Anthony’s

For an unbelievable meal at a third of the price for a meal in Manhattan, you can’t beat Anthony’s. The portions are enormous and the food is spectacular. Come with a date, come with the family, you will not be disappointed.

First time came to this Italian cuisine on Valentine’s Day with my wife and kid. It’s not expensive, great service and great staff. I ordered linguine with baby fresh clams and I loved it. Not a lot of places serve baby fresh clams. One of the waiter was so nice when my son asked him for honey-​mustered sauce for chicken fingers he said we don’t have it but then in as uprising way he came and made it himself in front of my kid which made my kid very happy. Keep it up and I will defiantly come back.

I was there yesterday in the freezing cold weather with my cousin for lunch. We both had the italian wedding soup which was delicious on a cold day. We both also had a pasta dish which was fantastic. The service was very very good. All in all it was a 4 star. We will definitely be back.

I had my son’s christening here. It is a nice place to have a party. I had about 75 guests and everyone fit comfortably. The owner was very accommodating. The food was good and everyone had a great time. I would have a party here again.

Nice local Italian Restaurant in Eastern Queens. Located on Union Turnpike by Springfield Blvd. This has been a favorite spot of my grandparents for years. Good food, and a very attentive staff.

Have been going to this restaurant for years. The service is always excellent. The food is delicious and reliable. Unlike alot of «new» restaurants, if you order something at Anthony’s once and come back another time and order it again it will be prepared the same way and taste just as delicious as the time before. You can NEVER go wrong with the Osso Bucco when it is on special. The lamb chops are always delicious. the fish is ALWAYS fresh. Shrimp and crab cocktail is also delicious and served with a mild sauce which you can spice up to YOUR liking when the waiter brings you a tray of tobasco, horse radish, etc. Wonderful choice of wines, and large choice of delicious desserts. The piano player is friendly and encourages requests. Above all. it is the consistency which sets this great place apart from most others. I have gone to places where I order something, go back a few weeks later and order it again because I enjoyed it so much and it is completely different and not for the better. This NEVER happens at Anthony’s. Try this place, you will not be sorry and you will come back.

First time i went,
The service was excellent in my opinion, the food wasnt all that good but i still enjoyed it. The place was very clean, fancy, and the music was very relaxing which I felt it was comforting. I recommend this place to someone that wants to enjoy and relax their meals.

High Price, Poor Service.
Went here this weekend: They had live music, which was really nice! The piano player even took requests. Large variety of dessert.
Food did not taste fresh and was poorly presented. We purchased sparkling water, but waiters did not bother to open the bottle or serve it to us/​refill our glasses throughout the meal.
Could use some improvements such as freshly grating cheese at table, having a nice balsamic dressing for salads, food presentation, or just better service and fresh food/​updated menu.
Large portions do not compensate for poor food quality at Anthony’s. *You might want to check their inspection results*

I’m updating my review to 5 stars because Anthony’s staff rocked my grandson’s Baptismal party! 100 happy, full guests who had a blast. DJ Patrick was great, the whole wait staff was friendly, fun and quick. We rented out the place but since we didn’t need a few of the tables were more than happy to share the place with some of the Sunday night regulars. We invited them to dance with us and what a fun group of people!!! Shout out to my dance partner Fran. You couldn’t ask for a better party experience. We danced the night away. Great time, thanks James and staff for making my grandson’s party such a great experience!!! What a perfect night.

Local Italian restaurant that’s been around for a couple of decades now.
Standard Italian fare with a competent wait staff. Live piano music on Saturday. No complaints.

One of my favorite restaurants. Everything veal is amazing.

We had our engagement dinner here a few yrs ago. We come here often the food is very good italian food at reasonable prices and it is always presented lovely. The waiters are all professional and informative about the menu, the specials and how the dishes are prepared. They have a full bar with cocktails and a variety of wines at decent prices. We usually get a bottle of wine here. Have had numerous dishes pastas, meat and hubby has had the fish entrees all very well prepared and tasty and lovely presentation. The only negative here is that the interior place needs a serious makeover, needs to be redecorated; fresh paint, in need of new fixtures and new paintings .It looks kind of worn and tired. It’s not terrible but needs a facelift. Despite this we keep coming back because the food is quite delicious, very personable staff and reasonable prices. I believe the owner is the chef or at least he used to be and he is always there looking around to see if things are going good when you are dining there. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

Went to anthony’s last night, at the invite of a relative. Found the atmosphere friendly, service good, food good. My cousin and I both asked for something not on the menu and received it, with no problem.
Noise level was adequate, piano player did play movie and broadway themes, but so what, I prefer it to loud rock music. It seems to be frequented by a great many regulars, and there were some diners in their 30’s and 40’s. As someone of Italian descent, I been to restaurants where the spaghetti sauce tasted like something out of a can. We would return to anthony’s again, food was good what you ‘d find in a small neighborhood restaurant.

Just moved to the neighborhood and was hoping to find a good local italian place to eat but Anthony’s is not it. The service was slow and I thought the waiters to be unpleasant. They were very slow, dry and made us uncomfortable.
I ordered fried calamari and a pasta w vodka sauce, chicken and peas. The calamari was amazing but the pasta was horrible … the vodka sauce didn’t taste like vodka sauce, the chicken was bitter and burned and therefore ruined the whole dish. I may order to go only the calamari because it was one of the best ones I have ever taste but I wouldn’t go back to this restaurant ever again.

If you want good, consistant quality food, in a small neighborhood, then this is the place. Go there not for the old style charm, but the food. That is what you pay for in good restaurants. Marty B

Anthony’s is a pretentious, wanna-​be romantic, above-​average neighborhood Italian restaurant that attracts an older crowd that eats dinner early and leaves early. The restaurant was crowded when we arrived at 7:45 but nearly empty by 9:30. It also has, at least on Saturday night, a piano player who may be even older than the patrons, playing soft music, mostly show tunes from the ’40’s and ’50’s. The waiters wear tuxedos, the lighting is soft, the atmosphere relaxing. The entrees we ordered – Chicken Scapariello for me and salmon for her, were quite good, as was the house wine, coffee and dessert. The menu is uninspiring – featuring the same southern Italian dishes you see in most suburban Italian restaurants. The service was, shall we say, indifferent.
But Anthony’s engages in a practice I’ve never seen before and one I found not simply merely annoying but bizarre.
Anthony’s apparently employs no busboys. When a table empties or when dishes are removed during a meal, the waiter places the dirty dishes and glasses on an already-​emptied table near where people are dining. As more dishes and glasses and silverware are cleared from more tables, they, too, get transferred to these «storage» tables, one table for glasses, one for dishes, etc. Then, while we were enjoying coffee and dessert and listening to the piano player and thinking about ordering an after dinner glass of anisette, out comes a waiter with a large busbox. He heads for the tables where the dirty glasses and dishes are piled and, amidst a crescendo of clanging and clattering that drowned out the piano player, piles the glasses and/​or dishes into the busbox. And since he gave every appearance of wanting to get out of there quickly, as if to catch a train or a plane, the noise from glasses being dropped onto glasses in the bus box or dishes piled on dishes in another busbox was beyond annoying. It was like listening to a crockery demolition derby.
My girlfriend and I gave each other «he’s not really doing what I think he’s doing» looks and started laughing. The entire restaurant sounded like we were in the middle of an automatic dishwasher. Presenting Anthony’s Glassware and China symphony. This was at 9:30. We’re not talking midnight, here. By 10:30 the place was probably dark and locked, the staff and patrons long gone.
Three suggestions. #1 – hire a busboy and have him bring dirty dishes and glasses back to the kitchen. Or, #2 – switch to paper plates and cups. Chinet has come out with some lovely patterns and paper plates and cups don’t go clang when thrown into a busbox. Or, #3, ask the patrons to bus their own tables and bring their own dishes and glasses back to the kitchen to be cleaned so the waiters can leave to go home early, which seems to be what they’re most interested in.
There are too many good Italian restaurants in Queens and western Nassau to have to put up with this practice. Of course, if the sounds of dishes and glasses banging and clanging gets you off – you are gonna love this place big time!

I had Thanksgiving brunch in 2010. Positives: huge full plate of delicious turkey. Tasty but sparse fixings. Good average choice of wines. Fair small portions of a variety of desserts. Okay service.

I’m the first to review this place — perhaps that should have been a red flag. Best way I can think of to sum up this place is that it’s a nickel that thinks it’s a quarter. Unfortunately, it charges quarter prices and delivers nickel food, service, and ambiance. The waiters wear tuxes… that’s nice. I used to cater — I have one too. Onto the experience:
We were given the cold shoulder the moment we presented our own bottle of wine. Now, I had called in advance and made sure this was allowed and inquired after the corkage fee, and even so the waiter tried to do a «we don’t allow outside wine.» When I said I had called he said «well, ok.» From then on we were persona non grata. Unfortunately, the wine we brought was the best part of the meal (come on, a THREE bottle wine list of bottles that ALL cost $ 19 and you wanna give stinkeye over a very good bottle of Napa Cab? Bite me. I was almost offended to let it be poured into the toy wine glasses they call stemware.) Service was SUPER slow — as in this was a two hour meal without dessert. Salads were boring and over-​dressed and the Caesar tasted like anchovy paste. I know an authentic Caesar dressing and that just tasted plain fishy. Gross. Bread was stale. Seriously — not pane rustica crunchy, but stale. The best entrée was my dad’s salmon — a generous portion and cooked well, but the rest of us weren’t so lucky. I got the chicken special, which was a breast drowned in some weird lemon broth/​cream sauce, with a slice of what looked like deli ham on top, and a slice of mozzarella. And a weird slice of tomato slapped on there too. Not appetizing — didn’t eat it. How do you mess up chicken? Yet in three pasta dishes at the table, it was bland and soggy. The waiter might have noticed if he ever came by to ask how the food was, but … didn’t happen. Once.
My brother ordered the special lobster ravioli and when he commented to what looked like the head waiter that there was nary a taste of lobster, the waiter went into a spiel about «lobster paste, and ground up lobster, that could get lost…» Really? No, really? Yes, really. What the hell is lobster paste? And this wasn’t olive garden pricing — all of the entrees ranged from 17 – 26 bucks, and for food this poor, that’s not ok. When a customer complains (gently, and I mean that), you either offer them something else or a new plate, especially when it’s 18 $ Ravioli. My brother said it tasted ok, for cheese ravioli. My mom got a simple pasta with brocolli and chicken… we tried to find parmesan to put on top, but we gave up on that quest pretty quickly. We got the hell out as soon as we could and left wishing we’d ordered a pizza from Villa Rustica on Springfield instead of drop $ 170 on a sad meal serenaded by a piano player who memorized the Broadway showtune handbook. This might sound harsh, but when I leave a restaurant and spend good money on an experience this poor, I feel the need to get it out. Especially about the cold service and poor customer care. Needless to say, we won’t be back. Ever. Try applebee’s instead — you’ll spend a fraction and get the same quality of food. Plus, at least the servers are forced to act like they want to be there.