Tisano's — Restaurant in Florida

Toscanos represents a hard style of restaurants that is one who are unwilling or unknowingly presenting a poor product presentation and technique. The restaurant space indoors is fairly small, by is well suited with a spacious outdoor seating. Decor and environment suggests that presentation and taste will match these standards. The occasion we stopped in was for my stepmoms birthday, we live in the Bluewater area and figured it’d be worth a try. We told the hostess that we were celebrating and birthday, and this information did return void. Our starters were a good segment, caprese and Caesar salad. Our soup side came next, a roasted tomato and red pepper soup. It was a stew like soup with other vegetable and starches inside. I wanted to try a menu staple rather than the various questionable chef specials. I want to see how well execution is involved towards a regular entre. We didn’t wait very long for the dinner, it was a light guest presence, however. The black pepper garlic shrimp orecchiette was my choice. The first thought of repulsion was the half a lemon, dried out with the seeds nice and perky sitting front and center of the pasta. A couple shrimp arrayed around it. The star of the plate, dry, firm, devoid of flavor but the water they came from. I enjoyed the pasta texture, not heightened in flavored to any touching degree although. Lastly, not garnish given, accept the lemon found on the shelf above a cooler. Our pizzas ordered were also below a standard I’d sell. I could see that they were below hot and the vegetables did not cook as needed. The Alfredo ordered was much like the orecchiette with some lack of presentation and garnish. I didn’t enjoy this restaurant experience, I didn’t feel that the food was worth its price and that it quality aided to a well eaten meal. Please accept these critiques and consider your products quality in these regards. Thank you for the service to the community and upkeep of the...

Our daughter had an event nearby so we decided to try Tisano's. Big mistake. We thought we were going to a nice Italian restaurant. We walked into a large bar with TVs and cheap tables and chairs. This is fine some of the time but not what we expected. We ordered a glass of wine and two glasses of water. The water came in large plastic cups and had a bad taste like all the soap didn't come off them in the dishwasher. The wine was fine.

Next we ordered fried calamari. Where's the calamari. We were served a plate full of fried dough. We picked the dough off looking for calamari but amazingly enough much of it contained nothing. We did find a few small pieces in other bread mounds. We sent it back. Next came a side salad in what looked like a 6" cereal bowl. It had some lettuce and a few other items stuffed in it. A small plastic ramekin of salad dressing came with it. The salad was pitiful.

My wife ordered mussels. 8 of them were unopened. When I commented on this, the server said it wasn't the cook's fault because "she knew for a fact that the mussels were defective." My thought was if you believe they were defective why serve them? We think they were not cooked properly.

I had the lasagna, which is supposedly a specialty of theirs. It was a big blob of cheese swimming in oil ($24 plus tax and tip). It was not like any lasagna I have ever seen before and it was cold in the middle. I searched inside looking for something that resembled lasagna. We took 2/3's home to see if either of our daughters would eat it. They both tried and declined.

The server did her best and really deserves combat pay in my opinion. We still tipped her 20%, but other than the server we found nothing positive about Tisano's. It was one of the worst meals in a...

Very underwhelmed. I had high hopes for this place as it always looked packed from the outside and the reviews raved about the quality of food. The only highlight of this meal is that the server was attentive and the calamari was well seasoned, hot and cooked perfectly. My shrimp linguine was subpar at best. While the shrimp was cooked well, that is not undercooked or overcooked, it was incredibly bland. Additionally, they were a little stingy about the amount in the dish. My white wine sauce was runny and had the consistency of the water used to boil the noodles. Overall my meal was very bland. I had to season it with lots of salt, pepper and parm to make it tolerable. My "house salad" was little more than a tiny plate of iceberg lettuce, a single sliver of red onion, tomato, cucumber with a few croutons tossed in. My mom's chicken cordon bleu was a joke. The spinach it came with was lukewarm, underseasoned and did not taste fresh at all. The potatoes came out cold and tasted like they came pre-made out of the deli section at Wal Mart. That they were cold is baffling as we were the first and only people in our section. Her chicken was anemic, flavorless and also not fresh looking or tasting. It looked like it had been tossed in a skillet long enough for it not to be raw. My mom only had a few bites of it before pushing it away and did not touch it the rest of the meal. Our server did offer a complimentary desert but we were ready to leave by this point. We were told that our bill was discounted since the potatoes were cold only to find out we were discounted a measly $1.80. Additionally, the prices are a little high for the mediocre food quality. Honestly, you can find a better Italian meal from Olive Garden or just get some Bertolli and...