Earlier this year, chef Giuseppe De Falco and his wife, Sandra, opened their first restaurant together in what was once the waiting room of Montclair’s Walnut Street train station. At Antica Stazione, De Falco’s recipes are inspired by his time in Avellino, Italy, where he went to culinary school and worked until coming to America six years ago.

He now resides in Montclair with Sandra and their two sons, Lukas and Monserratt. De Falco sees his restaurant as a tribute to his homeland and the meals made by his grandmother and family on Sunday evenings. “I’ve worked my whole life for this restaurant,” he says.