Choosing the best restaurants for your Disney vacation can be such a stressful part of the vacation planning. The dining budget will be a significant part of your expense for the trip, so you want to be sure that your meals are delicious and as enjoyable as possible. If you’re planning to visit Magic Kingdom during your next Walt Disney World vacation in Orlando, Florida, you’re probably wondering which restaurants should top your list. One of our family’s favorite places to eat in Magic Kingdom is the beautiful Tony’s Town Square restaurant.
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What is the Restaurant Like?
Tony’s Town Square has a lovely family-friendly vibe and fun Lady and the Tramp / Italian restaurant themed decor. We’ve planned a meal here during most of our Disney vacations over the years and we keep going back for more. Tony is the character that runs the Italian restaurant where Lady and the Tramp enjoy their iconic spaghetti dinner scene to the tune of “Bella Notte.” Reservations are strongly encouraged. However, if you’re traveling during a slower season you may have some luck as a last-minute walk up. The easiest way to make reservations is to use the My Disney Experience site. If you’re lucky, you may be seated near the front of the restaurant and can peek at the parade passing by as you dine. Alternatively, you could plan your meal for an hour or so before the parade and you will be able to view it from the sidewalk outside the restaurant as you leave. The restaurant is not available for guests outside of Magic Kingdom. Once you enter the park itself, it will be off to the right side of the square as you face the castle. You can check out the full Tony’s Town Square menu here. But since seeing is believing, here are the items we ordered and enjoyed during our most recent visit: This garlic bread disappeared in a flash and was an amazing start to the meal. It is light and crispy and totally delicious. The appetizer is served with a pitcher of cheese sauce that I didn’t find necessary but my husband absolutely loved. She suggested the chicken parmigiana (or chicken parmesan). It is a generous portion of chicken that comes with a side of pasta with tomato sauce. He definitely enjoyed his meal. There was a little more sauce than I usually prefer, so you may want to ask them to go lighter on the sauce if you don’t like your noodles swimming in alfredo. My daughter enjoyed the classic dish but made one very important substitution . . . Fun Fact: You can ask your server to substitute a short noodle like penne for the long noodle like spaghetti. It is SO much easier for kids to eat. My daughter ordered the baked pasta dish not realizing it would come in a metal casserole dish like a lasagna. That was her mistake. However she didn’t appreciate how much cheese was in the dish and the top was a little overdone. She was also disappointed to discover that she couldn’t omit the mushrooms from the dish when she ordered. She still took a chance on it, but was disappointed to see just how high the ratio of mushrooms was in the mix. So unless you LOVE cheese and mushrooms, you may want to skip this dish. They’ve since changed that rule and now the table service restaurants do serve beer and wine with dinner. A chilled glass of pinot grigio tasted like sheer heaven on our busy park day. We were so excited for this change in policy! Don’t miss the adorable fountain of everyone’s favorite movie dogs right in the center of the restaurant. We were seated in the glass encased front patio facing the town square. The ambiance was relaxing and relatively quiet as compared to the bustling noise of Magic Kingdom. The sit-down restaurant is a relaxing oasis that will give you the rest you need to fuel up for an evening of fun until the fireworks!
