Avanti Pizzeria, Trattoria and Market

Great food, very clean. Nice casual atmosphere with beer and wine. The owner Ignacio was very nice and made us feel welcome! We tried both the red and white pizzas. They both were great and exceeded our expectations! Rice balls and the meat balls with the fresh delicious red sauce was excellent! The salad was also very fresh w/great house dressing. We found our new favorite pizza spot! We can’t wait to go back to try more great looking menu items!

I have heard great things and I was not disappointed. I ordered carry out on a cold rainy day. Delicious food I will definitely dine in for full experience next time.

Let me preface this review by saying that the food is good. The restaurant was packed and got me my food in a reasonable amount of time. The staff was very friendly. I ordered the 10 inch pep pizza and the steak and cheese panini. The pizza is good, it could have stood to stay in the over for a few more minutes, but again, they were very busy. The panini was good too, needed a little more meat, but the flavor was good. This was pick up, I plan on dining in soon. Good spot!

Hidden Secret Alert !!! The best pizza I have ever had in my life !!! I could not stop eating this pizza !! Incredible crispy crunch with every bite. The sauce was delicious, incredible, amazing. I don’t even have words to describe how good this pizza is. Pizza was a Margarita and only $14 WHAT a deal !! The appetizer was a spring roll handmade pastry crust, mozzarella, prosciutto ham, basil and tomato. Everything had such flavor and texture. You must go to Avanti, bring the family your friends or relatives, just go TODAY !!

Incredible pasta. Best we've had on our frequent visits to Kent Island. Excellent friendly service as well. Specials were also very good. We are anxious to return.

We had another great dinner at Avanti last night. We brought another couple who had never been there before. It is now on the top of their go to list for Italian food. As always. the food and service were great!

Randomly stopped in traveling North on 301. What a surprise. Delicious Italian food! The seafood Fradiavlo was awesome..My wife had a shrimp with asparagus dish that was also delicious. Would highly recommend.

We absolutely love coming here. The food is always top quality, whether its salads, pizza or entrees. The menu has a great variety of dishes. The service is excellent and it's a comfortable atmosphere for dining.

Staff has Extreme fatigue, and it carries over into the product. Store appeared to be slapped up with detail a suggestion. Seemed disinterested for business. Large pizza to small, more like personal pizza size. Said pizza is way overpriced for the size. Pretty salty. Ingredient portions & ratio is telling. Icedancer, its true.

What a gem of a find! Meatball pizza came smoking hot and it was crispy perfect, not burnt. Chicken parm was also delicious. The server was one of the most hardest working servers I've ever seen - working the cashier, cleaning, serving, setting tables, and taking orders over the phone! And it was super busy! It's a small space so one more server would've been nice. I'll be back.

Pasta dishes were excellent. Best Italian on Kent Island. Ambiance is Pizza parlor so if you want upscale environment this is not your place. But if you are looking for top shelf italian food and a glass of wine this is 100% your place on Kent Island.

Best pizza east of the Bat Bridge and it's not close! Go for great Italian food; you won't be disappointed!

Right off the highway in a non descript shopping center, but so cute inside. The food was excellent. The fresh pasta was delicious and the waitress so delightful. Highly recommend this great mom and pop Italian restaurant! And the portions were huge! Barely ate half of mine!

Excellent food, extensive menu, and great service. Only negative is that it's a very small place and a bit noisy with average ambiance.

The food was pretty good. We had pizza and pasta. The ambiance was interesting as it kind of felt like a local pizza place and kind of like a sit down restaurant.

We stopped in after a long road trip grabbing a pizza to go. It was hot delish and had a perfectly crispy and chewy crust! It was so good I'd wished I'd ordered the calamari to try. Maybe next time!

This place is a real poser: it appears to do the big bulk of its business as a traditional neighborhood pizza joint, but it also offers Italian fare out of the usual run in the mill pasta-and-more-pasta vein that borders on fine cuisine. It's really, really good (and the pizza was pretty good, too). We particularly enjoyed the Siciliano Panini (done on sub rolls, which is actually more homestyle), basically a roasted eggplant sandwich, which was sublime, and the excellent crust on the pizza. The Prosciutt and Mozz was also excellent. We had earnest and friendly service that was interrupted quite a bit by the fact there was no good way for the single server, who doubled as the cashier, to get to us except by going all the way down the end of the counter and food line and coming all the way back out. (Avanti could double staff efficiency but just finding a place for a cutout at the front counter.) We took a mandatory one star -- nearly two-star -- reduction for forcing us to watch Fox News on the TV screen was we ate our meal. It was so unappealing it nearly ruined an otherwise lovely and unexpected surprise. The whole idea of putting a TV at the end of the dining area is anathematic to having a nice quiet media-free family dinner, beyond the unpleasant choice of programming. I sort of wish this place was split in two -- a different location for the Trattoria part, with enough room for table service for the excellent cuisine, and keep the current one just as a takeout counter-service-only place. As it is, the food is well more than a cut above your typical strip mall Italo-American fare.

Avanti serves the most lovingly created dishes one at a time and the result is nothing short of incredible. Do yourself a favor and eat anything here!

OMG.....the best pepperoni pizza I have had on this side of the bridge. The meals that we had were on the lighter tasting side. Very good but could have used a few more spices.

Was recommended to come here by a co-worker who lives locally on the Eastern Shore. Location was easy to find and space is pretty small. You order at the counter and sit at a table for 2 or 4 around an open kitchen concept. Didn't take long for my food to be ready. The arancini looked different on the inside, darker, I think due to some ingredients, but it was still tasty. The chicken saltimbocca was also delicious. I just wish the sauce was thicker, but the taste was good. Would love to try their pizza next time.

Deep dish pizza was excellent and combined with an attentive waitress and pleasant atmosphere made for an enjoyable meal

My mouth waters for the crisp crust on all their pizzas and I keep coming back for the full flavor of all their dishes. The owner is kind and friendly getting to know his customers. We come here quite often.

Always delicous. The owner moved here from D.C. to give us a true home cooked Italian Meal! The Procuitto and Mozarella panini is the best. Ask for it to be heated, the salt in the procuitto comes out to really flavor the panini. The food is fresh, made to order and top Tier.

Hands down the best pizza on Kent Island, the Annapolis area and honestly beyond. The Margherita pizza is simply excellent. The crust has been perfectly made every time we've had it and we've had it a bit too often! The sauce is excellent too. I need to try it with the fresh mozzarella, which I just discovered you could get if you customize it. We typically order online and pick it up but they've done a nice job on the interior. Another favorite dish is the Gamberetti pasta dish that has shrimp, asparagus, mushrooms with a rose cream sauce. You choose your pasta but we always get the fresh papparedelle pasta with it. Why anyone would choose dry pasta over fresh is beyond me. Don't overlook this place because it's in a small strip shopping center. Some of the best food I've ever had was not in some swanky place where you are typically overpaying and the food is only so so. I think if they keep it up they'll need to expand though! I wish them much success and really appreciate their consistency every time with delicious food.

Food was super fresh and flavorful. The ambience was nice and service was outstanding! I can't wait to come back!

Small cozy little place and the food is excellent. The service is very good, courteous and polite. Highly recommended.

The food was amazing. Freshly made pasta and delicious choices of sauces. Portions were generous and reasonably priced.

Outstanding traditional Italian! I can count on my hands how many restaurants I've been to that offer Amatriciana which is my favorite pasta. I love it so much that I have a Pizza called Amatriciana at my restaurant. The pasta was perfectly cooked al dente with tasty pieces of pancetta, giving it a Smokey flavor. The Meat Ravioli with cream sauce was absolutely delicious. Meatballs were huge and tasty. The Hazelnut beignets were similar to donut holes with chocolate filling.

Overall this is the best pizza in Kent Island, the crust is excellent we had the margherita pizza it had a really good mozzarella on it. The sauce was OK overall better than any other pizza that I've had on Kent Island and I think I've tried every pizzeria unless there's one hidden somewhere in the bushes. I will return to this establishment.

The spa is a lovely traditional Trattoria pizzeria located across the bay bridge in Kent Island. Stopped in on a Saturday afternoon to grab some lunch on our way to a wedding across the bridge. We were greeted by the lovely owner and enjoyed a prosciutto arugula roasted red pepper salad with croutons on top as well as a delicious margarita pizza featuring a fabulous crust. Everything was so delicious and really well priced looking forward to coming back on my next stop to the beach!! Definitely recommend checking out this pizza spot and dining in or doing takeout! Grazie!

The Calabrian shrimp was good. But the visit to this restaurant went sour when the waitress spilled the tomato sauce on my plate all on my lap on my white skirt. I understand these things happen but she said she would try to get a discount or get it taken off the bill but did nothing. I had to spend the rest of my date with a big, wet, orange spot on my skirt and paid for it too. I don't like to make a scene but it said a lot about how they treat their customers here. Very disappointing.

Awesome Italian trattoria in Kent Island. Went with a friend who lives nearby and I'm really happy we got to try it out. Right from the moment you enter the owner and staff make you feel warm and welcome. Ordering was very quick & efficient. We received our full order in under 20 minutes. And Every dish was cooked with love and had great flavor. The one dish that really stuck out was the Tortellini di Carne. Pure decadence! Anyways, thanks for the great meal, Avanti. We will definitely be back.

This is really the worst example of Italian American food I've seen. It is supposed to bruschetta but it's sandwich bread, white American cheese topped some tomatoes & garlic. This is a crime against the Italian people & possibly the world.

Absolutely amazing food, wide selection of cuisine and excellent customer service. Loved the experience and would 100% recommend! The ambiance was wonderful, very welcoming and quick to get our orders.

I really wanted to like Avanti, but my husband and I did not. The meatballs were dry according to my husband. The chicken parmesan he had was dry and rubbery. I ordered an eggplant panini. It was not a panini. Not grilled, just a sandwich on a subway roll with few ingredients. Even the olive oil had no flavor. A real disappointment. The location and interior leave a lot to be desired too. Not an attractive look and feel.

This is GREAT food. Real-tasting Italian made to order. Fresh and hot. They also understand about allergies and will accommodate.

Amazing food!!! Will definitely be back definitely try the honey Brussels sprouts. Great service and very clean.

The best Italian food on the island. Everything I've eaten there has never disappointed me. It doesn't make a difference. What you order it's all good.

Kent Island got very lucky with this new restaurant. EVERYTHING they make is GREAT. We greatly appreciate the Pizzas, Chicken Limone, Chicken Saltimbocca and the Beef Short Rib Risotto. Do not miss this place.

By far the best Italian food around. The specials never disappoint and the chef and staff to include the waitress exceed expectations. Great

A hidden gem. Great pizza and dinners. Love it! Great for carry out and comfortable little dining room. Try it!

This is the real deal ! Their food is magnificent . Try their specials. Their pizza And everything on the menu ! Fabulous meatballs and pasta dishes ! Love their " SUNDAY SAUCE " dish I wish it was always on the menu

OUTSTANDING!!! My family and I popped in for a quick bite on our way to Ocean City Maryland. The food was incredible. My son and I shared a pepperoni pizza, my youngest devoured the garlic and butter pasta, and my wife loved the caprese sandwich. On top of all that the bathrooms were spotless and the staff made us feel like regulars.

Had a nice little dinner there the other night carbonara it was on point the chef make sure that everything was perfect all in all a pretty good Italian experience

We drove over from south of Annapolis, and it was well worth the drive. This little, unassuming restaurant is much more than it appears. The pasta and pizza are outstanding. We celebrated a family birthday and they were so accommodating, not rushing us out even though we stayed past closing (sorry!). Don't miss the homemade pasta, and dessert is awesome, especially the lemon cake, cannoli and tiramisu. We will be back!

Just picked a chicken parm carry out. Good in the past. This chicken was inedible. All of it had a hard gristle layer that crunched when tried to chew it. All of spit back on plate. Never had anything like it. Disgusting. No wonder the restaurant was empty. Called them and they said they were sorry. Never eating there ever again. Yuck!!!

Wonderful! Pizza and pasta were excellent. As were cannolis and tiramisu. But the best thing here is the smiling helpful staff. Excellent service.

D E L I C I O U S!!!!! Food was great... look forward to going back! We did take out... and the staff was really nice!

Food was delicious! Service was slow but nowadays that's what I expect. We tried a variety of things. Everything was hot and delicious. Our server was apologetic for the wait. It would be nice if the lights were dimmer at dinner. Even though it's a carry out they serve beer and wine. Will definitely go back!

If you are looking for some home cooked Italian food this is the place to go. Avanti's is more than just pizza. I highly recommend trying the specials, you won't be disappointed.

I have gotten delivery and curbside pick up it has been wonderful. We have tried the Mozzarella sticks which could have been a bit more melty but that was delivery so I don't blame that at all, We got a 10" pizza, we got kids ravioli, we got the lemon cake cake and also the the chicken lemon pasta which is phenomenal. You can choose what kind of pasta you get with the chicken and the sauce is divine it's this white rosemary lemon sauce and it is just addictive. We actually have gotten the chicken lemon rosemary dish several times. Love, love it.

Everything here is top notch. From pizza. Entrees. Desert. You will not be disappointed. Looking for some amazing Italian food, here is where you need to be.

Random stop on the way home from Annapolis. Nice find. Very good pizza and chicken parm. Owner was friendly and attentive. Will stop for lunch when over this way again.

Best Italian food south of NY. Chef and staff make you feel like family. Good portions great food. Feels like Sunday dinner back home.

Avanti has been the best addition to the Island for affordable, high quality and delivery Italian food. Literally I have had catering delivered to my home from here and everything is fresh, delicious and piping hot all the way in Romancoke. Their pizza is fab, perfect sauce to cheese Ratio. Arancini are great the next day in the worm fryer and the hazelnut chocolate stuffed desserts are better than they sound. Def choose Avanti for your next family meal.

The best Italian Restaurant I have been to in years. The Food is great and staff is wonderful. FIVE stars to the best place on Kent Island.

Read the reviews on yelp for a good Italian restaurant/pizza place while staying at Kent Narrows. Avanti Pizzeria scored 4.5 stars on yelp so we gave it a try. It's worth every bit of 4.5 stars. I'll give it 5 stars. Service was excellent, the pasta with spicy marinara is the best I've ever had. Give it a try, it's not fancy, just good.