by Andrea Castillo

Just over a year after closing up shop, Vinny and Sonny Chiarello are reopening Luigi's, saying they have been unable to stay away from the business. Running the restaurant, after all, was something the brothers had been doing for nearly 30 years. "Over the year and some odd months, we've been getting nothing but phone calls from people requesting our return," said Vinny Chiarello, whose restaurant closed in October 2014. "They've missed Luigi's food, they've missed Luigi's garlic knots, people telling us we've had the best food and the best garlic knots in probably the state of Virginia."

The restaurant was prospering when it closed, but after all that time, "we were kind of tired, to tell you the truth," Chiarello said. In the mid-1980s, the brothers, sons of immigrant parents from Sicily, bought Luigi's Pizza and Subs, which had been operating in Newport News since 1973.

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