Taste of Italy — Restaurant in Woodstock

So I love me some good Italian food, so I decided to give this place a try. My go-to dish when trying a new Italian restaurant is Chicken Alfredo, or Fettucine Alfredo with chicken. Same thing, just a slightly different label. Based on this one dish, I decide whether or not to come back again. Well, at Taste of Italy, I was not impressed. A there wasn't just one issue, but a few. First, the Fettucine was VERY al dente. I like my fettucine more cooked, but fine, i could remember to request it more cooked on future orders. Secondly, there was hardly any alfredo. It was as if they added a spoonful and called it a day. It didn't even cover the food I had. And the parts that were covered didn't have enough to spread to the other parts. So sure, in the future i could ask for extra alfredo sauce. But the big deal to me here, the deal killer, was the cut of meat they used and how it was cooked. They used the stringy/fatty parts of the chicken, not breast meat like their menu says. Or if that was breast meat, it wasn't a very good cut of meat at all. What should have been a nice pairing with the Fettucine was instead hard to chew, and parts of it were very dry and overcooked.

So, to my own values, that was 3 strikes. I could have overlooked the first two and asked for better cooked Fettucine, more alfredo sauce, but the cut of meat? In all honesty, I threw away more than half of the meal.

BTW, my daughter got the chicken parm, and for her part it was mostly good, but again they didn't use a very good cut of chicken. She also didn't want to go back when...

Holy cannoli, this place in INCREDIBLE. Oh. Em. Gee. You will NOT go wrong with choosing this place. Dry small dining area, but we saw plenty of folks getting carry-out. You know you’re in a good spot when the owner and his wife are from Italy, and you meet people from NY City and Massachusetts that say this food is just like back home. Those folks recommended the eggplant gyro and baked ziti. We chose the lasagna that had at least three different meats in it, covered with a lovely, thick layer of cheeses. The garlic knots are covered in fresh garlic and E.V.O.O. and had a tomato sauce to dip them in. The super fresh house romaine salads had green olives, red onions, tomato slices, and oil/balsamic vinegrette dressing, delicious, and they came with our lasagna. You can choose Caesar salad as well. Our girls had a child portion of spaghetti, which was more than plenty, and slice of cheese pizza. The customer from New York said they recently traveled back to Long Island, and visited a local favorite pizza place, and the Taste of Italy exceeded them in pizza quality. We are stuffed and our mouths taste like garlic, and all we want to do is go back, NOW, and have more! We will definitely go back the next time we’re in Canton, because after a long drive from Indiana, getting a guaranteed fantastic meal is the...

If you like %100 disappointment 100% of the time, this is the spot for you. 8-10 visits in 2 years. I love giving people an opportunity to improve. Calling this place “taste of Italy” needs to be called out for being a complete scam😂. This restaurant doesn’t improve anything. Working in food and beverage for a decade, and spending hard earned money supporting other small business food and bev, I’ve never reviewed a restaurant directly to their page. But this place is a joke. Every few months I try it again, simpler menu items and it just gets worse. Maybe it’s a teenage kitchen staff, or neglectful ownership, regardless this food is complete joke. Whether I order it, pick it up, or eat inside it’s the same result. Extremely cheap product of poor quality, thrown together to a standard that only applies to those beyond the realm of careless. Not only am I going to share my opinion, but I won’t be back. If you want stale, tasteless food with no integrity, this is the place. Just stay away. I’m telling you. Don’t spend hard earned money here. They gotta be...