"Opened in 1914 in Providence, Rhode Island, in a former mansion on Federal Hill, the city’s Little Italy, it’s one of the oldest restaurants in town. It’s also one of Providence’s most iconic, known for its permanent menu of gnocchi alla vodka and veal Parmesan; rumored mob connections; and celebrity sightings—politicians, power players, Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross. Kilborn, a soft-spoken restaurant careerist who’s been running the front-of-house here for nearly two decades, oversees it all." - ByMolly Birnbaum