From Tile to Pasta

Michael DeCola opens Piatto di Pasta

by Sally Mitani

posted 11/18/2011

"You already had lunch? You're not hungry?" asked Michael DeCola incredulously of the idiot reporter who showed up at an Italian restaurant on a full stomach. "Let me get you something. A meatball. I'll get you a meatball." He brings out a large garlicky meatball in a paper cup. In mid-September, DeCola opened Piatti di Pasta in Stone Plaza (Stone School and Ellsworth roads), selling simple, home-cooked Italian meals. At first, DeCola seems too young and trim for the "mangia, mangia!" Italian granny routine, but it's genuine. And it

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