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OUR STORY
A LITTLE HISTORY
We Got Dough!
In 1918, Giovanni Tacconelli traveled from his hometown of Chieti, Italy to Philadelphia. After a few years working as a laborer, he decided to do what he’d done in his native land – bake bread. The best and only way to do so, he said, was to bake it in a brick oven. So, along with a few of his friends, he built a 20′ x 20′ brick oven. The bread business went well until the outbreak of WWII, at which time his sons all of whom had helped him run the family business were drafted into military service. With no one around to help him, Giovanni had no choice but stop baking bread.
In 1946, with everyone home from the war, Giovanni had an idea! rather than simply make bread, he decided to use his massive brick oven to make Old World “tomato pies”, a skill his mother had taught him many years before. A skill that in time he would pass on to his own son, Anthony.
In 1998, after decades of operating an award-winning restaurant, Anthony and Sylvia’s son, Vince and his wife Barbara Tacconelli decided to retire. They entrusted their business, which by now had become a Philadelphia institution, to their younger son, Vince, Jr. Vince and his wife Doris would successfully operate the pizzeria for the next five years, from 1998 – 2002.
In 2003, Vince decided it was time to take Tacconelli’s to the next level. That’s when He and Doris opened a second Tacconelli’s Pizzeria closer to their home in Maple Shade, NJ.
Of course, some changes were inevitable. Tacconelli’s in Maple Shade serves three types of salads (with homemade dressings) and a variety of delectable desserts as well as fresh pasta as their newest addition to the menu.
Some things, though, never change: at Tacconelli’s you’ll find Vince Jr. making the same freshly baked, award-winning pizzas he made at Tacconelli’s Philadelphia. The ingredients, and even most of the cooks, are the same.
So it is our commitment to our customers, namely to not tamper with Giovanni Tacconelli’s inimitable recipe for delicious, thin-crust “tomato pies”
Enjoy!
- Vince and Doris Tacconelli
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locations
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27 W MAIN STREET
MAPLE SHADE TOWNSHIP NJ 08052
856 - 667 - 4992
WED - THURS 4PM - 9:30PM
FRI LUNCH 11:30AM - 2PM
FRI & SAT DINNER 4PM - 9:30PM
SUN 3PM - 8:30PM
Maple Shade
Haddon Twp.
164 HADDON AVE
HADDON TOWNSHIP NJ 08108
856 - 858 - 7278
WED - THURS 4PM - 9:30PM
FRI & SAT DINNER 4PM - 9:30PM
SUN 3PM - 8:30PM
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