Token, Store
Token, Store
Token, Store

Token, Store

Object number2013.39.7
Datec. 2000
MediumWood
Credit LineGift of Joseph Costanzo, Jr.
DescriptionCircular wooden drink token. Restaurant name printed on obverse and value prined on reverse.Dimensions1.5 x 1.5 x 0.125 x 4.75 in. (3.8 x 3.8 x 0.3 x 12.1 cm)
InscriptionsPrinted on obverse: "PRIMADONNA"; reverse: "GOOD FOR / ONE DRINK".
Historical NotesDrink token from The Primadonna Restaurant. Owner Joseph Costanzo, Jr., opened The Primadonna Restaurant, named after his wife Donna, in McKees Rocks in 1986 and ran it until 2003, when he sold the restaurant to John Welsh, former owner of Welsh's on the Rocks. Offering Italian cuisine from Abruzzo and Calabria, Costanzo stylized the peasant fare of his parents' native regions in Italy into up-scale cuisine served on a white linen tablecloth. He won multiple awards for his 83 seat restaurant, including The Pittsburgh Post Gazette's 1990 Restaurateur of the Year, the International Geneva Association's 1995 Restaurateur of the Year, the DiRoNA Award (Distinguished Restaurants of North America), and was named one of America's Top Ten Italian Restaurants in 2002 by the International Restaurant and Hospitality Rating Bureau. Locally, The Primadonna Restaurant was voted the best Italian restaurant in Western Pennsylvania by the readers of Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Nationally, it was written up in the pages of Playboy Magazine, The New York Daily News, and Mid-Atlantic Country Magazine.
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