After a devastating earthquake in 1965 destroyed their home in Santa Anastatia (a small town near Naples, Italy), Sal Mancoso's parents Nunzio and Antonia decided to move to America.

The family settled in the Bronx where Nunzio opened a barbershop. Meanwhile, the Mancuso family still looking to better their lives, were attracted to an ad in an italian newspaper announcing the sale of a restaurant on Kings Highway. Although the Mancuso family had never owned a restaurant, Antonia saw this as an opportunity to transfer her passion for cooking and entertaining into a family business. So the family moved to Trumbull, CT and began running Three Brothers Restaurant.

The family named the restaurant Three Brothers because Antonia wished to pass the restaurant down to her three sons as soon as they learned to cook and run the business. As time went by, Sal's two older brothers Carmine and Claudio left the business and Sal's parents moved back to Italy. But Sal stayed with the restaurant, determined to make his mark on it.

By making incremental changes to the menu here and there, he added more sauteed dishes, shops personally for the produce and meats at Hunts Point Market, and helped create a new face on a family classic when he closed Three Brothers for six weeks for a total renovation.

The restaurant now includes a sit-down bar, more seating, a fine decor which is pleasing to the eyes and a comfort to be surrounded in, a new patio and finally, a name change.

As a tribute to his family, especially his parents, Sal renamed the restaurant Mancuso's. And although his parents never really assimilated into the american culture, they instilled an abundance of family values and work ethic (not to mention many family recipes) which has helped Sal and his family realize a family vision in the pursuit of the American Dream. Sal and his wife Carmen along with their two oldest children are even beginning to consider a product line to help them share their sauces and dressings to more families, allowing a little piece of their family, to be with yours...

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