![]() “Last week we got like a thousand phone calls on Friday and Saturday because people heard we were going to open then,” he said. Goncalves said about 1,800 phone calls a week from reservation-seekers at 42 come in to their office in Peniche at 175 Main St. Cappelli and the Trotters trio plan to open more restaurants. 19 and its flanking condominium towers on Renaissance Square, The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, the Trotters NY Restaurant Group has become the food and beverage division of Cappelli Enterprises Inc., Goncalves said. Cappelli, developer of the Ritz-Carlton hotel that is scheduled to open Dec. Tesone, the owner of Breezemont Day Camp in Armonk, runs the group’s business office in the renovated cellar of Peniche. Tesone, “that have a passion for the hospitality business,” Goncalves said. That ownership team includes the Trotters NY Restaurant Group partnership of Goncalves and two Westchester businessmen, Mark Avallone and J.R. Judging from the early calls for reservations, the 21,000-square-foot, 200-seat restaurant on the 42 nd floor of the Ritz-Carlton, Westchester, should prove profitable for its partners when it opens Dec. This month, the 37-year-old chef expects to make his second restaurant venture in downtown White Plains, 42, the first stop for patrons of fine dining in Westchester. ![]() (At the third, Mulino’s of Westchester in White Plains, he has been consulting and executive chef for about one year.) “When he gets them at the airport, he comes right to me. “He has all the best truffles in New York,” said Goncalves, whose keen eye and nose for the best local and international food products and purchasing savvy now serve three restaurants in Westchester County, in two of which he is an owning partner. The truffles’ distinctively pungent aroma drew a curious hostess from the adjoining dining room. He nodded in approval Totaro watching him smiled. Goncalves picked up a large brown knotted tuber and leaned close to sniff it. A small scale sat on the marble bar beside a cardboard box bearing precious foreign cargo.Īngelo Totaro, an Italian food importer from Moonachie, N.J., unwrapped paper towels that held a mound of white truffles from Croatia, priced at $3,000 to $4,500 a pound. The weekday lunch patrons had gone back to their jobs in downtown White Plains when Anthony Goncalves stopped at the bar at his Peniche Tapas Restaurant to tend to one more business detail in what would be another 18-hour workday for the driven chef and restaurateur.
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