I have been to many Italian Ristorantes and I know what to expect. I know that there’s warm ambience that is from a family run kitchen and the staff that serves you. I know that there will...

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I have been to many Italian Ristorantes and I know what to expect. I know that there’s warm ambience that is from a family run kitchen and the staff that serves you. I know that there will always be a basket of bread at my table and nice music. You should expect at mama tosca’s to have your chicken not entirely cooked. I ate something that tasted somewhat defrosted and then placed on top of Vermicelli/cheap top roman noodles (which cost $17.50).  Mind you that it is candle lit in the room providing limited lighting. So lord knows that if I could see that the chicken was somewhat pink in the dark, imagine what it would look like in normal lighting. Imagining what that uncooked meat looks like in my stomach, it just makes me want regurgitate into a doggy bag and return it to Mama to get at least some of that gross feeling out of my system.  

My friend ordered a well done new york steak which looked like something from a 30 year old hungry man meal that was glowing blood red in that dark room. The whole experience was something out of a Goodfellas gore scene. You know the scene when the guy is in the trunk of the car.  The service was average at best and that’s being nice.
 
By the way, this is probably the worst Caesar salad in town. Call it authentic dressing or just water on lettuce, but for $6, you better make it taste good-and they did not.  
 
Tip to Mama Tosca, either make better food that worth the price or simply change your title from a ristorante to a slaughterhouse and charge pennies to the dollar. Just writing this makes me want to go have my 400 pound stomach manually pumped.  

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My not-very-good experience was several years ago, so I don't know if the policy has changed.... but:

I thought it was really poor taste to make people pay full...

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My not-very-good experience was several years ago, so I don't know if the policy has changed.... but:

I thought it was really poor taste to make people pay full price for each soda refill, rather than the free refills that 98% of sit-down restaurants offer.  Charge high prices -- and then -- slap people with the insult of not even being given free refills on their pricey glass of soda -- baaaaaad taste.

Ravioli was great.

Bread was hard.

 

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The service was great. But I've had better food at The Olvie Garden.

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The service was great. But I've had better food at The Olvie Garden.

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Best overall meal and service available in Bakersfield. I've never had a bad bite in all my visits. Highly recommend!

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Best overall meal and service available in Bakersfield. I've never had a bad bite in all my visits. Highly recommend!

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