Tally-Ho — Restaurant in Tinton Falls

My wife and I had dinner here at 7 pm on a Monday night during the first half of July 2023. The place was pretty empty. That was good because there's not a lot of parking spots, and no nearby stores to park in. We later learned from our server that on weekends people often have to park on the grass.

The outside is not particularly inviting. When I saw the neon Coors Light sign in the window, I thought this was going to be a sports bar joint. I was wrong.

Yes, there is a bar with multiple TVs inside, but there is also a separate seating area for non bar patrons. There are also a few private tables alongside the front of the restaurant, and there is a partial glass wall separating them from the bar, so they are nice and quiet. We sat in one of those.

The bar was not real busy that night and neither was the restaurant, so it was nice and quiet to talk. I imagine it would be quite different on the weekend, and our server told us so. Service was good.

There is an extensive menu, and all the dishes are very moderately priced. Our dinners came with delicious Italian bread and salads and a side of our choosing at no extra cost. The pierogi appetizer was delicious, the chicken piccata was very tender and tasty, and the chicken/shrimp/filet mignon dinner with Romano sauce was wonderful. Portion sizes were nice, though not overwhelming. The pinot Grigio available was good and not super expensive.

Bottom line. This is a very good casual dining restaurant, very moderately priced, and with a huge selection of dishes. I do think the food is a notch below some much more expensive restaurants we have gone to, but is a very good value for what you get. This is a nice alternative to a fine dining restaurant. We will probably be back the next time we vacation...

I would give this restaurant a five star review when it comes to the food but when it comes to the service I would only give it a one star. I had reserved this restaurant for my sons rehearsal dinner which was on a Thursday night, the owner had booked this reservation 4 weeks in advance. When we all started to arrive there was no parking available for at least four or five of our guest. We all start arriving by 6:15 PM and they only had two servers for the whole restaurant including my 30 guest. We finally got our salad served to all of us by 7:30 PM and dinners didn’t start rolling out until well after 8 PM. this was so unacceptable. The owner of the restaurant should’ve had more staff on or if he did not have the staff he should not have allowed us to book our rehearsal dinner there when he couldn’t handle that many people. The waitress that was one of the service is very rude and ignores when you ask for something. The other waiter was wonderful and could only do and work as fast as he could considering what was going on. We still gave a very generous tip but it truly should’ve only went to the Male server because the female server was horrible. Avoid going to this restaurant with a large group because you will...

Tally Ho Inn 📍 Tinton Falls NJ

Avg Score: 3.35👍 Nicole: 3.4 Carl: 3.3

We pass this place all the time but it looks very deceiving from the outside. Once you go inside it's not what you expect from the exterior. Nice bar section and a nice Italian restaurant. We waited about 45 min to be seated and about another 15 for a server to come. They were packed and it was a Friday night. Our server was very friendly but everything took forever. However once the food got there we destroyed it. I don't know if it was because it was that good or we were just starving from the long wait🤣. Either way we enjoyed it. My main issue with this place was the older gentleman that was the host. Nice guy don't get me wrong, but he stood 10 feet from our table the whole 2 hours we were there and clicked his pen non stop. It was so annoying! I kept thinking he was clipping his finger nails lol. Id definitely go back on a slower day and far away from the host! CHECK OUT OUR IG FOOD...