Photo Credit: Peter Goldberg 88 PH
Restaurant Veteran is Surviving and Succeeding
Even after forty years, RISD Graduate and 1988 Best New Chef Johanne Killeen 71 PH is still cooking in the kitchen.
Long before COVID-19 utterly transformed how restaurants operate, Johanne Killeen, chef-owner of Al Forno in Providence, had watched the hospitality industry undergo profound change. “When we opened in 1980, pesto was basically unknown,” Killeen says, laughing. “We contracted a farmer in Little Compton to grow a field of basil for us. That’s how obscure it was—we had to make a special arrangement for pesto!”
Read the full article on the Food & Wine Magazine website.
