had a hard time deciding between blackberry and lemon so yes but it was Blackberry for you Blackberry for me it kind of matches my shirt it does doesn’t it look at that look at this yes that’s awesome thank you all right yes sir good thank you that’s

Beautiful so love you have the chicken pine Gorgonzola that’s Pine pasta with a gorgonzola cream sauce it also has the sauteed mushrooms garlic and roma tomatoes and it’s not a heavy cream it doesn’t look like a heavy cream sauce okay so shrimp carbonara for me because for one I love a good carbonara

And this is done absolutely the right way there’s saute shrimp bacon peas onions fresh garlic beautiful black pepper tossed with that spaghetti that is a lemon butter and egg cream sauce and then there’s parmesan and fresh parsley as Well look at that that is first of all that is a really nice size portion I will absolutely be taking probably half or more of this home all very fresh looking ingredients I am excited to get into the penet chicken gorgona yes penet chicken gorgona I love the fact that they grate

The fresh cheese right on top for you as we showed I love that all right got a bite there yeah piping hot I can see that yes it looks so fresh which is what I love about it how is that flavor wise yes I love the Char on their chicken and

Grilled the flavor of the sauce is light it is not a very heavy sauce like like Brook said it is a cream sauce but it’s not like really heavy yes and then the nice mushrooms and tomatoes are are delicious the gorgona is a lighter cheese yes um so it’s not like you know

Um like real sharp but it’s delicious I really like that that’s good okay all right good job I want to get into the shrimp first because I’ve got shrimp I’ve got peas I’ve got bacon now I noticed that they do their carbonara with the peas uh some

Places do not put the peas in it and authentic carbonara is supposed to have peas so far is my knowledge yes it’s horri and that Sky all over the spoon I will tell you too that first of all this is that shrimp is perfectly done not rubbery not overdone not

Undercooked I am really struggling with that you’re just going to have to do the lady in the I am totally going to have to do the lady in the let’s get into it here slurp it in there slurping I don’t know that there is really a neat way to eat spaghetti and I

Don’t it’s supposed to be slurped a real Italian you’re not Italian but Italian slurps it oh is it good I guess it’s good the the sauce so you can actually taste the egg in the sauce which is nice because that’s what a carbonara when you think carbonara you

Think eggs peas and you think black pepper yeah that is beautiful a very well done dish so you feel like it was made fresh oh that’s completely fresh there’s nothing in there that’s not fresh and for it to be an egg cream sauce again it’s light and another very

Big portion very big portion but yes of course I love the fresh grated cheese that they did for us on top well that was awesome so let’s finish our meal and then we will come back with final thoughts I don’t know if we’re having dessert yet I guess that’ll be a

Surprise for us and for you yes all right guys um portions are ginormous here so this is what we are taking home I mean it doesn’t look like either one of us e very much we had our we did have appetizers in our in in in the defense of that but

Honestly and then we will post that menu at the end because we are impressed by their menu here at Johnny kinos Yes okay so we did opt for dessert and this is one of your favorites I she could not say no yes this is their lemon

Cream cake so when you think Italian you think P Su and that’s okay cuz we love that too but lemon creake this is where it’s at guys that is powdered sugar dusting on top of that lemon cake and in the middle that is a ricotta lemon cream oh my can’t

Wait okay so what are you doing with my spoon too I don’t know why they gave us two spoons cuz I don’t know if I can share are youall sharing this with me I don’t know I might end up eating with one and twirling with one see all right

That looks amazing I am a lemon I love anything lemon yes you can see the cream in there that is beautiful and it is a nice crumb it’s light you can see that it’s a light cake yes spoon t twil oh wow that get a double spoon

Twirl that is the light the most refreshing yummy creamy lemony without being too lemony cake I would come here just for that as well really it is so good do I have to share I guess I have to share yeah I want to try this

Okay well I guess I have to share since they brought us two Spoons you’re not a big lemon person so I’m not a cake person curious of your thoughts on this cake thoughts my thoughts it doesn’t really matter what your thoughts are cuz my thoughts said it all doesn’t matter what you Says wow it’s very lemony but yeah but it’s really but it’s not overpowering the cream tempers the the lemon just wonderful I love that I would order a whole cake of that absolutely like for a holiday yes awesome so my dear my dear on the work

Day how did you enjoy your date at Johnny corinos I really really enjoyed it honestly um we we’ve not been here in quite some time yeah but I kept thinking about the Italian nachos and so we decided to just drop by here for kind of a late lunch

Early dinner and decided to bring you guys along H’s bag to go home uh yeah bag to go home and we have a bag Dro by John’s house because he’s feeling a little under the weather so we thought we would bring him dinner but um the Italian naos awesome love them Brooks’s mushrooms

The stuffed mushrooms with the spinach oh my those were fantastic Super Fresh yummy delicious my Gorgonzola chicken pen loved it have so much to go home can’t wait to have that either tomorrow or maybe later today probably tomorrow but it was very good and then the Lemon Cream came let me tell

You that is amazing like honestly that goes up they’re on one of my favorite desserts here at the Smokies believe it or not um I don’t know why there’s not more buzs about Johnny corinos but the menu is so diverse there’s a lot of things that you can

Find here that you’re not finding at Italian restaurants uh otherwise here in the Smokies uh very rustic Italian feel love the music that they play love this look um it’s just kind of an old rustic SL old New York feel with the rap pack music that they seem to play a lot yes

So I do feel like I’ve been on a date because of the music was romantic and you know that kind of Franks the natur feel that was very nice so yeah I like Johnny Renos and I am going to give it

In a give it an A okay I do I give it an a everything we have is great and your meal was great too but I let you to talk about that so Kos was a okay with you it is a all right first of all so it’s a treat to

Get to go out on a work day anyway and so we’ve enjoyed that I know I have um it is always a pleasure to take you out my love anytime that I get the opportunity thank you for the way that you love me so well well I love the way

You love me as well we keep each other very well back balanced I feel like so speaking of well balanced this menu this menu at corinos is amazing um news flash Johnny corinos is some good Italian right here in pish it really is yes um I’m going to start backwards with

A dessert lemon cream cake first of off not a big cake guy not a big lemon guy but having said that I could eat a whole lemon cream myself because that was really really good stuff it’s fresh it’s just you I’m pretty sure that’s made in house so said

Having said that uh let’s go to the main entree the shrimp carbon arm listen to me when I tell you this there is a right and a wrong way to make carbonara if you can’t see the black pepper in a carbonara if it doesn’t have peas if the onions aren’t properly

Caramelized if it doesn’t have petta bacon pett whatever you want to call it it’s got to have support fat to it and it has to have that egg piece you have to see be able to see the little egg pieces in the egg cream sauce guess what this shrimp carbar had

Every bit of that and then some so A++ Plus on that they get tons of extra credit for the way that they did that and then the Stu mushrooms as Christy said just fresh so for my Italian friends out there huh shout out to Frank coron shout

Out to Frank coron yeah shout out to the Romanos all them and so so yes uh this is just a war by the way the bread loaf when they bring that out the Italian herb bread with the evoo and the seasonings that’s when you know you’re in a good Italian spot so loved

Everything about it of course it’s going to be a regular spot for us and we hope that when you come to the pishing for J that you’ll give it a shot as well because got a feeling you’re going to find something here that you like but

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Christy saying Merry Christmas God bless you we love you we can’t wait to show you what’s next ciao ciao let’s take a look at the menu for Johnny corinos and you can feel free to pause or freeze your screen if you see something you want to look at

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