Antonio’s Rt 5 Sub Shop

I’ve gotten lunch here a couple of times. I almost always get sandwiches so I can’t speak about anything else. The people are nice and the chicken parm sandwich is the best I’ve ever had.

Antonio’s is a great place to pick up a sub or panini. My coworkers and I have ordered to-​go from here hundreds of times, over the many years that I’ve worked in Hamden.
The panini sandwiches are usually my first choice. For me, one sandwich usually becomes 2 or 3 meals. Even cold the next day, they’re great. Just yesterday, I had the chicken, fresh mozzarella, pesto & roasted peppers. All of the ingredients were fresh, and tasted wonderful. The panini was a little burnt, but it didn’t bother me. I prefer my bread a little more toasted than most. My only complaint, and my word of caution is this; once you get your sandwich to where you’re going to eat it, remove the paper plate that they wrap it on. If you wait till the end of the meal, to wrap the other half (believe me, you will), you’ll be pulling paper plate pieces off of the bread before you can eat it again. I understand why they use the plates, the sandwiches are just so darned heavy!
Don’t miss out on these other favs of mine; broccoli rabe, eggplant & Mama’s Foccacia. Come hungry, or bring lots of friends… and share!

Solid place to grab a sub. or dinner. Came for a quick take out lunch, was pleased to see the sub shop is more like a small restaurant, I will be back to try a sit down dinner here, since the menu and my lunch choice was so promising.
Got the broccoli rabe and sausage on a sub with cherry peppers, the thing was massive, and stuffed with the good stuff! They forgot the provolone I requested, but it was still excellent.
The pasta fagole was sub par, needed salt, cold, just nothing special about it. Must have been an off day on the soup.

There are just certain places that you just HAVE to go to at least once a week to get your fix and this is one of mine.
Not only is everyone there super friendly and treat you like family, but DAMN can they make an awesome _​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​! Everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) from Antonio’s does NOT disappoint — especially my fave — their Chicken Cutlet & Broc Rabe Panini.
Their panini bread is fresh and homemade and their rabes are incredible (hard to say for many places). I substitute fresh mozz instead of the parm cheese on it (due to my personal love affair with their homemade fresh mozz). Sensing a theme here? HOMEMADE?! Can’t beat homemade!
I do wish that they delivered, but I have no trouble going out, seeing my paisanos @ Antonio’s and bringing home an awesome dinner to friends and family!

This is hands down the best Italian place in North Haven. The garlic knots are the best in the world and the grinders are huge. You can tell it is geared toward making the best Italian food in this restaurant and the dining in section is actually quite fitting.

Arriving to the restaurant I excepted the food to be the typical fast-​food Italian «chow» that one would often think of: heavy on the stomach after eating, crumbly breads, and the usual American-​Italian charm. Flies. Flies everywhere. We were surrounded by flies that were landing on us and the food. If that doesn’t enhance your appetite, the silverware had spots and pieces of food on them. We ordered Moz-​sticks and were given entrée plates that took up the entire table for our finger food. Then the entrées came. The sauce under the chicken on my fiancées plate was SO oily, that you could see the oil separating from the sauce itself. The food glistened with oil, so much so I could have shaved my face in the reflection. The sandwich I ordered was giant. I had to eat it with a fork and knife because when trying to pick it up, it fell apart. Back to the flies. It seemed they had built a colony (church, hospital, and market) around the inner parts of the window. I counted 13 flies around our table –at once, not over the course of the meal. My fiancée had to return her food because it tasted terrible, I started feeling crumby from my pesto chicken sandwich myself. Just as she was about to go back to her salad, ((that she had moved off to the side while choking down only two bites of the oil chicken)) the only decent thing we ordered, flies rose up out of the salad like a wave of arrows and eclipsed the very sun. It was like that scene from 300. As we were leaving the chef asked what was wrong, and when my fiancée told him that she didn’t like the chicken very much he AGREED that chicken was «eh». If you’re describing the meal you made for a paying customer as «eh», then there is clearly something wrong. We left feeling queasy and went somewhere else to settle our stomachs.
I see a lot of positive reviews of this place, so maybe we should have stuck with pizza, but you’re as only as strong as your weakest link, especially as a eatery. 1 Star.

I used to frequently visit this place and the food and sandwiches were excellent but since they changed owners a few years ago, the food quality seems to have diminished and they’ve become quite inconsistent. I tried but after several incorrect take out orders and really bad chicken picatta, I don’t eat here anymore.

This place is next door to my church so if I’m there during the week working or if I need to pick up a couple pies for youth group, this is my spot. But I don’t go there because it’s convenient, I go there because anything I’ve ordered from there has been good. Prices are what you’d expect. It’s not the cheapest, but it’s not expensive either.

Had the caprese sandwich here for lunch while staying down the street for business. As far as subs go, this place did mine pretty well! Sandwich was made fresh to order and I really enjoyed it. Portion size was large and kept me full the rest of the day. Would return if I am back in the area!

Easily the best pizza in North Haven. Sandwiches are well worth the price considering you can feed 2. Friendly staff which I can say isn’t the case in most pizza restaurants in town. Great variety of stuffed breads also.

Quinnipiac University’s Law School just moved to the North Haven campus and this is one of the new favorite sub shops for many students. They appreciate the generously sized sandwiches, which can definitely be two meals. I often order fresh mozzarella, tomato, and pesto on a sub or on panini bread.

For a pizza/​sub shop This place is great! From the owners of Adriana’s in new haven. The best pizza in the area. Abundance of delicious fresh toppings, thin crust, good sauce and cheese! But that is just the tip of the iceberg! Their salads are huge fresh and good. Their soups are made to order and awesome! Good entrees too, great stuffed breads, friendly staff and quick service (most of the time)
Their paninis are bigger than your head and filled with deliciousness but not what I would consider a panini. More like a giant heated sandwich. They are not, unfortunately, usually, open on Sunday.

Antonio’s is listed as a pizza/​sub shop but the place is tremendous. Big take out operation but the food is unbelievable. Started with a bowl of pasta fagioli– I haven’t had it done better since since mrs leone back in the sixties in new haven-​I could have stopped rite there & became a patron for the rest of my life. Tried a diner special chicken rollatini that was like something from Italy– smooth tasty cheese-​mushrooms-​herbs. The food itself plus prices & portions makes me forget all about Leon’s-goodfellas etc.

If there’s one thing I don’t like, it’s inconsistency. And this place is consistently inconsistent. I’ve eaten something delicious here, and ordered the same thing two months later and it was borderline inedible. I get that there are different chefs, whatever, but a sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich. For the food to vary from awesome to disgusting every other time I visit here, there’s something wrong.
The only thing I’ve had here that is consistently good that I can recommend is their scungilli salad. Needs a little extra lemon, but other than that it’s quite tasty!
I wish Antonio’s wasn’t so hit or miss, because when they’re good. they’re good. And the portions are huge. And it’s convenient to my office. Meh. If I could, I’d give them a 2.5, but they’re not bad enough for a 2.

Very good food… they shouldn’t call this a sub shop or deli… really good Italian cuisine. BYOB…

The paninis alone are worth going to Antonio’s they are huge and delicious. Its casual and the food top notch. Staff is always friendly and the menu ranges from pasta to pizza slices.
Clean and an overall solid place

It’s been 4 months since my last review and nothing has changed except now they have FEWER staff there taking orders.
I called in my order again and arrived at 11:30 to pick it up. There is still no «phone order only» line. So I had to wait in the regular line, and wait and WAIT. They had ONE girl taking orders from the people in line AND taking phone orders. When she took phone orders, she completely stopped taking line orders. One phone call was literally 7 minutes long. SEVEN MINUTES!!! And the phone just continues ringing and she is the only one answering. So the line moves at a crawl.
Even though I only had 3 people in front of me, I didn’t get up to the counter for 20 minutes. And this was at 11:30. Imagine how this will be at noon, when swarms of people show up.
Food is decent, but I’m done with this place. My time is more valuable and it’s absolutely ridiculous that people who call in their orders have to wait in the regular line. THAT’S WHY WE ARE CALLING IT IN… so we don’t have to WAIT.
This place needs a serious reorganization. They need to make processes flow more efficiently. Until then, they’ve seen the last of my business. What a shame. It used to be a great place 2 owners ago. Now it’s an organizational mess.

Antonio’s has excellent food and excellent service. Antonio’s has a wide variety of pizzas, sandwiches, paninis, salads, pasta dinners, and stuffed breads. The stuffed breads are especially good. They are always busy, but the staff is efficient and gets the food out in a reasonable amount of time. A great pick if you’re in the mood for some reasonably priced Italian food.

Good, quick service. Tasty food for lunch, HUGE portions. Not the best food ever but good for a decent priced lunch with a ton of variety.
Tip: Phone orders seem to take longer than actually going & waiting.

This place rocks! My family and I like to come to Antonio’s when we are in the mood to have dinner out but don’t want to break the bank at a fancy place or get crappy pre-​made frozen food from a chain restaurant. Everything here is fresh, authentic and delicious! The portions are large so you definitely get more bang for your buck. They have everything from pizzas to subs to salads to pasta dinners. The entrees come with a soup or salad which is always nice and they have different specials on the board every day! You order at the counter and then a waitress takes care of you for the rest of the meal which makes it a little bit more upscale than eating at just a deli.