By David Long • Photographer Stephanie J. Bartik
HOME STYLE PIZZA AND THE RITZ ON UNION “When you need a caterer that will deliver mouth-watering entrées with amazing tastes
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for your next special event, turn to Home Style Caterers and The Ritz on Union.” or fifty years the Bennice and Adoninno families have been serving the richest Sicilian and Mediterranean food in the region... From their humble beginnings in 1973 with
Home Style Pizza & Submarine in Niskayuna — the Ritz Restaurant on Van Vranken Avenue, and Home Style Caterers on upper Union Street — this family business offers the best in a la carte Italian American dining, homestyle pizzas, Sicilian specialty dishes, and traditional southern Italian cuisine. You can build your own pizza from an extensive list of locally sourced ingredients with gluten-free and vegan options, and other dietary requests available. The pizzas are baked in brick ovens to produce a lightly crisp, chewy crust… Home Style Pizza pays homage to the family's love for Italian cuisine… The Arancini, Calzones, and Stromboli are baked fresh daily on the premises!
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Soon, the restaurant’s co-owners, cousins Anthony Adonnino and Michael and Paul Bennice, will celebrate the oneyear anniversary of their latest culinary venture, The Ritz on Union, a classic Italian cuisine fine dining restaurant with a strong focus on authentic traditional Sicilian dishes... For the Bennice and Adoninno families, it's another chapter in their long heritage of providing fresh, locally sourced food of the highest quality. We dine here often, and love the menu choices. Home Style Pizza has been catering and serving the Capital Region with authentic Italian cuisine, featuring brick oven pizza, traditional Sicilian entrées, and more… We fell in love with The Ritz on Union during lunch on a Saturday afternoon... I chose the luscious lasagna layered with seasoned ground beef, fresh mozzarella, and fresh ricotta cheese — baked in a classic red gravy (sauce)… My lady enjoyed a calzone filled with sausage, broccoli, mushrooms, and
