Cynthia C.
Yelp
What more could I want or need?!? Fantastic view of waves crashing and dude surfing large coastal surge - check! Great Mai Tai, reasonably priced AND comes with souvenir glass for that reasonable price - check! Ambience that awakens faint memories of South Seas inspired eateries of my very early childhood, but in the well maintained condition of that era - check! 70s mellow rock, soft disco (don't rock the boat, baby) tunes in the BG - check! Kitschiness to delight my senses - check, check, CHECK! Friendly, welcoming host, servers and bus service, attentive to the customers - check!!! But WAIT A MINUTE --- ! Delicious dishes as well?!?!? Awww HECK YEAH! Why have we waited SO LONG to come to Tony's???
Wellll....hubs doesn't do fish, so I think that ended the further look before it even started. But on this day, with the cold in the air and surf raging, and us venturing south of DTLA, we decided drinks along the coast were what we needed. We headed to Tony's and we're famished by the time we arrived at 4. We were seated right away at the perfect corner window and Tony's signature Mai Tais and Fire Chief were ordered. Hubs perused the menu and didn't find a burger - uh oh. For me , fish is a delight and the cold weather dictated the cioppino ($33) would be my choice. Hubs went with the Queens cut NY steak dinner($30), thinking it would be "petite" as it was a lower price than the regular cut NY at $33. Both dinners came with choice of clam chowder, salmon chowder OR minestrone AND salad w/choice of dressing. His steak also came with choice of linguini w/clam sauce, rice pilaf, veggies, or potato(baked or French fries). Since he doesn't like seafood and I wanted to try both chowders, thinking they would be little cups, he graciously allowed me his clam chowder, and I selected salmon chowder along with my cioppino- yes, even though I was technically ordering a broth based entree, the cioppino entree still came with choice of soups AND salad.
Let me tell you, E V E V E R Y T H I N G was delicious, full sized and VERY fairly priced for what we got. We were on our 2nd round of souvenir signature Mai Tais and stuffed to our figurative gills! Night had now fallen and the restaurant was filling up. We settled up, snapped a few more pics of the delightful decor, popped into the souvenir shop next door for a couple of Christmas themed Tony's on the Pier Tshirts, then finished the evening with a stroll around the famous Redondo Beach Pier, on which Tony's has been since 1952.
As we drove away, we were already planning our return to this truly original, family owned & operated, delight of a restaurant. Blessings to the Trutanich family for keeping the dreams of Tony and Jeanne's alive and well. Cheers to another 72 years on the pier, Tony's!!!!