Lenzi's Restaurant
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Lenzi's may be small in size, but huge in its portions, varied menu, and fan base.
Lenzi's may be small in size, but huge in its portions, varied menu, and fan base. WQED showcases this family team serving up homemade pastas, one-pound hamburgers, cakes, pies and much more! Piacentino "Pete" Lenzi originally opened the Starlight Inn in 1940 as a hot dog stand with curb service in Monongahela, PA. Pete’s daughters, “the Lenzi Girls,” worked as waitresses.
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Lenzi's Restaurant
11/2/2022 | 2m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Lenzi's may be small in size, but huge in its portions, varied menu, and fan base. WQED showcases this family team serving up homemade pastas, one-pound hamburgers, cakes, pies and much more! Piacentino "Pete" Lenzi originally opened the Starlight Inn in 1940 as a hot dog stand with curb service in Monongahela, PA. Pete’s daughters, “the Lenzi Girls,” worked as waitresses.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(soft guitar music) - [Tim] It's a family business.
- [John] Started by my grandfather in 1940.
- We are currently the fourth generation to run the business.
When you walk in that door you know you're gonna get quality service, quality food, and a lot of it.
- My favorite thing is the spaghetti.
- He makes five or six different homemade sauces every day from scratch.
- The pastas we'll be making today, Parmesan cream pasta with a blackened shrimp, over penne.
A meat and spinach ravioli in our marinara sauce.
A pasta Italiano, which is crumbled hot sausage with peppers and onions.
- We also have our signature one-pound hamburger, fresh ground at a local butcher shop that we pick up every morning.
That is one of our most popular items.
One of our signature salads, which is our house and a pasta salad with our homemade Italian dressing.
Which is kind of unique because we put a fried pepperoni on it, which we've never seen anywhere else.
(lighthearted guitar music) - I probably do at least a cake a day.
(lighthearted guitar music) So this is the black forest cake.
- These were just things that we were used to that my grandmother and mother made, these were our Sunday dinners.
People from out of town say that they haven't had these things in 50 years.
- We have a wonderful clientele, generations of clientele.
And we enjoy the people.
I mean, we've made friends for years.
On our Facebook page it continues.
Every day there's hundreds and hundreds of people on there.
It's just amazing, the following for 82 years.
There's a great history with all the community.
- We're very proud.
And I know my grandparents, and my parents, and my aunt would be very proud of it also.
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