Yng-Ru Chen

..."Never mind those fancy Manhattan Italians… Over the bridge in Brooklyn, there's something amazing going on…a quiet culinary revolution is taking place...
Take Locanda Vini & Olii, for instance. François Louy and Catherine de Zagon Louy's place. He's a native of Milan, she grew up in Florence, and they met in the dining room at Celestino in BH. In NY, he ran the dining room at Torre de Pisa and managed for Cipriani…She was general manager of Claudio Gottardo's 5 restaurants, then ran things at Mezzogiorno and Balthazar.
In 1997, she went home to Italy and researched Tuscan cookery. Then the couple turned a 103-year-old Clinton Hill drugstore into a brand-new restaurant...rigorously authentic and unlike almost anything on the menu in Italian restaurants across the city".
- The James Beard Foundation, Jan. 2002



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