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Friday, February 15, 2013

New Restaurant Serves Up Authentic Italian

Nicola Moncada, whose first restaurant was in Novara, Italy, has opened his latest venture in Madison.

Nicola Moncada says the food at his new Italian restaurant on Park Avenue in Madison is best described as "authentic." Moncada grew up in Italy with a fisherman father who loved cooking seafood and a mother who taught him many recipes, his website says. After stops in Florence, London, Paris and New York, he opened his first restaurant in Novara, Italy, in 1995. He came to New Jersey and, in 2000, opened a restaurant in Little Falls, Due Nicola, which he sold 10 years later. He returned to Italy for several months and then, about two years ago, opened Il Cinghiale in Little Ferry. That restaurant flooded during Superstorm Sandy, and Moncada found the location for his new restaurant in Madison in a space that formerly was home to the Indian…

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Monday, February 11, 2013

New Restaurant, Bracelets for Brooke, Mental Health Talk This Week

A look at what's happening this week in the Rose City.

Mental Health Services: Project Community Pride will be holding an open house 7 p.m. Monday in the Madison Civic Center, 28 Walnut St. Take part in a discussion about mental health services in the area and learn about the services available to children and families in Madison. Light refreshments will be served. Borough Council: Madison's governing body is scheduled to meet Monday. The public portion of the meeting begins at 8 p.m. in Hartley Dodge Memorial. Board of Education: A Madison school board meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Madison High School. Approving the withdrawal of money from the district's capital and maintenance reserves is among the items on the agenda. The funds will go toward new security measures such as …

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