The next morning, we were up early and headed over to MK for RD. I'm not sure what we had for breakfast, but we must have had something in the room.
After taking a spin on several of our favorite rides, as well as watching a couple of our favorite shows, we headed over to Main Street to check in for our reservation at Tony's. This is what greeted us on arrival:
Even though they were seating walk-ins, we were told it would be a few minutes before our table was ready. We took a seat in the waiting area:
Love this place! And we caught the best scene of the entire movie!
Here is a shot of some of the artwork in the waiting area:
After just a few minutes, we were taken to our table. We walked through the patio room with this lovely fountain:
Ah so cute!
We had requested to sit outdoors, after enjoying the view and Main Street atmosphere from the year prior. Even though it was a warm day, we were cool enough in the shade. This is the view from our table:
While we waited for our server, we caught a glimpse of the trolley show.
We perused our menus:
We ordered a couple of boring drinks, a diet coke for DP and an iced tea for me:
We both always think the diet cokes taste weird at this restaurant, like soap or detergent or something.
We decided to split the calamari to start:
We both enjoyed this.
The breading is pretty light, and in general I prefer a little more on my calamari, but the calamari itself was very tender. The marinara sauce was a nice accompaniment, and one of my favorite parts was the olive garnish on this. I'm not sure exactly what they call it, but it is a nice addition to this dish! We ate every last bite!
Because we had split the appetizer and didn't want to be too full on such a hot day, we each ordered a Caesar salad as our main dish.
DP ordered hers plain. She enjoyed it. We both agreed the Caesar dressing was really strong. We'd need mints after this meal!
I ordered my salad with shrimp:
This was the same thing I'd had last year at Tony's, and it was fantastic. This year...not so much.
My shrimp look perfectly fine on the outside, but they were actually completely raw inside. They were solid gray. I always cut my salads before I eat them, so by the time I realized what was going on with the shrimp, I had cut them into pieces all over my entire salad. At first, I hoped it was maybe just one shrimp that didn't get cooked all the way, but when all was said and done, all but one shrimp was basically totally raw. I removed them from the salad, pointed them out to the server, and ate the rest of the salad without them.
The whole time I was worried I was going to catch food borne illness from all the raw shrimp juice that was probably in my salad, but thankfully, I did not. The server offered to make me a new salad (with new shrimp or without, my choice) but I declined, since I didn't want to waste this salad. Although I tried to shake it off, the raw shrimp situation definitely limited my enjoyment of this meal.
We finished our salads and had decided on a way to let Tony's redeem itself for us: DESSERT!
We chose the pistachio crème brulee:
I'm a huge fan of crème brulee, and DP is a huge fan of pistachio, so we thought this was perfect!
The crème itself didn't have a strong nutty flavor to it. It was almost just like standard crème brulee with a green tint to it.
Here is an inside shot to give you an idea:
For me, there was probably a little too much brulee to this dish. The crust on top was just a bit strong (maybe that was the burnt bits of nut I was tasting).
It was served with some berries which were yummy, and then a little wafer like cookie made out of pistachios and seeds. DP loved that candied little dish! She still talks about it. For me, it was just pretty garnish. I didn't really like the texture or the flavor.
Dessert wasn't really a stand out for us, and overall the meal was fairly average. However, we really enjoyed the ambience and some parts of the meal were good. Because it's such a nice reprieve from the heat and so pleasantly themed, I definitely think we'll return. We'll probably branch out and try a different dessert next time, and now I know to order my shrimp well done!
As we wrapped up and settled our bill, this little guy came to give us a chirp chirp:
So cute!
Next up, a snack update and dinner at La Hacienda!