New Pizza/Family Restaurant Open For Business In Vernon

VERNON, CT — Let's say one thing about the grinders at a new family restaurant in Vernon — they seemed to be as long as a lacrosse stick.

OK, that's an exaggeration, but the larges were ... well ... large.

Paradise Pizza and Family Restaurant is open for business and it was certainly bustling over the weekend. At 575 Talcottville Road, it fills a plaza vacancy created by the departure of another pizza place. The location is also convenient for the younger crowd — at the Talcottville Road-Loveland Hill Road intersection near Rockville High School.

The owners have transformed the vacancy into a restaurant with not only takeout, but plenty of tables for dine-in, which several people took advantage of at dinnertime Saturday. The menu is stacked.

The grinders come in 8- and 16-inch sizes and feature the traditional to four types of parm — eggplant, meatball, sausage and chicken.

The apps range from eggplant fries to wings to mussels and calamari. The salads seem as large as hubcaps and range from antipasto and chef to fried calamari to apple gorgonzola cranberry walnut.

Burgers, sandwiches, wraps, gyros, 10-plus seafood entrees, 14 types of chicken dishes and a variety of pasta offerings are on the menu.

There is pizza, of course.

Paradise offers discounts to educators, churches, first-responders and members of the military.

See more about the restaurant here.