Closed for Business: Anthony's, 426 7th Avenue
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 8:19AM 
Anthony's, the Southern Italian, pizza-focused restaurant on Seventh between 14th and 15th Streets, has closed after eight years in business. A sign posted by co-owner Joe Bosco has gone up in the window thanking the neighborhood for its support over the years, without providing a reason for the closure besides "we have decided to close our doors."
The restaurant was the dream of a former mason from Naples named Anthony Buglione, but he passed away three years before it opened. Anthony's sons Sal and Frank opened the restaurant with partners Bosco and Louie Pagano in November 2005 in his honor, in a space that was last occupied by French restaurant Paradou. The homestyle menu was traditional red-sauce Italian, with pizzas and calzones (baked in a custom-made gas-fired brick oven), pasta, chicken-, veal-, and eggplant-based entrees, salads, and appetizers including baked clams and stuffed mushrooms. Frank made the mozzarella, and their mother Lina made the Sunday ragu.
The restaurant might not have served legendarily delicious food, but it was family-owned through and through and featured old-world, old-school recipes passed down over generations. And there's no denying that the pizza was good. It shut down briefly last year to undergo some renovations, but those apparently weren't enough to ward off whatever it was that ended up shutting them down.
Many thanks to reader Erik for sending in the photo of the sign.
Top Photo: Andrew Karcie/ New York Magazine
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Reader Comments (32)
Yawn
Looks from the photo that something new is moving in next door.
Never tried Anthony's too many other excellent Italian places around to get to the mediocre ones.
I will miss Anthony's. I will also miss Joe he was the perfect host.
This was a good family style Italian place with decent space you could take kids. Enzos on PPW in Windsor Terrace hits the same type of food/demographic and is doing very well,
Never went there, unfortunately. There's a rather successful coal oven chain in South Florida called Anthony's, and walking by this place always reminded me of that place.
Looking forward to seeing what Marco's has to offer.
Marco's should be great.
If you haven't tried the new Morgan's BBQ on Flatbush Ave, you should RUN there! It's an alum of the most famous BBQ place in Austin, Franklin BBQ.
Best BBQ in the city, hands down.
Not sure why there hasn't been anything reported here...they've been open for 2 weeks. Also no news of the new Gorilla opening on Bergen either or the Red Mango opening in October on Flatbush.
Also there's a HUGE new vintage store on Sackett between 4th and 5th avenue, a warehouse L train vintage. Massive space.
Lots of activity all around PS.
That sucks! Anthony's made great pizza. None better in the slope.
Sterling,
L train Vintage opened in GOWANUS on Sackett between 3&4th aves. It was covered in a Gowanus blog.
Bill
It was also covered on PARK SLOPE stoop:
http://parkslopestoop.com/blog/business/now-open-l-train-vintage
Don't need to be so crazy about park slope boundaries when it's a few feet over the border. Some people in PS do leave the neighborhood sometimes.
We highlight the Prospect Heights side of Flatbush on here, so reason we can't highlight a couple feet into Gowanus. Park Slope Stoop did.
And most non-real estate agents say 15th is the southernmost border of Park Slope, so by your strict definition, Anthony's barely made the cut by about 25 feet.
Solidly good pizza. They had a good run.
Perhaps a location for another branch of either the Talde or Fonda empires, although, frankly, what the neighborhood really needs is another real estate office, another nail salon, another burger joint, more Thai and sushi.
Is Beer Table still looking for a bigger space with a kitchen? Anthonys has both indoor and outdoor space-would seem like a perfect fit and theyd be only be a couple of blocks from their original location.
Last I heard, Beer Table was moving to Clinton Hill.
They're shooting themselves in the foot I think. It was a very neighborhood-y place and their success in Park Slope led to their opening in Grand Central station. Up and leaving the neighborhood that gave them their start is a bit of a slap in the face, if you ask me.
Looks like South Slope is kinda on the outs, everything good is opening in North Slope, Morgan's, Marco's, new Franny's, Pierre Loti opening on 5th, Grand Central Oyster Bar, Luke's Lobster...
Anything exciting happening in South Slope other than a new tiny place from Fonda owner?
I never had anything but a spectacular meal at Anthony's.
I'm very sad to know it won't be there anymore for great pastas and pizzas.
Infinite thanks to Joe, who made each trip there a dinner at a friend's house.
They had very good pizza (that and caesar salad were all I ever got there). However, more and more upscale pizza places opened closer to home in North and Central Slope, the kind of fell by the wayside for me.
Bring back Max 'n Moritz.
Looking forward to Morgan's although, I have to say, I am quite the Dinosaur fanboy. I have no doubt my heart, and stomach, can expand to cover both, especially a place like Morgan's, which will be a few blocks away.
Tried Morgans on Day 3 of their soft opening two weeks ago. It was excellent.
I once accidentally ordered a $35 dollar pizza from this place (large sausage, peppers and onions). Needless to say it was not $35 dollars good. So long and good luck.
Ted:
Dinosaur is the Dallasbbq of BBQ compared to Morgan's.
And Dinosaur ain't bad, it's just not even on the same level as Morgan's at all. Dinosaur is a bit too bland for me, the food and the space. Feels kinda Disney-ish.
Dinosaur is the Disney version of what a BBQ place should be. If you know anything about BBQ you would know that Morgan's is the real deal.
Food snob smackdown
I have no idea what you're talking about, Ed, when you say South Slope is on the outs. We've got La Botaneria opening, plus Stoop Juice, Mariella (in the old SweetWolf space) and a host of semi-new places (Crespella, Deluxe) and a bunch of recent but established places like Talde, Fonda, Piccoli, etc. South Slope has a great mix of places and, unlike North Slope, few vacancies and no chains. I'll take south of Ninth anyday.
Damn. I loved Anthony's. Great manicotti and it was a good place to bring kids. The pizza was good too but I just liked the pastas in general. Not expensive, hit the mark and the wait staff was very friendly. I'll greatly miss the place.
Ed is exactly right. it's obvious that those business owners that poured money into a manufactured realtor name like "South Slope" realized they've been duped and are moving out in droves to where the actual money and customers are. It won't surprise me to see Talde close up shop and move closer to Flatbush Ave. in the near future. Same for Grumpy. Some of the good bars down there, such as Skylark, really are missing out. I'd even consider having Eagle Provisions relocate up north. Everyone I talk to says it's just too far to travel to, even with the good beer selection. Worse, the parking situation just sucks over there.
The North Slope is just superior in every way. Business owners don't have ridiculous sticks up their butts about families and it's not a bunch of expense account pretending to be poor. I'm glad businesses are following suit. Soon, we'll be able to treat North Susnet Park like we do South Crown Heights.