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136 | NOVEMBER 2015 nshoremag.com in-depth FACES the Massachusetts Restaurant As- sociation. Nor will he tell you how many committees and charitable organizations he's donated his time and money to in an effort to help the local restaurant industry and to provide futures for underprivileged youth in Boston and Winchester. He probably won't touch on all of the awards he's been given by those communities, either. But if you're lucky, he might just tell you the story of how he and his brother, Filippo, opened their very first res- taurant in the North End. It was back in 1974. "We were working in various restaurants in Boston," he recalls. "I was at Via Maria in East Boston. [Neither of us knew anything] about being in the business, or the laws around running a place. [But] we put all of our resources together and bought a restaurant." Then, one day, two gentlemen to whom he was serv- ing lunch showed him their police Customers can expect classic Italian cuisine and fine wines.