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    Paolucci Restaurant & Lounge

    3.8 (63 reviews)
    ModerateLounges, Delis
    Open 6:00 am - 9:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    PAOLUCCI RESTAURANT & LOUNGE ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Kevin W.

    Atchison is blessed to have a gem like Paolucci. We stopped by for dinner five months ago and can't get it out of my mind. So, it's time to finally share my experience. We took a day trip to Atchison to go to the Amelia Earhart museum. My sister did the same a week earlier and found Paolucci. So we tried it too. Holy cow! The place is huge. Good luck finding which door to enter haha. The menu is also huge. Too many things appealed to us so we settled on Italian dishes. I ordered a Taste of Italy, a combination of meat sauce, Italian sausage, and a meatball over spaghetti or rigatoni. The meat sauce was certainly Paolucci's own, longtime, successful recipe. Tomatoes with light spices, absolutely delish. The meatball? Light and moist. The sausage? Homemade delish. This came with a side salad which had GOOD lettuce, not the crappy iceberg lettuce. The atmosphere had me looking here, there, everywhere with the rich history. The business dates back to 1894. Friendly staff.

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    Lisa M.

    We love this place! Great food and prices. Daily special and great atmosphere. Livers and gizzards are our favorites!

    This place is right out an hour from Kansas City. They have great customer service and their restaurant is very cozy and very quiet during the afternoons really nice place for lunch. If you were looking for a thick Hardy old world type of Italian, this is the place. We had Parmesan chicken, wonderful Caesar salad and red chili dipping sauce with pita bread. plenty of French bread. all the breads were baked there, including the pita. We also tried their lasagna, which was outstanding. I was going to try their spinach lasagna, but I kind of let that one go for the meat lasagna. It was very good because of the sauce I wanted to try their sauce. They sell their sauce by the quart also outstanding if you go to third and Main, you can find this place they're in Atchison. It's gonna fool you a little bit. I posted some pictures that will show the backside at main. It just has the name of the place. It's a brown wall with one or two windows that's it, go down in front of the place in order to see where the doors are. There's also a pizzeria upstairs I didn't go up there. My wife had a look around and she was impressed. We may go back to try that out on a weekend maybe an evening before it gets, too late , we are old folks, but we do enjoy good food. And if you go up there, you will enjoy the amazing food Paolucci restaurant

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    Great small town cafe with the small town feel. Staff is super friendly and welcoming even if they don't know you.

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    Stopped in for a beer. Had a cold beer and. Attendee was nice. The place just felt like an upstairs basement.

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    Great food. Staff are always friendly. Breakfast buffet on Sunday! Great Italian dishes plus home style meals as well.

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