If the wide, colonial-era streets of downtown Haddonfield have ever reminded you of a European piazza, consider your impression validated by a continental native. “Haddonfield is so much European,” said restaurateur Endrit “Andrew” Bodi. When he first came to South Jersey to work in the food industry, the 24-year-old Albanian would take his meals at the Bistro, and stroll along Kings Highway afterwards. It reminded him of places in Croatia, France, the Czech Republic.

And when Bodi looked up at the balconettes of the former Little Tuna at 141 Kings Highway, his mind’s eye saw Verona, the Italian city made famous in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. So for the first opportunity at the helm of his own establishment, Bodi borrowed the name. “I was walking with my brother, and saw the balcony of the building, and thought, ‘It’s perfect,’” Bodi said.