Cafe Amore opens downtown

A new restaurant called Cafe Amore has opened in Fredericksburg’s College Heights neighborhood just off U.S. 1. Owners Tom and Rico Roscigno, a father-son team, opened the eatery in June at 1230 Jefferson Davis Hwy., which was previously Merryman’s Florist.
 
The family hails from Salerno, Italy, and Tom Roscigno described Cafe Amore’s menu, which serves subs and pasta, as “fresh with Italian ingredients,” including mozzarella he gets from Italy. Rico Roscigno, who is also a manager with Sprint, said he wanted to get involved to carry on the family tradition of running restaurants. His father has owned a number of establishments in the Fredericksburg region and northern Virginia. And his grandfather, Americo Roscigno, was also a restaurateur.