For years and years, Tony’s Town Square Restaurant has been known as one of, if not the WORST, places to eat in Magic Kingdom.
Tony’s Town Square
But is that still true? We’re committed to trying Disney World restaurants time and time again, yes, including those we both love and don’t love, because things change all the time in the parks — including the quality of meals. We headed back over to Tony’s to try one of its well-known dishes to find out if it’s really still as bad as everyone makes it out to be.
We started off our meal with the complimentary Bread Service. Woo! We love bread! It had a slight crunch to it that we adored, but the middle was soft and fluffy. Oh, and the side of olive oil and cheese was an additional perk. This certainly didn’t disappoint us — you can’t go wrong with bread, right?
Bread Service
For our main dish, we decided to get the Chicken Parmigiana for $32. This is a lightly breaded chicken breast baked in Tony’s Marinara sauce and mozzarella and served with spaghetti. Now, was this bad? No, not at all. In fact, it’s a good chicken parmesan…but that’s about it. We hate to say it, but there’s nothing out of this world about the dish.
Chicken Parmigiana
The chicken was nice and tender, and we do really love the tomato sauce from this restaurant, but we wish there had been more cheese, and we felt the spaghetti it was served with was a little overcooked.
A bite
Now, the last time we had this dish, we remember being blown away. This time, it fell a little flat and was underwhelming, perhaps because our expectations were so high. It landed on the ‘alright’ scale for us, so while we weren’t unhappy, we didn’t feel the need to rave about it either. Think of Tony’s Town Square like going to your local Olive Garden. It’s fine food, but it’s not real, authentic Italian food like you might find at Via Napoli in EPCOT.
Tony’s Town Square
If you’re looking for decent Italian food and a nice, simple meal (or if picky eaters are just looking for a place where they’ll find something on the menu), then this restaurant could be a great choice. It’s certainly gotten much better than it used to be over the past few years, but it’s still not anywhere close to where we’d say it’s one of the best restaurants in the park. That said, we do LOVE Tony’s Garlic Bread. If you’re going to this restaurant, GET THIS! It comes with a Parmesan Fonduta that is HEAVENLY.
YUMMM
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$32 for chicken. Theme park restaurant or not, Tony’s is not known for great food, so spending $32 on a price of chicken with cheese and sauce on it does not appeal to me.
I go to Disney World every year. The last time I ate at Tony’s (against my better judgement) was more than two decades ago. And I paid for it by being confined to my hotel room the next day with issues. Never again.
Leave Tony’s alone!! They do have wonderful tiramisu if you want to have a little smackerel. Those complaining about the basic food it’s not for your adult palette, it’s for the kids and they love it! In general the Magic Kingdom is for the children. Thats why they didnt allow drinking forever here. Pick EPCOT if you want something more adult. Tony’s has a great kid focused atmosphere and great meals they will eat all of which will save you snack money in the park
I ate there about 1p years ago. I also had the Chicken Parm. All I can remember of the meal was that the entire was plated incorrectly with a deep dish plate that was alittle small for the amount of food you got. Not much of a recommendation.
I like Olive Garden.
The restaurant is great for dessert but that is out. The food is yuck
My daughter never got over when Tony’s removed a Chicken Florentine dish from their menu – after that it was all downhill! Cute place, good location, needs a food update!