Antonucci’s

I was recommended this place from a client and he was right, the food was delicious. When I tasted the pizza it reminded me of the pizza I had growing up in Pittsburgh, Pa. It was amazing and the lasagna was layered perfect. I was so full and satisfied with their food and service. I will be back and to top it off they have a lounge that is Steelers Country so I’m very happy to find home in Mission Viejo!

My husband and I LOVE this place! Bob (the owner) makes your experience special every time you walk in the door. A true hidden gem :)

I have not had really delicious Italian food since i lived here in CA but today my luck changed! My husband and I happened upon Antonucci’s. All I can say is yum!!! I was oooing and awaing with every bite of my child’s portion of spaghetti with meatballs and my husband’s lasagna looked so delicious I had to taste it too. The lasagna was as good as my Mom’s. For dessert we shared a coconut snowball cake with raspberry filing and white cake. It was wonderful! We weren’t able to finish our portions they where quite large. We will definitely eat there again!

Have been a fan for years. Shocked at the negative reviews. The Pizza is amazing. The Penne Alabatola is awesome. Their homemade Creamy Italian dressing is good enough to drink out of the cup. Great staff and service goes with it.

Great food, you just need to know what to order. Talk to Bob the owner or his wife. They are great people and it’s so nice to eat a local mom & pop restaurant that serves delicious food.

Awesome food incredible service. Julie was a great server! Michelle was exceptional after a small Mis hap. All was great! Food was exceptional!

We’ve lived in the area for 17 years and have always wanted to try it. We shouldn’t have waited so long. The owner was there and welcomed us. Service was great and the food was delicious. The gnocchi melted in your mouth. The chicken Marsala was one of the best I have had! We will be going back.

Way more expensive than anticipated. Some of the food was okay, but nothing spectacular — it was just pasta. The servers were not very attentive. The dessert was awesome.
My pesto linguini (WITHOUT chicken/​meat) was plain but good. It was served on a very shallow dinner plate, so as far as pasta goes, there wasn’t much. For $ 15.95 it seemed expensive and I would have at least hoped for leftovers.
My husband had the #1 seafood special for $ 29.95. He said the seafood was really good, but the linguini his came on (in a white wine sauce) was soupy, bland and just not good. At least it came in a deeper dish with more pasta, but he only ate 3 bites of it!
My son (4 years old) had a kids meal ($ 6.95), which he liked, and there was enough for him, but it was nothing special.
The wait staff was professional and nice, but we hardly saw them! The food took at least 25 minutes or more to arrive (which feels like forever with a 4 year old). It was enough time for us to eat 2 servings of garlic bread and my husband finished his beer (he is not a fast beer drinker). After the food came, our waiter never once came back to check on us, except to see if we were done.
The meals above with 1 beer, 1 diet coke and 1 cannoli was over $ 70!!! Completely ridiculous for a pasta dinner (remind you, mine was small with no meat!). I like to support small business but sadly won’t be coming back to this one.

It says it’s open for last 40 years .I couldn’t stay there for 40 minutes. Décor still from the 70’s and dusty (yuck) food was horrible. Firstly the garlic bread was worse than the frozen package ones tasteless. tried their house special cilantro ravioli was awful .no salt the sauce was watered down .the veggies raw how can it be a house special. The other ordes minstrone soup was crap even worse than canned onea, chicken marsala not even warm enough… the waitress though courteous was unattentive. overall a very disappointing experience.

This is a great neighborhood spot. Great food exceptional wait staff. Spend a couple of evenings in the bar and your family. More than worth the moderate cost.

Let’s start with the «Boss» Martini!!! Bob the mayor of Mission Viejo welcomes you at the door. I went for their 40^th anniversary. I had the large scallop diner in white wine sauce not to be missed! Like my goddaughter said those are huge scallops. Moist and tender just like I love them. I loved the twinkling lights in the dining area great ambiance to the night. Julie our server was so casual and also had a love affair with the Manhattan. All in all delizioso

Been coming here for some time, initially on my daughters recommendation as she worked next door. Warm & friendly atmosphere. Food is excellent with moderate prices. Owner was a regular greeter on most visits. Veal parmesan my favorite is an excellent choice and recommended. Great neighborhood spot!

I married into a family that is Antonuccis crazy. Anytime pizza is in the cards, it’s Antonuccis. Which works for me because it is very good. I’m not obsessive over it like they are, but it is good. Bob, the owner is a fun character and always makes you feel right at home as he greets everyone with a classic Italian-​Anerican persona fit for the movies.
I dig the little pepperoni on the pizza, and the one pasta dish I had was also very good.
I do wish they had Ranch dressing, or really any dressing other than their house dressing. But other than that it’s worth a visit if you haven’t been.
Sit on the bar side and enjoy a cocktail or cold beer, and smile that you’re fortunate enough to be alive and about to eat some good pizza.

We were disappointed … we ordered the appetizer Fried Calamari and we could not even finish as no one wanted to eat it after the first bite. It was that bad. The six of us ordered six different dishes and only one person said his food was ok. The rest of us did not finish our food nor wanted to take the food home (not even pizza). The staff was friendly and that was the only good thing. I hope Antonucci’s will try to improve the quality of their food.

We too had high hopes for this place and wanted to try it before placing a large order for an upcoming event. We had their «signature dish» vegetarian lasagna in a white sauce and their chicken piccata. I wish I had read some of the reviews before coming. The piccata was as one reviewer described — tasteless and way overpriced for what you received on the plate. Even their pasta side dish was over cooked! The lasagna was equally disappointing and I frankly couldn’t eat it.
While we won’t be back — ever, I have to say that it was obvious they had a loyal customer base of (people with no culinary flavor for food obviously) who did fill half the tables and seemed to be known by the staff — who incidentally were quite lovely.
This would be a great restaurant for the show Restaurant Impossible as the owner and staff are passionate, but their food I am sorry to say sucks!

Go to Italian place in Mission Viejo. Food is great. Atmosphere is great. Ambience is great. One of the few places where I can enjoy their pizza with no upset stomach.
I’ve had their: vegetarian pizza; Chicken Marsala; Chicken Piccata.

This restaurant doesn’t even deserve 1 star, but that’s what I’m leaving. Both my boyfriend and I went in the other night and it was a slow night for the restaurant as not many people were there.
As 2 females and 1 male behind the bar were chit chatting they looked at us walk in and they didn’t even acknowledge us at all. We sat for about 10 min before anyone came up to us and greeted us.
When we were finally seated like they were in a hurry to get out of there when it was very slow and only 6pm.
After awhile the waiter took our order and rushed us, we heard a man telling customers behind us that he was the owner, he went around to a few tables we actually wanted to speak to him and let him know our experience but he skipped our table as he got a call on his cell phone and started obnoxiously start talking about his new jaguar and made sure everyone in the restaurant knew about it.
By this time our appetizer came which in fact was cold! We complained about it and the waiter took it back and brought it back semi-​warm. We finally got our meal and the pizza my boyfriend ordered was all burnt on the edges and it tasted really bad! I got my lasagna and I have had better frozen ones from Costco. We finally spoke to the owner and said pretty much nothing didn’t offer any other dish or anything. I would not recommend this place to anyone ever, bad service owner is rotten and doesn’t care about his customers except for his silver jaguar.

I wanted to like this place, I really did… I convinced my husband (who wanted to go to Chick-​fil-​A) to come here after I looked it up on Unilocal.He likes Italian food, which is pretty easy not to mess up, so what did we have to lose? Turns out, a lot.
I ordered the eggplant ravioli, which was flavorful (I think the only thing that saved it was the jalapeño, which doesn’t even seem right in an Italian dish), but covered in sauce. The pasta wasn’t even cooked right (it was hard).
My husband ordered the chicken piccata, which looked like a bowl of lemon soup with two flat, microwaved pieces of chicken breast. The chicken had no grill or sear marks and it was so bad he had it sent back and asked for another recommendation.
The waiter suggested spaghetti and sausage, which didn’t look much better. Generic spaghetti with sauce that looked like it was from the .99 cent store. The sausage was small and served without being sliced. Sadly, my husband was disappointed with this dish as well.
The final nail in the coffin was that my husband wanted cheesecake for dessert, which they had ran out of due to a large party that had eaten there earlier.
Our waiter was sweet, but very inexperienced. The restaurant itself was clean, and there were some nice accents. But the food was way too expensive for the type of food we were served.
My stomach still hurts from the hard to digest carbs and heavy sauce… I felt terrible that I had persuaded my husband to go, and we will not be back again.

Mission Viejo Secret Revealed!
It is not fair that only locals know of this GEM, unobtrusive and hidden as it is, in a boring strip mall on the corner of Alicia and Muirlands in Mission Viejo. Established in 1976, the locals want to keep it their secret. The gig is up! I’m TELLING! I’m YELLING! I’m UnilocalING!
Antonucci’s is yum-​a-​rino! (A new discovery deserves a new word!) Old-​fashioned just-​like-​in-​the-​old-​country, Italian simplicity and goodness! I had the Chicken Marsala, oh-​so-​tender chicken smothered in abundant, rich brown Marsala sauce, lightly topped with sautéed mushrooms, a dish so classic and simple that it is often hard to get right, and they did. Spot-​on delicious. The accompanying pasta with marinara sauce was uninspiring, but I dipped mine in the Marsala sauce, which took it up a notch. Be sure to add the small dinner salad; crisp iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, feta cheese with a light dressing, just enough to make you want more! A very satisfying meal. I want to go back. Our waitress, Jennifer, was gracious, attentive and unobtrusive, which also hits the mark!
You don’t go to Antonucci’s for ambience. It is a little weird. A jewelry table in the entry, somewhat an oxymoron, wipe-​able tablecloths, paper napkins, a somewhat open (and very clean) kitchen, overhead lights bright enough to stifle romance, a long narrow restaurant with an overflow room at the rear (perfect for group events) — in other words, a mishmash. But they do have a full bar adjacent to the restaurant that invites lingering and seems to be a friendly and comfortable hangout for locals that prefer to drink dinner. But you do not go to Antonucci’s for ambience; you go for GREAT FOOD, FAIR PRICES, GOOD SERVICE and the opportunity to say hello to Bob, the owner, who is always there, perhaps another reason this restaurant is so darn good. Tell your friends, but please, not too many. I do not want to have to wait in line next time I need my fix of great Italian food.

A great place if you appreciate authentic Italian food.
The meatballs and sauce tasted just like my Mum’s from back east, and that is really saying something!
The Caprese was fresh! The service was great and met some really nice people here. Bob is a real personable fella. We walked in for the first time and he came right over and greeted us and gave us a tour of his place. He even gave me a hug like he was my Italian cousin or something. Let me tell you, we ordered the meatball appetizer 3 times! I am Italian and my mother is 100 percent Italian. So if a guy like me ordered the meatballs 3 times, that ought to tell you something! So chill in here, loved it! Good lookin out Bob! And Sam is a nice guy too!