By Leslie Lake 

Joe Bruno is a Brooklyn boy at heart and after closing the doors last week as owner of Pasta Nostra for the past 30 years, Bruno is taking his next venture directly back to his Brooklyn roots. Bruno's new restaurant Bruculino, Italian slang for 'guy from Brooklyn' is slated to open at the end of June in a former furniture showroom on North Main Street.

"It's been a good 30 years here (at Pasta Nostra), but there was so much work that needed to be done — the boiler and the air conditioning were all original — I couldn't see rebuilding to stay in the same place," Bruno said. "It was either retire or do something new."

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Source: http://www.thehour.com/