Place

Villa Teo

"I started working part time at the last restaurant that the Danzigers had, called the Villa Teo. The Villa Teo is down on what we call Stroud Hill...And the Villa Teo was a beautiful place...it was the type of place where you would want to take your girl on a nice date."

- David Mason

Originally opened as Villa Tempesta in the summer of 1963, the restaurant was purchased by Ted and Mary Danzinger and reopened as Villa Teo in 1966. In the 1970s, noted chef Bill Neal worked there until he and his wife opened his own restaurant, La Residence, elsewhere in Chapel Hill. In the 1980s, the building became an antique store, Whitehall at the Villa.