Caliente Pizza Adding Ross Location

ROSS TOWNSHIP, PA — The ever-expanding Caliente Pizza & Draft House chain is adding a new North Hills location. Caliente on Tuesday announced its acquisition of the former Silvioni's Restaurant on Babcock Boulevard.

The new Caliente will be the eighth for the Pittsburgh-based business.

"We are thrilled to extend our reach further into the North Hills, growing up in the North Hills and raising our family here," Caliente president Nick Bogacz said in a release. "There is special meaning to this location.

The Silvioni family, which owned the restaurant for more than seven decades, said Caliente is an appropriate successor to the Italian eatery's legacy.

"I know that my grandfather is looking down, and is so happy that the seats will be filled again with the great patrons, that we were blessed with for 75 years, as well as many new ones that will be excited to start patronizing Caliente Pizza & Draft House, families will once again be laughing and enjoying themselves once more for generations to come,” Silvioni owner Chris Castagnari said.

An opening date for the new restaurant was not announced.

Caliente has locations in Bloomfield, Hampton, Mount Lebanon, Aspinwall, Monroeville, Sewickley and Crafton.