If you book a late lunch (between 2-3 pm) you will get to enjoy both the lunch options and the dinner options! We were seated at 2:30 and filled our first plates with lunch offerings. Around 2:45, the dinner choices were added. The carved ham was replaced by carved turkey at 3 pm, and the ice cream station opened.
We were on the dining plan so cost wasn't a factor, but it is a $7 increase in the buffet price from lunch to dinner. If you get seated during the lunch hours you pay the lunch price, even when "dinner hours" kick in.
My only problem with Tony's (and we have ressies there Christmas night, but hoping to snag LTT) is that is doesn't taste like authentic Italian. My mama is a 96 year old "off the boat" Italian and I know what real Italian tastes like. Of course, we haven't eaten there in years so maybe it's a little better than before???
We loved the atmosphere and the service was great. For us the food quality was somewhere in-between Fazoli's and Pizza Hut.
I wish it was Olive Garden quality..... If it was OG quality I would go again. Especially if they had the same bread sticks and salad.
I wish it was Olive Garden quality..... If it was OG quality I would go again. Especially if they had the same bread sticks and salad.
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For authentic visit one of the Italian restaurants at Epcot or Mama Rosas at HS. Not as good as homemade authentic but better than Tony's.
We loved the atmosphere and the service was great. For us the food quality was somewhere in-between Fazoli's and Pizza Hut.
We are on the meal plan, so the calamari (which my DH loves) would be OOP. But yes most likely we'd get the steak or possibly the shrimp dish.That's basically it. Lord knows there isn't much to eat at WDW that one could consider a "value" in the truest sense of the world. Food at WDW isn't cheap but there are some meals that are "Cheap for Disney." Great example (though not in MK) would be Trails' End buffet at Fort Wilderness.
Tony's is certainly edible. And if you're using a table credit maybe you don't feel that lack of a value as much. But considering the chepeest meals with a drink are still over 20 bucks and isn't any better than an Olive Garden...
Now if you're talking "value" in terms of "what you'd pay out of pocket versus what you're paying on the meal plan" then by all means get the calamari and the NY Strip steak (or the fish depending on the market price), end up with tiramisu and before you roll yourself out of the restaurant, mentally flip the bird to the Disney accountants who set the "what the market will bear" prices
Yes that's true, and other than Rome (see my picture), we didn't venture out of the Abruzzo region on our family trip in 2012, but even there, the pizza was different everywhere we went. If my memory serves me well from last time I ate at Tony's the sauce tasted like the kind you'd find in a jar in the grocery store, not close to a homemade taste at all.
Yes we did manage to snag a reservation to Mama Rosa's -- had to switch dates around, but we got it!!!
That's right, no apps. Last two trips we did the Deluxe plan which includes appetizers and desserts. Not that we needed the extra food or could afford the extra dough, but it was easier for us with two small kids. The restaurants were usually themed or otherwise "special" that they often were as important to the kids as any ride. Especially the character meals, of course. We usually did sit down breakfasts and dinners, lunches were half table half counter. And we'd eat so much we'd have more than half of our snack credits left over so we'd buy thinks that'd keep, like the pre-packaged rice krispie treats, and have them when we got home, a way to sort of extend the vacation a few extra days.
