Tuscany Art in Dining

I organized a small college reunion dinner for 20 at this restaurant. I became worried when I read the reviews AFTER mailing out the invitations. However, I could not have been more pleased with the service, food, atmosphere, and price!
For the summer, Tuscany is offering a complimentary side with the entrée! That made the meal very affordable! I had read complaints about small servings… not the case. Of poor service… not the case. Of the owner being [bad word]…not the case.
We were seated in the banquet room and were able to linger for hours. The wait staff was efficient, professional, and approachable.
No complaints from me… only raves… I WILL be back. My new «special» place! Can’t wait to try the Sky Bar.

Place was «just okay». Imagine if Olive Garden put a couple million into one location, Tuscany is what you’d get, Olive Garden might still be better though. Basically they lay every little ingredient on the menu, every kind of pasta, every sauce, every beef cut, every fish, and then they basically tell you to come up with your own dish. Yea, the flexibility is good to an extent, there’s to many options. I won’t expect it to be there till mid-​2010. I hate giving bad reviews, but for the price I wouldn’t go back here, and they truly could of did better.

Could have been so nice! Odd… no valet, maybe weekends only? Ask for nice table due anniversary… get a wooden 4-​top, no tablecloth, by the kitchen. Oh well. Everybody else has a rose on the table but us… waiter apologizes for possibly being a bit rusty, as just returning to waiting after a sojourn in sales. Eventually he figures out he will have to check my iced tea more often than he has been doing…
Huge, heavy book-​style menu, with photos of Italy throughout. Call me picky, but I think an Italian restaurant should know how to spell prosciutto (some places they did, some they didn’t) and shiitake with two I’s! And pollo with two p’s, good grief… this was symptomatic of a lack of attention to detail which manifested itself throughout the meal.
Little bitty bits of bread in a strange little basked, ONE pat of butter, no olive oil until requested… hmm…strange for a would-​be Italian restaurant…
great crab cakes, no discernible filler, lots of mussels in a slightly too salty white wine broth. Waiter doesn’t bring me little seafood fork until I ask for it, also brings me strange ladle thing, I guess to eat the broth, but it is totally impractical, so I just use the spoon that’s already on the table. Both appys served in strange oblong pewter tureen things – again, impractical for getting the broth out, without tipping one end up! Nice salad with pears &, candied walnuts, though could you be any skimpier with the cheese? About a millimeter thick slice, almost transparent? Anyway… on to main course…
Sides of eggplant parmesan & green beans. The eggplant disappears under the heavy breading, and the beans… well, those there were were fine, but I think there must have been about 26 beans on a little plate, for $ 6???
«big catch» of seafood over angel hair, again in the tureen thing… but it is not hot enough! Kindly waitress (our waiter is good at disappearing) notices me looking around, and whisks my food back to kitchen for a warm-​up, after which it is fine.
We are too full for dessert.
All in all, at these prices, I do not expect mediocrity in food, service, portions, or anything else. To justify going here instead of going into Dallas or Fort Worth – where competition keeps restaurateurs on their toes – the owner has some work to do.