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Family Legacy and Enduring Spirit at Luigi’s Italian Chophouse & Bar

Family Legacy and Enduring Spirit at Luigi’s Italian Chophouse & Bar

At Luigi’s Italian Chophouse & Bar in Fayetteville, North Carolina, three siblings carry on the dream their parents began more than 70 years ago. Through tragedy and triumph, the Parrous family has built an enduring restaurant legacy rooted in warmth, resilience, and genuine hospitality. “Our restaurant reflects decades of resilience, innovation, and a deep bond between our family, our business, and the community,” says co-owner Linda Higgins. “We honor our legacy by preserving our heritage, embracing innovation, and striving not…

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Cecchi's is the newest hot spot in NYC's Greenwich Village
Famous Maitre D’ opens NYC hot spot

Famous Maitre D’ opens NYC hot spot

Michael Cecchi-Azzolina’s phone number used to be passed around among celebrities and Manhattan’s A Listers. His was the name you needed to know to get a seat at some of Manhattan’s trendiest and most influential restaurants, including La Rousse, The Water Club, The River Cafe, Raoul’s and Le Coucou. Model Brooke Shields writes of Cecchi-Azzolina on the dust-jacket of his bestselling book Your Table is Ready, Tales of a New York City Maitre D.’ Shields rhapsodizes about her time spent…

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Seattle Skyline
At the top of Seattle

At the top of Seattle

Looking through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the newly renovated rooms on the 29th floor of the Seattle Hilton, a hotel guest can gaze upon the tranquility of Puget Sound or the dizzying Space Needle from the comfort of a newly renovated room. This elevated perch is the result of a yearlong reinvention of top-floor public space into a more profitable executive suite of guest-rooms, says Seattle Hilton GM Heather McCurdy. “Our building has always had this amazing panorama of Seattle…

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Jens' Restaurant Plating
Up in Alaska Jens’ Restaurant reels ’em in

Up in Alaska Jens’ Restaurant reels ’em in

In Alaska, where the short growing season for produce is offset by the sheer abundance of the world’s freshest salmon and halibut, Nancy Alip began mastering her culinary skills by age 16. Though she dismisses the notion that she was a natural cook, Alip caught the cooking bug as a teenager and never looked back. Her career since 2002 taken her from line-cook to co-owner, and finally to becoming full owner of Jens’ Restaurant in 2016. “My family has been…

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Lewiston, Maine poised to pop as hospitality hotspot

Lewiston, Maine poised to pop as hospitality hotspot

Along the banks of the Androscoggin River in Lewiston, Maine, where old brick mills once hummed, a new energy fills the air with a sense of possibility; of optimism. Though the historic town with deep French-Canadian roots does not yet “sizzle” with a thriving restaurant scene like Portland, Maine or Concord, N.H., restaurant partners Jules Patry and Craig Tribuno, principals in Davinci’s Eatery, a 20-year icon in Lewiston, are positively stoked about the future. “It’s been a tough slog to…

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Piripi Wine Bar
‘They said to dance, so we danced’

‘They said to dance, so we danced’

Three months after opening their Latin-Mediterranean bistro Piripi, named for the Spanish word for “tipsy,” Victoria and Hugo Meyer were dizzy with mandates and pivots. Servers became delivery drivers; a parking lot became the dining room; and suddenly they were packing up high-end scallop dinners with free champagne in to go containers—something they never wanted to do. “They wanted us to dance, so we danced,” says Victoria Meyer, co-owner of the 4,000 square foot concept in Erie, Colo. Along with…

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Park Ave Chicken Thigh
No tattoos, no jargon; just clean cooking

No tattoos, no jargon; just clean cooking

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Chef David Slay begins his day at sunup. “I’m not a big sleeper,” says the top Zagat rated chef/owner of Park Ave restaurant in Stanton, Calif. “The first thing I do is check our video feed from my vineyard, so I can see as workers arrive, and start planning for the day.” By 8 a.m., Chef Slay is on the scene at his destination restaurant in a blue-collar community about 15 miles from the coast. The romantic restaurant, with its…

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Chef owner Rakesh Ramola
East meets West in modernized Indian cuisine

East meets West in modernized Indian cuisine

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The menu at Indian restaurant IndeBlue goes far beyond chicken korma and basmati rice. Chef/owner Rakesh Ramola, originally of Bombay City, India, opened IndeBlue of Philadelphia with the dream of introducing a larger audience to Indian food. And of modernizing the pallet while rooting his dishes in tradition. The results, says the 25-year hospitality business veteran, have made IndeBlue a “hopping Washington Square restaurant” that serves a broad audience and an even broader cuisine. “A lot of Indian restaurants in…

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Octagonal Farmers Market
New restaurant sweeps away cobwebs in historic octagonal market

New restaurant sweeps away cobwebs in historic octagonal market

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An iconic, eight-sided building where farmers and butchers hocked their wares in the late 1800s, only to stand dormant years later like a brick-and-mortar time capsule, re-opened its doors last month in a flourish of optimism driven by an award-winning restaurateur. Frits Huntjens, a James Beard Award finalist, and one of the visionaries behind the effort to restore and revive the 1879 octagonal farmers market building in the heart of Petersburg, Va., has been smiling ear-to-ear since he opened the…

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