DiCicco’s restaurant is planning to open a new location in Fresno. Here’s what’s coming
Update: The newest DiCicco’s opened Wednesday. It’s open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
A new DiCicco’s Italian Restaurant is in the works.
The family behind one of the restaurants – long a fixture of the Fresno food scene with nine locations – is planning a new location in east-central Fresno.
Work has just barely started on a new building on Shields Avenue, just west of Armstrong Avenue and west of the Fast N Esy gas station.
The area’s DiCicco’s restaurants are owned by different members of the same family.
The new 4,100-square-foot building will be a duplication of the one at Cedar and Nees avenues, which opened in 1998.
It will have all the popular DiCicco’s dishes, including the Scarface pasta made with chicken breast, mushrooms and a creamy white sauce. Spaghetti, lasagna, ravioli, pizza and calzone will also be on the menu, said Enrico DiCicco, who owns the Cedar and Nees avenues location.
He’s a consultant on the project, but his children, Dante, Rocco and Arianna DiCicco, are partnering with his cousin Carlo and Michele DiCicco to create the new restaurant.
If all goes as planned, it should be open by Nov. 1.
Enrico DiCicco said the family chose that part of town because there’s not a lot of restaurants or stores in the area.
“Basically that area is underdeveloped in services,” he said. “A lot of rooftops and they keep building more. There’s no really retail corners at all.”
It will join five DiCicco’s in Fresno, and one each in Clovis, Kingsburg, Madera and Oakhurst.
This story was originally published January 28, 2021 at 8:00 AM.
