Tutto Italia Menu Posted

[sherry8253]

I was just looking at the menu from the new Italian restaurant in Epcot. I am not impressed with the selections. I hope this is just a temporary menu.

 

[rlduvall]

I totally agree. Looked very uninteresting.

 

[PatriciaH]

We got to try this restaurant last weekend (cast thing) and it was so good. Better than Alfredos and I liked Alfredos a lot. Also, the carpet smells clean for the 1st time in years-lol. And the tables are not piled right on top of each other any more!

 

[speakupjc]

I am not impressed with the menu either. If they had Alfredo I would have loved to have tried it but with their menu as it is I won't be.

 

[Mickeyhugger]

I'm very sad Alfredo's is gone, because we loved their 'gnocchi.' (Are there any other Italian restaurants on at WDW which serve it?)

 

[bicker]

I just checked out the menu and am actually quite impressed. There are several unique aspects to the menu and the food choices sound great. The Family Table idea is wonderful. I would love to try the Polla al Mattone. And Cinnamon Ricotta Cheesecake sounds incredible!

 

[sarahsmom73]

That's too bad! Maybe it will just be temporary

 

[DisneyLover75]

I loved Alfredo's. I am also allergic to mushrooms and onions, so I really doubt that there's anything I can eat at the new place. I mean, more often than not, the tomato sauce itself has onions, so I wouldn't even be able to eat that!
Everything at that place is served with nasty pine nuts! What is that about? Even the dessert has pine nuts! I hope they're on the side, because that just sounds gross.

 

[snowbunny]

Well, I think it looks good. It actually seems....Italian, like real Italian food that you would have in a nice restaurant.
I hope they don't water it down too much before we get there.

As for pine nuts, I'm seeing five things on a menu of nearly 40 choices that contain them:
http://www.allearsnet.com/menu/menu_itd.htm

 

[minie_meese]

Wow - the new menu prices are really high. Charging what I see on this menu I would expect a better meal here than pretty much anything I've ever had at DisneyWorld.

If they fill the restaurant, and they probably will, I would expect the other restaurants in EPCOT to follow suit with similar price increases, especially after a renovation. I hope the food, atmosphere and service at Tutto Italia correspond with the prices. The menu selection has some interesting items but it is much smaller than most of the good Italian restaurants I go to and a lot of what I see on this menu is pasta – I assume it is all freshly made. I can't imagine paying $59 per person plus beverage, tax and tip for what I see on the family table menu. That is about $80 per person. The rest of the menu has a few interesting items but is somewhat limited in my mind.

These prices compare to some of my favorite restaurants in NYC where I know I will get a wonderful menu offering, and get outstanding food, atmosphere and service. Two NYC restaurants that come to mind are Gabriel's on W60th St and Patsy's on W56th St.

I think I will hold off on this one for a while.

 

[phyllis1966]

Wow - I just checked the menu to see what this is all about, and, as an Italian, I think the menu sounds great - definitely better than what was offered at Alfredo's! DH may miss the fettucine Alfredo, but there's lots on the menu that we'd all like to try. The family-style dinner is a terrific idea. Alfredo's menu had few choices that were what I'd call truly Italian, and the 2 times I was there my food wasn't anything to write home about.

As far as everything having pine nuts in/on it, there are only 3 items on the entire menu that include them, and those dishes traditionally feature pine nuts: pasta with pesto sauce and caponata certainly, and Italian cheesecake often has pine nuts in it.

I'm looking forward to trying this new restaurant!

 

[DisneyLover75]

Phyllis1966, first let me just say that that's a beautiful picture of epcot and the monorail and the flower and garden festival.

Second, I am also Italian, and I gotta say, the menu of Alfredo's appealed WAY more to me. But I guess variety is the spice of life, to each his own and all kinds of other cliches. What can I do?

I have ADRs for Tutto Italia, but who knows if I'll be able to eat anything (because of the aforementioned allergies) but I'm going to give it a try. It'll be a live and learn kind of experience.

At least it'll be nice to sit in the old Alfredo's. *weep*

 

[Allison]

I'm excited to check it out on our December trip.

 

[phyllis1966]

DisneyLover75 - thanks for the compliment! And I have to agree with everyone that the prices really are outrageous - especially $59 pp for family-style! If you're not on the DDP, which we won't be, that's pretty steep - and $24 for lasagna?!? Those pasta prices are what I expect to see in the best NYC Italian places. The menu does sound good, though...I guess I'm kinda hungry because I haven't had breakfast yet.

 

[Ted and Holly]

I think that looks promising! The menu suggests "Italian Restaurant" rather than "Spaghetti place". For years a lot of people have compared Alfredo's to Olive Garden, maybe that will change.

 

[MissyDVC]

I think it looks great and can't wait try it for our Candlelight Processional Dinner Package in December And we also loved Alfredo's!

 

[rlduvall]

I have to change my original response of "uninteresting" to very interesting. I realize all I had seen at that time was the lunch menu. I looked over the dinner menu and it does look good - so my friend and I now have an ADR for 12/8/07 at 5:15 p.m. She said they were wide open that evening for reservations.

 

[branv]

I don't know, at first I thought it sounded good (mmmmm, especially the antipasto and the pork loin), but in really examining the dinner menu, it just seems like they've spruced up the description or done a "spin" for some pretty basic items i.e. different pasta types with very familiar sauces such as the masses are used to seeing. I think that if people for whom this menu sounds "different" were to taste these items, and could get past the different pasta shapes, they'd say to themselves, "Hey, this just tastes like...." For instance, on the dinner menu:

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]*well, who doesn't know what lasagna tastes like: Lasagna al Forno with meat ragu, bechamel and parmesan $24 [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]*this could potentially just be a Carbonara dish?: [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bucattini Pasta with Italian prosciutto ham, peas and parmesan cheese $26: [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]*Thinking this would taste an awful lot like baked Ziti: Penne Caprese with crushed tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and basil $24[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]*Tastes like Spaghetti and meatballs without the sauce covered chin?: Paccheri Large Pasta Tubes with tiny meatballs, papini and pecorino cheese $25[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]*Though I think tagliatelle tastes better than spaghetti or linguini, for most this will just be like eating your basic spaghetti with meat sauce: Tagliatelle Egg Pasta with meat ragu Bolognese $25[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]*Ok, maybe not the green beans, but other than that, pesto is hardly a new thing to most Americans...unless we're still in 1982: Ligurian Trofie Pasta - with basil-pinenut pesto and fagiolini green beans $25[/FONT]

So, to me, this is a potentially boring menu -- ESPECIALLY given the price you're paying for some pretty basic stuff. Consider these items I can get at a local "Tuscan" place:

Taglierini al Funghi: Fresh pasta with cremini mushrooms, white truffle oil, cream and Grana Padano cheese, $18.

Risotto al Zucca e Tartufi Neri: Risotto with roasted butternut squash, goat milk ricotta and black truffles $19.​

Yes, Yes, I know, you can't expect to pay real world prices in the Disney World. But it does make you think I hope the difference in this menu lies in that hopefully it's a little more "fresh" and less "jarred" than in the past. Hopefully people will report in!

Though I wonder...didn't they say that this is just temporary? That after the real and larger refurb in 2008, it will have an entirely different menu than Tutto?

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[Allison]

The handful of reviews I have seen so far have been really good.

 

[itchin2go]

I love pine nuts....