Good food runs in Rose Brutico Fazio’s family, but she still never believed she’d own her own restaurant one day. As the granddaughter of the original owners of Brutico’s restaurant in Old Forge, she learned treasured family recipes for sauce and meatballs from her uncle and relatives.

When Fazio’s own children were young and she made the sauce for spaghetti dinner fundraisers at their schools, someone would always comment that she ought to bottle and sell it or open a restaurant. In May 2016, she finally made good on the suggestions when she opened Abbiocco in South Abington Twp.