Antonio’s Cucina Italiana

Antonio’s Cucina Italiana serves the sort of Italian dinner you can picture before opening the menu: chicken Parmigiana, veal piccata, fettuccine Alfredo and linguine with meatballs. The Cambridge Street restaurant also offers homemade fusilli, lobster ravioli and shrimp scampi, with enough pasta choices to give a table of regulars something to argue over. Start with stuffed mushrooms, mussels or garlic bread if you are making an evening of it.

Lunch and dinner are served Monday through Saturday, and there is a full bar alongside beer and wine. The menu extends beyond pasta to pork chops with vinegar peppers and potatoes, eggplant dishes and seafood. Sunday is normally a closing day, so plan around that if Antonio’s is your reason for coming to Beacon Hill.