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Page 4 FPHTW Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Husband-and-wife team make Marie's work i V- "rnmmr i I ft 1 I fc if I v. 4 MARIE'S CAFE-DELI WHERE: 641 Shunpike Road (in the Hickory Square Mall), Chatham Township TELEPHONE NUMBER: 973-377-7878 WEBSITE: www.mariesdeli.com (check for daily specials) CUISINE: Italian homestyle HOURS: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday to Saturday, noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday PRICE RANGE: Appetizers $5, caprese salad $8, salads $6 small, $8 large, entrees $13.95, sandwiches $9 i PAYMENT Major credit cards LIQUOR: BYOB RESERVATIONS: No TAKEOUT Yes CATERING: Yes PARKING: Parking lot DRESS: Casual ATMOSPHERE: The restaurant is white, red and stainless steel retro, enough to make you wonder where the hanging sausages are. Head to the Green Village Road side of the shopping center and Marie's is the latest addition to a small restaurant fOw, each One offering a different meal. Marie's is great for takeout or a casual meal with family or friends and parking is easy MOTTO: Keep your friends close and your antipasto closer OWNERS: Carl Ruiz and Marie Riccio By Jamie Duffy Special to FlorhamParkHanover This Week Walking into Marie's in Chatham Township, an Italian-style deli and cafe, is like walking into a deli of yesteryear. The deli, in the Hickory Square Mall, opened in October, and it's the type of deli you might have visited as a child when visiting your grandmother's house if your grandmother lived in Hoboken or Jersey City in the 1950s.

That neighborhood feel is exactly the vibe owners and husband-and-wife team Carl Ruiz and Marie Riccio were going for. Ruiz is the classically trained chef and a huge fan and sometimes colleague of Guy Fieri of Food Network television fame. Riccio is the cook by instinct, who grew learning how to cook homestyle Italian meals at her grandmother's ladle in Jersey City. "I'm like her sous chef," says Ruiz, who starts the red sauce with the rest of the staff. But he doesn't finish the preparation: "We'll all wait for Marie to come and, like the queen, season it." The couple looked for a place in the Morristown area, but came upon this location and liked it immediately.

Riccio wanted the retro feeling and put in a white tile floor and red-and-white plastic and aluminum chairs and tables. Along the wall there is a long row of large cans, also red and white. They're not the kinJ she uses, but they bear her grandmother's two lucky numbers, 7 and 11. Stainless steel airplane fans hang from the ceiling. "I saw those fans and it just really tied it together," Riccio says.

The couple installed the tables and chairs when customers asked if they could stay and eat the food. Like piano players who take requests, they'll make to order. Recently someone asked for lingui-ne in clam sauce, so they obliged. "Nobody makes spaghetti and meatballs," Riccio says. The most popular menu Carl Ruiz and Marie Riccio are the owners of Marie's Cafe-Deli Township.

PHOTOS BY JAMIE DUFFY Hickory Square Mall), Chatham ed. In just a short time, Marie's has developed a loyal following. Take Michael Auth, of Chatham Township, who works next door at the cinema. The restaurant is a hit with the staff, he says. Auth, who says he likes everything at Marie's, leaves it up to them to choose dinner.

"I can never decide," he says. "The first time I ate here was like the first time I heard the Beatles." Got a restaurant in Florham Park or the llanovers you'd like us to feature? Tell us about it at contactflorhampark hanoverthisweek.com. at 641 Shunpike Road (in the r-v t- i Br-u" iiisa( tr5 Lg i I I ''J item is rigatoni or ziti with meatballs and sausage at $13.95, the standard price for entrees. The most popular sandwich is Sunday Gravy meatballs and sausage with melted mozzarella cheese, smothered in tomato gravy. Sides such as broccoli rabe, rice balls and meatballs cost $5.

Pasta and fagioli soup, $6. The "mozz" is made on the premises. There was big excitement one day in November when Guy Fieri showed up to see what Marie's was all about and ended up working in the kitchen for more than three hours. Customers were stunned and delight fresh vegetables with Beef, I 3 or tnnl Mb ilea nnli, Inr nnolitw I luu. uo urn, Huain, Coupon in our own unique crusti with 973 366 Hungarian (A sweet nut i I FREE I With any i i Mr i -1 5 i "TTlTl 5 1 I 1 LiM i I I frj 1 1 i i -i t-- "rW-g Homemade European Specialty Foods! Stuffed Cabbage Polish Kielbasa Czechoslovakian Kolache roll with walnut and other fillings) 1 coup5TT1 1 WHAT'S A Our delicious homemade pasties (pronounced pass-tees) are prepared FRESH DAILY scrumptious, savory turnovers filled PASTY! The Purchase of More (12 lb.) PASTIES t.

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