Vieni a Tavola e Mangia con Noi
That’s an Italian invitation to dine together, a wonderful way of bringing together family and friends. Some of my earliest memories of family and community were found squeezed in and around our dining table. I grew up in East Tennessee, spending countless summer days on my grandparents’ farm that has been in the family for over four generations. Mornings were started with waking up to biscuits made from scratch coupled with one of the finest country spreads. Days were spent topping tobacco, tending a large garden, putting up hay and managing vast livestock. It was a way of life for them.
I was fortunate to grow up watching as family worked hard and a community banded together when someone was in need of a hand. At the end of a hard day or holidays, everyone came together to the table to share stories, laugh, and eat amazing food prepared by family from recipes handed down from generation to generation. All around the world, families and loved ones alike can tell nostalgic and sentimental stories of how food, family and love brought them together at the dinner table. Most of us can recall our elders in the kitchen crafting a meal with tender care and sharing recipes that built the foundation of who they are and where their family’s roots were established. It makes us unique, but the same. Ameet shares similar stories of his family from India and how food and those who prepared it bought them all together. It is also the story that started this little Italian ristorante for Sal Cenicola over 12 years ago. The long line of rich heritage and the roots our ancestors established all bring us home to share a meal at the table. The food may nourish our bodies, but the family and those we share it with are what establish a bond of love that feeds the soul; put the two ingredients together and you create magic.
Saurabh Kumar
Holly and Ameet Shetty with Sal Cenicola
As the new owners of Sal’s Neighborhood Pizzeria, we want to continue that nostalgic feeling by carrying the torch for Sal and partnering with him to keep the legacy he started alive and well.We are so thankful for and humbled by the blessing of being able to come home to St. Simons Island. We’re looking forward to having each one of you, neighbors and friends, join us at our table for an amazing meal, sharing a community dining experience and building on the family “neighborhood place to be” here at Sal’s. Wherever you are from, whatever your family roots, and no matter your address, we want you to feel like you’re at home here, surrounded with good food and family. Ameet and I invite you all to come in and join us at the dinner table.
~Holly LaFountaine Shetty
Sal’s Neighborhood Pizzeria, 3415 Frederica Rd., Ste. E, 912.268.2328.