re: BR food Nostalgia Thread. Places you were eating at 20-30 years ago, but now they gone.

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Didn't Cippriani's open with Joey Distefano as Head Chef, then Don Gerald, bought it? Were Ralph and Kacoo Olinde owners from the start, or at some point along the way?

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Joey may have been head chef at the startup now that you mention it. Word on the street was that Don got a bonus from Ralph and Kacoo when they sold R&K’s and that he used that money for his own restaurant. At least that was the rumor. All I know is he ended up with Cipriani’s and started working with Kleinpeters on a line of ice cream for them about the time Cipriani’s closed down.