Tuscano's Pizzeria & Bistro runs two registers at one address: a pizza and panzerotti counter on one side, a wine bar pouring sixteen by-the-glass selections on the other, and a handmade-pasta line that decides which lane the dinner ends in. The Oxford Street East dining room sits across the road from Fanshawe College in London's east end, in the Argyle and Dundas East stretch where student neighbourhood and weeknight family territory share the same blocks. The breadth is the point. A weeknight table can split a Tuscano Bread, drop into the panzerotti section for a Classic, and chase it with a glass of red without the room shifting register. A Friday night can lean into the bistro side with Wild Mushroom Chicken Marsala and a thin-crust pie to share.
The strongest plates pull the kitchen in two directions at once. Goat Cheese and Grape Thin Crust Pizza is the sweet-savoury signature — mozzarella and goat cheese under red grapes, caramelized onions, crispy prosciutto, and a vincotto drizzle that carries the dish past topping-list territory. Sweet and Spicy Sausage Pizza works the same axis through dates, gorgonzola, chili flakes, and honey. On the pasta side, Wild Mushroom Chicken Marsala lands as the bistro signature: pan-seared chicken, wild mushrooms, fettuccine, marsala cream, romano, and pea shoots, a plate that reads as composed rather than assembled. The panzerotti section gets treated as a full main-course lane — Classic with pepperoni, mushrooms, bacon, and green peppers; Hog Wild for a meat-forward order; Vegetarian for the rest. Tuscano Bread — focaccia with mozzarella, caramelized onion, bacon, and a marinara dip — anchors the starter slot for a table that hasn't decided yet.
The restaurant emphasizes in-house pastas, bread, sauces, and desserts, giving the restaurant a stronger handmade center than a basic pizza-and-pasta menu.
The menu carries standard pizzas, gourmet thin-crust pizzas, create-your-own options, and panzerottis, which makes pizza culture a defining part of the visit rather than a single category.
The Fanshawe-neighbourhood setting, by-the-glass wine focus, beer, cocktails, and approachable dinner menu make it work for both casual and planned meals.
Pizza is a defining reason to consider Tuscano's: the menu has standard pies, gourmet thin-crust builds, create-your-own options, and panzerottis. The strongest picks are the Goat Cheese and Grape Thin Crust Pizza, Tuscano Pizza, and Classic Panzerotti.
The comfort-food appeal comes through handmade pasta, panzerottis, focaccia, marsala cream sauce, meatballs, and generous pizza builds. It is familiar Italian-leaning food with enough house detail to feel more personal than a generic red-sauce stop.
The menu rewards curiosity through sweet-savory and richer combinations: goat cheese with grapes and vincotto, dates with gorgonzola and chili flakes, wild mushrooms with marsala cream, and pizza builds that move beyond the usual topping set.
The wine-bar side matters here. The restaurant highlights wines by the glass alongside beer, cocktails, and non-alcoholic options, which gives pasta, steak, and thin-crust pizza orders a more complete dinner rhythm.
Tuscano's reads as a neighbourhood anchor because the restaurant places itself in the Fanshawe area and frames the room around family-style hospitality, scratch-made staples, and a repeatable mix of dine-in and takeout-friendly food.
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