Antonia's Pizza & Italian Restaurant

Ok, I'm a downstate NYC pizza snob, there, I said it...this must be made abundantly clear that I generally look at any "pizza" beyond the five boroughs as being a triangular drawing on cardboard with crayons - so any pizza establishment outside my geographical comfort zone will already be stared at with a jaundice eye of condescension. So while recently barnstorming the wine regions of the Hudson Valley & developing a hankering for some red sauce & cheese after an afternoon of vino, I "yelped" my way into Antonia's and just have to cut to the chase and say I was quite surprised & pleased for what it was. My companion had 2 slices of veggie pizza that were chock full of vegetables & had a nice eye appeal while I went the full Monty with 2 slices of regular (a decent & tasty effort overall) & a chicken parm hero (competently made with crusty, toasted bread, copious amounts of a decent industrial mozzarella & lots of chopped chicken cutlet) - tasty offerings overall, comfy environs & a friendly and efficient waitstaff...in NYC would be a 6-7 but a solid 9 for upstate, and from me, that's a rave!

Pleasantly surprised with how much I liked this place. We were in town for the night with no idea where to get food. We saw this place in a strip mall and weren't sure we'd like it, but man-o-man it was good. I got some pasta dish with broccolli, sausage and garlic. Man it was GOOD! Decent selection of beers, reasonable prices. If this place was near us we'd go often.

Our bus group recently ate here, the food was terrific, the staff fabulous and thoughtful to our large group.  We will definitely eat here again.