When Salvatore first opened the restaurant with his brother Pinu, diners ate together at large communal tables.in 1954 and with his wife Nunzia opened the Unicorn, a transport café on Stanningley Road, followed by the Blue Gardenia on Boar Lane.
But when Gip and John were born, they returned to Salerno to run a trattoria. In 1970, a cholera scare in Europe devastated the restaurant business, and they decided to try their luck in Leeds again.had to do his apprenticeship at the family pizzeria back in Italy before he took over at Salvo’s.