UPDATE: Harvest Moon Owner Responds to Alice's Tribute Opposition
A Dallas Center restaurant claims it serves recipes handed down to them by Alice Nizzi, owner of Alice's Spaghetti Land restaurant in Waukee. Her family members say it's not so.
There are few names more beloved in Waukee than that of Alice Nizzi. Nizzi, who died in 1997, owned Alice's Spaghetti Land in Waukee for the better part of 50 years. She's the "Alice" in Alice's Road and was known far and wide for being a bit of a character who made some of the best Italian food this side of Italy. It shouldn't come as a surprise then, that people still hanker for her food. That's a problem now that Alice's Spaghetti Land is no longer in business. The restaurant, owned and operated by Alice's nephew, James Nizzi, after her death, closed in 2004. Alice's Spaghetti Land was a Waukee fixture. What was your favorite dish? Tell us in comments below. Enter the Harvest Moon restaurant, a bar and grill in the heart of Dallas …
Kelly Hammen Nizzi
8:09 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
Sara - Reread this part - We fight out of respect and love for Alice and her name and reputation. She worked her entire life to earn that and we can't sit back and let a "bar" try to take ownership of some of that. The family of Alice Nizzi did not feel that Alice's Spaghettiland was represented well by the Dallas Center restaurant. We did not "punish" anybody, rather, we were trying to preserve … more ›