The Dish: Dante and Luigi's

time now for the dish and tonight we're heading inside of a Storage South Philadelphia Italian restaurant our Alicia velli takes us to Dante and Luigi's where they are celebrating 125 years of food family and some pretty iconic stories who are Dante and Luigi so the original owner of the restaurant was Michael dco and his sons were Dante and Luigi and it's been a South Philly staple at the corner of 10th and Catherine streets for 125 years this opened in 1899 1899 and it's been an open ever since continually unbelievable there's so much history in this space and it is very carefully preserved the way you walk in the door and you feel like you've been transported to the Past do you feel like that's how you sustain in the future because there's something nostalgic of course and I think that I I think the most important thing about this restaurant is that we don't ever change what we are and if the walls could talk you'd listen Philly's got a lot of stories and you love like the the ones that kind of like murmur through right who ate there who was there this is the kind of restaurant where the Who's Who and the everybody would come to eat yeah they did and it was I mean there's there's such a long history including that famous story about a Mafia Shooting it's Laura around here in the ' 50s there were the mob in one room and the FBI in the other room and they would eat lunch together in the different rooms and watch each other this is true story and when it comes to the menu some things haven't changed since 1899 this is perchell genoves which is just so traditional to this restaurant it's a real bolog sauce and when you have a pasta that's been on the menu for25 years I think you got something going I think it speaks for itself yes [Music] and while we were at Dante and Luigi's they shared their recipe for one of their best sellers the classic Italian soup a pasta fol find the recipe right now at 6abc.com theed dish Alicia V