Word: maurizio
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Ristorante Limoncello is on the Freedom Trail, no less, two doors from the house where Paul Revere lived. We might be under British rule today if Limoncello were open back then, because there was no way Paul Revere was getting up on that horse after Maurizio's veal parm and a bottle of Chianti...
...worked out? "A million dollars is nothing today," Maurizio says in a heavy accent. "Uncle Sam takes his, I took care of my family, I bought the restaurant. That's about it. I work 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week...
...Maurizio. The food at Ristorante Limoncello is sinfully good, and business ain't bad either. And not since the tired, the poor and the huddled masses began paddling ashore has any immigrant found more happiness in a seven-day workweek. "Maurizio bought his dream," says Cynthia DeMarco, a waitress at Caffe Graffiti, an espresso bar around the corner...
...Maurizio comes out of his restaurant after the lunch rush, steps onto the Freedom Trail and spins around the corner to Graffiti for his espresso and a shot of Sambuca with the boys. Vincenzo is there, and Willie, and the old men who put on neckties and fedoras every time they leave the house. "He hasn't changed," says Willie. "He'll never change...
...chance. But a light follows Maurizio, and he does not know why. Curiosity, not greed, has brought him back to the little North End grocery store where he made his fortune. And twice he's hit again. Once for $20,000, another time for $10,000. Is it the MIRACLES key chain he still carries? Is it the work of Maurizio's patron saint? "St. Anthony is very big around here," he says...