Owners of A Tavolo Italian Restaurant Meet the chef, or as Dave Gatto modestly prefers, the cook and the front of the house hostess, Donna DeLuca Utter. When you grow up in a household with an Italian father and Polish…

The Food & Fire BBQ-Taphouse Team So far we have done Meet the Chef and Meet the Family stories.  Today it’s Meet the Team from Food & Fire BBQ ~Tap House in Johnson City.  The team consists of three long-time…

Matsushima Family, Owners of Kampai Restaurant

We’re giving our “Meet the Chef” series a different twist with this story. Perhaps we should call it “Meet the Family”. The story begins back in the 1970’s when Ryoichi “Richard” Matsushima arrived in…

CCE, Chef Owner of P.S. Restaurant Chef Rick Dodd, who along with his wife and business partner Sylvana, operates P.S. Restaurant in Vestal. We feature Rick for several reasons. First, creating STIR was his idea and he and Sylvana have…