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I've seen so many bad reviews on Tony's I'm wondering what your thoughts are? I ate there back in 1990 and loved it. Of course that was 26 years ago!! I'm thinking I may want to change my choice from that to Be Our Guest. My daughter has talked and talked about wanting to try "the Grey Stuff". I just wasn't sure about the menu because I'm a picky eater!! My oldest will eat the steak and I think I would like the shrimp and scallops, I'll just pick the mushrooms out!! Opinions?
We ate there two years ago with a friend for lunch. The food was good if not high gourmet: chicken parmesan, spaghetti with large tasty meatballs, veggie pasta and a ham and cheese Panini were our main courses. Everyone was quite happy with them. We tried the squash soup and zucchini appetizer and liked those too. For desserts, we had the now gone pistachio crčme brulee and ice cream. Service was efficient but we never felt rushed. The bill came to about $120 with tax which we felt was reasonable for four adults (well, reasonable at Disney).
We would definitely go back again based on that experience. We did book for an off peak time, so that may have helped.
We have only done BOG for lunch and are booked there for breakfast on our next trip. Lunch was satisfactory if not exciting. You can get a Masters cupcake with the grey stuff on top. Breakfast and lunch are one QS credit on the dining plan. Foods we liked were the pork stew with mashed potatoes and green beans, the ham and cheese grilled sandwich, the veggie quiche, the potato leek soup and pretty much all the desserts, including the GF lemon puff.
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Seriously, that gluten-free lemon creme puff with fresh raspberries is fabulous even if you needn't have g-f foodstuffs. They use a really good lemon curd in it, and the pastry isn't chewy like g-f pastry often is.
Maybe it was just us, but we were definitely unimpressed with the grey stuff dessert at dinner. I agree with yalibrarian that going for lunch is a better idea if your daughter wants grey stuff. The combo of it with the chocolate cupcake (The Master's Cupcake) is delicious!
The only reason to do BOG dinner rather than lunch, IMO, is for the Beast meet & greet after you've eaten. The food is just not that terrific at dinner, I don't think. Certainly not at those prices!
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We always do dinner at Tony's it is a favorite. We also enjoy BOG for dinner. If you can't do both I would say go with BOG for the experience of eating in the castle and meeting Beast after the meal.
No personal experience but have seen so many PPers say Tony's doesn't even qualify as an Olive Garden wannabe that we've never seriously considered eating there.
Sheesh, with the Trattoria al Forno at BWI and Epcot's Via Napoli and Tutto Italia, I've frankly no clue why we'd consider Tony's.
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We've eaten at Tony's once. It was ok, but not spectacular. The theming was nice. Now that we have been there, we would go back but it is not high on our priority list.
For BOG we went at lunch and all we got was drinks and french onion soup. :-) We really mostly wanted to see inside. And I love french onion soup, so them being able to make it safe for my food allergies was great :-)
I think everyone needs to try Tony's. It was never on our must do list, but we did try it last time and it was OK. It wasn't good or bad. But if you're looking for a sit down meal at MK I would recommend going.
My family likes Tony's because of its location and decor. And we usually have a 2:30 reservation so we get to see the parade as it goes by and we cool off. The food was OK. I think it is tough to find good Italian food because nothing is as good as grandma's.
The food was OK. I think it is tough to find good Italian food because nothing is as good as grandma's.
I'm from NJ near Philadelphia and I've eaten at dozens of Italian-American restaurants and diners as well as having been cooked for by real Italian grandmas. What we had at Tony's was similar to what I'd had in neighborhood places; not gourmet, not "authentic" Italian, but well-prepared and tasty. A lot of it is about expectations. We don't expect real Italian in a theme park. That said, we always make time for a dinner at Il Mulino in the Swan, which serves the type of better Italian food we had at places where meals were expected to take a couple of hours, not just eat and run.
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