Four Generations:  From 6th Street to 90th!

In Sicilian and all of Italian cooking, there is a cultural instinct about what to do in the kitchen, an inherent understanding of how ingredients taste together.

Our family’s cooking traditions began four generations ago, starting with our great grand-parents coming to America from the “old country” and settling in Omaha’s “Little Italy”…a neighborhood affectionately referred to as “6th Street.”

My father grew up with “Ma and Pa” and “soaked up” (literally) the great Sicilian comfort food by the spoon (mouth) full.

Growing up, we were steeped in Italian cuisine and festivals (Santa Lucia Milwaukee, Kansas  City’s Festa’s)  that celebrate everything from Louie Prima’s music to fried bread and semenza.

My love of great Italian food led me, at 15 to work at a local pizzeria, learning by assimilation the restaurant business.

Fast forward #1…to a momentous decision in 2003. I got the “brilliant” idea to make a little extra money—so I bought a “food trailer” to sell a few “sausage & pepper sandwiches.”

A word of caution, if you sell a sandwich that people really like, the first thing that they will ask you is “where are you located”…soooo I had to get “located.”

Fast forward #2…I’ll spare you the family joke (3 sailors are involved) of how we found and bought our present location in (“bustling”) Irvington, NE.  But here we are. With my wife and family and some 20 employees we are doing our best to bring you our Italian and especially Sicilian cooking traditions that were handed down from “Ma” & “Pa” and all the family and friends that over some 75 years have brought us to where we are today.

We will continue to strive to make each and every order that we serve as good and delicious as our traditions have taught us, as if we were serving you in our own home!

Remember…”Eat Italian…Everybody else does!”

Ciao! Tony & Dana