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A Real Mom and Pop Operation

By Krummert, Bob
Publication: Restaurant Hospitality
Date: Monday, December 1 2003
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HOT SPOT: The bar and dining room at Talula.

Here's the set-up: Two chefs meet, separately achieve national prominence, get married, settle down in one of the country's

hottest restaurant markets, start a family, open that perfect little place of their own, and live happily ever after. It's a scenario so heartwarming it seems almost too good to be true.

But it is, and this is exactly the sequence of events that fell into place for Andrea Curto-Randazzo and Frank Randazzo, the husband-and-wife chef-owners of Talula in Miami Beach. Even better, their new place is a huge hit ("astonishingly good food"-Miami New Times), so the live-happily-everafter part of their story appears to be coming true. With everything else sailing along so smoothly, you'd imagine the hands-on aspect of getting Talula open must have been a snap for this lucky and talented couple.

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