Ask Mary Reyes, owner of Egg Harbor City’s Assaggio! Restaurant what’s new and she proudly boasts that the restaurant has won some well-deserved awards — namely, an A.C. Weekly Nightlife Award for Best Happy Hour outside of a casino; Best Meatball at Resorts’ Italian Festival; and Assaggio’s Executive Chef Jorge Barreto won an A.C. Weekly Top 40 Under 40 award.
“So things have been good, considering I’m a newbie at this,” says Reyes, who purchased the business five years ago from the owners of the former Tre Figlia. A bookkeeper for years, Reyes loved the restaurant so much she bought it, despite having no previous restaurant experience.
