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Diners at East Galway pizzeria feel at home in former hotel
There’s no telling just what fomer hotel owners Mr. York or Nelson Enos would have thought of a pizza place in their little community, but as current restaurant owener Sandy Foster says, people seem to warm up to the Village Pizzeria & Ristorante pretty quickly.
Posted on April 25, 2011.
The building now home to the Village Pizzeria & Ristorante in East Galway was built in 1927 after a fire demolished the structure that had been on the site, a hotel. (photo: Bill Buell/Gazette Reporter)
oe Guerrera, co-owner of the Village Pizzeria & Ristorante on Route 29 in East Galway, shows off the place's second-floor accomadations. (photo: Bill Buell/Gazette Reporter
Village Pizzeria & Ristorante co-owner Sandy Foster checks out the supply in the wine cellar of the restaurant. (photo: Bill Buell/Gazette Reporter)
This photo from circa 1925 shows the East Galway Inn on Route 29 just a few years before it was burned to the ground. (photo courtesy of GALWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY)
Shayna Goodson, a waitress at the Village Pizzeria & Ristorante in East Galway, prepares the dining room for the evening crowd. (photo: Bill Buell/Gazette Reporter)
Nick Van Dusen, Mike Paquette and Brian Maxwell, left to right, work in the kitchen at the Village Pizzeria & Ristorante. (Bill Buell/Gazette Reporter)
Sue Cehowski works the bar area at the Village Pizzeria & Ristorante located on Route 29 in East Galway. (photo: Bill Buell/Gazette Reporter)
