Tony Roma's - Calgary

I received a discount card of $19.00 just by joining the Birthday Club at Tony Roma's.

This place is amazing! It took a while to get our food but it was worth it! I had the chicken fingers and they were delicious! I also had their prime rib

We arrived mid afternoon on a Saturday. The place looked almost empty and after 5 minutes of waiting at the front door we wandered in looking for a staff member. The bar was completely devoid of anyone but we finally found a waitress and then what appeared to be the manager. We elected to sit in the lounge area instead of either the main dining room or the outside patio. I selected a rack of baby back ribs, my wife the NY steak. Both with a Caesar salad. The salad arrived firs and was nice in that it isn’t pouring with dressing but the croutons are just packet bought dried bread. Surely someone in the kitchens could make home made croutons?The steak was cook nicely and medium rare as my wife had asked. My ribs tasted great and came off the bone very easily. As a side, I had fries and coleslaw while my wife had a nice baked potato and broccoli.As we intended to pay using gift cards we shared a dessert of apple tart with cranberry and a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. This was served on a plate drizzled with caramel sauce. The apple tart was still in its foil dish and looked like something out of the box from a supermarket. It was warmed but only just and almost has some apple in there. Most disappointingly, the pastry was the overwhelming flavour and having been heated, must likely from frozen, the pastry had a soggy bottom and was not a good bake.The waitress was not the most attentive and never returned to see if we needed additional drinks during the course of the meal. Neither was any water offered - until the very last moment as we asked for the bill.During our visit we noticed several people waiting for long periods of time before they were met or escorted to a table. We thought one lone man was waiting to pay but it turned out he was also waiting to be seated.The bathrooms were clean but very dim inside. Parking was plentiful but beware, there is a huge cinema complex nearby and at peak times parking could be more of a challenge. I won’t be in a hurry to make a return visit, mainly because of the poor service and attention we received.

My family of four went to Tony Roma's for my birthday and had a very good meal. It started with the Onion loaf (a pile of connected onion rings) which was quite large and very tasty. Each of us ordered a different meal and they all had good sized portions. I especially like their ribs. The meals are pretty good and are not over-priced.

One of us had a birthday, and a free lunch or dinner coupon they sent us in the mail, so today was our day to splurge. We had the three item lunch combo for $14 Soup, salad and foccacia bread filled with yummy turkey, and a BBQ shrimp taco for my date. Love it.