Tuscany Cafe & Bistro

I only ordered take-​out here but it was still amazing. Good portion and the actual restaurant is adorable!

I love this place. Whenever I am in town for business I try to stop over lunch. Breakfast is good too, but truthfully I have only had coffee and a pastry. My only complaint is that they are not open for dinner.

Excellent service, delicious food. nice atmosphere. beautiful area!!! Accommodated every order without any issues (and we’re complicated)
Great place, will be coming regularly!

The food is fresh, all made from scratch. And I’ve never had a bad meal. Lunch is my favorite time to go — although I’ve had their breakfast too and it’s awesome.
Save room for dessert. Head chef and owner makes them from scratch too. I beg for his chocolate chip cookies. But I’ve also been spoiled by his chocolate croissants, apple pie, chocolate mousse cake, and others too numerous to list. Ooh, there was a berry cobbler once that was amazing.
In the Fall, watch out for his Butternut squash soup — it’s amazing.

Love this place — so quaint, great food and great service!

Amazing… everything is amazing! This is the kind of menu that you need to keep coming back to try everything on the menu.

Nice corner place great fresh food and wine for a decent price. The staff is very friendly. They put out a chalkboard every Saturday with fresh specials for lunch. Perfect local place to sit down and have a nice meal at.

Did not find as spectacular as others. Pricey given the attempt to serve it as the upscale deli. Service was ok (long wait time but attentive) and food was adequate at best.

If you haven’t been here, you are seriously missing out. The best food I’ve had. The crab cakes are scrumptious. Great little neighborhood place that my husband and I eat at once a week!

I love this place. Have eaten here many times. The food and service is always excellent. Soup, salads, sandwiches and more. Extensive menu and it’s always delicious.

I love this place !!! Delicious food !!! I eat here at least once a week. Highly recommend this place. Must check it out

I definitely recommend asking for the daily specials, they have a long list of things they serve that aren’t on the regular menu.
The setup is nice both on the inside and outside (weather permitting).
Very friendly staff and they make great recommendations if you are undecided.
Parking is available right on the street for the most part
The last two times I’ve came here for lunch the Cesar salad was not fresh, maybe because I ordered the lunch vs the regular salad.

Delicious menu with an amazing variety. I love the seafood pot pie and the Caesar salad. A little pricey but a great place to go for a date or a celebratory lunch. Cute atmosphere, attentive staff, and awesome daily specials. Love their coffee too.

This is my second visit to this café and it feels like I am in love with its food. Today I ordered spicy chicken panini with Caesar salad on the side. It was one of the best panini ever… perfect crust with right amount of spice.
Don’t get me started on the deserts… I don’t wanna name any because they all looked so delicious in the display… trust me… order anything here and it will be a treat to your taste buds.

Ate here today for lunch with coworkers. First time here. Ate outside. Nice atmosphere. Daily specials… Lots of choices. Had the chicken salad crossaint with a side of pasta salad (really good). Crossaint soft and flaky. Chicken salad needed a pinch of seasoning but over all good. Coworkers had asiago penne pasta said was really good and the chicken pot pie was huge. But was also stated as good. Food took a long time to come out. Over 30 min. Parking is a challenge. Food is a little pricey. I would return

Quality of the food was awesome. Very creative. .addicted to the baked turkey crosaint with cranberry sauce.
Great outdoor seating
Service was terrible though..

Amazing! Amazing! Did I say amazing? This is a nice little tucked away, Italian restaurant. I tried the jerk salmon salad and I’ve eaten the crab quiche, both were great! This place is officially on my list of favorites.

We were the only people dining on a Saturday night at 6:30– not a good sign. My husband loved his cobb salad, but the rest of our meal was nothing great. There are so many other spectacular places in the Atlanta area. This is not one of them.

While sitting in virtually immobile congestion on Old Milton after leaving a meeting I had attended one morning, I wanted to try something light for lunch, but to avoid the ubiquitous chain restaurants in the area. A quick search of Unilocal led me to choose Tuscany Café.
Two and a half miles.
This is how far I needed to drive. That should be 4 – 6 minutes by car. Did it take 4 – 6 minutes to get there? Of course not… this is Alpharetta!
Seven traffic signals. Six joggers dodging.
Five drive and text.
Four screeching brakes. Three near-​wrecks. Two reckless cops. And a partridge in a peach tree.
Sixteen minutes.
How do people live like this?
But I digress…
Tuscany Café is located at the corner of Mill Creek and Cicero, beside a dry cleaner at ground level of an AMLI apartment community. By the small number of Unilocal reviews, one might think the place is new, but the earliest review was from 2008. Five years. Plenty of time to get their shit together, and yet, apparently, not nearly enough.
I walked in around 12:30 on a weekday. Busy? Somewhat. Maybe 80% full. The hostess met me after a couple of minutes and asked if I wanted to wait 10 – 15 minutes for a table inside, though I could see there were two empty tables that had not yet been cleared. I was starving, and thought I could use the *ahem* fresh air, so I asked to sit outside, where there were a few tables available. I also wasn’t keen to be squeezed into such a tight space as they have inside, when every table was occupied either by white businessmen or middle-​aged women whose careers consist of lying beside the pool and drinking too much wine at lunch. I was one of three men not wearing a polo shirt. Didn’t get the memo.
I sat outside and ordered a tea. It was hot, but I was under an awning to avoid Hyperion’s relentless gaze (we don’t get along so well, he and I, because he’s always trying to force me to wear pastel pink, head to toe). After a few minutes, I began to reconsider my choice to dine outdoors, as the air filled with the clamor and exhaust of gas-​powered edgers. There were three other tables occupied outside, with a single server. A chalkboard featured an impressive array of items not on the regular menu.
Minutes passed. A pair of women arrived and sat at one of the outdoor tables. More minutes passed. Another pair of women. The waitress took their drink orders.
Tick
Tock
Tick
Tock
The waitress took the food orders of the first pair that had arrived later than I, and then minutes later, the second.
Twenty-​five minutes after I had been seated, she took my order, apologizing for the delay.
Peppered turkey sandwich, with Caesar salad.
My food came thirty minutes later.
A cold sandwich, with deli turkey, alfalfa sprouts («alfa» on the menu), red onion, avocado, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise, on ciabatta. Three. Zero. Minutes. The waitress again apologized because things were «just crazy» in the restaurant. I asked if they were short-​staffed that day. No… Just busy. Really?
It’s a good sandwich. The mayo was globbed excessively onto the bread, so it wasn’t exactly «light»… or «lite»… but I care more about enjoying my food than whether I’ll live past 40. The salad, however, was a disappointment, being no more than a bed of room-​temperature romaine topped with a creamy Caesar dressing and a few shavings of parmesan.
My check took an expectedly long time to arrive.
After an hour and twenty minutes at Tuscany, I finally left… in time to start thinking about what I should have for dinner.
Food, ⁷⁄₁₀.
Service, ²⁄₁₀.
Overall, ⁴⁄₁₀.

Good lunch spot! Always packed during the week, so try to get there early. They offer outdoor seating which is a nice plus on days like today! The food is fresh, and they offer a really good variety of salads, sandwiches, and soups. Tasty dishes. The one drawback for me is that service is pretty slow. And I’ve been here a few times to know that it really hasn’t changed in that respect. However, if you have the time, go and enjoy yourself. The food is pretty good, and you get to people watch if you sit outside.