The taste of tradition
Flavorful, old-fashioned food with 21st century style is served up with flair at the comfy, casual Zito’s Sandwich Shoppe, at home on Third Avenue in Bay Ridge for eight months.
Marcello Bucca, the eatery’s Brooklyn-born-and-bred owner, says the restaurant recreates the food and ambiance of the salumerias that he enjoyed going into all throughout his youth – a successful recipe that he crafted initially for his first restaurant, in Park Slope, now three years old, and has recreated in Bay Ridge.
Waxing nostalgic about the fragrances and flavors of those venerable establishments, Bucca said that Zito’s – which specializes in Brooklyn Italian classics according to its menu — “continues the tradition of the salumeria, with a bit of a modern twist.”