Toskana Leipzig — Restaurant in Leipzig

Ok I am in Germany so I , probably, shouldn’t eat Italian in the first place or at least I should do some research before, but we were in Germany for more then 10 days and my GF wasn’t feeling great so she was in a mood for some comfort food so let’s go here it’s 4.3 rated a lot of reviews, how bad can it be? So the ppl there are not Italian, and that’s ok, but it would be cool if they understood and transmitted some of the culture and language and make you somewhat feel like in an Italian place. The only Italian you can hear in there is a broken playlist that plays Toto Cutugno’s Italiano every third song. They still need to discover Felicita or Gloria. lol The service was slow but decent, they were polite and nice. So we ordered 2 zuppa di pomodoro for starters and the soup was mediocre but edible. Both me and my gf are huge fans of carbonara and I knew it was huge risk to try it here, so it is really in a good percentage my fault, you cannot order carbonara in a random Italian place in Germany. So this is absolutely by far the worst carbonara I ever had in my life. Instead of guanciale these ppl put ham so not even bacon but ham OMG, there was barely any cheese instead they put that disgusting cheese cream and there was no pepper and certainly no taste in this horrible horrible dish. I made a picture but this is when I already removed the cheese leafs they put over the pasta (not pecorino or grana or parmiggiano but some tasteless cheese) and added some pepper to try to get some taste out of the thing. Wow. So I don’t usually write many reviews and I usually prefer only to write when I eat something exceptional but this disgrace had to be mentioned.

Anyway for a good carbonara either you make it yourself or you go to Italy and even there choose well. Such a simple dish that can be so bad if done wrong. And this was wrong in every possible way.

Free tip for the restaurant management if they want to improve their carbonara go to YouTube and type king of carbonara shares his pasta recipe and just do what he does. And ofc buy the right ingredients some guanciale (shouldn’t be that hard to find it in Germany with all the pork consumed ) and order some pecorino and grana padano and put some fresh pepper omg. Italy is not...

Today we visited this restaurant quite excited as we were hungry and it looked beautiful from the outside. We do not speak German, however, when we ordered we made sure to point with our finger what specifically from the menu we want. The ordered came (AFTER 40 MINUTES) wrong. I ordered a Dijon mustard salmon with potatoes. I received sour cream pasta with salmon.. I did not want to wait for another 40 minutes for my dish, so I decided to keep the disk. When I took a bite of the fish it was: COLD Burned Uncooked!!!

If you would tell me ever these 3 things about a cooked fish I would think it’s a joke. No, it was that bad.

I called the waiter, he apologized and told me I will get my correct dish in 10 minutes. Not in the most humble way..

While waiting for our food for the first 40 minutes, we drank our drinks in the first 10 minutes. Nobody came to ask us if we wanted anything else to drink! Our glasses stayed empty on the table for the remainder of the dinner.

My correct dish arrived 20 minutes after. Meantime the waiter bought to the table a free starter - bruschetta. We had already eaten as a starter the garlic pizza, of course we didn’t want to eat bruschetta as well.. When the fish arrived, it was cooked ok, but the size of it was smaller than the few slices of cucumber from the plate..

My partner ordered a schnitzel with baked potatoes. The potatoes were half cooked inside, but burned on the outside. Definitely kept boiled in a fridge/freezer and then just burned for the dish. The meat from the schnitzel seemed cooked frozen.

We were very bothered by the unapologetic and not at all humble behavior of the staff.

We were charged the full price of the meal and none of us could even finish the dishes.

We would definitely not...

First of all I love Italy and Italian people.

I spend a great time in Italy especially in Toscana every year and the food! Oh man almost everything is delicious there.

But this place is probably one of worst places to eat something! Let alone a good Italian food in Leipzig.

The “probably” head waiter will ask you what you WANT! (not to mistaken he will Not GREET you) with a chewing gum in his mouth.

Once you order your below average tasting menu he’ll try to do everything he can to insult and finish your meal quickly.

He will try to pretend that he doesn’t understand what SALZ is, even if you say it in English for a few times.

I assume he and the owner didn’t understand that people don’t go to a restaurant just to eat.

They go there for the ambience and deliciousness.

If you want to pay unnecessary amount of money for tasteless food and get insulted as Bonus this is the place.

My suggestion is to find some other restaurants in the vicinity and enjoy your meal.

Anywhere else is better than...