Taste Of Tuscany - Monaghan

Lovely Italian food fab cocktails lovely atmosphere, family friendly great selection of deserts.

Great food and atmosphere, great portions and good value, added bonus of BYO with good wine selection Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: €40–50 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

I like eating here. Good food! We went out on Saturday night last. Good crowd and atmosphere. Food Good as usual. The problem on this occasion was: One head woman was taken orders, serving food and drink, cleaning tablets, basically doing everything. There were a few other staff on the floor, but not helping or in our opinion, doing enough to help this floor manager! She was over worked! Looked stressful. We were waiting too long for coffee desert. Who ever the owner/Manager is, needs to address this issue as this will do harm going forward. Get this sorted and you will be the best restaurant in Monaghan! P.S Work on your specialty Coffees. Irish/ french etc. I love my irish Coffees but I tend to head to Andy's for this. We will be back. Thanks: Tim

Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: €20–30 Recommended dishes: Pan-Fried Sea Bass

Firstly, this is not strictly an Italian restaurant, as you can see from the menus, it has food from all around the globe. We were seated at our table, given menus, and in about 10 minutes the waiter arrived to ask us for our drinks order. When i asked for a wine list, his reply was I am the wine list, red or white I replied red, he gave me a list of 3 wines, Merlot, Malbec cabernet Sauvignon. I asked for more details on the wine, but he couldn 't give me any details. It went downhill from there. Starters ordered were The Monaghan mushrooms which were bland and unseasoned, the brie on sourdough bread, again unseasoned and light on the brie portion, with the smallest pot of pear chutney as an accompaniment. Then came our mains. One Baked Hake was overcooked and unseasoned, and one House pasta Carbonara, which came as a mountain of pasta with sauce on top, claggy pasta not very pleasant to eat. One mushroom stroganoff and one beef stroganoff, totally bland and tasteless, very little beef in the meat version. All the food lacked simple seasoning and flavour, very disappointing. Needless to say, we did not stay to have dessert. The staff were nice, but not very knowleable about the food or wine, I felt because we had queried the food and wine, they seemed reluctant to attend to our needs and we had to wait quite often to get a waiter 's attention. This place could do better.