![]() So he worked at all these different places in the city. What was the place called where he worked back then?ĪIDA: Coco. It’s kind of funny that we ended up where we are now, because he was also working on Carmine Street in the eighties. He worked with our grandfather and at many restaurants. He was executive chef of the Rainbow Room. Our grandfather worked really hard for all those years, and then he went back to Italy.īut his son-your father, Joe-worked at all these restaurants in New York, like the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center.ĪIDA: Yeah, that was in 1978. The original Ferdi’s was in the Bronx on the Grand Concourse?ĪIDA: From 1955 until about 1967. Really, both of us basically did every position in the restaurant from dishwasher all the way up. Then bussing and serving, bartending, hosting. And then I started, like, polishing silverware. ![]() And here we are.ĪIDA SCARPATI: Ever since I was ten years old, I was working in the kitchen. Finally, we found a good spot in New York City, in Manhattan. He used to love the spaghetti puttanesca. Michael Bolton used to come down all the time. He had great restaurant for 18 years on the water there.įERNANDO: Right. We worked in different restaurants with our dad until he opened up in Westport, Connecticut. He, in turn, worked for his father in the business. How did the two of you get into the family business?įERNANDO SCARPATI: We grew up in New York working for our dad. Their father Giuseppe “Joe” Scarpati was himself a chef in several New York restaurants, eventually opening his own place in Westport, Connecticut, where Aida and Fernando also worked before opening the latter-day Ferdi. ![]() It’s a spiritual successor to the restaurant of the same name founded by the siblings’ grandfather, which operated in the Bronx decades ago. Aida and Fernando Scarpati are co-owners of Ferdi restaurant in New York’s West Village.
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