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Bill of Fare: Chambersburg’s Diamond’s shines once more in Pennington
By Susan Sprague Yeske / For The Times
on October 18, 2013 at 6:55 AM, updated October 18, 2013 at 12:49 PMIf you didn’t visit Metro 31 during the few months it was open, you are out of luck.
But if you are pining for the upscale Italian cuisine that put the original Diamond’s on the map in Trenton’s Chambersburg, now is the time.
After several years with no Diamond’s restaurants in the area, brothers Anthony and Tommy Zucchetti opened their latest venue in the Pennington Shopping Center in Pennington five weeks ago. The restaurant replaced Metro 31 in the spot long held by TJ’s Trattoria.
The brothers, who for 22 years operated the original restaurant named for their father, Diamante, had offered the same food at other venues in the intervening years. Both were pursuing other ventures when they got the call from brothers Joseph and Tony Vitella, who owned Metro 31 as well as Metro Grille in Ewing and Metro North in Princeton.
“He asked if we wanted to open Diamond’s in Pennington,” Anthony Zucchetti says. They did, and hired as many of their former staff as they could, including a cook who had worked for them for 18 years at the restaurant on Trenton’s Kent Street.
The menu he defines as Italian Continental is a trip down memory lane, Zucchetti says, and returning customers are happy to find their favorites again available. It is a little smaller than the menu offered in Trenton, but “it has all of our basics,” he says.
We started our meal with an order of garlic formage bread, $9, which is baked in-house and comes covered with a pool of sauce featuring four Italian cheeses. Gooey and dripping with cheese, it was a flavorful start to the meal, although the complementary basket of bread provided was warm and inviting as well.