Tomanetti's Pizzeria & Italian Eatery — Restaurant in Oakland

I've had a cabin in Deep Creek for over 30 years and being 100% Italian, always wanted to try this place. Tonight my wife and I did. First of all the atomosphere is very cozy and mountain basic. Our server was very nice. Menu was very basic but they had two specialty dishes which were highlighted as such, in the menu. They also have beer and wine. My wife ordered it; Pasta with Marinara and Meatballs. I ordered a small pizza and Greek Salad. Our appetizer was fried calamari. From that point on...it was a culinary disaster! The calamari was frozen and terribly over fried and tough. The pizza was a pre-made pizza shell you buy at the grocery store with the worst pizza sauce and cheese ever I ate a few bites and pushed it away. Yuck!!! The Greek salad was not too bad but even that was just OK. The lowlight of the dinner was their house specialty; the Pasta Marinara with Meatballs. The plate comes out with a full pound of pasta and very little sauce. It tasted like someone dumped a 28 ounce can of diced tomatoes and then added 10 tablespoons of sugar to it. My wife asked for olive oil, hoping to drizzle and moisten up the full pound of pasta and the server hands her a bottle of canola oil! I make Marinara all the time and it is basic and tastes awesome. I hate to give any establishment a poor review as it is a lot of hard work to run a restaurant, I get that but Cracker Barrel makes a better sauce than this place. Either put a little more effort in finding a good source for True Italian recipes or hire someone who can read a Mario Batali recipe book. You folks can do...

The worst and most uncomfortable experience I’ve ever had in a restaurant

We ordered an appetizer (that never came or was even acknowledge) but prior to ordering we asked the server if some items could be eliminated from a pasta dish due to a food allergy she said she would ask the kitchen but probably knew the answer, I said that is fine if not just wanted to check… she returned and said that they would not do a special order, my husband said we understand it might be put together already… at this point the server rapidly pivoted and ran away from our table only to send out what I presume to be the manager or owner, we were confused as to why she came to our table but she reiterated no special orders we again said fine we understand… the server returns and we tried to explain it was not a problem whatsoever and she abruptly interrupts and says do you know what you want I have other tables (although everyone else had their food and it was not busy) so startled by this behavior we just picked the first thing on the menu which was fettuccine alfredo with chicken…when the dish came it was obvious it was alfredo sauce from a jar that had been thinned with oil, the chicken was of a composite texture (think high school lunch) with purposeful grill marks- the meal was beyond awful for a place that presents themselves as a restaurant, let alone an Italian...

For this area the food is great!

I'm reading a lot of reviews from people expecting NY perfection pies... You're in Oakland, MD - Appreciate the rarity of a solid pizza when there aren't many options.

We moved here from the Baltimore area. East Coast family, we know good pizza. We've ordered takeout pies from every place including Deep Creek Lake area (Brenda's/Uno's is better, but also much further away).

We're in Terra Alta and have had Tomanetti's 3 times in the past couple months, they're hands down the best around here. (Speaking to the pizza not the staff as we've never eaten in-house). Whoever's in the kitchen has impressed us 3/3 times. We're nerds and get the Garden Veggie on Cauliflower crust. If you don't know - that's incredibly hard to make crispy without being burnt or soggy. Veggies are mostly water, and cauliflower crust is prone to overcooking. I'll even put a timestamp on our most recent order to give credit where it's due: Saturday Sept 24th around 8pm. Whoever made our pie - delicious as always, keep killin'...