Category:Sal's Spaghetti House, Allentown, Pennsylvania

The business opened as Pat's Spaghetti House by Pasquale ("Pat") DeMilo in 1935 at 126 Tilghman Street. It's menu was primarily original Italian spaghetti and beer, By 1939, the menu had expanded to various pastas and Paglia, anti pasta, Veal Scallopini, Minestrone, beef stew, ice cream and pie. In October 1939, DeMilo moved his business to 18 North Sixth Street just off the Hamilton Street central business and shopping area, and opposite to the Americus Hotel, the prime business hotel of Allentown. The building was erected in 1898 as a florist shop for brothers John and Charles Horn.

Over the next 40 years, Pat's became a favorite eatery in the downtown business district. In 1977, Pat DeMilo retired and sold the business to Salvadore Poidomani, who renamed it Pat's Spaghetti House. Poidomani changed the sign's neon "Pat's" to "Sal's" but didn't change much else, and the place continued to boom, as busy in its last week as its first.

Sal Poidomani retired in February 1988 after selling the business to Mark Mendleson, owner of the Americus Hotel at the time. Mendleson closed the business but took the restraunt's recipes and added them to the menu at the Americus Hotel's Restaurants. Property was vacant and fell into a serious blighted condition until the early 2000s when the City of Allentown seized the property. Building was in poor repair and city inspectors found dangerously unstable flooring, rotted beams and overall decay and said a heavy snowfall might have collapsed the roof. The building was raised in 2008, re-built as the Cosmopolitan Restaurant and nightclub with a new address of 22 North Sixth Street. The new structure has carved molding and other features from the former building integrated into the structure. Salvatore Poidomani passed in February 2011 at age 87. In January 2013, the Cosmopolitan restaurant's chefs began preparing e Poidomani's sauce, meatballs and sausage on the same North Sixth Street location where Sal's eatery once stood.

The Cosmopolitan closed in March 2015 for a makeover, however it never re-opened. It was sold and reopened as "Hook's Seafood and Grille", a seafood restaurant. Hook's subsequently closed in March 2017 and the property is now in a state of limbo.