Dom & Mia’s gets ready to ‘dom-inate’ Delaware County’s dining scene

SPRINGFIELD — Dom & Mia’s, a brand new upscale informal restaurant at 145 Saxer Ave., introduced that it’ll open its doorways to the general public on Friday, April 29.  As the most recent restaurant on the Delaware County eating scene, Dom & Mia’s, a hometown spot for household and buddies to assemble over traditional cocktails and fashionable dishes, will provide lunch and dinner, made recent to order, in an environment of consolation and leisure.

House owners Steve DeVito together with his spouse Jenna DeMaio Devito, and enterprise companion Matt White plan to open the restaurant with its very particular identify, shining mild on two of the DeVitos’ kids – Domenico James (Dom) and Mia Isabella – who each handed away because of issues of untimely beginning. Steve and Jenna’s two different kids, Emma, 3, and Vincenzo, 8 months, will likely be by their facet as they share their love of Dom and Mia and open the restaurant’s doorways.

Dom & Mia’s will seat about 80 patrons and make use of no less than 20-30 on employees. They’re nonetheless within the strategy of hiring. The previous PNC financial institution constructing, transformed with a contemporary, stylish aptitude in impartial tones, has each normal tables and hi-top seating. The restaurant, which has a liquor license, will provide a drink menu, along with meals. The constructing has loads of free parking.

“On the finish of the day, we would like our restaurant to be an excellent expertise for each buyer who is available in right here,” Steve stated.

The brand new restaurant area was beneath development by contractor John Hudyma and Sons, Ridley Township.

“Springfield Township has been simply superior, in welcoming us, and so have the opposite companies alongside Saxer Avenue,” Steve acknowledged. “Despite the fact that Dom & Mia’s will likely be upscale informal and have a nice eating menu, we would like it to really feel snug and homey. We would like diners to have a spot to go that isn’t a sequence restaurant. On the finish of the day, we need to have a particular place, with nice vibes, for the group to return eat and luxuriate in one another’s firm.”

The house owners are particularly happy with the design. Along with the vault being transformed to carry wine and different gadgets, the distinctive bar was crafted with former financial institution security deposit bins constructed into the brick. Energy wire charger stations are additionally constructed within the design.

Delaware County native Joseph McIntyre will make his debut as Govt Chef. The 33-year-old chef, who previously labored at JD McGillicuddy’s and Harmony Nation Membership, plans to create a menu providing fashionable takes on conventional household recipes with distinctive flavors and dishes which might be impressed by the non-public household reminiscences he has across the dinner desk.

“All the things will likely be made in-house,” the chef defined. “We’ll have a really made-from-scratch, inventive kitchen, a lot completely different from all of the chain eating places, with a number of old-school recipes, some with a brand new twist. The restaurant enterprise may be very aggressive. We need to set ourselves aside and be a favourite within the Delaware County group.”

McIntyre stated Dom & Mia’s will place a particular emphasis on household and group. The restaurant may even have a kids’s menu.

The usual menu will function a wide range of soups, salads, pizzas, sandwiches, appetizers and entrees. The entrees embody delicious selections like Spinach Gnocchi with Pomodoro Sauce and Shallots; Home Tagliatelle, Roast Pork, Tuscan Kale, Charred Ramp Pesto Cream, Chile Threads; Creole Meatballs, Chorizo and Andouille, Okra Risotto, Roasted Shrimp, Bay Scallops, Roasted Yellow Pepper Coulis; and The Chop, a Duroc Bone-in Pork Chop, Garlic Roasted Mashed Potatoes, Charred Asparagus, Crimson Eye Jus, Smoked Peach.

Different favorites on the menu embody Hen Parmigiana with all home made components; Bone-in Ribeye with Fingerling Potatoes, Maricot Vert, Pink Peppercorn Demi; Shoyu Smoked Tofu with Pureed Asparagus and Shaved Artichoke and Fennel Slaw; and different picks. Moreover, there will likely be seasonal and every day specials and a “pizza of the day.”

The DeVitos and White plan to make the restaurant an lively group participant, committing that the restaurant will make month-to-month nights targeted on varied charities, particularly March of Dimes Basis, which works to reduce the toddler mortality fee. The DeVitos plan on designating one evening per thirty days to have ten % of the restaurant’s proceeds go to March of Dimes.

Donating to the March of Dimes has been a solution to deliver consolation to the couple after their tragic losses. By way of the DeVito household’s charitable drive, they created Group DOMinate, which up to now has raised roughly $150,000 to assist the March of Dimes Basis.

“Dom & Mia are all the time in our hearts,” stated Steve DeVito. “We could not have been capable of make many reminiscences with them as they have been misplaced too quickly, however with this restaurant, Dom & Mia will likely be remembered every single day. That is our tribute to them, and we will’t watch for the group to dine and make reminiscences with us.”

The house owners and chef are all lifelong Delco residents. McIntyre, a resident of Higher Darby, is an alum of St. Laurence Elementary College and a 2007 graduate of Monsignor Bonner Excessive College. The chef later attended the Restaurant College at Walnut Hill School.

White, a silent minority companion, lives in Springfield together with his spouse Dana and their son Blake. He grew up within the Secane part of Ridley Township, attending Our Girl of Fatima Parish grade faculty and Cardinal O’Hara Excessive College. He’s a fourth-generation steamfitter.

Now married virtually 9 years, Steve and Jenna, present residents of Springfield, met once they have been kindergarten college students at Stonehurst Hills Elementary College in Higher Darby. Their lives went separate methods till they reconnected years later.

Steve, who grew up in Higher Darby, graduated from St. Cyril’s after which Monsignor Bonner in 2004. He went on to earn a level in Finance from West Chester College. Earlier than working full time to create Dom & Mia’s, Steve labored as a supervisor at JR Monaghans Pub and Grill in Ardmore. and extra not too long ago, at USLI as an insurance coverage underwriter.

Jenna, who grew up in Springfield, graduated from St. Dorothy’s Elementary College after which Archbishop Prendergast Excessive College in 2004. She earned a level in Finance from Kutztown College in 2008. She additionally minored in dance and at the moment teaches dance at Cathie Collins College of Dance in Aldan and Glen Mills.

In 2017, Steve and Jenna DeVito welcomed Dom into the world at 12 1/2 weeks early. Initially, Dom was in good well being, however 12 days after beginning, he got here down with a bowel an infection known as Necrotizing Entercolitis.  After a troublesome, two-day battle, Dom died. Then in 2019, their household had Mia. At simply 25 weeks, Jenna DeVito’s water broke. Following 5 days of bedrest, Mia had a suspected wire incident requiring an emergency supply. Mia was with out oxygen longer than was capable of get well, and she or he died at two days outdated. After their devastating losses, the love and assist from the group helped them by troublesome instances and in addition helped encourage them to open Dom & Mia’s restaurant.

“I used to be actually going by some tough months, after shedding our youngsters after which navigating the isolation of the pandemic,” Steve stated. “I took a while off from my job throughout the previous few months of 2019, to work by my grief. Then, lower than one month after returning to work, the pandemic hit in 2020. It was throughout the time of working remotely and transferring by the phases of grief, that Jenna and I got here up with this concept of opening a restaurant of their identify to maintain their reminiscence alive without end.”

“We determined to open the restaurant in Dom and Mia’s names in order that we’d be blissful after we considered them,” Jenna added. “We needed our infants to be remembered in a optimistic means and we needed to open Dom & Mia’s proper in our personal group.”

“Proper now, as we get able to open, we’re dotting each ‘I’ and crossing each ‘T’,” DeVito stated. “I’ve recognized Matt and Joe from highschool. We performed sports activities collectively, we frolicked collectively. We nonetheless dwell right here. Our households nonetheless dwell right here. Ours is an actual Delco story and we will’t watch for Delco residents to return in right here and luxuriate in!”

Hours will likely be 4-9 p.m., Monday-Tuesday; 11 a.m.- 9 p.m. Wednesday- Thursday; 11 a.m. -10 p.m. Friday- Saturday; and 11 a.m.- 9 p.m. Sunday. Reservations are advisable for dine-in. Prospects may name forward to select up orders. For extra details about Dom & Mia’s and for employment alternatives, go to http://domandmias.com or electronic mail data@domandmias.com.

Updates concerning the opening may even be shared on Fb @domandmias and Instagram @dom_and_mias.