Tony & Bruno’s – dj

4200 Conroy Road
Orlando, FL 32839
407.345.8555

For a quiet anti-valentines dinner we went to the Millennium Mall. The place was eerily empty except for the Apple store which was packed. We stopped in at Brio the wait was 70 to 80 minutes, we were willing to wait maybe ten minutes. So we walked up to the food court and ate at Tony and Bruno’s, a subsidiary of Sbarro’s. No waiting! We had Spaghetti with Marinara sauce and a slice of Cheese Pizza.

The spaghetti was good, but I did not think that the sauce had much taste. It seemed thick to look at but it just disappeared on the plate, it also did not have much taste. The bread stick was loaded with butter that was not quite melted. The piece of cheese pizza that we shared was standard mall fair.


We ended our anti-date by stopping by IKEA and picking us some of their delicious “Cappuccino Flavored Thins” cookies. They are the best.



Rating: **
Service: ***
Price: for Two $12.54

Carlucci’s - dj

501 North Orlando Ave. Suite 145
Winter Park, FL 32789
“A full Service Authentic Pizza and & Trattoria”

The office went to Carlucci’s for a birthday party at lunch. There were 10 of us. We had no problem getting a table at 11:30 AM. The restaurant is decorated with photos and memorabilia of baseball greats from New York. The wait staff was pleasant and efficient.

We started with two appetizers Garlic Knots and Pizza Fries. The garlic knots were as expected warm knots of bread coated with lots of garlic and parmesan cheese. The Pizza fries were a surprise to me, although I don’t know what I expected, fries covered with pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese. The dish was then warmed in the pizza oven until the cheese had melted. It was then sprinkled with parmesan cheese, quite good actually.












The pizza’s arrived in good time. We had a cheese and a Carlucci’s Meat Lovers pizza. The pizza was very good. The crust was crispy on the bottom and the cheese melted perfectly. I can see why this restaurant was voted for a foodie award this year by Scott Joseph . With the decline of Alfonzo’s last year I have been looking for good pizza and I think that I have found my new favorite.


Rating: ****
Service: ****
Price: 18” Cheese Pizza $13.00

Alberto's Italian Restaurant - SJ

3907 Wekiva Springs Rd
Longwood, FL 32779
407.774.7878

After taking a look at the outside menu and deciding that this would have to do, I stepped into the cold, dark ghost town named Alberto’s. With faded murals of Italian towns on the walls the atmosphere couldn't have been more lifeless. After standing at the front door a few minutes, a single living person emerged from the back rooms. He told me that it was not “his turn” to seat customers. Not telling me I could sit where ever I wanted he made some kind of noise which I figured meant he wanted to know what we wanted to drink. We decided that we weren’t going to wait for him to tell us we could sit down because that might be a longer than our legs wanted to stand up. We weighed out options and chose a booth. I almost fell through the seat one spring poking my rear end and the other one nonexistent. We decided to move to a table next to the window.

Our waters arrived and the waitress took our orders. A few minuets later she arrived with three small rolls coated in a pasty looking garlic sauce. The bowl towered over the three small rolls buried within it. Not that long afterwards we heard shouting in the back of the store and then our pizza emerged from the rear. Now that we were staring at the pizza on our table we could eat. The cheese was watered down and tasteless, the bottom of the crust was wet, but hunger did not stop us from finishing it in a matter of minutes.

Rating: *
Service: *
Cost Pizza/Water for 2: $8.95

Alfonso's Pizza & More

3231 Edgewater Drive
Orlando, FL 32804
407.872.7324

I’ve only been to Alfonso’s a few times since they were bought out by Anthony’s Pizza about a year ago. So we went today. I always order the same thing. I get the 2 slices of pizza and a drink for 4.75. I always get green olives as my topping, because this is the only pizza joint in Orlando that has it. The waitress looked at me as though I had come for another planet. We don’t have green olives. I got the same reception when I ordered my side salad (2.75) we don’t have Thousand Island dressing.

In the few times I’ve returned since the new owners arrived the pizza has not been consistent. Most of the time the crust was so thin that it was soggy from the sauce. Today it was thicker, too thick. It also had a strange texture on the bottom side almost like they had used flour to coat their pizza split and it had burned.
My over all feeling was one of disappointment.
Other reviews:
Orlando Citysearch
Orlando Weekly
Rating: *
Service: ****
Pizza, Salad, Drink: 7.99