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BOSTON GLOBE - Longtime North End restaurateur Filippo Frattaroli has a lot to say about Boston’s dining scene

Longtime North End restaurateur Filippo Frattaroli, 65, was recently named Abruzzo Ambassador to the World by the Regional Council of Abruzzo, lauding his cooking at restaurants such as Filippo and Lucia, with locations in Boston and Winchester, as a reference point for the high gastronomy of Abruzzo in the United States.

RETE ABRUZZO - SULMONESE FILIPPO FRATTAROLI "ABRUZZO AMBASSADOR IN THE WORLD"

Italian-American chef and entrepreneur Filippo Frattaroli, a native of Sulmona, was named "Ambassador of Abruzzo in the world" by the presidency of the Regional Council. In the nomination, Frattaroli is noted as having “distinguished himself as a reference point for the high gastronomy of Abruzzo in the U.S., without losing the link with the city where he was born, Sulmona, indeed becoming Ambassador and a vehicle of Abruzzo culture abroad.”