By Katie Libby
If you're opening a restaurant that focuses on fresh and local ingredients, is there a better location than the epicenter for fresh and local in town, the Rochester Public Market? Gino and Allison Ruggiero didn't think so when they opened Fiorella (5 Rochester Public Market), a new, casual, Italian eatery.
Gino worked through the kitchen ranks — from line cook to sous chef to executive chef — before eventually ending up as head chef at 2Vine for over a decade. "I saw opening my own place as a natural progression; I wasn't getting any younger," Ruggiero says.
