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Six years after opening his restaurant, I Trulli, across the street, Nicola Marzovilla decided it was time to have his own wine shop, where he could offer an extensive selection of Italian wines and liqueurs. Flash forward to the spring of 2012 when Adam Linet's passion for wine led him to take over Vino. Determined to remain true to Nicola's dream, Adam continues to have a strong Italian wine selection, but he has added wines and spirits from other parts of the world. He also shared with me that his staff goes through a wine education course with him. Today, the wine tastings are frequent and attended by many. Their "mega" wine tasting takes place about twice a year, and Adam told me that he opens some 150 bottles for people to sample. In an effort not to miss the next one, I have put my name on the email list.

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In its third generation of family ownership, Quality House is a throwback establishment, an ā€œold-school wine merchant,ā€ with all the mystery that comes with that territory. We spoke with affable owner Gary Fradin, who assured us that ā€œthere aren’t a lot of stores around like us anymore.ā€ Gary started working for his father Bernard, at the age twenty-three. He described his father as a ā€œlegend in the business.ā€ He reminisced about watching customers interact with his dad: ā€œthey loved him. I watched successful people listen to him talk about wines, and it was like he could do no wrong.ā€ Throughout (and even before) his tenure, Gary tasted wines to develop his palette. Eventually, he was charged with finding a good wine and selling it. His first was the 1970 vintage of the Chateau La Tour de By Bordeaux, which he bought a thousand cases of and sold at $3.99 a bottle. People loved it, and Gary suddenly realized that "this is what I am good at, I AM worth something.ā€ He continued his father’s trend of focusing more and more heavily on wines, which now make up the large majority of the inventory. Spirits are indeed available, however, with Scotches being especially well represented.Most of the wines in the store are French and Italian; bottles run from the finest of finery to very economical. ā€œWhat we look to do,ā€ Gary explained, is this: ā€œthere are wines that are fifteen dollars a bottle that taste like ten dollar bottles of wine. There are fifteen-dollar bottles of wine that taste like a fifteen-dollar bottle. And there are fifteen-dollar bottles that taste like thirty-dollar bottles - that’s what we’re after. We’re the value added.ā€ To that end, Gary loves when customers come in looking for recommendations, letting the experts be the experts. Indeed, he offers to stock wine cellars for those with a budget in mind but an inexact idea of how to put it to use. We can dream, anyway. In the meantime, our perusal of his well-stocked shelves gave us a good sense of where to turn next time when we had guests to impress.

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ā€œBy accident,ā€ answered Olga Blanco when I asked her how she got her start in the printing business. Her husband started Nobel Printing in 1979, and Olga took over a short while later when he became ill. ā€œI learned and I kept going,ā€ she smiled, remembering a time when the business was new to her. She, in turn, has taught her son, who works for a printing company in Florida. Olga shared with me that when her son's business decided to use the traditional printing press in an effort to distinguish themselves from others, his knowledge of the machine lead to a promotion. ā€œNo one else knows how to use these,ā€ she gushed, ā€œso they increased his pay.ā€Originally from Columbia, Olga journeyed to the States in 1969 at the age of seventeen. Since living here, she has seen a lot of changes, many of which have had an negative impact on her custom printing company. ā€œEverything is digital these days,ā€ she rationalized, "And everyone thinks they are a designer.ā€ With so many people in possession of a computer and the means to make their own digital copies, her fears are not unwarranted. Topped off with rising rents, Olga is not sure her business will operate for longer than a few more years. Indeed, she has seen many others pushed out of the neighborhood for similar reasons. ā€œThe real estate business is hungry for money,ā€ she said, shaking her head.Despite the obstacles, Olga remains quite confident in the product, itself. She happily deals solely in custom printing, taking on any job no matter the size and ā€œcreating something beautiful.ā€ When I visited in the summer of 2016, Olga was working on a wedding order of 2000 invites and could not conceal her passion for the project. She showed me her early drafts, pulling out the quality card stock and brushing her fingertips over a soft design that depicted a tree just in bloom. There is no replacement for ā€œthat human touch.ā€

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Jon Eisen is not only one of the partners of Between the Bread and its director of strategic growth, but he is also heir to one of the pioneers of the venture, which has delivered sandwiches to office workers since 1979. Ricky Eisen, Jon’s mother and the company’s president - who was born on the outskirts of Tel Aviv - decided to use large-scale catering to bring healthy meals to her clients in a more efficient way. Jon claims that the result was the first catering company in New York City. Ricky’s idea to use only healthy and local ingredients proved to be a pivotal moment in the way catering to corporate clients is done today.In 2013, Ricky put her son in charge of the retail and cafĆ© side of the business, which up until that point had been secondary to catering. Recognizing the recent popular trend of eating healthy and local, Jon quickly began streamlining the production process, including installing digital cash registers to track customer orders. This lead to a doubling of revenue. His success prompted Ricky to name him partner in 2015. Despite these changes, the core of the business is still the same: using organic, fresh, and seasonal to serve ā€œhigh quality meals.ā€ And to hear it from Jon and the head of brand strategy, Victoria Rolandelli, this core seems to resonate well with customers. Between the Bread opened two more locations in October 2015 and has plans to have a total of twelve locations throughout the city.Located in the Chelsea Terminal Warehouse, the 27th Street Between the Bread is in a massive space that was previously an unloading station for trains. In the not-too-distant future, once Hudson Yards is complete, it is Jon's hope that they will become the "new Chelsea Market."

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In its third generation of family ownership, Quality House is a throwback establishment, an ā€œold-school wine merchant,ā€ with all the mystery that comes with that territory. We spoke with affable owner Gary Fradin, who assured us that ā€œthere aren’t a lot of stores around like us anymore.ā€ Gary started working for his father Bernard, at the age twenty-three. He described his father as a ā€œlegend in the business.ā€ He reminisced about watching customers interact with his dad: ā€œthey loved him. I watched successful people listen to him talk about wines, and it was like he could do no wrong.ā€ Throughout (and even before) his tenure, Gary tasted wines to develop his palette. Eventually, he was charged with finding a good wine and selling it. His first was the 1970 vintage of the Chateau La Tour de By Bordeaux, which he bought a thousand cases of and sold at $3.99 a bottle. People loved it, and Gary suddenly realized that "this is what I am good at, I AM worth something.ā€ He continued his father’s trend of focusing more and more heavily on wines, which now make up the large majority of the inventory. Spirits are indeed available, however, with Scotches being especially well represented.Most of the wines in the store are French and Italian; bottles run from the finest of finery to very economical. ā€œWhat we look to do,ā€ Gary explained, is this: ā€œthere are wines that are fifteen dollars a bottle that taste like ten dollar bottles of wine. There are fifteen-dollar bottles of wine that taste like a fifteen-dollar bottle. And there are fifteen-dollar bottles that taste like thirty-dollar bottles - that’s what we’re after. We’re the value added.ā€ To that end, Gary loves when customers come in looking for recommendations, letting the experts be the experts. Indeed, he offers to stock wine cellars for those with a budget in mind but an inexact idea of how to put it to use. We can dream, anyway. In the meantime, our perusal of his well-stocked shelves gave us a good sense of where to turn next time when we had guests to impress.