Tony Roma's    多利蘿瑪排骨之家   (Closed)

I saw a coupon on a newspaper which offers a $100 coupon for spending a certain amount at this place. Meanwhile, it was about to be my friend's birthday, so we've decided to have the birthday dinner for my friend at this place. I've made a prior booking a few days before the day having dinner. There were not many people that night, it's a weekday and kind of early after all.
We got a table with sofa seats, which is very comfortable. The setting of the restaurant is kind of bright, and the light reflects beautiful colours onto the glasses on the wall. The colorful walls were indeed a charming scene, but I still prefer a dimer lighting to boost the dining ambience.
Anyway, starting with the food, we were first served with bread rolls. Warm fluffy bread rolls are always a pleasure, but they got a bonus here for serving a really tasty herbed butter. The taste of it was fabulous.For starters, we picked the Onion Loaf. This dish actually reminded me much of that of Outback's, yet this one gives a pretty different and refreshing sensation. We merely ordered half but it was surprisingly a pretty huge dish already. The onion itself, originally, was very sweet and fresh, when dipped into their BBQ mayo sauce, this is definitely one appetizing and alluring dish. It was indeed a stunning dish. Having such a fantastic dish with just $42 is totally worth the value.Another starter that we ordered was the Shrimp Stuffed Portobello Mushroom. I have always loved the strong flavor of portobello mushrooms. It always goes well with various stuffing. The stuffing was indeed savory. It claimed that the stuffing included shrimp, spinach, artichokes, feta cheese, onion, tangy Italian cheese and golden bread crumbs. However, I would like to pick on that the shrimps they used were merely frozen ones, lacking the freshness taste of it.Moving on, as this place's famous for its ribs, of course we won't forget to order one. We ordered half slab of the St. Louis-Style Ribs - Carolina Honeys. It is served along with french fries and cole slaw. The ribs are indeed very nice. It's so juicy and flavorful, but it wasn't particularly meaty, just moderate I'll say. The french fries were fried not too oily and have a bit of crisp.Last but not least, we had Chicken Tuscany Pasta. The pasta was actually linguini. It was not slurpy, but it hasn't reached the level of al dente yet as well. I enjoyed the very rich tomato sauce a lot, a good tomato pasta sauce is always very appetizing to me. One thing I particularly liked about is the Tuscany chicken. I think the chicken was of a very Tuscan style, with somewhat a bit roughness in its texture. The kind of roughness of raw and unpolished feeling of the chicken meat, which I consider as an authentic cooking.The food was pretty enjoyable, and it was even better with a shot of alcohol. I wasn't expecting that they have such a wide range of alcohol and liquors available. I spotted Baileys, one of my favorite liquors, and ordered one. I can't tell what went wrong with it, but the sweetness of the Baileys was somehow missing and turned out tasted a bit like medicine. I'll just say that's my bad luck. Looking through the drinks menu, actually there're lots of other attractive choices, such as their Signature Romaritas and cocktails, I guess I'd try those if I get to visit again next time.
In overall it was quite a fairly pleasurable experience to dine here. It's a great place to hold a little dinner gathering here as it has quite a casual theme and setting. If you're seeking for somewhere with better ambience, I wouldn't quite recommend this place as it's lighting is very bright. Nevertheless I still liked their casualness and simpleness of this place. It's indeed one nice place after all.

once entered, the waiter talked to us like he was having a bad day or like he really didn't want to work there! The food came WAY too fast, like it was all already pre made.

The soup was too thick and cold, and the flavor was all gone... the baby back ribs had almost no meat on it, and the flavors were only on the surface, and wasn't absorb entirely within the meat. So i had to put a lot of ketchup and mustard on it to make it tasty!

The chicken was half raw, almost entirely red inside, with AGAIN no flavor. And Don't even get me started about the appetizer platter...the potato skins were fluffy and the cheese sticks were almost as hard as stone.

Sorry, but i have nothing good to tell abut this restaurant. There is definitely a good reason why it always empty when we walk pass by it...should have known better before going in.

I booked a table on Saturday for Sunday night dinner at 6:30, but it turned out not to be busy at all. Dinner with a friend, and I wanted to compare the ribs with others' ribs I had tasted in Hong Kong.

I ordered the regular slab of baby back ribs with the house sauce, and I added a bowl of the loaded baked potato soup, which has become a favourite of mine. My friend ordered mozzarella sticks. which came with a light coating of seasoning and a marinara sauce -- quite good -- and a shaved steak sandwich. The soup came with their Italian bread baguette, presliced about three-fourths of the way through, and their delicious garlic butter, which was spreadable from the start. The potato soup was as expected. The ribs were outstanding. This is an American chain, and when you dare to promote yourself as "a place for ribs," they'd better be good. They were! You have a choice of four sauces, but I stayed with the house sauce the first time, although the hot and spicy would appeal to me, as so would their Carolina honey barbecue sauce. I'll do those in the future.

My friend was not as impressed with the sandwich. He avoided the bread altogether and stuck with the meat, which he thought was OK. We opted not to eat dessert.

The servers were efficient and friendly without hovering. They kept my drink filled with a smile. My friend was happy with his beer.

Big thumbs up for Tony Roma's. I will definitely return.

This is the last time I make an order with this company because I don't belive they care about their customers at least for home delivery service goes. I have had questional services from them before, but this timee was it. It took 3 tries to get someone to answer the call. The food that eventually arrived are just terrible. I ordered Southern Smokey Beef Ribs and they were cold. Even the fries were cold and I mean cold. As well the ribs were not barbecued but probably cooked in hot water then put on the grill to add the grill color and barbecue sauce on the surface. even then if the food had some temperature to it, it could have been just ok to eat. I was warn about the 80 minutes delivery time but don't you think that would mean they will cook with time and care. That is why I think they don't care.

GOOD Friday, didn't plan for anything because many friends have fone for vocations. Just dinner for 2, and wanna have something casual at Time Square.

Didn't really look around, and pop into Tony Roma''s, thought it should be fine, opened for many years here in HK. Honestly, food is not bad.

Papaya salad, big mushroom with cheese and shrimp, ribs are all quite nice, especially the ribs, haven't had it for long time, it's delicious. Pasta is rather tasteless, but portion is good for 2.

However, service sucks.
When we finished ordering, the salad came and it's not what we ordered. We asked, and another waiter came over and said it's not ours...then took it away. During the dinner, there were 3 times wrong delivery....and waiters look like they only physically presence without their mind...
When we get the bill, we didn't check it and paid by credit card, the whole process last for several minutes and I went to the washroom before we left.

When we went out, one waiter ran out and shout at us....sound like we skip the bill or what... and said they made a mistake, the bill we paid was not ours..what the.... it's 100% their fault and why they shout that loud in a public area, totally nonsense. Have they ever considered such situation has badly affected the customers? Absolutely, they don't use their brains at work. We went back and get the revised bill....and needed to ask several times to cancel the previous bill...so stupid.

To avoid causing bad mood after meal, won't come back again.

I came in for lunch around 11:10am and was seated immediately -- well, I was one of the first customers of the day.

I browsed both the lunch and regular menus and decided on the Chicken Tuscany pasta set, and I upgraded to their baked potato soup ($10 extra).

The soup was excellent! Tasty and served hot, and the half baguette with garlic butter was surprisingly good.

The pasta was incredible! Fresh ingredients (onions, bell peppers, mushrooms) and the chicken served over linguini. And it was a very large portion -- both quality and quantity! Iced lemon tea is part of the set, and refills are free.

No dessert this time, but a couple of things caught my eye when I go again ... and I definitely will.

Service was prompt and friendly, too.

They make really nice chicken tender. My gf and I like that alot, and we go there for this dish once a week now.

Tony Roma's, thanks for the great dish!

As requested by openrice, I have some update about this restaurant,

environment: nice decor and quiet, is good for ppl who want to have a talk.

reservation: I have no idea, but the restaurant seldom fully booked. So it's far more easy to get a table there than those similar restaurant

dish recommend: Chicken tender of cox. They serve good children menu and lunch menu with good price as well.

last sat i met an old friend for lunch. we picked tony roma's but not CPK as set lunch is not available on sat in CPK.

2 sets were ordered:
i ordered tuscany pasta. cheese melted in tomato sauce. it really stimulated my appetite! grilled chicken was fine.
my friend's one was salmon steak. very juicy salmon...because of the fat layers lol

creamy soup was so-so. bread served with garlic cream, good. unlimited refill of coke/lemon tea. good for me - a coke addict!

we enjoyed this long and relaxing lunch here.

rooms for improvement: although there were not many customers, we had waited our dishes for quite a long time.

I am very glad to see the return of Tony Roma's back to the standard when they first opened! By the time they left World Trade, I was really disappointed with their caesar salad, which I had to pick out the over-ripe aged greens (amounted to half a plate).

This time, the GOOD caesar salad has returned!!!! Fresh veggies!!!! Tho the sauce has more anchovy than I would like, it was clearly still one of the best caesar in town. I was particularly impressed with their chicken tender, and I found out you can request the chicken tender to be used to add onto the chicken caesar instead of the regular white-meat non-glamourous chicken!!!

The ribs are on par. I tried the Apple Crumble but was a tad bit disappointed. But the Brownie was good too!

Been craving for good ribs but seems no where to find, haven't been to Tony Roma's since they closed the shop in TST.

Sonoma salad - very nice dressing! red wine vinaigrette!!! fresh greens and a good mix of taste with green apple slices, pecans and dried cranberries! fried chicken tenders on top is crispy and tender! yummy!!! the portion is good for 3-4 ppl.

Baby back ribs (regular slab) - 9 ribs in total, meat is soft and tender the BBQ sauce on top is just right (not too sour or not too sweet). love it!

Shop environment is tidy and cozy, staff are friendly! I will come back for sure!

Dinner here again on last Sunday night. Having the fried onion and casser salad for entree. Thats my first time ordering the fried onion. I think its the best food here. Even better than their ribs. Much better than Out back's onion flower. Don't miss this good food. Then we order two steak with ribs sharing by 4 person. The steak are good. Having great smoky tast. But the ribs I think its too soft. Bones are very easy to came out. Gf and her parents like it. But don't realy like. Anyway, can't be not ordering ribs when dine in Tony Roma, ha ha. Over all are very good as the price they cost!

Dinner with gf here at last Thursday. Ordering Salmon casser salad, this one's a bad tast because of the salmon. The bread they serving with garlic butter tast so great. We also order a sampler got chees stick, chicken wings and potato skin. All tast good. Also an arvage tast onion soup. We have steak and ribs for our main. I like the steak they cook here. Very juicy. Ribs i don't realy like but my gf love it. But its a good place to be visit again. But not the Salmon casser salad again!

We have order five dishes:

Baby Back ribs (Regular Slab):
there r three portion that we can choose for the dish: half, regular and full. But actuali the regular size is not as large as I expected. Anyway, for the taste and texture, it is one of the best ribs I have ever tried in HK. Spicy sauce goes with the tender and juicy meat creates a perfect combination together.

Shrimp Kebobs
I think it's jus so-so because there's a strange smell goes along with the shrimps. This may due to the shrimp is not fresh enough. The yellow rice underneath the shrimp is tasteless.

Onion Loaf (half portion)
Again so-so because it's too oily and i think it's a bit over-cooked. The onion is soaked up with oil...and i am kinda sick after finish up the dish.

Thai Peanut Salad
Salad is fresh with the spicy and tasty sauce together.however i think it's kinda spicy for a salad and the over all taste is overwhelmed with the taste of blac pepper. The chicken is a bit dry but overall it's a nice salad

Apple Crisp
Not bad but can be better with more crumble on top. Also more flour and butter shud be added to the crumble to create the cruchy texture of the whole dessert.

Side (Bread, Coleslaw, and ranch style baked beans, Fries)
The bread is sooo bad that it's cold and as hard as a rock.
Coleslaw is bad and tasteless
The flavour of the baked been is abit too strong.Overall the sides are reli bad.
Fries is jus normal one, not very crispy and thick enuf as typical american style one.

As said by other openrice users, the meat in the rib comes off the bone very easily.

So when i tried it, indeed the meat came of easily, and it so tender and juicy, not dry at all.

Other food eaten, were potato skins, the cheddar cheese was gorgeous and the texture was just melted, so very soft and stringy, and there were bits of crunchy bacon and spring onion.

The tender chicken loin was also good too, especially the honey lemon sauce, which wasnt too sweet. The one we ordered got overfried, and we were offered a fresh portion too, this is what we call good service.

I went to Tony Roma's a few month's ago with 2 other friends and after going to Shooters 52 on 13/F last night, I think Tony Roma's is definitely better.

First of all, it is cheaper than Shooters 52, and the dish sizes are bigger.

The onion shop is very authentic with bread and loads of cheese, but it's slightly too salty and oily for me.

Because every dish is quite big, it's best to order a few dishes and share with your friends.

The service is very good and professional. They don't come to your table all the time, but when they do, it's always the right time and even if they clear the table, they do it very quickly without blocking you for too long.

Recommended: Grilled Ribs - yummm!