It serves the meals your mother cooks for you all the time.We would like to extend a special thank you to all our patrons, the city of Somerville, and surrounding communities for your continued loyalty and patronage throughout the years. Cooper said, “Leone’s is like a family kitchen. Buster Cooper, a Somerville native has been a customer of Leone’s for more than 20 years. As a family-run business, Leone’s makes many of its customers feel at home too. Leone’s is celebrating its 60th anniversary in business this year. I just talk to them as a person,” Ruccolo said. Ruccolo said that he treats celebrities just like any other customers. “But I served Chris Evans quite a few times at the store.” “My concern was my customers, so I said to my brother, ‘why don’t you go? And I’ll stay at the store’.” Ruccolo said.
When recalling that experience, Ruccolo said that he got a call from one of the directors of ABC News and he promised to pay Ruccolo to close his store for a day to go to the show in New York. The super hero screamed with joy, “It’s Leone’s! It’s Leone’s!” During one ABC news live show, Chris Evans was surprised with three boxes of Leone’s square pizzas and subs. Leone’s is also famous for delivering pizza for Captain America on air. “As a Somerville landmark, the relationship between people behind the counter and the people in front of the counter has never changed.” They get what they want, what they have been eating for 30, 40 years,” Garcia said. “I like when I make a sandwich for a nice customer and see them smile. Even though there are challenges, such as the heat, which make it feel difficult to work at a pizza place in summer. Joao Garcia, the manager at Leone’s, enjoys his working relationship with Ruccolo as well as serving customers. That cost $250 to send them,” Ruccolo said. He FedExed meatballs with sauce, so his sister could have a try. “I sent meatballs to a gentleman in Florida. “We sent our food to Arizona once when the Super Bowl was celebrated there.”Īmong all the items that are served at Leone’s, the meatballs are one of the most popular foods here, according to Ruccolo. “We send food to as far as Hawaii, Florida and California,” Ruccolo said. Loyal patrons come from far and near to partake in the restaurant’s epicurean delights, including one man (pictured here in the background) who comes all the way from the Cape.
In 1978, the 22-year-old Ruccolo joined Leone’s after he finished college with a degree in Business.ĭuring his time at Leone’s, he received positive comments from the community and old customers who moved away from Somerville. Thirty-five years ago, Leone’s first started their square pizzas, which later on became a signature item at the store. “We haven’t changed anything in 60 years.” 60 years later, we are still here,” Ruccolo said. They took on an adventure and decided to try it out. “Leone’s was started in 1954 by my brother-in-law’s parents. Not surprisingly, Leone’s never lacks customers who have been around for decades.
Nick Ruccolo, a partner at Leone’s, is constantly to be found greeting customers, talking about things that are only heard between intimate friends. It’s probably more appropriate than flattery to call Leone’s Sub and Pizza in Somerville a landmark in the neighborhood: Its everlasting quality of meatballs signature Sicilian-styled square pizzas that were once delivered to Chris Evans live on ABC News owners and staff who are never shy of sharing fun conversations with their customers and most importantly, a restaurant where serving the community means more than serving their food. Leone’s Sub and Pizza is a much beloved culinary institution not only in Somerville, but from coast to coast, and beyond.
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