Tutto Pronto

Tutto Pronto is very good for dining in or ordering in advance for take away. The retail items for lunch or dinner tend to be terribly over-​salted most of the time. I must ask for a little taste before I decide whether to buy salads, vegetables, turkey burgers etc. The cooks are very heavy handed with the salt. Do they even taste their dishes before putting them out?

Walked into the restaurant this evening at 9pm with my wife and two kids (13 & 11) and asked for a table of four. They had a table available so started to seat us but when I indicated to them that we were there for dessert, they said «I’m sorry, we don’t do that». I asked «you don’t serve paying customers?» All the host said was that Saturday night is a big night for them.
Now, I feel for neighborhood restaurants, I live in this neighborhood, and have done so for over 15 years. I get that it’s a tough business and we see local stores and restaurants closing and opening all the time. But if you want to survive in this market it seems to me that you should serve ready, willing, and paying customers.
Whether this is a «policy» of theirs or not, they had a table available and were ready to serve us. But the moment they realized it wasn’t for a full meal, they refused us. I unfortunately do not want the kind of restaurant that discriminates customers in this neighborhood and what they did tonight was absolutely shameful.

The name Tutto Pronto in Italian means «everything is ready», which is well-​suited for this establishment because not only do they offer the sit down dining experience, they also have a retail store. Sometimes, you just don’t have the time to prepare a nice dinner, but why should that stop you from enjoying one in the comfort of your own home? All the fresh items in Tutto Pronto’s retail store are prepared DAILY. You could stop in for lunch if you are in the area, or pick up a prepared dinner for a night in, Tutto Pronto offers a number of selections in their retail store. They also over catering!
Healthy-​choice entrees
Artisanal products (made with love)
Homemade soups and salads
Homemade wraps and sandwiches
Prepared pastas, sauces and noodles
Ready-​made lasagna
Gluten-​free options
One of the first things I noticed when we got to Tutto Pronto was the ambiance. The restaurant had little knick-​knacks all over, with gorgeous art work on the walls. The staff were friendly and helpful when we had questions about the menu.
Tutto Pronto is north of the downtown core, and we could immediately tell there were quite a few regulars there. The staff even knew them by first name! However, they treated everyone else with the same great service. It’s things like this that I always notice, as I have a background in the hospitality industry. Having a great, friendly, informative staff is something that will keep customers coming back… and of course, the food has to be good! And boy was it ever good at Tutto Pronto!
FUN FACT: The art work on the walls are all pieces made by the original creator of SpongeBob!
Our meal started off with a couple glasses of wine, obviously, and a few appetizers. We ordered the Asparagus and Portabello Salad, as well as the Calamarri alla Griglia (Grilled Calamari). We debated on whether or not to order the Calamari Fritti (Fried Calamari), and the waitress surprised us with the dish anyways!
The Asparagus and Portabello Salad was delicious, served on a bed of mesclun lettuce with shaved Parmigiano and a white truffle vinagrette.
The Calamarri alla Griglia was cooked perfectly and served with a lovely mango chilli salsa. It was a perfect combination.
This was only the second time I had tried calamari, and I couldn’t stop nibbling at the Calamari Fritti! It was so tasty! Perfectly fried, without too much batter.
Next up, it was time for our main courses. If you know me, you know I LOVE pasta! So, of course, I ordered the Orecchietter Pugliese. This pasta was served with Italian sausage and rapini with pomodorini and pecorino cheese. As well, we put a lot, a healthy amount of Parmigiano cheese on table-​side.
The other main dish ordered was the Grilled Veal Chop. HOLY SMOKES. This 14 oz, grain fed, Ontario bone in chop was «melt-​in-​your-​mouth» delicious. Perfectly cooked, and served with seasonal vegetables — this veal chop was so delicious. It was tender, and juicy — not at all over-​cooked, which often happens with veal. To say the least, it was an impressive dish!
Somehow, some way, we still had room for dessert. As our waitress said, «You can never say not o chocolate!». So, we ordered the chocolate cake… and pistachio cheesecake. DON’T JUDGE US!
As we were eating the desserts, I commented to the waitress how delicious the strawberries served with each were, and she pointed out that they are drizzled with Cognac! No wonder they were delicious!
The chocolate cake was moist and not overwhelmingly sweet. As for the pistachio cheesecake — I had never heard of that combination. Have you? Either way — it is worth ordering if you ever see it on the menu, especially at Tutto Pronto!
I can honestly say that our experience at Tutto Pronto was wonderful. As I mentioned, the staff were amazing and the food was even better! We enjoyed our stay so much that I think we were the last to leave the restaurant! I’m very much looking forward to going back and trying even more off of their great menu.
Tutto Pronto is great hidden gem that deserves to be recognized for great service and remarkable food. It’s a great spot for a special date-​night, or even just a dinner out with friends. While we were there we saw (and sang-​along with) birthday celebrations, family dinners as well as many tables on what looked like to be dates.

Worst service ever!!! Food was good but the server was rude and made me never want to go back!!!

Arrived last night to a half filled, freezing cold room. Asked for the air conditioning to be lowered as we were not the only ones freezing, as we could tell from the numerous people around us hugging their sweaters. They accommodated, for an hour until they freeze chilled us again.
We waited, and waited and then waited some more to try to flag down a server. Finally we were able to order wine but before we could proceed to our food order, he spun on his heels and raced to the bar. When the wine arrived 10 minutes later we asked for water and bread and off he went. Water arrived. Bread did not until 10 minutes later, when we asked again. We finally placed our order to a clearly harried and very gruff waiter, who appeared to be the manager.
Half an hour later when the tables around us who had ordered after us received their starters, we flagged down the waiter to ask where ours were and he seemed surprised that we even asked and said, «I didn’t forget about you, you know.» The salads showed up a few minutes later, clearly forgotten.
Neither wine, nor water were topped up at anytime during the meal.
The salads were fine, a beet salad and a caesar salads, both of ample size and, as I said, fine.
The mains were okay. The pumpkin filled pasta was quite good. The daily special of veal pizzialoa was tender and the vegetables were crisp tender and very good. The sauce was obviously jarred tomato sauce with a handful of capers thrown in and nary a black olive in sight. Fine.
Empty plates sat for a very long time and we were then rushed out.
Would I return, not so much. Lack of service simply wrecked the experience. Too bad.

HUGE MISTAKE coming here. So frustrated, I’m wanted to post my first ever picture of food on Unilocal (but the option wasn’t made available).
First, we have dairy & egg allergies in the group, so we obviously made note of it to our server. He didn’t write it down.
Starters
Mussels — The mussels themselves were good, but it was cooked in what I would call a tomato soup. Very strange.
Calamari — Didn’t even seem real. My wife didn’t even want it after tasting it.
Mains
Pizza — Mushrooms were fried in butter, no doubt.
Pasta — Dairy intolerance in the group, the whole dish tasted like butter. After eating some of the pasta, it was just a whole plateful of butter. I would love to post a pic if I had the option.
What a jerk of a place/​server. I should’ve lowballed an even lower tip for this than I did.

Super cute place… looks truly like it was in Italy. Very nice wait staff. Charming atmosphere. Food however… is very average. Stale bread, nasty, dirty looking oil+balsamic dispensers…
Grilled Calamari incredibly unappetizing… arrives literally smothered in a salsa-​like concoction of chopped tomato and other Impossible to discern green spices… other dishes, less offensive… but all uninspiring. Plating is likewise sad… food just appears slapped onto the plates.
The place is charming, the wait staff is truly delightful… a re-​evaluation of the kitchen is essential.

Got the voucher from Travelzoo and went for brunch with friend of mine.
Nice food on menu.
Good to try if you have voucher (more affordable!) to enjoy their brunch. (not worth if you pay for full price).
Nice deco.
Good to take a look right next to restaurant where there’s a small shop carry ready-​to-​go entrée, jars of preserves and olive oil.etc.
Parking: Paid on Street.

Came to Tutto Pronto with my family as it has become a tradition ever since my sister and I got full-​time jobs to treat my parents out to a nice meal. We ventured up to Avenue Road with a Travel Zoo voucher ($ 49 for 2 prix fixe dinners) in hand for a night of delightful food. I have had mixed experiences with dining establishments that are featured on group buying websites. Its either the portion sizes are too small, the food is mediocre, or we are treated differently than regular-​paying customers. To my surprise, the portion sizes here were generous, the food pleased even my ever-​so-​critical parents, and the service, though pretty lacking in the earlier part of the evening improved drastically towards the end.
The one inconvenience about its location is that street parking is usually hard to find, and the closest Green P is about 500 metres.
The service was quite slow towards the early part of the evening. They were quite busy when we arrived at 7:30PM (which is like the dining equivalent of prime time television) and the restaurant was quite full. The servers seemed to be a bit flustered and disorganized. When I presented our server with our Travel Zoo voucher, she seemed disgruntled. And this same server would have me repeating my order at least 2 times and then repeating a totally different menu item back to me. However, as the early diners vacated their tables, the service improved and the servers were friendlier towards the end of our night.
Water is pre-​poured (germaphobes beware?), and the bread basket, with olive spread, butter, olive oil and balsamic are also preset at the table.
Their wine list is not epic, but its not limited either. The prices are quite reasonable.
or hip, but you can always venture downtown to a bar afterward to be seen and heard.
The prices here are quite reasonable for the quality of food you get and I will definitely be back.
For starters we tried their Roasted Beet Salad, Beef Carpaccio and Caprino Salad (mushrooms, roasted red peppers and goat’s cheese). Their salads were amazing as there were warm components to it and both were very flavourful. And goat’s cheese in any salad for me is super! The beef carpaccio for me, was not up to snuff. It was thin, but in a very slimy, gooey texture. It was definitely the biggest disappointment of the evening.
For mains, it would seem we were blessed with gifts from Poseidon as 4 of the 5 dishes hailed from the sea. Among them, a Seafood Risotto (x2), an 8 oz. Sirloin with Tiger Shrimps, and from the Chef’s Specials: a linguini with half a lobster and shrimps, and an herb-​crusted sea bass.
My word of warning, get the appetizer portion for the Seafood Risotto. Risotto itself is quite filling — you do not want to order the entrée size. My cousin was still full 4 hours later when he was about to go to bed.
As both my picky, and hard-​to-​impress parents would later comment «Tutto’s chef knows how to cook.» Everything was so flavourful. The linguini, no doubt is boiled in a seafood broth of sorts as the noodles themselves were flavourful in their own right. The tiger shrimps were perfectly grilled and had a nice char to them.
And the steak — as per my father, who almost always orders steak when he dines out — is the best steak he’s tasted in any Western restaurant we’ve taken him to dine at thus far. Even just looking at it when it was brought to the table promised a nicely-​charred, perfectly-​marbled steak.
I actually found that my Mediterranean Sea Bass was the blandest in flavour, although I don’t think I’ve ever had a whole fish before other than at a Chinese restaurant. But the flavour was anything but exciting. The accompanying side vegetables were equally savoury (no doubt also infused with a broth of sorts) and the potatoes were simple but delicious.
And to end of the evening we ordered a few cappuccinos, an espresso and a coffee brewed from the Italian Segafreddo brand. The coffee was too bland for us, the cappuccinos seemed to be the favourite, but for me the espresso was the highlight.
We ordered the Torta della Nonna (Grandmother’s Cake which is made with lemon curd and pine nuts), a Chocolate Fondant Cake and a Tiramisu. While the majority at the table didn’t appreciate the goodness that was Grandmother’s Cake, I simply loved it. It was soft and spongy, and the lemon curd was thick and rich. The pine nuts added an interesting textural contrast. And we all loved the little Amaretti cookies that were served with coffee.
Verdict:
This restaurant received praises from all my family members and was definitely a great find. Everybody enjoyed their meal and my dad was still talking about it when he got home. It has also usurped Trapper’s as our go-​to restaurant for Winter/​Summerlicious — another tradition that we never miss. As I mentioned, the service was a little lacklustre but the food will more than make up for it.

I like coming to Tutto’s for their excellent prepared take-​out foods. You can really taste the home made goodness and just about everything I’ve ordered and eaten here feels like something my Italian mamma (in another lifetime) would have made for me. But Tutto’s takeout menu is not limited to Italian as they offer a diverse array of dishes of and flavours to satisfy any appetite.
My favorites include the ginger chicken wraps with asparagus and brie, the refreshing avocado mango tomato salad and if you’re a fan of fried rice, the kitchen manager Jackie makes THE BEST fried rice ever!!! It’s made with basmati and veggies with fried egg and it’s just right, not runny or greasy or soggy or nauseatingly submerged in soy sauce. It’s so perfect that I make a point to order a tub of it each week, along with the chicken and broccoli stir-fry…ahh the things we do for comfort foods! I should also mention the ladies at the counter (and Tutto’s staff in general) are always super nice.
If you feel like dining in, Tutto’s is an intimate and rustically cozy space and perfect for either a date or to meet up with a group of friends. I’ve only dined in once, and lucky me got to be served by the exhuberant owner Anna Maria. My meal of Penna alla Pollo was terrific! The right amount of wine and garlic infused sauce with tender chicken breast and spot on al dente penne just like the way (my Japanese) mom used to make it!
If you love good homestyle Italian meals or if you hate cooking and want to grab some great tasting food to go, Tutto Pronto will certainly have something delicious to feed you or your family with the taste of homemade goodness. Just don’t tell my mom that I think their food is just as good if not better than hers!

The food is fair and the atmosphere is pleasant enough. The overall experience was horrible due to the restaurant arguing with me about the ability to use a Groupon for brunch when the owner’s comments on the deal clearly indicated that brunch is part of the deal.
Here are two comments from the Groupon discussion as proof — this is a cut and paste from Groupon: (you can go to the original deal and then click on the discussion link to see all the comments)
Anna G. commented 1 month, 3 days, 15 hours, and 55 minutes ago
Brunch is included in this deal
Thanks
Anna Maria Graziano — Owner
and just to make sure, another cut and paste comment:
Anna G. commented 1 month, 3 days, 14 hours, and 17 minutes ago
The $ 15 buy would apply to the brunch menu
Anna Maria

The mood was bustling and festive as soon as I walked in. I came with a large party and it was thoroughly enjoyable — good wine choices, hearty food, helpful service.
We shared the antipasto italiano platter, I had the veal parmigiana as my main course. Delicious calamari, generous serving sizes.
Also the dessert was excellent! Thoroughly enjoyed the cheesecake and the tartufo. Nom nom! Everyone left in good spirits. Would definitely recommend to my friends.

Tutto Pronto is a cute little hidden gem, that everyone should know about.
The lunch and dinner scenes vastly differ, and once dinner rolls around, you can hardly recognize the place. The once openly lit restaurant, becomes a dimly lit romantic restaurant with candles everywhere.
As for the food, their beef cappacchio was excellent, and the Caprese Salad was also very tasty. I ordered a Margarita Pizza, which in my opinion was mediocre, but the people I ate with all got sandwiches or pastas that were all really good. Oh and the Veal Parm was one of the best I’ve ever had.
During lunch, they also have a take-​out area, so people who work in or around the area can pick up lunch.
Next time I’m in the area I will definitely be back.