Brothers Joseph & Mark Mazzotta have spent the majority of their lives in the restaurant & pizza business. Joe & Mark categorically worked their way through every aspect of the restaurant industry; holding positions such as: dishwasher, potato peeler, busboy to waiter, bartender to pizza man, cooks to cashier. They pursued all of the phases from the "front of the house" to the "back of the house" and everything in between before moving onto management and ownership. As they effectively conquered layer after layer of experience in every facet within a restaurant; the brothers equally engaged in studying the consistency of various restaurant concepts or themes. Beginning with mom & pop pizzerias, delis, followed by fast-paced, high volume pizzeria restaurants, they interned in casual family Italian restaurants, high volume catering facilities, reputable hotels and notable franchises, all in the tri-state area.

Joe & Mark's journey began when very early in their childhood, their family was occasioned with a tragedy, the loss of their Father. Their father was the patriarch of the family, thus this was truly a tremendous loss for everyone. His untimely death then forced their mother; who was a homemaker devoted to her husband & family to go to work for her own brother, who owned several successful pizzerias in the Bronx and Westchester. The incalculable event also catapulted the brothers into the work force as their mother commissioned them to contribute to the household to help make ends meet. It was 1977 when first Joseph, then soon after Mark began his steadfast odyssey into the restaurant / pizzeria industry. It was at this time when they both discovered a passion for food & cooking. Mark and Joe continued to work with their uncle as well as embarking on to other restaurant venues & sources; unrelenting in their campaign to experience all angles of the food industry.

Although Mark & Joe began working in pizzeria's very early in their lives; their new passion really started in their ancestral home, where Italian cooking was a common ritual within their household. Their grandmother, mother and aunts, had all fostered and seeded the foundation of their love of food, wine & wine making. They were fortunate to be surrounded by an Italian family who cradled their culture. Mark and Joe were the beneficiaries of this influence, as their grandmother, parents, aunts & uncles revealed the royalty of culinary crafting – Italian food means the freshest Italian ingredients and the fine craft of attentive cooking.

Fast forward to 1993, when Mark originally established his first restaurant, Amore Pizza in Scarsdale, NY. Previously, this daunting location had been a brief host to five business failures in three years. Subsequently, (within two years) Mark transformed it into a high volume operation, resulting in a multimillion-dollar pizzeria. Mark and Joe together graduated to a larger casual family-style dining Italian restaurant/pizzeria when they opened their second successful restaurant in 1998 - Amore Pizzeria & Pasta - Armonk, NY {seating 150}. Continuing their challenging careers, the year 2003 saw the opening of a seventy-five seat upscale Italian bistro, Pomodoro Trattoria in Greenwich, CT, then in 2005 - Amore Pizzeria & Pasta in Thornwood, NY opened its doors and most recently, the year 2007 - Antipasti a 350 seat sophisticated, creative/modern Italian-fine dining restaurant & wine bar made its debut.

Beginning in 1993 and along the way, Mark & Joe have proudly sponsored and always participated in many community events and charitable causes. After five highly successful endeavors; the Mazzotta Brothers are constantly focusing on trends and results in the restaurant industry; as they search and strive outside and beyond the culinary world to discover efficiencies for their business objectives, for your most valued dining enjoyment!