I am always in search of new restaurants, new chefs, new flavors…yet sometimes it’s nice to step back into old classics. In this case, Marco Polo restaurant in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens, which over the summer celebrated its 30th anniversary. (And I had the pleasure of attending the anniversary party.)
Over the course of 30 years, Marco Polo’s charismatic owner Joseph Chirico has welcomed guests from celebrities to politicians to locals. When his son, Marco, expressed an interested in working in the family business, his father sent him to culinary school. Marco Chirico graduated from Johnson & Wales in Rhode Island then joined Marco Polo as the new chef. Today, an old school Brooklyn institution has a new point of view: Chef Marco cooks modern dishes with an ode to tradition.
If you’ve ever wanted to try making homemade pasta for dinner, why not start now with this fettuccine al vino rosso? You don’t have to make it in a wheel of Parmesan, though that could be fun if you invite friends over for dinner.
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