IF CARACAS HAD DIRECT FLIGHTS TO NEW YORK, there would be no Borgo Food Station. When Monica Fallone stopped in Houston in 2014, it was on the way to start looking for locations in New York in which to open a prepared food market.

But the March weather didn't cooperate and she was stuck in Mutt City for five days. She loved Houston, and soon her husband, Luis Mancera, and their two teenagers had left Venezuela to join her. This February, they opened Borgo at 3641 W. Alabama St. Their gourmet market specializes in the same Italian food that fed Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a slew of presidents at Fallone's family's Via Appia restaurants.

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