When Ferraro’s Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar announced it was reopening after a two-month shutdown, the phones rang off the hook with people who wanted a reservation. The restaurant’s popular Taste and Learn series, where diners get a four-course dinner paired with five wines sold out. Gino Ferraro, the patriarch of the family and owner of the restaurant, can’t wait to get back to business.

“I’ve been bored and I want to try to make some money somehow,” he says days before the February 3 reopening. “It’s been a long year, a tough year. I want to bring back my staff of 20 years.”