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Andrew Brow Is Living the Dream — One Sticky Rib at a Time
Andrew Brow says he’s had many inspirations, role mod-
BY GEORGE O’BRIEN
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n his long and winding road to being a serial restaurateur,
The latter would be Claudio Guerra, the now-legendary restauranteur — think Spoleto, Mama Iguana’s, the Del
Raye, Paradise City Tavern, and many others — who gave Brow, like so many others, much more than a job.
“What I got from Claudio is what I wanted — I wanted to be a res- taurant owner,” he explained. “It just seemed like this glamourous, fun, wonderful thing — not always, but Claudio made it something to aspire
to.”But there were others who had an impact as well, including Bill Col- lins, who also worked for Guerra and later hired Brow to be his execu- tive chef at the restaurant he opened in East Longmeadow, Center Square Grill. Then there was Therri Moitui, the owner and chef of a French restaurant on Cape Fear River in North Carolina, where Brow worked for a time after leaving his native Western Mass. to find, well ... something else.
“I thought I was God’s gift to the kitchen at this point, when I was 24
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Andrew Brow outside Jackalope in downtown Springfield.