Don Antonio By Starita
“The sausage on the margherita was crumbled across the top and just slightly crispy.”
“For years I avoided this place, its the same owner as Keste on Bleeker and I'm not a fan of Keste.”
“It's right in the theatre district so if you're a tourist you'll be nearby anyway.”
Don Antonio By Starita
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Excellent pizza and truly fresh and organic ingredients, especially their cheese. Pizzas are a little pricey considering they're pretty small but worth the price. Delicious and made from scratch, their variety of pizzas are unique and delicious. Not always easy to get a table but worth the short wait. Don't be fooled by all the tourists you'll see there, this place is legit and the pizza is truly great. It's not your typical thin crust pizza, more of a fluffier, softer home-made style of pizza. Highly recommend it.
Love the chewy crust but Keste is more chewy.
I had the vegan pie and I think it would have tasted better not vegan. The veggies weren't bland and it made the pizza soggy.
I have intentions of coming back and ordering a different pie since I am not longer vegan.
My sibs pie looked better and she loved it. All that cheese yum!
We ate hear twice during our three-night stay in NYC. I am gluten-free and read Yelp reviews to find the best GF pizza in NYC. I found it!
I highly recommend the Pope's Pizza. I though after having several thousand pizzas in my lifetime, I tried it all. Then I had the Pizza del Papa aka Pope's Pizza. Instead of a red sauce base, it has butternut squash base – and then they put smoked buffalo mozz and a bunch of veggies. Truly unique flavors.
I also highly recommend the appetizer salad with the gluten-free fried dough in it. It is called the Angioletti. The little strips of fried dough tasted like doughy elephant ears I used to eat at festivals in the Midwest growing up. I loved it!
I am neutral on the gluten-free Margherita pizza. I thought the flavors were just okay – the red marinara sauce is just okay, nothing special. Also, there was one piece of basil on the entire pizza. If I am having a Margherita, I want basil flavor in each bite.
Next time I am in NYC, I'm going for the Pope's Pizza and the Angioletti salad again.
Delicious Neapolitan style pizza.
Something about the water and the weather in nyc that makes bread and pizza dough amazing. San Diego has pizza like this, but the crust isn't as flavorful, light, or tasty.
I recommend their pizza and will try it again on my next visit.
– Yes you can order to go.
Maybe my expectations were too high from Food Network but overall I thought the food was alright. Be ready to spend $20-$30 per pizza. Quality was good. We ordered "The Butcher" and their signature fried/baked pizza (I forget the name of it) Service was great! The Caprese was mediocre (not very flavorful) I was more interested in ordering one of their delicious looking cocktails. Maybe next time!
Absolute pizza heaven.
For a gluten free gal like me, this place is a pizza MECCA. After our broadway show, google maps indicated we were only steps away from this highly rated place. We made the best decision to come here.
We split the following between my family of 4:
1) Toscona salad: Mixed greens, light lemon vinaigrette and slices of pears. Refreshing but not a lot of salad.
2) Angioletti salad (gluten free): Doughy pillows of heaven, delicious marinated tomato salad and argula–I could eat this every day. SO tasty and not your usual salad.
3) Gluten free pope's pizza: butternut squash as the sauce, mozzarella, and yummy zucchini/squash on top. A little bit on the salty side but I was extremely impressed with this gluten free pizza–love that it doesn't taste like a frozen crust and the pizza was quite large!
4) The Butcher — salami, sausage and all around yumminess. I didn't have any as I am gluten free, but my family enjoyed this pizza.
5) Antonio Starita's specialty–lightly fried pizza with mozzarella, tomato sauce and basil. Super simply, quite small, but by far my mom's favorite!
Cannot recommend this place enough. Service was attentive, ambiance was lovely and the food was incredible. Great way to end our evening!
On our last trip to NY, I selected this restaurant because my boyfriend is gluten and yeast sensitive. I knew it was a crap shoot concerning the yeast, but sometimes he's able to consume GF bread or pizza if he hasn't had any products with yeast in a a while. This means he doesn't eat GF bread, salad dressings or any vinegar products on a regular basis. He used to love eating pizza before he was diagnosed, so I thought this would be a nice treat. I had heard of Keste years back but thought that Don Antonio's might be less crowded. They're run by the same folks who own Keste.
We went during an off-time and were able to be seated straightaway. It's smaller than I had thought. They have a lunch special, which is a smaller pie with the option to add on salad for $5. I'm the type of gal who likes really simple things on her pizza. I'm happy with a Margherita or anything along those lines. My boyfriend prefers meat with a side of meat on his. Our server said each pizza is individual-sized so he orders a GF pizza with sausage, pepperoni and some other meats on it. I ordered a regular Keste. Both were great, but the GF pizza was $24 and double the size of my $10 one. We could have easily shared the GF one. The GF pizza was kind of flat, which a good sign they didn't use a lot of yeast. He didn't experience any adverse effects afterwards, which was great!
Overall, a very positive dining experience. The only downsides was the misinformation regarding the portion size, and they played Top 40 hits at a high volume, on a weekday afternoon. It's not a place where one would go to have a conversation.
Don Antonio's is fantastic, as its essentially another branch of Keste, which is one of my favorite pizza places in the city — the menus are very similar, and Don Antonio has the absolutely incredible pizza del re.
In the spirit of doing something different though, I got the Montanara, as that is the specialty here. I liked it, but wasn't blown away — I just don't think I'm that crazy about fried pizza in general. Like everything else here, the ingredients were fantastic, and I still really enjoyed it, but I didn't find it to be anywhere near as good as the typical Keste / Don Antonio classics.