I Like Anchovies, And I

Bologna Is The Best City In Italy For Food And Has The Least Number Of Tourists. With Its Medieval Beauty, It Has It All.

You Know, When You Get Your First Asparagus, Or Your First Acorn Squash, Or Your First Really Good Tomato Of The Season, Those Are The Moments That Define The Cook's Year. I Get More Excited By That Than Anything Else.

My Favorite Thing Is Always A Nice, Inexpensive Draft Beer, But If Someone Wants Something A Little More Complicated Than That, Then I'd Like A Michelada, Which Is Where I Take Beer And A Little Bit Of Either A Spicy Or Not-so-spicy Bloody Mary, Mix It Like Six To One [ratio], So It's Kind Of A Red Beer.

If I Hear Something's Not Quite Going Right, Then I'm There Quicker Than If I Hear Something's Going Wrong.

When We Opened Babbo, We Were An Indie Band. Now We're Kinda Apple. We Have 19 Restaurants And 2,800 Employees, We Are No Longer Perceived As The Indie Band Although We Think Of Ourselves As The Indie Band, And We Operate Our Restaurants As Individual Indie Bands.