Luigino Tripoldi and his new Montclair restaurant, Luigino’s Parmigiana, are the real deal. Cynics need look no further than the black and white mural of family photos lining the back wall of the restaurant, which opened Wednesday on Glenridge Avenue in the space formerly occupied by Salute. (A few doors away is another newcomer, Maddox and Musuko.)
Among the family, wedding and new car photos, there are Tripoldi’s grandfather and parents in their ancestral home in the southern Italian hill village of Castel Ruggero, making wine, showing off an enormous mushroom (“mamma di funghi”) foraged in the woods, and wielding tomatoes and zucchini from their garden.
