Tosca Restaurant — Restaurant in Suffield

We visited Tosca over the weekend to celebrate my birthday. It is quite a hidden little gem—the interior is small and cozy and, surprisingly, no screens (except for one tv by the bar) or music!

Our server was Maddie and she was great at describing all the dishes and their components as well as giving solid recommendations for meal selections.

My husband and I both ordered drinks. Unfortunately, I found mine to be too spicy but both Maddie and the bartender graciously fixed it so it was more to my liking. For appetizers, I had raw oysters from their specials and my husband and I split the rice balls. Both apps were well-presented and delicious. We basically scraped the platter clean of the alioli that the rice balls were sitting in! It was THAT good. For dinner, my husband had the Bell Evans chicken and I had the gnocchi with short rib ragu. Maddie advised us to order the chicken and it was a solid recommendation! It was juicy and tender and my husband thoroughly enjoyed it. I really liked the flavor of my dish and felt all the components went well together. Sadly, it felt like there just wasn't enough gnocchi (I think no more than 10!) and I was left with more ragu in the end, which I still gladly took home.

For dessert, I decided to venture outside of my preferred choice (creme brulee) and ordered the pavlova. This was probably the only disappointing dish of the evening. Presentation-wise, it was more of an Eton mess than a pavlova and it had way more whipped cream and other components (nuts & fruit) than the meringue (only three small circles). For $13, I expected a dish that delivered more "wow," visually and gastronomically.

Overall, we had a wonderful time at Tosca and would definitely recommend this place to folks wanting to have a celebratory meal. It's a bit pricier for a regular weekend date night but it sure...

We visited Tosco this weekend … this restaurant appears to be trying very hard to have good food. But I think it’s just really really mediocre at this point. For an appetizer we had the burrata, which was regular ol mozzarella with some very flavorless watermelon and some overpowering onions. I would skip on that one! The other appetizer we had was the octopus… it was cooked properly and presented well. However, it was a very tiny portion of actual octopus that they mixed in with potatoes. So it appeared that there was more octopus than there was.

For dinner again, stuck with the specials, I had the halibut. It was just OK nothing amazing. Little dry.

For dessert this is where things got interesting… I had the peach tart dessert which sounded the best. I asked for a scoop of ice cream. The scoop of ice cream was more like a spoon of ice cream that came in the small dish. The dish was would expect to get ketchup in if ordered fries. My wife made a joke about it when it was delivered… turns out the joke was on me. It was three dollars for that spoon of ice cream.

The other people eating with us had two drinks and two entrées and split one dessert, my wife and I had soda one appetizer each and an entrée and split one dessert and the total with tip was $350. Eh not really worth it to me.

Maybe nobody wants my feedback… But the spoonful of ice cream for three dollars needs to go away!

In summary four star review….If 3 1/2 was an option I...

My wife and I went to Toscas last night and were told they had no tables available. The hostess said we could sit at the bar and I said we prefer a table. She looked in the bar and noticed an empty table in the bar area and asked if we wanted to sit there. We looked at it and said that is fine. The waitress came over brought us menus and asked for a drink order. We gave her the drink order and said she'll be right back to take our order. She came back to the table with the drinks and said the table we were sitting at was reserved. We told her the hostess placed us there. She said I'll be right back. Another waitress came over and said sorry you can't sit here we already have this table reserved. It's been 15 minutes that gone by at this point. She said we can sit at the bar and we told her we wanted a table. She said they can give us a table an hour later. We decided to leave. I felt so embarrassed and it was the most unprofessional way they handled it as they had many tables available. In all my years of going to restaurants I have never had this happen. They always accommodate the customer especially that far into it....