Avanti's Italian Restaurant

Really dissapointed. This place was recommended to us by a local and this was the worst meal I’ve ever had. The spaghetti sauce is from a can, the meatballs are mostly soy and frozen, the pasta is cheap, the broccoli was green mush, and the spinach artichoke dip was a thin thin soup so thin I couldn’t keep it on the bread. The water just soaked in like soup and the chunks of rotted spinach just slid off. I’ve brushed my teeeth 6 times and still can’t get the taste out. My husband can’t stop throwing up. The waitress was not friendly but tipped 20% anyway literally because I would be miserable if I worked there too. So so gross. Do not come here.

This used to be the best Avantis in Peoria. I ordered a spinach grilled chicken wrap and a seafood salad. The wrap had barely any lettuce and some of it was brown . I asked for ranch dressing on the side and didn't get any. Half of the lettuce was nasty on the salad. The quality has went way down. So disappointed. I waited a half hour in line to pick that up on top of everything.

Are there with a group last Friday. One person in the group ordered an alcoholic beverage that was listed on their feature board. It wasn't made right so he sent it back. The waitress couldn't comprehend this. If you don't know how to make it, why is it on your feature board? My entree can't with a side salad, I asked for the dressing on the side. My bowl of lettuce was swimming in ranch dressing when I got it. The chicken Parm I ordered was okay. Nothing spectacular by any means, just okay. The restaurant was however clean, and we were greeted and started promptly. For the price, it was okay that night, but not something I will go out of the way for again.

I am not sure who manages this place anymore. The quality of the food has hit rock bottom. I used to tell people if you want good Italian food go too Avantis. Well that stops now. We ate here on Friday night and the bread is NOT the same. It's barely bread with a bland taste. The meat sauce for the pasta dishes. Is no real Italian taste like it used too be. It's pretty sad. I understand things have changed but killing your food tastes. Will stop your customers from coming back. I would think instead of spending money on a robot that seats your guests. They would instead keep up the quality of the foods they sell.thats what keeps your customers

Horribly bad food and service. Looks like that were busy. Still no excuse to wait 20 minutes on spaghetti at a spaghetti place. It could be cooked in that time from scratch. I ordered pasta. Spaghetti noodles at that. With Alfredo. Chicken and bacon. Pretty easy. 30 minutes. 3 strikes your out. Lol. Good people just no clue how to run a restaurant apparently.

The food is bad. My husband ordered chicken Alfredo and it was like Cold Elmer’s glue on noodles with dry rubbery chicken. He couldn’t even pull the noodles apart it was a gelatinous heap of noodles. The restaurant was also dirty and smelled odd, which should’ve been our first red flag. He tried two bites and asked for the bill. After sharing our experience with other locals everyone chuckles and asks what we expected from Avanti’s.

They acted like it was rocket science to pull up my order and gave me meat sauce when I asked for marinara. I even reaffirmed that I wanted a side of marinara, and it seemed like they understood. I regret tipping them at all, let alone over 20%. Peoria is the best place to live in Illinois how? Lmfao I went back the next day and asked them to remake it, and they did. However, it's really disappointing to have the manager question why someone would ask them to correct the order, and then still make them repeat "marinara sauce" multiple times. I really don't understand what's so confusing about asking for a side of marinara sauce.