Paolucci Restaurant & Lounge

Great Food ...Atmosphere & People!If you're looking for a better place in Town.....Forget About It!

Atchison is blessed to have a gem like Paolucci. We stopped by for dinner five months ago and can't get it out of my mind. So, it's time to finally share my experience. We took a day trip to Atchison to go to the Amelia Earhart museum. My sister did the same a week earlier and found Paolucci. So we tried it too. Holy cow! The place is huge. Good luck finding which door to enter haha. The menu is also huge. Too many things appealed to us so we settled on Italian dishes. I ordered a Taste of Italy, a combination of meat sauce, Italian sausage, and a meatball over spaghetti or rigatoni. The meat sauce was certainly Paolucci's own, longtime, successful recipe. Tomatoes with light spices, absolutely delish. The meatball? Light and moist. The sausage? Homemade delish. This came with a side salad which had GOOD lettuce, not the crappy iceberg lettuce. The atmosphere had me looking here, there, everywhere with the rich history. The business dates back to 1894. Friendly staff.

Holy moly! This is honestly some of the best Italian food I've ever had, and I travel extensively... I'm shocked how good this place is. Try the meatballs, the garlic oil dip, the fresh bread. WOW!

We love this place! Great food and prices. Daily special and great atmosphere. Livers and gizzards are our favorites!

Came in for the first time. Waitress said the wait was 40 minutes for food. After 75 minutes we were told it would "just be 10 more minutes." If you're in Atchison, skip it and go to DQ so you're not sitting there all day and missing the museums.... Only small town in America that doesn't have mashed potatoes... but they have chicken fried steak, open faces roast beef, and chicken... not really understanding this...after 1.5 hours NO FOOD. We had free bread and water. They also don't serve real butter either... I'd give it zero stars but that's not an option.

We arrived today at Paolucci's to eat breakfast with my family and it was an absolutely miserable experience. We were seated pretty quickly - but that's about where the good ended. It took over 10 minutes to get our menus after being seated. It took another 15 minutes before our order was taken. We then waited over an hour without anyone checking in on our table - they didn't come by to check on how we were doing, or if we needed our water refilled, or how soon the food would be out... nothing. So we sat there and hoped our food would arrive soon so our three children would get to eat. It's hard enough to keep the kids occupied for a normal restaurant wait and they were awesome through this debacle even with the elongated waiting experience.Finally, after over an hour, our waitress came to our table to tell us our ticket was in the next couple. We said ok, and waited. Five minutes later she came back and said she was wrong, and they were 5 tickets behind. At this point, we had been in the restaurant for over an hour and still hadn't gotten our food. I said we were leaving. I am almost certain that the owners/managers of the establishment were eating at the table next to us (as they were checking out other people at the general store and making sandwiches behind us in the deli) and they seem nonplussed by our exit. Our waitress said she'd hope we'd try them again, but it was far too late for that. We left the restaurant hungry, angry, and overwhelmed by the lack of service and the invisibility act of their management.Totally unacceptable experience. For a restaurant that has been in business as long as Paolucci's has, there is no excuse for the total lack of awareness the staff gave their customers. I will never eat there again and will heavily discourage any visitors from going there as well.

Food is average. Waited 40 minutes for food. Had to get it Togo since it took so long. They gave us a meal finally no bag just sandwiches and 2 containers. And finally the drink that was never given. You would think they would be on their A game with families picking up the kids from college.

We enjoyed an average breakfast with great service. The ambiance is very quaint and they had a counter were you could get deli items. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is a solid choice for out of tow travelers.

Eddie is a great guy who is very welcoming and takes care of all of your needs. Great atmosphere love the second floor bar scene after eating definitely is lowkey but would love to see more people get to experience this place.

This place is right out an hour from Kansas City.They have great customer service and their restaurant is very cozy and very quiet during the afternoons really nice place for lunch.If you were looking for a thick Hardy old world type of Italian, this is the place. We had Parmesan chicken, wonderful Caesar salad and red chili dipping sauce with pita bread. plenty of French bread. all the breads were baked there, including the pita. We also tried their lasagna, which was outstanding. I was going to try their spinach lasagna, but I kind of let that one go for the meat lasagna. It was very good because of the sauce I wanted to try their sauce. They sell their sauce by the quart also outstanding if you go to third and Main, you can find this place they're in Atchison. It's gonna fool you a little bit. I posted some pictures that will show the backside at main. It just has the name of the place. It's a brown wall with one or two windows that's it, go down in front of the place in order to see where the doors are.There's also a pizzeria upstairs I didn't go up there. My wife had a look around and she was impressed. We may go back to try that out on a weekend maybe an evening before it gets, too late , we are old folks, but we do enjoy good food. And if you go up there, you will enjoy the amazing food Paolucci restaurant