Antico is by fat the best pizza spot in the ALP/JC area. Always crowded for a reason. It is fast tasty authentic Neapolitan pizza that's not too heavy. The dough is perfect and the condiment bar is on point. Try the meatballs and grab extra garlic for your slice. read more

Good pizza. Comes out fast and hot. Like the condiment tables and the concept. Convenient to to movie theater where we were heading afterwards. Docked one star for the perceived arrogance of the cashier when he explained the "rules" of ordering to me. How's this for a rule-do what I ask and I'll give you my money for it? Noisy and mainly communal tables so don't make this your date night spot. read more

The best pizza ever. Fresh mozzarella and tomatoes. Brick oven made. On the expensive side but worth a trip once a month..

Was brought here for lunch yesterday by a friend of my husband's, who we were visiting. It was a beautiful day and even though the pandemic didn't allow for enjoying our meal inside, the weather was absolutely gorgeous, so we didn't mind. We ordered 2 margarita pizzas. OMG!!! They were cooked to perfection with a light drizzle of olive oil and thoughtfully placed mozzarella and basil leaves. But, despite the wonderful sauce and fresh ingredients, the star of the show for me was the crust. I admit I am a lover of good crust and this was the best I've had in quite some time-chewy with just the right amount of crunch. Do yourself a favor and stop by!!! read more

Not as great as the Midtown location...but hands down the BEST pizza in Avalon. A note for anyone that goes to the Midtown location, they serve wine at this location or there's a fee if you bring your own. read more

Antico - Pizza Near Me - Alpharetta, Georgia

This was my first time eating here, but it did not disappoint. I tried three different pizzas and all of them were some of the best I've ever had. I highly recommend the San Gennaro if you are looking for a more unique pizza. It was without a doubt my favorite pie that I tried. Not only is the pizza phenomenal, but so are the workers. They were all extremely friendly. The manager was a great guy as well and really cared about our well being. Definitely recommend eating here. read more

We came to the Alpharetta location thinking it was gonna be as amazing as the original location!! What a huge disappointment it was!! We were here to celebrate my friends birthday. We had a nice bottle of wine and 1 beer. We had order our pizza and we were ready to eat and celebrate. Two people came to our table and begin to tell us how we cannot have the wine nor the beer. They Rudely mention how it will cost us $15 if we want to open our own bottle. They were extremely disrespectful about explaining "the rules". We have been various times to the original location, we love their service and the awesome culture. We were under the same impression that a second location was going to have the same rules. What a huge disappointment. They need to have clear guidelines. How are we suppose to know that this location doesn't work like the original? At this point our night is ruined and we cannot enjoy the pizza!! We will not be back to this location! read more

Anticos doesn't disappoint. This was my first time getting the San Gennaro even though it's the award winning pizza. But it was so bomb and it was referred by the worker at the register. We did a carry out but it was still so bomb. I will definitely be ordering this again if I go and sit in. I do wish there was more mozzarella and the toppings more spread throughout the pizza. It seemed like the toppings were more in the center of the pizza. I'm a big fan of deep dish pizza, but when it comes to thin, Antico's is the bomb. And for sure recommend to anyone the San Gennaro read more

the food options are a bit limited, but they make up for it by serving what i can confidently say is the best pizza in Greater Atlanta. the Margherita pizza with pepperoni on top can change your life. read more

Wanted to try pizza here for few months. But you know the parking here is pretty anti-human. Today, I finally have a reason to have to come here. We stopped for lunch (at 1:30). Not very busy or loud. Good pizza but the pepperoni was too salty that I had to drink a lot. No soda machine so you have to buy bottles. They also have waters for free in case no bottle drinks you like. read more

Simple and very tasty pizzas! Thin and soft crust with quality ingredients. Sofia's pizza was my favorite of the night! read more

Antico - Sofia pizza to your left!! - Pizza Near Me - Alpharetta, Georgia

There is a reason there are always a ton of people here - it's so good! I think I've tried almost every pizza on the menu and they are all so flavorful with really fresh ingredients. Definitely hard to find a place to sit on the weekends, it's a popular spot! read more

HANDS DOWN, the BEST pizza and meatballs in North Fulton!!! I promise you won't regret it. The General Manager has awesome customer service. My family loves this place. read more

This is truly the best pizza joint in metro Atlanta! Never ever ever disappoint! I live 7 miles away but we always make time to get over here on the weekends. And by the way, if you are in the area and want an amazing manager experience, say hi to Luke! read more

Very good pizza, smallish in size relative to the cost, but so incredibly overpriced, it's almost shameful for a return visit. It is not a place I want to drop that kind of money. read more

Yes! I love that I can get my Antico fix in a larger space than the Atlanta location. We had the margarita pizza with sausage added, a glass of Pinot Noir and a Peroni. The pizza was large enough for all 3 of us to be satisfied and the sauce/extras station was fantastic (personally I love dipping my crust in the chili oil). My friend had the Nutella gelato at their adjoining cafe and said it was...in a word....incredible. The wafer cookie on top was a great compliment. If you love the location downtown, I don't think you will be disappointed. read more

Antico - Patio seating is a definite for our next visit! - Pizza Near Me - Alpharetta, Georgia

We went to Antico after shopping at Avalon to grab a pizza to take home. We ordered the spicy Davila and said no peppers. The clerk said we could not modify the pizza. So, we ordered a margarita with pepperoni and artichokes. The clerk then informed us we could only add one topping. We walked out. The $30 we tried to spend will now be spent at mellow mushroom or pepperonis where quality and service is always good. read more

Still the best pizza in my opinion. Even though I usually am picky about my toppings, their pizzas with set toppings are chosen perfectly and so complementary. Diavola (what seems like pepperoni and spicy peppers) and San Gennard (sausage and sweet peppers) are my two favs. Also love how they use bufalo cheese. My husband and I never have that bloating, upset stomach we get from eating other pizzas. Just really good fresh, natural ingredients. read more

I do recommend it . Pizza was so delicious and there were so fast preparing it . I like it

I think something got lost in translation in trying to capture the magic of the original Antico's to the Avalon version. The second location lacks the rustic soul of the original. The pizza doesn't taste as good either. Definitely go to the original! read more

So, pizza in the Atlanta metro sucks. If you disagree, you've never eaten pizza anywhere else in your life. Antico has been touted to me as one of the best pizza places in Atlanta. It is one of the best I've tried, and that's sad. Came here with a large group for an office lunch, and it was easy to find a table that could fit all of us, so that was nice. I didn't interact that much with the service folks, but they seemed friendly enough. This was one case, maybe the only case in my life, where it was good to have communal tables, because we needed a huge table for all of us. Otherwise, communal tables are just a cheap way to stuff more paying customers in a restaurant and compromise the experience. That's a "scientific fact," as Champ Bailey from Anchorman would say. So how to describe the pizza? Quality ingredients combined poorly on a floppy piece of chewy and greasy dough. Truly good pizza is slightly rigid, a touch crispy, and not dripping with grease. There's no room for debate here. Have a different opinion? I consider it invalid. If you like chewy, burnt dough that's dripping with grease, then you'll love this place, and its pizza. And the thing where they have the Euro prices on the menu? Hard to think of anything more dumb and hollowly pretentious than that. I will definitely head back to Avalon though, as it looks like there are some other good restaurants in the area. read more

With so many people touting Antico as "the best pizza in Atlanta", I was excited when they opened this location OTP about 10 minutes from my house. I went in with some trepidation - I grew up outside of New York and NY style pizza is my fave. I knew that Antico was a different style of pizza and tried to keep that in mind (side note, the best NY style pizza I've ever had in the ATL area is Joe's Pizzeria on Mansell Rd in Alpharetta - the same guy also owns Verra Sano's in Johns Creek which is equally as excellent!). I was pleasantly surprised when I tried the Margherita Pizza and really quite liked it. However.... By the time I got to my second piece, the crust and bottom of that part of the pizza was so charred that I felt like I was eating charcoal. And by the time I finished the meal, all I could taste was garlic. After I brushed my teeth back at home - still garlic. This morning? Still. Garlic. I'm not a person who generally likes tasting their meal for a day or two after eating it, even with brushing, flossing, and mouthwash! That to me says that Antico went a liiiiiiiittle too heavy on the garlic. A few other things that were big turn offs here. The menu prices are in Euros and dollars. Really? Euros? C'mon. Get over yourself, Antico. The drinks for purchase (non-alcoholic) are almost THREE DOLLARS and none of them (maybe save the still and sparkling water) are even 12 ounces. Teeny, tiny little bottles of soda for three dollars. Go to any other restaurant with a $3 soda and you'll at least get unlimited refills. Here it's a 500% markup that any idiot can see. And if you just want water? You better like lemon in it, because the water in the dispenser has about 5 lemons worth of lemon slices floating in it. And the service. Oy. The girl who took our order at the counter was rude and unsmiling. From reading other reviews, it sounds like other people felt this way too. Overall....I doubt I'll be back here. I'd rather go to Joe's and spend less than $20 on better pizza and unlimited soda than $30 on an over-garlicked, over-charred pizza and two teeny bottles of soda with a 500% price markup. Thanks, but no thanks. read more

It seems like I've been hearing rave reviews for the Atlanta location for years, so the husband and I were stoked to learn that Antico was opening a second location literally minutes from our house. Although we hope to make it downtown someday, the proximity of this location honestly made it worth the wait. And tonight we finally got to try it out. I'll admit that we proceeded to Avalon with more than a hint of trepidation after reading the other less-than-stellar Yelp reviews that have been left thus far. But at 38 weeks pregnant, after talking about having this pizza all day long, I decided we had to just bite the bullet. Nonetheless, being 38 weeks pregnant and having a toddler, we also opted to take the pizza home rather than battle the horde of families already crowded inside. So take this review for what it's worth -- an assessment of Antico Pizza Avalon for its takeout quality. I cannot speak to the ambiance, though my unwillingness to search for a highchair and table might give you some indication of the level of crowd you can expect on a Sunday night. (Bonus points that they were open on Sunday though. We couldn't find hours on the website and expected that they would be closed, seeing as how the Atlanta location appears to be closed on Sundays). So despite the mass of people crowded inside, we had zero wait in line, ordered our pizzas from a pleasant cashier, and then waited all of five minutes while they were prepared before our eyes and then baked in 90 seconds. Literally, the pizzas were baked in 90 seconds. And to be fair, I missed seeing most of this process because I had a longer wait for a bathroom stall (what's up with only having two stalls?) than my husband and son waited for our pizzas. By the time I emerged from the ladies' room, a young man was boxing up our pies for transport home. I will say that while he was polite and friendly to me, he made two comments about how he couldn't wait to go home. I'll chalk that up to his youth but it stuck with me as we trekked back to the car. As for the pizzas themselves, we had the Margherita DOP (San Marzano tomato, buffalo mozzarella, basil, and garlic) with pepperoni and the Pomodorini (cherry Vesuvian tomato, buffalo mozzarella, basil, and garlic). While what others have said about a soggy inner crust tended to be true for the Margherita, it was less true for the Pomodorini. I think perhaps the addition of pepperoni, which added a bit of oil to the pizza, and the sauce on the Margherita overwhelmed the thin inner crust, but the sogginess was something I can 100% live with because the ingredients are so stellar. This was not a grease-pit pizza by any means, and you can tell that the dough is premium. It's no wonder they shut down when they run out of dough. They're using dough made with love. So how much did we enjoy it? Well they sell one size pizza, which I would characterize as large, and out of 16 pieces on our two pizzas, between my husband and myself, only four pieces were left. Our toddler helped a little, too. How I managed to fit that much pizza into a body that's nearly filled to capacity with another human being is beyond me, but the baby approved. read more

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Don't go near this place! Poor attitudes, zero customer service! Asked for a tomato based pizza for my pregnant wife with no cheese as it has been upsetting her stomach. Was met with a militant terrible attitude explaining that they don't alter their pizzas in any way. It's not hard to make a pizza with no cheese. Especially a tomato sauce pie for someone with a dietary restriction. If the thought behind this denial is its ruining their authentic faux Italian recipe, let the customer decide what they want. As a result I will never go to this place and I beg anyone who reads this review to also avoid this place. Little do the owners of this place realize is they're not the only gourmet pizza place in town. Hopefully they go out of business read more

If you can get over the pretentiousness/identity crisis of this place, the Pizza is great. "But Josh, what do you mean pretentiousness?" I am glad you asked! Pricing in Euros? $2.00 for an 8oz coke? No half topping? Sleeves of disposable cups on the tables? Let me break it down. You walk into this joint and it smells awesome. They are obviously doing something half right. You walk up to the counter and review the menu, and order your food. A Cheese Pizza costs $20. Want Pepperoni? Add $4.00. Only want Pepperoni on half? Add another $24 bucks, cause they don't do half and halfs. I do not know if the legion of high school kids behind the counter (15 or so on the night we went) are incapable of division or what. The wife and I order a plain Pizza Margherita, and 2 cokes. Total of $25.00. The food arrived shortly on a large baking dish nice and hot. The pizza had the wonderful brick oven taste and texture, and was overall a very good pizza. So far, we are thinking, ok this is a pretty fancy little pizza place, eh? Then you look on the table and see rolls of paper towels for napkins, and a sleeve of disposable cups with the tattered plastic still on them for water. If you want water, you have to take the little cup to a jug of water that they have placed on the perimeter of the restaurant. So now, I am wondering who this place is trying to be? Is it the expensive pizza joint with pizza so damn good they don't let you substitute, since it may throw off the flavor balance? Or are we a hole in the wall, dive pizza joint where you line the table with paper towels that double as a plate, and get your drink out of a Gatorade jug? This place is so obvious in its pursuit of profit, it really dwindles the experience. In Summary, the pizza is great, with a chance to be something special; however, they need to realize what they are. read more

This was underwhelming to say the least. After the other location was talked up so much, we went to the Avalon location for my dad's birthday lunch. First of all, it was super loud. We practically had to yell both to order & carry on a conversation. My mom & I split the margarita pizza & my dad got a calzone. The calzone was HUGE. It was probably meant to share. The pizza was average. It was by no means a religious experience we'd been led to believe. We walked out agreeing it wasn't worth the price for moderate & all the noise. Sorry Antico. read more

It depends on your type of pizza- this overcrowded pizza joint does seat you fast and it's a popular spot in the Avalon shopping area. My friend took me here and loves this place. They prepare the dough on spot and it's thin but it's too soft of a crust for me and the flavors are bland like. Perfect for families. There is a lunch room style where you seat yourself and wait for your number to be called. No plates- you eat off of brown paper towels that are on the tables. I guess they open and serve until they are out of dough so I would say come for lunch. Pizza is huge but goes fast. It's delicious- but I have tried better pizza. read more

The pizza was pretty fantastic. We ordered the lasagna pizza, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Unfortunately, there were some not-so-awesome parts of our experience: 1) While the line went quickly, when we made it to the register to order the service was horrendous. The lady who took our order was frustrated with us when we attempted to add toppings to a pizza... Apparently "no substitutions" also means "no changes whatsoever... And don't ask, or we'll cop a snotty attitude with you". 2) The seating situation was ridiculous. Communal picnic table style seating with patrons forced to stand around uncomfortably waiting to spring on an emptying table is NOT the way to go. We ended up snatching bar seating against the window for our party of three and ate shoulder-to-shoulder. 3) No plates... We all had to eat leaning over the same baking sheet that the pizza was served on. "Yeah, no, that's my piece right there with my saliva on it... Don't touch yours to it, please... And stop breathing on my food, please... And how much extra garlic DID you put on your slice?!" Next time (and the food was good enough for a next time) - take out. read more

The pizza here is just as good as the original location on Atlanta's Westside. I love Giovanni's pizzas and it's great that the best pizza in the South (arguably one of the best pizza's in the world) is now available to our friends OTP. The only difference between this location and the original is you can't BYOB but there's beer and wine available for purchase. I really like the "pesca" or peach tea. After noshing on pizza, pop next door to Cafe Gio for tasty gelato and cappuccino. Thanks to Avalon for making a 2nd home for Antico! You're welcome, Alpharetta-ns :) read more

Have been to Antico many times in Atlanta and the pizza is always 5 stars. First time at Avalon, disappointed with the quality. The dough had no flavor at all except for the char. Ingredients were so - so. For the price I would expect much better. Maybe he had to reduce the quality to pay all the back wages he was forced to do by the dept of labor. read more

Underwhelming is a good choice adjective. Flavor was good. But you're paying Manhattan prices for suburban pizza. Not for taking a family to unless you're wealthy. Definitely not the best pizza I've had and I didn't feel like I got what I paid for. What was truly underwhelming was the complete unwillingness or inability of the employees to alter the pizza. No half and half. No half sauce on one side. No no sauce at all. Sorry. But customer personalization is the future. Bottom line. You can't get a pizza the way you want and you pay out of the nose for it. read more

My wife and I went to Avalon and Antico. Being in the upscale Avalon mall we expected to see a really nice sit dow restaurant with waitress / waiter service. What a shock when we opened the door. The only seating area was picnic tables and no waiters / waitresses. We ordered two pizzas (One Margherita pizza and one Margherita pizza with pepprroni). The only drinks were 8 oz. bottles. I asked for a glass of ice and was told, "If you want ice you will have to pay extra. But rudely / sarcastically was told but I'll give you a glass this time." We just spent $ 30.00 and cannot get 2 cents worth of ice. Totally unacceptable We sat down and our pizza was delivered, not on a pizza pan like every other pizza in the civilized world, but on a large cookie sheet that took half of the room between my wife and I. There were no plates and no napkins. Just a roll of cheap brown paper towels like the ones in the automatic dispensers in the bathroom. We asked where our 2nd pizza was and was told that they thought we had ordered only one. So not only do the employees speak very good English they don't listen and understand it very well either. The pizza was awful. A Margherita pizza is supposed to have tomato sauce. You would need a microscope to find it on this pizza. I have had better pizza at Little Caesars. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR YOUR MONEY GOING HERE. WE WILL NEVER GO BACK. Try Kona or Marlowes tavern across the sidewalk or Goldberg's Deli next door. read more

My first time at this location and I loved it! Much better than their original location in Atlanta in all ways -- service, space, tables, condiments, and ambiance. This Antico location definitely saved and renewed my love for their pizzas after the stressful times that I've had at their Atlanta location. The space is larger at this Avalon location than the Atlanta location. There are seating along the walls, picnic tables, and high table picnic tables. At the condiments mini-bar, you will find black pepper, chili peppers in chili oil, dried chili peppers, minced garlic, parmesan, and two tall teapots of chili oil (without chili pepper) and another type of oil. They also provide the cups and lids for your to take condiments to-go with your pizzas. Next to the condiment bar is a water dispenser with complimentary iced water with lemon and a ton of clear plastic cups for diners to enjoy which I thought was very nice of them. The Atlanta location does not provide this and I think it's because the space is so, so tight at the Atlanta location. They do sell other drinks as well that you can purchase at the cash register along with your pizza order. These drinks include wine by the clear plastic cup, various flavors of the San Pellegrino, different kinds of water in glass bottles, and coke products and all located at the entrance of Antico's in two huge white fridges. FOOD: It was very difficult to choose one pizza for dinner as they have many options and you can't ever go wrong with any of the pizzas as they are all SO GOOD. They also make calzones which I have yet to try. We ordered the MARGHERITA D.O.P with PEPPERONI. The Margherita D.O.P is $19 and the Pepperoni is an additional $4. There are other items that you can add onto the Margherita D.O.P pizza. Within 10 minutes, our pizza was ready! They call out your order number and you come and grab it from one of the employees. I opened my pizza box and noticed that they were not skimpy in pepperoni toppings which I was so happy about. I had pepperoni in each bite I took! I've topped my pizza slice with dried chili peppers, parmesan, and minced garlic and what a great mix it was! It definitely enhanced the taste of the pizza. I've always wondered why they provided minced garlic and now I know! I did have garlic breath afterwards, haha. Yum. The pizza is large enough for two to three people to eat and finish. There's eight slices per pizza. I really enjoy Antico's pizza as it packs tons of flavor with each bite and I think a lot of it has to do with the way that they make their pizza as well as how thin the pizza is. Since it is oven baked/cooked, parts of the crust is burnt so I usually just pick those pieces off. The meal was about $20 and was definitely worth it. Overall, I am excited to come back next weekend to try their other pizzas. I can now say that I have a favorite restaurant that I can eat at at Avalon before I go catch a movie at Regal Avalon 12. Dinner and a movie, great and easy! I'm also happy that there's another Antico's that I can go to instead of the always very busy and small location in Atlanta. read more

Antico - Margherita D.O.P with Pepperoni - Pizza Near Me - Alpharetta, Georgia

The food was good. We had the lasagna pizza, but we had hoped originally that we could have that half and half with the margerita. Sadly, they do not offer half and half pizzas. We enjoyed our pizza, especially the crust, but it was hard to enjoy fully with so much noise and no comfortable seats available. The Friday night standing-room-only crowd from our first time to come here caused us to walk out, and we nearly did so again on a Wednesday night. The quality of the pizza may be better than Campania, but for overall appeal Campania is much better. Quiet and comfortable seats are worth an only slightly lower quality of crust. read more

Gets it mostly right. I'm a long-time fan of the Hemphill location. Even that location has lost some of its soul with the recent expansions and automations to streamline order flow. In the beginning, everyone on the cook line was shouting in Italian with beatific smiles. Now they look bored. In Avalon, the cashiers are not as snooty.....just young and un-trained. The cook staff executes. The process hums along. Ingredients are the same, portions are the same. complaints about it being subpar to Hemphill are over-exagerated. The crust did seem a tad more chewy vs Hemphill....but I'm sure that Di Palma is watching that variation closely (could be the difference in water?). If you're not used to Neapolitan pie and are expecting gloppy amounts of Pizza Hut, this will not be for you. read more

We visited Antico shortly after it opened in the Avalon and it was outstanding. Just visited again for lunch and it was mediocre. Same great sauce, but the crust, which was so crispy and tasty the first time we visited, was a soft soggy mess. Watching the kitchen team working, they really didn't seem to be paying attention to anything except the short hostess who came over from the gelato shop. They were all very interested in her, but as for the pizzas they were making, not so much. I watched pizza after pizza come out of the oven looking way too undercooked and soggy for the superior pizza ovens that Antico is so famous for. When we first visited it was well worth the extra cost. Now, based on this meal and the work ethic of the staff, not so much. The sauce was outstanding as usual, but the pizza itself was just below average. Can't say I'll be back. read more

Yummy pizza. Limited menu and you cannot add or even take off toppings. Basically pizzas come the way they list them or not at all. Worker at the register was a bit surly and short with us on our visit. The pizza was great and the atmosphere was great as well. Pizza cooks fast and comes out to the table quick. This place is packed on the weekends so we tried it on a Wednesday night. We will be back. Oh, they have dipping olive oil for your crust and various items to add to it like Parmesan cheese, hot pepper, black pepper, etc. this was very good and a fun addition read more

This place is amazing and the staff and management are on point! The pizza is to die for and I crave it almost daily! The margarita pizza is my personal favorit! read more

As mentioned in previous review, was only going to come back here if my honey wanted to try this place out. Came back and just as horrible as the pizza was the first time. Once again, burnt crust, not much taste and no sauce. My son barely ate his, and I couldn't even get down the pizza we ordered. My honey was not impressed, and her daughter barely ate any of her pizza. Sure, the beer price is decent but I'm not dropping by a pizza place for beer. No more trips here. read more

All I've ever heard about Antico is best pizza in town. Walked in, and saw a big menu posted with limited choices on pizza. Ordered two, one for the kids and one for us, and sat down on some stools in front of a big window. The place is incredibly noisy. The music is way too loud, and there were lots of people. They were playing Frank Sinatra type music, which was fine but just too loud. You don't get plates. Each table has a big roll of brown paper, like the kind you wipe your hands with after washing in a bathroom. They also supply plastic cups and silverware. You can order alcohol if you want beer or wine. They also serve sparkling beverages and soda. The wines are Italian, so I chose the one that was most like a Chardonnay. It was decent. The pizza, however, was not. First of all, I like a lot of sauce, which it barely had any. It had no cheese, and some sparse toppings of basil and white anchovy. Part of the pizza crust was burnt. It was a thin crust, with a fluffier crust. It said garlic, but I tasted none. In fact, the sauce was nothing special, nor was the pizza. My daughter didn't even finish one piece, so she obviously felt the same. Won't be coming back. read more