Owner Venanzio Momo grew up working in his mother's Italian deli and debuted his neighborhood trattoria in 1994.
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It all began, as a neighborhood Italian joint often does, with family. “My mother had a deli, Theresa's Italian Specialties Deli, on the border of New Jersey and New York,” he says. Alongside his siblings, he worked day in and day out at Theresa’s, where he learned the business and discovered a penchant for a daily cheese pie. “This is where pizza found its way into my DNA,” he notes.
The leap from late-night slices to neighborhood trattoria was big but the restaurateur life called to Momo. “Pizza happens to be my life,” she notes. “But we needed to adjust to the demographic and what people wanted.”
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