Avanti's Italian Restrnt

I've been coming here since the 1980s, and little has changed here.  If you are expecting a fine dining experience, don't come here.  But if you enjoy decent food, generous servings, and great prices, and some of the most unique and tasty breads around, come here.  It was dirt cheap 20 years ago, and even as a high school student, I could easily afford a gondola or pizza bread or lasagna.  OK, so the gondola is so so, especially the meats and cheese, but it's all about the bread. I would love to combine the Italian Nightclub from Jimmy John's with the bread from Avanti's - the results would be magical.  Anyway, it is what it is - nothing more and nothing less, and it'sa Peoria institution that has survived for decades and has expanded.

What a great place. I've never been disappointed by anything I oredered. Get The Gondola.

Repeat customer. Good food and inexpensive dine in or carry out.