December 13, 2003 (our Grand Opening)

Dear Patron,

Welcome to our restaurant. We genuinely appreciate your business.

It has been our lifelong dream to open our own trattoria. After three long years, numerous obstacles and hundreds of hours of hard work, we have finally realized our dream.

Our restaurant is a family owned facility. Our daughter, Giovanna (Joann) is our head chef. Our other daughter, Sandra, is our dining room manager and her husband Matthew is our sous chef. Our son Salvatore is one of our waiters and our other son Joseph is one of our pizza makers. Our daughter-in-law Nicole and son-in-law John pitch in whenever we need them.

Chef Giovanna has created a menu consisting of an array of over 42 signature dishes for our dinner menu and 17 lunch menu items. Each is sure to be a mouth watering treat to your palate.

Some of our competitors advertise “brick oven” pizza. However, authentic European style brick oven pizza can only be made in a genuine wood fired brick oven. We thought it was important to invest the resources to have such an oven built, and so we did. Once you compare our authentic brick oven pizza to that of our competitors, your taste buds will realize the difference.

It is our most sincere desire to make your dining experience here at Cosimo’s pleasurable, unique, and satisfying. To achieve that goal, one or both of us is always available during business hours.

If we are doing something right, please let us know. On the other hand, if you have a question or concern, please don’t hesitate to let us know about that as well.

Thanks so much for your patronage.

Enjoy your meal!

Warmest regards.

Cosimo & Lisa Pensiero

Your hosts