NYC Restaurant Innovators Sponsored By Heineken: Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi, And Jeff Zalaznick, Michelin Meets Mulberry Street

[“These are trinkets from all over. That’s a photo of Mario’s dad and his uncle. People bring us magnets from all over to put up there. The bathrooms has all these photos of 80s sports stars from New York that we liked.”] What is in your future, would you feel comfortable going into something that isn’t Italian American? Rich: “We feel comfortable doing things that we’re passionate about. If we are passionate about something, we’ll feel comfortable doing it.” Jeff: “The great thing about the fact that we all grew up in New York is that New York has all of these different cultures.” Rich: “Yeah the same way he (Jeff) grew up with these chicken parm. I also grew up with bagels and lox.” Mario: “That’s New York – and we all grew up with Chinese food.”