Live, from Peoria, Illinois, it’s Saturday Night starring this week’s host, Agatucci’s with special guest stars, Tony and Danny Agatucci and a mystery guest dining companion!

Now, please welcome this week’s host, Agatucci’s!

Okay, it’s Saturday night and we’re in front of one of my favorite places in Peoria and beyond: Agatucci’s!

Let’s go in and see what’s happening in one of Peoria’s most popular pizza parlors and Italian restaurants.

There’s the bar…

And there’s the owners, Tony and Danny Agatucci, two of the nicest guys in the world! Always a pleasure to see them and catch up on things. They told me business has been good in here and that’s always great to hear!

Usually I sit at the bar, but I’m having dinner with a friend who requested not to have their picture taken…could it be this guy? I’ll never tell!

So we decided to sit at this booth and we looked at the menu…I’d say the odds of a pizza pie appearing are very good!

Here’s Sami, our pretty and friendly waitress!

She delivered a beer and took our order and that can mean only one thing…I’m going to abandon our mystery guest and go and take some photos.

I’ve done over a dozen posts in Agatucci’s through the years doing this blog and everyone of them features the famous backwards Agatucci’s clock, I love it!

Two other things I love in here, the Michelob Light suspended over the bar and the Hamm’s beer sign behind the bar. “From the land of sky blue waters.”

This is St. Louis Cardinal country in here, so if you’re a Chicago Cubs fan, be prepared to keep your mouth shut when a game is on…well unless you’re eating pizza. Kind of hard to do that with a shut pie-hole!

Meanwhile, back at our booth that is lit up by a wine bottle chandelier…

Our dinner is arriving, the service in here is always fantastic!

We started off with an appetizer of Mozzarella Sticks and they were fabulous! It’s deep-fried breaded cheese, how could it be anything but fabulous? And the marinara sauce added a nice layer of flavor to this tasty appetizer dish.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, it’s my great pleasure to introduce the star of tonight’s show…