If you knew Vespa Italian Kitchen & Bar was owned by the same team behind red-sauce restaurants Spuntino and Filetto's in Suffolk County, you might suppose it's more of the same.
But for owner Ben Lo Manto, the new Farmingdale restaurant is the one he always hoped to open. Shortly after 6-year-old Lo Manto arrived in Brooklyn from Sicily, he was sitting on milk crates, observing the scene...
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