"Will
have you feeling like You're eating in someone's home." -ZAGAT,
2006
"May be tiny—only 16 seats— but the food is fresh, home-style Italian
and Mexican." -Westchester Magazine, 2006
"Portobello
in Montrose Doesn't have a menu, but it's always surprising."
ELIZABETH JOHNSON -The Journal News, 2005
"A wonderful little Italian
Mexican Café." -Hudson Valley Magazine, 2004
"Much better cappuccino than
at... well, let's just say a big national chain." LYNN HAZLEWOOD
-Hudson Valley Magazine, 2004
A Husband & Wife Team
Francine is a native New-yorker of Italian American descent. She is "cooking obsessed". A self
taught chef that enjoyed working elbow to elbow as a child with her barese Grandma Rosalie who exposed Francine to the
touch, the smell and the taste of Italian cooking.. La cucina casareccia della Nona. Luis was born and raised in
Mexico City. He is a fella --as they say in Mexico--"Amante de la Buena Mesa". While cooking together in fine Italian
places in the restaurant scene of downtown San Diego, the idea of opening an Osteria Café began.
The cosmopolitan city of Querétaro, México was home to the first Portobello Café till 2003. Now
nestled in Northern Westchester County New York on route 9A in Montrose.
