Capponi's Restaurant

Funny the reviews so far are either 5 stars (from people with profile photos) or 1 star (from people without profile photos).

It's five stars rating from me. Been goin here for 35 years and the food is still the king in my "yelping world ".  

Order the chicken and ravioli of you're a newcomer. Don't expect fancy high brow food here, just excellent Midwestern cooking in a small friendly, former col mining town!

Oh, and climb the jumbo on the edge of town before ya leave Toluca. In case you don't know what a jumbo is, it's the two large slag heaps that were left over from when Toluca was a thriving mining town until 1926.

OK Italian, but there is better.  Tourist trap.

Eating at Capponi's was such a disappointment.  I am shocked to read the other reviews of this restaurant!  There was nothing 'authentic Italian' about it.  With the exception of the fried chicken, everything on the table was just frozen food, dethawed and slapped on a plate.  The pasta sauce, the french fries, the chicken tenders, and the breaded ravioli appetizer were all clearly frozen and tasted like it too.  Not one single thing was freshly prepared.  The dinner salad was literally bagged iceberg salad with 1 baby carrot and a slice of cucumber thrown on top, then drowned in dressing.  The dinner bread was hard, cold, and served with cold butter.  I heard such good things about their pasta, but there wasn't a decent non-red sauce on the menu.  It was all basically the same red sauce (with or without meat) served on your choice of frozen pasta.  Yuck!  I mean, for $15-20 per person, I was at least expecting some fresh food!  Instead, it was like a dingy diner where everyone was dressed up, pretending it was classy!  The entire time we were eating, the overhead lighting would dim every 5 minutes or so. I'm sorry, but this place is a dump.  Maybe Capponi's was good back in the day, but take it from an impartial newcomer who wanted to like this place, it was pure rubbish!