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Italian Restaurant Plans Second Location

The pizza and sandwich restaurant has been on Bessom Street for 20 years and now plans a second location in Vinnin Square.

An award-winning Marblehead restaurant will be opening a second location just over the town line.

Cafe Vesuvius said it plans to open a new location at 2 Paradise Road in Salem. No exact timeline has been announced for an opening, and the restaurant said “more details and photos” will be announced soon.

Cafe Vesuvius, next to Village Plaza on Bessom Street, has been in Marblehead for 20 years and is an Italian restaurant that serves sandwiches and pizzas - all made by hand. Its pizza was voted best pizza in the North Shore in 2013, according to Cafe Vesuvius.

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The new location in Vinnin Square, right near the townline of Marblehead and Swampscott, was most recently The New Yorker Deli, and has also been the Black Cow Express, J Quick Kitchen and a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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