Tony's Kitchen

We were greeted right off the bat. Sat in a requested booth. Our waitress was a sweetie MoMo you should alll ask for her. The owner  came to our table to ask if all was OK and it was. The only complaint would be that I had the cheese and broccoli soup and it was way tooo think but delicious. Our piazza was perfect I loved the big chunks of veggies. You could taste what they are suppose to taste like....thank you for a pretty good restaurant.

After reading all the rave reviews, we decided to try this place. The service was prompt and attentive. The food quality was very average. This use to be a fast food restaurant and other previous restaurants that went out of business and still looks like a fast food joint. We started with the queso dip which was okay. My kids had the pizza which was burned on one side of the pizza, inedible.
I ordered the rib eye steak medium  with mashed potatoes, the steak was chewy and the mashed potatoes were bland. My husband ordered the full ribs with dry rub, the ribs were dry and burn't on the bottom. The fries looked like and tasted like they came out of a bag in the freezer. i believe the employees wrote good reviews to offset the bad ones filtered.

I wish I had spied Kris A's review before I swung by here. Upside is it prompted me to add him to my Yelp stalker list so I will not miss future heads ups. I thought he was already on it.

I wanted to like this place. I really did. The staff was super friendly. The service was cheerfully good. The prices (woohoo half off apps from 4-7) were decent. It's not a fricking chain. All good points. Sadly, not enough to overcome the uninspired type food.

The queso was good-ish. Very one note on the cheese but I actually liked the seasoned burger (it would have rocked with chorizo instead IMO) and the pico accent. Chips alongside it though were just so ummm generic and not exactly a huge portion to go with. Fried pickles were just ok chips with ranch, again nothing special at all. Nothing like some of the beer battered cravables I have found locally and at a much cheaper price.

She picked wrong, you say, hmmm not much more special to choose from on this particular menu though. The apps menu itself was pretty much your totally boring standards. Like they said to themselves, "Hey what does every other restaurant sell? Let's do that!". A few bar standards. some Italian, a potsticker option and hummus. Yeah that wide of a focus always means awesome. Mmmhmmm. It kinda made me flash mentally on TGI Fridays.

The mini loaf of bread with seasoned olive oil was a happy addition. Pretty tasty. Hard to mess up freshly baked carbs. I appreciated it though. It perked me up.

My husband had the pork tenderloin. The whte gravy needed a kick of tobasco or a sharper snappier pepper grind. The mashed potatoes were similarly just kind of blah. Veggies, not much to say there. Pork was well cooked, it just all needed some punch.

I went with the honey orange glazed chicken because it actually sounded more interesting (they promised zesty), it was something grilled to counteract the heavy apps and I wanted something to be able to reheat later as I was getting stuffed. That sweet potato casserole lured me, I confess. It was ok. Too sweet as the chicken was more sweet and less zest, so the sweet potato with it was just kind of overkill. My mistake, I really should know better as I am sensitive to sweet. The chicken was grilled very nicely though I will say.

Eh, it's not a bad place, I just wasn't dazzled.

ETA: Yeah I did not read the owner's bio before I wrote this review. His major experience was a TGI Friday's so I guess I was not too far off the mark. Yep, apparently you can tell where he was influenced.