Great spot to grab a bite if you're headed to Frankenmuth or Birch Run. The schtick here is quantity - a "side" of bacon is 1lb. ONE. POUND. Omelets, pancakes and other breakfast items are good here. But if you're a bacon lover (which if you're at Tony's, you are) then you MUST try the BLT. Comes with a pound of bacon and fresh tomatoes on a great Italian bread with mayo. Delicious! Enough to share, even. If you want simple, good breakfast food or sandwiches, this place is as good as any.
Review Source:Well, it is Tony's. Â Nothing special quality wise, quantity wise is where the gimmick is at.
I envision this place to be packed on weekends throughout the summer with the "Up North" travelers either coming or going, or during hunting season pretty much the same way. I guess I am right because they have a 'Deer Hunters Special' which is several loafs of bread, a gallon of chilli, a large salami and a gallon of beef stew.
I mentioned the gimmick in sizes, and as if a gallon o'stew doesn't tell you enough then I will note that breakfast comes with a pound of meat of your choice (bacon being the popular one). Eggs are cooked fine and the hashbrowns come with a crisp top layer. I have to say I kindof like them, they are very potato-y and almost 'creamy'. Â
Also, they have some local made Smokey Mountain-something sauce which is pretty damn good. The hot variety is not hot, and for a change I think I prefer the sweet version. I imagine it would go well on a bunch of different things, but chicken stands out. If you like it, you can buy the stuff by the bottle.
Besides their 'famous' breakfast they also sell massive BLT's, other sandwiches and nachos.
We have been here a handful of times for breakfast, and left with a ton of bacon to take home. It works out good though, it'll crisp back up in the oven and works fine when making breakfast sandwiches the following day.
They have a homemade Italian loaf which is lacking flavor (sad to say) Â - I am no bread expert but I feel it needs some salt. Actually, everything needs salt. Eggs and hashbrowns are blaaaand as phuq.
I chuckle to myself every time, I guess the home of the pound of bacon is concerned for your heart health and decides to cook low-sodium fare for ya!
Went on a Tuesday night, was great. Â Destination America... Gastronomic bucket list! Â One of the top 10 sandwiches in America... had to try to try the BLT (one full pound of bacon)! Â It was really great, and unbelieveably not Impossible to eat! Â Lots of air in all that bacon! Â Was delicious! Â Had the onion rings, and they were great too! Â My friend had the fried fish, and didn't like it... said not a lot of flavor... stick to what they do best, and you won't go wrong!
Review Source:Tony's....what happened with the quality of your food?? Â I hate to say it, but my meal last Saturday, and those I dined with were AWFUL!!!! Â I ordered a steak sandwich with pizza cheese. Â The lack of cheese was a sheer disappointment- it was a thin, single slice. Â The meat was SO dry and flavorless. Â And the sauce - was DISGUSTING. Â It tasted like ketchup, not the traditional taste I grew up loving (and craving on this day!).
My friends ordered breakfast, which was cold. Â We waited a long time for our food, which was disappointing, it wasn't that busy and it seemed like our food waited a long time to be served :( Â One of my friends got really sick immediately after eating there. Â We were all disappointed and will not return to your restaurant.
The only reason I am giving 1 star - I cannot give NO STARS.
I'm sorry Tony's, but your bacon absolutely s*cks. I waited 30 minutes in an overstuffed hallway for your terrible food. Yes, the bacon sandwich is huge, but the quality of the meat is horrendous. My dog's fake bacon treats probably taste better.
I came here in December for the novelty, left here being disgusted.
Terrible table service too. Waitress didn't stop by once between taking the order and serving the food.
Maybe we hit the kitchen staff on a bad day, but 1 of our 3 bowls of Chicken soup had a handful of salt thrown into it.....and the pizza sub also had a large amount of salt on 2/3 of it......when notified, the staff simply took back the offending bowl of soup, pored out the broth and replaced it with water. needless to say...our Tony's experience is over for a lifetime!!!
Review Source:Yes. The BLT is massive, and it is amazing. I split the BLT with a side of onion rings and it was the perfect amount of food for me. I was starving after a long day of work. Everything on the sandwich was fresh. The staff was friendly, and the service was FAST. It's worth the experience.
Review Source:One of a kind must stop restaurant. Â Whether you are passing through the area or hitting the local outlet stores make this place a part of your trip. Â WARNING: Â If you order anything that includes bacon or hash browns you may need a pickup truck for your leftovers. Â All day breakfast as well.
Review Source:I have been a fan of Tony's since I was little. Â They have a ton of seating and a very large menu for a truck stop restaurant. Â They are usually really fast and most of the menu options are enormous! Â However, even though things are huge, they still taste good. I ordered a breakfast once that ended up feeding me for three breakfasts. Â If you order a side of bacon, you get a pound. Â Their banana split is huge too along with the BLT and other sandwich options. I have also ordered nachos and burritos which are huge but still really tasty. If you find huge food a fun novelty, check Tony's out!
Review Source:Famous for their bacon, which is deep fried, tastes nothing like bacon, and looks and tastes more like a cross between canadian bacon and beef jerky. Â My wife's family stops here every time they come up north, and the food is uniquely huge, and awful. Â If you are the kind of person who will eat anything regardless of how awful it is and love to eat several pounds of starch and fat at every meal this is for you. Â Uniquely horrible. Â A crime against food, health, but well loved by the all you can eat crowd. Â PS, my wife says they have been busted "recycling" leftover bacon from one customer to another.
Review Source:Oh my, where do I start? Â With the ONE FREAKING POUND BLT, THAT'S WHERE!
Yeah, Tony's was a great part of our Michigan vacation that I will not soon forget. Â I should have known from the sly twinkle in the eye of our local family members as they guided us to this pork-laden paradise...
So I got the BLT.  I'm  not usually that guy who takes pictures of my food and posts them to facebook (actually a pet peeve of mine), but with this there was no choice.  And my wife got an omelette, which was equally ginormous.  And it was all very tasty as well...  Huge plates full of incredible food.  Where's the downside there?
So as you might have gathered, the portions at Tony's are ridiculous. Â Actually probably even too big... Nah, just kidding. Â
We loved it, it was legendary, we will be back if it kills us... and it just might. Â
Oh, and the prices were shockingly low for the quality and portion sizes. Â There is no downside unless you are on a diet... and if you are on a diet then forget your diet and go eat at Tony's.
What can be said about Tony's that hasn't been said before. It's legendary.
Some people say that size doesn't matter, but at Tony's size is what matters most. Everything here is big, bigger, and biggest. Â We were able to feed a family of 8 with about 5 breakfast meals and still have leftover bacon to put on our hamburgers for the next 2 nights. Â
As far as quality goes, it's hit or miss. I personally love their 1 lb. servings of deep fried bacon, but many will complain that it's too chewy or undercooked. The toast and sandwich bread is huge, but lacks flavor. The eggs were just blah.
You will go to Tony's because it is a restaurant most Michiganders brag about. It's one of our favorite talking points with the portion sizes guaranteed to shock most casual diners. You will leave Tony's stuffed, with loads of leftovers to eat later in the day or even into the next day.
For those who are looking for gourmet food, this is not the place to go. Â Remember where you are, there is an outlet mall across the road but for the most part this is FARM COUNTRY. Â The food is good, home fare. Â No fancy stuff here. Â The portions are large, easly shared by two people except the icecream sunday which can be shared by an entire family of 8. Â Every time we go north we stop at Tonys. Â Mostly because I don't believe that there is even the remotest possibility of having too much bacon. Â Anything ordered with bacon gets a pound of bacon. Â YUM. Â If you don't like home style cooking and plenty of it, this is not the place for you.
Review Source:I mean, you can't complain about bacon. A pound of bacon. A POUND OF BACON.
I got the BLT which was piled so high with bacon that I had to just eat random parts of it; a handful of bacon here, a bite of bread there, and a forkful of lettuce and tomato to wash it down. Â It was like any BLT you've had except if you had 4 at once which officially makes it the best BLT you've ever had.
And it's known for huge portion sizes even on non-bacon items - the burrito is literally (note: figuratively) like eating a whole baby cow while the live and onions had... a lot of liver and onions. I don't know, I tried to avoid my tablemate's plate, but per the smell I'm sure there was a lot of liver. And onions.
Traveling up I-75 in Michigan? If so, you gotta visit this place! Right off of Interstate 75 at Exit 136, near the outlet mall, is this food lovers paradise!
I had the opportunity to visit this establishment several years back when I was visiting family in greater Detroit. They make the 50+ mile pilgrimage on occasion and I have to say, I have never seen THAT much food on my plate, at a restaurant. EVER!
The portions at this place are ENORMOUS! Seriously. I forget what I had at the time, but you could literally feed 2 or 3 people with what I ate. It was some kind of sandwich. I do remember, though, the people I was visiting ordered a banana split, and 3 or 4 people could share it and there still be some left over. Dead serious.
If you have the chance, to visit, please do. It's an experience that you'll never forget! Don't forget to take the souvenir menu home with you, it's an interesting piece. Unfortunately I lost mine in a move about a year ago. And don't forget to bring an extra pair of pants, preferably bigger than the size you wear going into the place. You're gonna feel fat when you leave, and you'll be pregnant with a large food baby.
Seriously, check this place out!
Yes, the portions are incredible, and you end up taking a bunch home. Â Yes, it's not healthy food, but sometimes I find myself just craving this food ... especially in the fall with football.
I went here with my son recently, and we simply had fries, fried mushrooms, and a cube steak and cheese sandwich with spag sauce sandwich. Â The sandwich was awesome, and huge. Â Two people can easily eat one sandwich, but most guys eat one themselves. Â
I've done breakfast here as well, and the portions are equally huge. Â So, order with this in mind.
Sure you get a lot of bacon, but it's deep fried and all curled in one big clump. Â The only reason to go here is to say you did. Â It's all for shock value, not for taste value. Â Big this, and a lot of that. Â And about 85% of it is not so good. Â I don't really need a pound of bacon on my sandwich, Â or 10 or 12 eggs in my omelet. Â
Go once, see what the fuss is about, and there will be no reason to go back.
Everyone seems to say the same thing about tonys, but people still keep flocking there.
The food there is very average. something you would expect from a kitchen at home (a very plain kitchen). But in huge portions.
Ive had a few different things from here, and tried food off other peoples plates. It doesnt matter what it is, its always the same story. "It's something I could of made at home."
The atmosphere inside is very much like a regular diner.
The wait staff seemed pretty good, ontop of things.
The one nice thing about this place is when you leave you get to take handfulls, as much as you want of candy.
I'd say that I dont ever plan on going back there, but I want to go one day and try to take a knock at their big ol icecream with someone.
There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
Portions here are strictly for shock value. Be prepared to have to share one plate of ginormousness or to waste a lot of food. Personally it does not do much for me. As others have stated, the food is not top quality or prepared with the most care in the world, although maybe it was just our batch.
We had breakfast fit for an army that made me nauseous the rest of the day. Eggs, pancakes, pounds of hash browns, bacon piled up and spilling off the plate. You eat and eventually it all seems to taste the same, greasy and overwhelming.
You may get a cheap breakfast but make sure to pocket the money for the cardiology fund if you eat here with any frequency.
If you've ever felt like the dog on those beggin strips commercials, then this is the place for you!
I was on vacation visiting some friends in Troy, and they took me here. Nothing extra special, but the BLT is a jaw dropper! If you like bacon, or just like to have your jaw dropped, then you should definitely order the BLT!
GREASY SPOON!!!
Not a bad place to eat, everyone should come here just once but I'll have to agree with the previous reviews- Â Tony's operates on a gimmick! It's very greasy here and the bathrooms were a disaster, you almost feel cleaner NOT washing your hands than touching the fixtures and door handles! GROSS!
The food is average except for the fact that some dishes are proportioned for the morbidly obese. Yeah, you do get a pound of bacon with just about everything on the menu.
This gets a 5-star rating in the sub-category of "diner food". Â The portions are huge, greasy and delicious which is exactly how you want your food in one of these restaurants.
If you are a Tony's virgin here is what you need to get:
1. Steak sandwich- this thing is famous. Â I recommend adding pizza cheese and mushrooms. Â Make sure you get the bread toasted! Bring a friend to share it with if you wanna make it out alive (you may end up killing them for eating the other half of the sandwich, but I urge you to take ten deep breaths, relax and order another sandwich.)
2. Onion rings- A delicious side for the steak sandwich. Â Crispy and delicious. Also, these do not fill you up as much as fries do (more room for steak sandwich!).
3. Â Breakfast- hard to go wrong in this category. Â I love the hashbrowns and the toast. Â They have breakfast choices that are listed as T, O, N or Y. Â I also recommend the French Toast. Â "But Kasey, what if I want breakfast at 2PM?" Not to worry! Tony's serves breakfast all day!
The bread the use is Napolitano Italian Bread which is available for sale at Tony's restaurants. Â I have to stop myself from buying 8 or 9 loaves every time I dine there. Â In regards to service, the Birch Run location rocks. During my last visit my to-go sandwich was served quickly and happily. Â They even threw in some hard candies for dessert.
Tony's has a reputation and is somewhat famous in the region. Â It is supposed to be an Italian-style diner. Â It is famous for its large portion sizes; many of the dishes come with a pound of bacon.
Please read that again. Â A pound of bacon. Â Keep in mind that this is not the future, and bacon has not yet been genetically engineered to be good for your heart.
After hearing about it on television programs and reading about it in a magazine here and there, my sweetie and I decided to stop in. Â Where to start. Â There was a line. Â OK, lines can be a good sign of something. Â But it's a good idea to see who is in line. Â And who is sitting at the tables. Â A clientele that is made up of people who you can tell, just by looking at them, do not put stake in high-quality food. Â We are talking more than a few people with guts that could be mistaken as a moon of Mars. Â Or think that wearing flip-flops to a restaurant is a good idea. Â That should be your first cue. Â At the table next to us, there was a good-sized family. Â Including a twelve-year old who was impressed by the amount of bacon. Â OK, if one person is impressed, I will try and keep an open mind.
Despite my misgivings, I ordered the BLT, a signature dish. Â I did this even though the menu clearly stated it comes with a pound of bacon. Â A BLT, in my mind, should be all about the bread, not the bacon. Â But I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt. Â The sandwich was on my table in two minutes. Â It got to the table before our WATER got to the table. Â That tells me one thing: Â pre-made and sitting under a heat lamp. Â The bread which is supposed to be home-made, was OK. Â It was hard to tell just how good it was because it was toasted with Oleo. Â Not butter. Â Oleo. Â As if the bacon is not bad enough to your heart.
I now know what a pound of bacon looks like. Â Pretty it is not.
The sandwich itself: Â not very good. Â Most of the iceberg lettuce was from the inner leaf. Â I think I had all of two tomato slices. Â And bacon. Â Miles and miles of greasy, rather unimpressive bacon.
My sweetie has a simple pasta dish with mushrooms and red sauce. Â I've know more than a few people who are Italian, and take pride in their cooking. Â One thing they would never, EVER do is use canned mushrooms. Â Tony's does. Â Somewhere there should be a rule: Â you are not allowed to call your food Italian if you use canned mushrooms.
Oh, and the pasta was undercooked and the sauce was bland. Â Apparently, the folks at Tony's have never even heard of basil.
What Tony's comes down to is this: Â their gimmick is large portions. Â Nothing else. Â So if you think the benchmark of a quality meal is a plate overflowing with bacon grease, you are likely to give Tony's five stars. Â The food is plain, predictable, and obviously geared towards a culture that looks for this in a meal. Â If you think food should be, oh I don't know, GOOD, you will think Tony's is a waste of time and a waste of your dollars.
The meal, however, was not a total loss. Â We took the leftover pasta and bacon and put them in a saucepan, grilled up some onions, mixed the onions in with some dry basil, pepper, and salt, and reheated the whole mixture. Â The result was a pretty satisfying pasta meal. Â So the best thing I can say about Tony's is that the leftovers give you some good raw materials to do some repurposing. Â And that repurposing made for three serving sizes. Â I can also say the wait staff was efficient in getting you to a table. Â This can be a damming thing to say, as well as a positive. Â But they did seem to be genuinely friendly. Â And they do give their target audience what they want. Â Which makes them astute business people. Â But in my own opinion, a restaurant owner should care about food and turning a profit. Â The two concepts do not have to be independent of each other.
This is not good food. Â You're better off at the fast food place across the street. Â Seriously. Â I give it one star because I do not have the option to give it less, and I will credit that star to the wait staff.
Tony's is one of those places that absolutely relies on a gimmick to survive.
Let's play pretend for a moment:
Pretend you visited a diner that was so greasy-feeling that you wanted to take a shower after you left.
Pretend you visited a diner that offered really low-grade, flavorless "bulk" food - fatty and greasy-tasting bacon, flavorless cheap ground beef, "Mexican" food that was bland and filled with fillers like flavorless beans and lettuce, and bulk pancake mix.
Pretend the diner had disgustingly filthy bathrooms that hadn't been maintained all day, with paper towels lazily thrown on the counter, sopping wet and touched by countless grubby hands rather than placed in the dispenser, urinals filled with wads of piss-yellow napkins, and a soap dispenser that was leaking all over the wall and floor.
Pretend the diner had a kitchen manager that trashily yelled and swore at the staff, dropping F-bombs, yelling at the staff about things that you'd rather not hear (such as how many hours certain food items had been left standing out rather than being refrigerated). Oh, and you can see and hear all this because it's a diner with an open kitchen.
Pretend this diner was filled with clientèle that were less than savory as well; the kind of people who scream at their kids, get into loud arguments at the seat behind you, and who eat more than they should. Road-weary and angry, or morbidly obese who shouldn't be eating plate fulls of greasy food.
....
Now, with all that pretend: is that the kind of place you'd eat at? Much less give 4 or even 5 stars?
No, you wouldn't. Not unless it had some amazing saving grace, a gimmick to let all the rest of that stuff slide.
Tony's is that place. Their gimmick is their massive portions. They pride themselves on their copious use of vast amounts of bacon on everything. A BLT has a pound of bacon. A burger has about a half pound.
I'll tell you right now: The reason they are able to turn a profit with the portion sizes they serve is because they use the absolute cheapest crap ingredients they can get their hands on.
I don't know this for fact, of course, but my companions and I all agreed: The bacon was the worst we've ever had. It tasted like it had been deep fried in old grease, and it was fatty and as low-grade as it can get. Sure, you get a pound of it. But a pound of this bacon isn't worth the heart attack that will surely be that much closer because of it.
I can't make this up: The waitress, while sweet and kind, was awkward. She assumed my girlfriend was the mother of my children, and called us "mom and dad". She assumed my son was a girl, so called him "she". These weren't a big deal, just slightly awkward. What was actually a bit more than just awkward was the fact that she directed us to the Mexican section of the menu, with the statement, "It's authentic! We got us a little Mexican back there makin' it up! For real!"
Seriously? Nervous giggles. A little Mexican, indeed.
I ordered the Dixie burrito (a chicken burrito). The sauce was definitely homemade, and it was good. Sadly, it was the only good part of the burrito. The thing was huge, but overstuffed with the cheap stuff: Mostly cheap beans and tons of lettuce. The chicken wasn't seasoned at all. If I hadn't slathered the whole mess with salsa, sour cream, and "Uncle Bob's Mild Barbecue Sauce", it would have been a flavorless mass on par with high school cafeteria burritos.
My girlfriend got the chili, which was the best thing I tasted at the table. It was homemade, and perfectly acceptable, despite the use of cheap ground beef.
My friend got a "super duper deluxe" something-or-other burger, which he was very excited about. Unfortunately, the only thing super duper about it was the pile of the aforementioned crap-ass bacon on top of it. The rest of the burger was bland and miserable. He ate the bacon off first, to make it a manageable size, and was rewarded with two separate meals: One of bad bacon, and one of a bad hamburger.
I can't give Tony's one star, because it's the kind of place you have to visit at least once. Everybody should go here, if only to experience the true depths of American excess. Don't get me wrong, it's fun. I didn't have an absolutely horrible experience; we left smiling and laughing about it all. I didn't try the famous "half gallon" banana split, which seems so popular. Maybe we just hit the place on a bad day, which would explain the trashy clientèle and staff and the absolutely filthy bathrooms--those things can be forgiven.
But what can't be forgiven to a food lover like me is the absolute dearth of any concern for quality food. Sure, you can shovel triple heapin' helpin's of crap on my plate, but that don't mean I'mma gonna like it.
As most others have said, bacon. The breakfast comes with a pound of bacon. The rest of the breakfast looked good (eggs and hash browns). I ordered a hamburger which was not that great. It tasted more like a frozen patty than freshly ground and formed. It also got the bun all soggy. Nothing special about the burger.
Service was pretty good. Waitress was nice and attentive. Place wasn't the cleanest, but it's a diner, and I didn't expect it to be very clean. Not dirty enough to not eat there.
Price seemed a little high for the burger and chicken dish that we got. The breakfast that the third person got was about average price.
I don't ever want to see another piece of bacon again, I don't want to hear about bacon or smell bacon for awhile. Don't get me wrong but before Saturday night I loved bacon. I'll bacon the hell out of anything but on Saturday night...I met the bacon challenge and bacon definitely won.
If you're hungry or really love bacon, don't pass this up. I think this was my welcome to Michigan/welcome to the family test here. I went up with my fiance's family and was blown away. I ordered a super duper bacon burger and I'm thinking what 2-3 pieces of bacon, not 8 lbs of bacon..ok well maybe not 8lbs but it felt like 8lbs.
Everyone ordered something different and what I can say is the food was very good, the prices were very reasonable and this is a must stop on you're way on I-75. Its even fun watching to see what other tables order.
Its a good thing you can grab a ton of mints on your way out. Â You'll need them to settle your stomach. Â Trust me.
If you've heard of Tony's then surely you know about the portions of bacon availalble in several of their dishes. If not, where have you been?!?! I'm from Tennessee, and I know Tony's for their bacon!
I highly recommend sitting at the bar across from the kitchen if you have the chance. You'll see just how much bacon comes and goes from Tony's. Prepare to be amazed and prepare to wait for a table.
I hear ambulances are waiting nearby for cardiac arrest. Okay, not really, but you'll think that it's possible once you've visited Tony's.
Sweet mother of God is that for one person???
I have been coming here all my life on our way up to the lake, or home again. I do love Tony's, but the BLT is not where it's at. The bacon is deep fried and kinda gross. I think it's just the spectacle of the BLT that has won it's fame, not the actual taste. They have much better stuff on the menu, all of it in completely ridiculous (in a good way) portions.
My hands down favorite is the BBQ beef sandwich on Italian bread. The beef is slow cooked and fabulous, the bread is thick and good - most of a loaf I would imagine, and meant to be eaten open faced - I have no idea how you would bite into it! Friends have tried their mexican fare and loved it, my dad loves their beef stew, full of veggies and huge chunks of beef in a mixing bowl. Everyone leaves with some good stuff for later.
This place is both a train wreck, and an outstanding stop all at the same time.
On the surface it's your average truck stop/diner kinda place. It's one of the last bastions of "city food" before you are officially "up north" where you'll take what you can get. The banality ends here.
Tony's is known for one thing: Stupidly huge portions. We're talking BLTs and omelettes with a pound of bacon involved. Banana splits the size of your head. Milkshakes and sundaes in glasses taller than a small child.
Locals and regulars get a kick out of the flabbergasted reactions from the Tony's newbies that meander in. One might have even seen it featured on the Food Network at one point. But until that giant sandwich and three pound platter of mashed potatoes is sitting in front of you, I promise you are not prepared.
The food itself is okay. It's not great but it's good. Tony's is quantity over quality personified.
But if you're hungry, or just interested in indulging a little bit of the ridiculous, this is the place to go.
"Sometimes you just gotta say, 'What the F*%@". - Tom Cruise, "Risky Business"
Adhering to said attitude, I decided to dine at Tony's I-75 on my way home from work. Â (Yes, I commute to the Tri-cities every other day - no one accuses me of being too bright). Â I admit that my interest in dining here stems purely from seeing it featured on "Sandwich Paradise" on the Travel Channel and not some overwhelming desire to eat at a truck stop. Â In fact, I had no idea this place existed until the TV show. Â But, WTF... why not see what all the hype is about.
The hype, as you probably all know by now, is about the elephantine portions of food that they serve here. The famous BLT has 1 lb. of deep fried bacon, the banana split has 1/2 gallon of ice cream and majority of the sandwiches are roughly the size of a human head (which we know from "Jerry MacGuire" weighs 8 lb.).
Shunning the majority suggestion to get the BLT, I instead ordered a bacon and cheese omelet. Â It too had a pound of bacon inside it, plus what I can only estimate to be about 1/2 pound of cheese. Â I have no idea how many eggs went into the monstrosity. Â If there were only three eggs, they must have come from one big-ass chicken. Â The omelet was served with toast and Tony's home-made strawberry preserves.
Now unless you eat like Joey Chestnutt, Takeru Kobayashi, or Adam Richman (from Man vs. Food), trying to finish the omelet is probably not the smartest thing to do. Â Believe me, I tried... but about 1/3 of the way through, Air Traffic Control in my brain was telling me, "Negative Ghostrider, the pattern (my stomach) is full". Â I had it boxed up and finished it off over 3 subsequent meals... this actually gives Tony's some points for value... 4 meals for the price of 1.
What about the taste????? Â Oh yeah.... it tasted... like... an omelet with a butt-load of bacon and cheese.
In all seriousness, taste-wise, the food isn't bad... it's just not all that great either. Â It's typical diner/truck stop fare and earns my respect for not trying to be anything else. Â I must say that I really liked the strawberry preserves. Â I would go back just to have that on some waffles.
So, if you are in the mood for pure, unadulterated, myocardial infarction inducing, volumes of food, Â Tony's is the place for you. Â Vegetarians should probably not apply.
You are so darned hungry that your stomach is eating away at your spine. Yup, that's what it will take to eat @ Tony's. I am a bacon lover and really love it piled high on my BLTs so Tony's is the place I go to when I want  a BLT. I always end up taking the sandwich home and heat the bacon in order to enjoy another 2 or 3 more sandwiches. Why? It's because you get ONE POUND of crispy bacon on your plate. Have i even mentioned their banana splits? They are totally not for the person who watches their weight. (I watch mine too as it fluctuates constantly.) If memory serves me right, it contains 12 scoops of ice cream and tons of other stuff.
i do agree with Walter K that the service is great, prices are right and place is clean. Staff is always friendly and courteous.
Once you've eaten @ Tony's you'll be a fan for life.
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