Eating at Tutto Pasta reminds me of one of the commercial bits which used to run for Ebert and Roeper at the Movies:
"This movie just sucks!" - Roeper.
"How could your heart be so cold?" - Ebert
This exchange really describes Tutto. It's bad, consistently bad. For a seemingly moderate Italian restaurant the food is shockingly disappointing. But you wanna try it because it looks good, you wanna like it, you wanna give it the benefit of the doubt...you wanna go back in time.
The food is simply blah from start to finish. Manicotti in cream sauce was overpowering in cream and lacking a real savory ricotta center. A pasta and shellfish dish contained bland seafood and a similarly less than enjoyable sauce. Even the bread, which from an Italian place you expect to be at the very least enjoyable was poorly seasoned and mushy; a sign of things to come.
Is the food inedible? No. Is it ridiculous for a restaurant of its price range to be serving that? Yes. Having eaten at the State Street location before, the food there wasn't good but admittedly better. But the Middleton location falls totally amiss, often it seems as locale eateries stem out across their areas their branches seem to dip (pardon the tree analogy). But in a country where Italian restaurants are just as abundant as American ones there's really no need settle for anything less than consistency of the good variety.