Last week, Middletown welcomed a new restaurant to College Street: Stella D’Oro. The charming, family-owned Italian eatery is a mere five minute walk from campus, nestled between the bustle of Main Street and the quiet stretch of houses leading up to Wesleyan.

“Me and my father own this place,” co-owner Esmir Cecunjanin told The Argus. “He handles the kitchen stuff, I handle the front of the house.” Cecunjanin says that the building was previously occupied by Tuscany Grill, which is now located up the street and often visited by Wesleyan students and their parents.