Via Veneto Owner: 'We Are Coming Back!'

Via Veneto owner Anthony Stabile wants his customers to know that he's not abandoning them.

"That's the important thing we want people to know," Stabile told Patch, "that they [can] follow us from here to there, and that we are coming back here."

The "here" in that sentence is the venerable pizza shop's longtime home at 1803 Markley Street and the "there" is their temporary location at 2688 DeKalb Street (in the southeast corner of the Northtowne Plaza Shopping Center across from Mercy Suburban Hospital) in East Norriton. 

Stabile said they'll be making the move sometime next month (an exact date isn't set, but an announcement will be made soon), but can't say exactly how long they'll be there.

"Hopefully it takes no more than a year," he said.

While they're in the new digs, the old shop will be razed and rebuilt. According to The Times Herald, the new shop will fill out 1803 and the property next door at 1801 Markley Street and feature a bigger parking lot, seating for 150 customers and even a bigger menu. Don't worry, the Italian Ice isn't going anywhere.

The move couldn't happen at a better time, with work on the Markley Street Improvement Project beginning to take shape, but Stabile says their plans for a new shop were in the works before the PennDOT project was announced. 

"We hope that all of our amazing and loyal customers will continue to join us at this new location while the new construction is being completed on Markley Street," the shop posted to its Facebook page.

Stabile and the rest of the crew at Via Veneto's are excited about the move and are even sporting new t-shirts advertising the news, but he stressed it's only temporary.

Like he told the Herald, "We aren't leaving Norristown."