Village Pizza located on Portion Road next to Carvel had its soft opening Wednesday, April 7. They anticipate holding their official grand opening in the next week or so. The owners are long time resident Dominick Crescimanno and Anthony Caronna of Selden.
Crescimanno, a 1988 graduate of Sachem High School, said his family's history in the Sachem Central School District dates back to the 1970's. His wife who is his high school sweetheart, also graduated from Sachem and two of his children are currently in the district. His oldest son Joseph is now in college studying performing arts and his younger children Dominick and Gianna both attend Sachem High School East.
"My daughter Gianna is on the Arrowettes and Dominick plays for the lacrosse club as well as football and basketball," he said.
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Crescimanno is very involved with the community, having coached football for eight years at the Sachem Youth Sports Complex. His father Pete was also in the restaurant business. Crescimanno's nephew Rino Poerio, who is also a Sachem graduate and works for his uncle Dominick, said Crescimanno's father Pete had owned Pizza Stop on Portion Road for 32 years.
Co-owner Anthony Caronna was born in Sicily and came over to America when he was 3-years old.
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"I've been in the restaurant business for about 15 years," he said. "I worked with some cousins for 10 years and with my partner [Dominick] for five years."
He said the soft opening was last week and so far business has been doing well and they are hoping for business to continue to expand.
"We are really hoping for the community to come out and support us, and in turn we intend to give back to the community and help out by giving back to charities," Caronna said.
The grand opening will also introduce a few new specials for Village Pizza including $2 off of a large pizza pie, 15-percent off any order over $30, as well as two slices and a fountain soda for $4.50.
They also intend to introduce a special where customers will receive a card that will get stamped with every pie purchase, after 10 pies they will get the eleventh one free.
"We hope to eventually have some family packages and we plan to have some daily specials as well," Crescimanno said.
Their prices are reasonable: a large pizza pie is $13 and is Sicilian pie is $14. They offer a large selection of gourmet pizzas including Greek, Buffalo chicken, BBQ chicken, chicken marsala, baked ziti, eggplant parmigiana, grandma, supreme and garlic knot pizza. In addition to pizza, calzones and heros, Village Pizza also serves up a variety of pasta dishes and plenty of Italian classics such as chicken, veal, shrimp or eggplant parmigiana.
Village Pizza is open Monday-Friday from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday from 11 a.m.-9 pm. They also offer free delivery. Their telephone number is (631) 732-6000.
