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New owner, same tradition.

Jim Silvestri with Staff

Some things are more than food. They’re family, tradition, and memories.

For as long as we can remember, food has been at the heart of our family’s celebrations. Birthday parties, holidays, Sunday gatherings, and family reunions have always meant a table filled with the foods we grew up loving—antipasto platters, Italian heroes, Easter pies, potato pies, and the family recipes that have been passed down from one generation to the next. Our family reunion began in 1980, and many of those traditions are still going strong today.


For our family, Italian food has never been just about the food. It’s about the people around the table. Over the years, each generation has added traditions of its own—from homemade pasta and Italian chili to birthday cakes made for our children—while continuing to carry forward the recipes we inherited. Today, our children are the fourth generation to make some of the same family recipes that have been part of our lives for decades.


After more than three decades in the corporate world, the opportunity finally came to turn a lifelong passion for food, family, and entrepreneurship into something of our own. For years, we had been looking for a way to make that change. With the support of our family and the right opportunity in front of us, we decided it was time to bet on ourselves.


Our goal is to build more than a business. We want to build a place where great food brings people together, where family recipes have a home, and where the traditions we inherited can continue to be shared with our community. We want to work with family, grow alongside our community, and create something meaningful that can be carried forward for generations.


Because the best Italian traditions aren't meant to be kept in a recipe box. They’re meant to be shared.


And that’s what we hope to do every day—share the food, traditions, and memories that have meant so much to our family, while becoming part of yours.

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AS Fine Foods has carried on a tradition that began in Italy, when Gregorio came to America with a dream of building a better future for his family; opening his first pork store in Ozone Park, Queens.

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Today, Jim takes over as the new owner, carrying forward a proud Italian tradition built on quality, craftsmanship, and authentic flavors.

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