Live, from Peoria, Illinois, it’s Saturday Night starring this week’s host, Agatucci’s and featuring special guest stars, Danny and Tony Agatucci, Amber, Joe, Sheila, Amanda and Travis!
Now please welcome, this week’s host and one of my favorite places in Peoria, Agatucci’s!
Here we are at Agatucci’s and they just started serving up their annual Tom and Jerry drinks this week, so I’m anxious to have one for dessert tonight!
Let’s go in start this week’s Saturday night!
As soon as I walked in I saw Danny behind the bar and went over and said hi and snapped his photo.
Then Tony appeared and this is turning into a real-life Christmas miracle!
Normally I would’ve sat at the bar, but I see some familiar faces over at this booth, it’s our special guest stars for the evening, Amber, Joe and Sheila!
Great to see all of them and this is going to be a fun Saturday night!
Amanda was our friendly waitress and she posed with Amber for a beautiful photo of the two of them!
She took our order and we started off with an appetizer order of the Fried Ravioli and it was so good I forgot to take a picture of them!
Do yourself a favor and stop in and try them if you never have, they’re served with a homemade meat sauce that is out-of-this-world tasty!
Travis was bartending and he came over to say hi and it was great to see him.
In addition to working here at Agatucci’s, Travis is a teacher and he and Joe taught together at the same school a few years ago.
Here’s a long shot of the bar that Travis was helping to serve and there’s two of the four beers on tap. Someone was sitting in front of the other two, so we only got half of the taps tonight!
I always note how I absolutely love the Michelob stained glass the hovers over the bar!
In my travels, I peeked back at the kitchen area and there’s Tony and a co-worker putting our pizza together!
Here’s a trilogy of the classic Agatucci’s atmosphere: The bright Budweiser neon, the wine bottle lamp and of course, the famous Agatucci’s backwards clock!
Meanwhile, back at our booth our mouth-watering pizza is served! We got a large special which is, Cheese, Sausage, Mushrooms, Green Peppers and Onion. It looks delicious and it tasted even better than it looked!
Agatucci’s is mu favorite Peoria pizza and I never get tired of it!
Dinner was spectacular as always in here and now it’s time to head to the bar because it’s Tom and Jerry time!
Amber and Joe found some vintage Tom and Jerry glasses at a sale and they brought them in as a special gift for Tony and Danny! Very nice!
Then Danny went to work concocting these special holiday drinks. It’s not an easy process but he’s got it down and is a Tom and Jerry Wizard!
Tom and Jerry drinks are a real Peoria Christmas tradition here at Agatucci’s and you can read all about them by clicking on this link and scroll down this 2018 post.
Soon Danny served up this 2023 batch and they were delicious as always!
There’s Amber, Joe and Sheila enjoying this special holiday drink!
On the way out, we ran into Mark Donahue who co-owns one of my favorite Peoria taverns, Mike’s Tavern! He was out with four of his friends and they let me snap a photo of them.
We thought of different names to call this group and this morning I came up with the perfect moniker for this fun quintet of fellows: The Mike’’s Tavernacle Choir!
Great to see Mark and meet his friends!
Thanks to Danny and Tony for another wonderful night at Agatucci’s! And thanks to Amber, Joe and Sheila for joining me on this festive evening! The holiday season has officially begun! Ho, ho…ho!
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2007 N. University Street
Peoria
309-688-8200
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