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| - My husband has been wanting to eat here for months ... his colleagues at work claim that this is "the best restaurant in Charlotte" and yet it's never quite made it to the top of our list. Finally, the stars aligned, we got a babysitter with a limited schedule and needed to eat close by and early ... so I grabbed a same-day Friday reservation on Open Table for Toscana. I was excited. I kind of got dressed up. I even wore heels. And then ... mehhh. I'm not sure that I will rush back. The hostess was nice, the ambience was pleasant, the white bean dip was incredibly delicious. But the actual meal ... not so amazing.
We split the calamari and an arugula salad. The salad was delicious. The calamari had to be salted - it was light and crispy but no taste. My husband and I both ordered fish - I had salmon, he had a trout special. His trout was very good and well seasoned. My salmon was too thick and not well seasoned. Again with the salt shaker. Hoping to have better success with dessert we both ordered dessert. Silly, silly us. The desserts were decent but they were huge. Of all the times we decide not to split the dessert... of course. My husband ordered the tiramisu and I ordered the creme brulee. Both desserts were simply too heavy.
Strangely enough, while we were there ... we see my husband's boss and he says, "This is the best restaurant in Charlotte." - in kind of a secretive, hush-hush tone. As I looked around the room, I noticed that we were just about the youngest people in the restaurant by 20 years. So... if you are over 50 and have lived in Charlotte for many, many years, this might be the place for you. I, however, prefer to explore the endless array of inventive eating options that Charlotte continues to serve up and save this place for the regulars.
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