Tony's Pasta House — Restaurant in Toms River

AVOID this restaurant unless you don't mind dining in filth. Went here yesterday for my mother's birthday, we we're a party of ten and I made sure to make my reservations a few days ahead of time. I had been here before and the food, service and atmosphere we're awesome. Well not anymore.

As soon as we walked through the first set of doors we were greeted with what had to be one of the grossest carpets I had ever seen, it was not a pleasant greeting to our dining experience. We then proceeded to our table. Don't know who wiped the tables down but I think my two year old granddaughter could have done a better job. There was still food crumbs on the table and covering most of the seats as well. Forget the floor it was just plain nasty. There were three tables behind us that still had not been bussed yet even though the place was empty other than us. And it stayed like that for at least another twenty minutes or so.

Next up was the bathroom. To get to the restrooms you have no choice but to push through a curtain that was probably last clean when it was new. Then onto the men's room, the urinal was filled with urine and a sign above said out of order. The toilet was not much cleaner. The rest of the bathroom including the sink was pretty disgusting. If this is how the dirty the restaurant is where the customers can see, imagine what the areas that we can't see looks like. Like the kitchen where they prepare our food.

On to our food. I had a baked trio of Italian classics that was barely lukewarm when it arrived in front of me. By the time I was half way through the meal it was already cold. Others in the party complained of some the food being way too salty. Oh, almost forgot they served us bread with our meal that was just an under cooked doughy mess.

The only bright spot of the meal was the pleasant servers. Had it not been for them this sad excuse for a restaurant would only have...

I'd like to preface this review by stating that I used to come here regularly many years ago and the food was always phenomenal. I am not sure what happened and wish I read reviews before returning. I ordered $60 worth of take out last night and the only thing that I can't complain about is the rosemary bread. I ordered the chicken francese with penne. The sauce looked like watery milk, it had semi-decent flavor but was very unappetizing to look at. The chicken was wayyy over battered on one side leaving huge clumps sliding off the chicken and left a strange and undesirable texture in your mouth. My husband ordered the meatball and sausage pasta dish. He gave me a piece to try and it tasted like it had 0 seasoning, all you could taste was ground beef. His sauce had little flavor also, I would go as far to say a cheap jarred sauce would have been better. The wings had a weird texture to them, I can't really explain it. It wasn't good. The saving grace of the meal was that I paid $2.50 for 2 little plastic containers of the "oil with spices" to use with the complimentary rosemary bread. (Which honestly for the $1.25 should just be complimentary with the bread.) $60 to only eat a couple pieces of bread. Never again. TPH has drastically gone downhill. I am very disappointed as I was raving how good this place was to my husband to the point where he had me pick it up for dinner last night. Maybe the pizza type food is better but we will not be...

Let me first say I will never step foot in this establishment again and neither will any of the many friends and family I've told my story to. I am a grandmother that took my 3 grandchildren for a quick dinner before attending an event. We went to the counter, as no one greeted us or directed us where to sit. I told my 3 grandchildren to have a seat at a table in the corner of this huge EMPTY dining room. I ordered slices pizza, all different and 2 orders of chicken strips and french fries. Lemonade and waters. Took the food over to my grandchildren , paid the bill, then we were told to move as the young man who gave me my change. I was told we were only having slices, so we had to sit in the back of the restaurant. Kinda like a hallway by the bathrooms.I was mortified but didn't want to upset the kids. However my one grandson is 13 and knew something was weird. The craziest thing was the whole time we were there not one person, except for 6 ladies that were there before us,came in . It was prime dinner time.The tables only had a paper napkin wrapped around a knife and fork!You would have thought it was a white glove service restaurant.The pizza was just okay , the chicken was thick, crusty and clumpy. The young man who told us to move even said "i think is stupid but i have to tell you this, he was embarrassed. All I can say is don't waste your...