The building where the new market will be opening.
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The Masso family along with La Stalla’s executive chef are planning to open an Italian market in the heart of Newtown’s business district this year.
La Stalla owner Marc Masso is working with his mom Donna, dad Vince and chef Benny Puleo to open the new Italian market at the stand-alone pad site at the recently-completed Promenade shopping and residential building at 186 block of North Sycamore Street.
The market will begin interior construction soon and is expected to open to customers in mid-June, Masso said.
The market will sell hard-to-find and specially-made cheeses, meats and imported products.
A side view of the market site.
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“Right now people are going to Philadelphia and Doylestown for these products,” Masso said, adding he thinks there is a customer base in the Newtown area that is traveling to far away places for an authentic Italian market.
“We’ve got some great supermarkets, but we’re offering a specialty market,” the restaurateur said.
The Masso family’s experience in the food business goes back more than a century. His family opened a small corner market in Camden in the early 1900s. From there, the family was involved with various aspects of the food business, with his father even owning a pizza place. Masso opened La Stalla a dozen years ago and the eatery has become the the go-to family-style Italian restaurant in Lower Bucks County.
The new Italian market has been in the works for a while but plans were recently firmed up, Masso said.
“We love food and what we do here at La Stalla,” Masso said. “We’ll be bringing that to our niche Italian market.”
[H/T Newtown Patch]
