Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

People are still going to meet in restaurants. They may just have to pay their own way.

People are just loving restaurants. And we're fortunate to have all the factors in place in terms of the economic vitality of our city in order for the resurgence to occur.

Local restaurants have always had their regulars, but there are new people coming to town who may not have found those local gems yet.

There has been a lot of suspicious, maybe hazing, deaths in the last couple of years-in the last five or six years.