Antico

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Cindy Spalding

We just returned from 7 weeks in Italy and were ready to have authentic pizza again. I arrived, willing to spend $80 on 3 pizzas & 4 drinks, but I expected more out of the pizza. The crust on the inner 1/2 of each pizza was soggy. Outside 1/2 tasted great! We ordered one Pizza Margherita, one Pizza Acciughe (anchovies) & one Pizza Capricciosa. Capricciosa was very good (except 1/2 the crust), Margherita was okay, but the one we all really came for was the anchovy pizza. The anchovies were good, but the sauce was overbearingly sweet! It might be the same sauce on all the others but being that theres no cheese served on this pizza, it was just too much for the palate. Too bad! I suggest adding the cheese back. I normally really like cheeseless pizza with the right toppings, but nowhere in Italy did I have an anchovy pizza that didnt come with cheese and we ate about 10 anchovy pizzas, granted some of these were bruschetta or foccaccia with anchovies & cheese rather than pizza crust. Or if not adding the cheese back to cut back on the sweet flavor, use no sugar in the sauce. Anchovy pizza was our family favorite in Italy, this included our 7 & 5 year olds who are normally picky American eaters, but when in Italy, ate & loved just about everything! Cute little area to spend an entire afternoon or evening with the family if its not too hot or cold. Gelato place across the street looked authentic enough, but the gelato tasted nothing like italian gelato, it was too hard and clumpy. Good selection though with Nicciola and Amareno flavors. I do want to return to try out the seafood restaurant and its mussels. Although I know its more of a Cinque Terra thing, Id love to see some anchovies served on oiled & seasoned bruschetta/toast. yum!

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Ananya Gupta

Pretentious. Thats the first thing that came to mind when I walked up to their door. Everything was in Italian. Over done. But that may be just me. After all, I was here because my best friend recommended this place to try while I was in Atlanta. The first thing that struck me when I was ready to order, was the price. $20 for a margherita. Thats a little steep. For a pizza for one person. And when I looked around it seemed their pizza was just over enough for a single person. Also, the prices were listed in USD and Euro. Seemed too tacky. I order my pizza and stand by the side for pick-up. This was the fastest Ive ever been served a fully prepared prepared pizza from scratch. I can swear it was not even 10 minutes since I moved from the counter and my order was ready. The pizza was close to a standard 14-inch tray. Now to the pizza: 1. The pizza making technique itself seemed very good, on par with what I would expect from them. The problems were visible quickly after opening the box. 2. The sauce in the margherita was tepid and unexciting. 3. They put a single buffalo cheese slice on one slice of pizza. The cheese covered at best 30% of the surface area of the slice. For $20 I expected better. 4. There were exactly 6 leaves of basil leaves for the 8 slices cut out. 5. Most of the leaves were towards the very center, not weighted down and in the heat they were wilted up into strips. The end result, a very disappointing pizza. 6. The base crust was black and almost seemed like it was burnt in flavor. 7. There was almost an inch width of the crust that was wasted al around because the sauce and some cheese never made it all the way consistently. I am hoping there are better pizza places for the price in Atlanta.

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Chris W

This place is... badass. Atmosphere is very, very cool. The pizza was pretty good, but the quality of the food was great. The ladies who serve you are as sweet as can be, the dudes making the pizza seemed to be right on top of things and very clean. The girls at the counter.... eh... they were pretty chill to say the least.. I advise you to stay away from the counter until you know what you want.. no offense, but the girls at the counter are not helpful. I had never been here before so the ordering process was new to me.. you basically just order a pizza off the menu they provide, pay, get your tiny drinks, and grab a seat (cafeteria style) anywhere you can find, and by the time you have sat down... your pizza will be out. I would say "Well, it must have been fast cuz they were dead.." but they were absolutely slammed.. and I got my pizza in about 3 minutes from ordering. Its cool, and I dont mean to knock on the girls at the counter.. but the particular one I had helping me was not friendly, didnt make eye contact with me, actually chose to look up toward the ceiling (making that "mmhmm, ok.. mhmm..yeh.. mhmm" face) while I was standing there.. but its not a comedy show and shes not an actress.. so I guess I shouldnt expect her to be fun. I just didnt completely understand how to order.. and instead of "here, let me help.." it was more like "then get out of the way and let somebody else order.." Its all good, it was a birthday occasion for my friend we were having there and it went great, it really did. Check this place out.. its definitely cool.

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Lori Morrow

I just had my first and last experience at Antico this evening. While food may be great it is the service that really defines a place...this place has VERY poor customer service. As a minority individual I am appalled at the treatment I received while dining tonight. After paying $28 on a pizza (which while good just isnt THAT great) our order was missing. Why you ask? Because they gave it away to someone who claimed they had our order number without checking the ticket. After 30 minutes we inquired about our pizza ourselves. When the servers noted their mistake they assured us our food would be out right away. It came 20 minutes later incorrect. After sending the food back I requested to see a manager. He finally made his way over after we received our correct order with not a hint of remorse. We were told that mistakes happen and I should take a look around and see how busy they are. After I asked for a refund he berated me and raised his voice. I then told him I would never return to Antico...he shrugged then returned to the kitchen to give an animated recap to his staff. Disgusting. Mission number one...Ill be contacting the owners of Antico and pressing post for this review. TERRIBLE.... Mr. Manager...whoever you are...though you may have felt smug in front of your employees when you went to the kitchen and laughed and gestured how you silenced me in front of my young mentee (who raved about your place - well used to). Im happy to let everyone I know and coach and mentor that this is NOT the place to go.

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A Private User

Owner, Giovanni Di Palma "makes the pizza." His fiancée, an over glorified cashier, claiming to be the "business manager" does a poor job of customer service, forcing customers to leave, never to return. Customers were in awe at how rude and condescending the future Mrs. Di Palma was to them. One person waiting for his pizza understandably requested a refund when she refused him extra peppers for his pie. At over $20 a pizza, one would think that she would at least give him a few peppers. Bravo to him for getting his money back. When Di Palma was asked how his fiancée could treat Anticos customers in such a terrible way, he attempted to schmooze his way out of the situation and complained that his ingredients are expensive and that he couldnt turn a profit if he gave away some extra peppers. It appears success has already gone to the heads of Giovanni and the misses. Although the pizza is fresh, and Di Palma uses imported Italian ingredients, the pizza is average. I can tell you from first hand experience from living in Napoli and Ischia, the "maestros" that Di Palma claims to have trained with would be ashamed at this product. Talk about false advertising, the fact is that Antico has merely received some good publicity. Keeping true to its personalities, Atlantans (and some well-to-do, impressionable, Georgia Tech students) are hot on this latest trend. The Di Palmas will soon see, when the next pizza fad hits town, they will be just another obnoxious greaseball couple from New York

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