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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Village Pizza''' is a pizza restaurant at [[616 University Avenue|616 University Ave.]], on the campus stretch of University Avenue. It opened in mid-October 2017 in the former Bob's Copy Shop<ref name="mc-2018-01-11-village-review">Kalk Derby, S. (2018, January 11). [https://madison.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/reviews/article_7b639fad-aa1f-5a70-bacf-7aebc48ea4ed.html "Sweet treats upstage pizza at Village Pizza."] ''madison.com''.</ref>.<br />
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==History==<br />
The brothers Arturo Ruiz and Berna Cazares, whose family runs Rosati's Pizza franchises, announced the restaurant in August 2017<ref name="mc-2017-08-14-village-pizza">Kalk Derby, S. (2017, August 14). [https://madison.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/restaurants/article_e78967f4-f821-5c8b-aea8-56396275117c.html "Village Pizza to open in former Bob's Copy Shop on University Avenue."] ''madison.com''.</ref>. It was planned for September — "Everything is ready but you know, the construction is what we're waiting for," Ruiz said that fall<ref name="ct-2017-09-06-pO28">Christians, L. (2017, September 6). Fall restaurant-opening preview: Village Pizza waiting on construction. ''The Capital Times''. p. O28. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/516779077/ 516779077].</ref> — and opened in mid-October, serving from 11 a.m. daily and until bar time on Fridays and Saturdays, with no delivery and fast meals for $7 to $10<ref name="ct-2017-09-06-pO28" /><ref name="mc-2018-01-11-village-review" />.<br />
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A State Journal review in January 2018 found the sweet treats — churros, deep-fried "bites" with chocolate dipping sauce — upstaging the pizza, and praised the fried mushrooms; the harvest pizza was "generous with its cheese and toppings"<ref name="mc-2018-01-11-village-review" />.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* The address had held a [[Pizza Pit]] store decades earlier, so Village Pizza returned pizza to 616 University Ave.<br />
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==Locations==<br />
* [[616 University Avenue|616 University Ave.]] (mid-October 2017 to present as of the 2018 review).<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Rosati’s Pizza]]<br />
* [[Item:Q1579|Village Pizza in the Madison Pizza Wiki database]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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