OLEAN MENU: We began yesterday to tell readers about a handful
of Olean, N.Y., restaurateurs who made a big impression on the
palates of Bradfordians over the years.

Five of them were inducted into the 2009 Hospitality Wall of
Fame sponsored by the Olean Chamber of Commerce and its Taste of
Olean Committee. Yesterday, we told readers about Quinto and Dora
Bagazzoli and Bill Augostini.

Today, Nicholas Fratercangelo and Louis L. Marra.

The restaurant started by Libratore Angelo Fratarcangelo –
Angee’s – is still going strong in Olean’s downtown district.

Libratore came to the United States from Italy and, with the
help of his son, Nicky, opened the restaurant in 1948 at 475 N.
Union St. “Little Nicky” left a job at Clark Brothers to assist his
father in the management.

In the early 1960s, Angelo retired and passed on the restaurant
to Nicky who ran the restaurant for the next 25 years, adding the
personal touch which made the restaurant what it is today.

Nicky retired in the 1980s. “He passed away in February 1998 but
up until a week before his death you could find him every morning
at the front table in Angee’s visiting with old friends and making
new ones,” according to a story in the Olean Times Herald.

Now some 50 years later, Angee’s is at the same location and is
owned and operated by his grandson, Anthony. (We can vouch for its
to-die-for spaghetti and meatballs.)

The final inductee this year was Louis L. Marra, a lifelong
Olean citizen who was in the restaurant business from 1968 until
1990.

His many entities included the Downtown Deli, Downtown Deli/Rack
and Rib Room, Cafe Marquis, Pasta Luigi’s, Casey’s restaurant, Old
Library Bed and Breakfast, and the Old Library restaurant.

Previous years’ inductees include other names well-known to
Bradford residents who like good food: the late Guerino “Butch”
Butchello and chef Anthony Lentola from the Castle restaurant, the
late chef Pasquale “Patsy” Piccioli, John Sawaya Sr., Carl Iseman,
Louis and Nancy Giannechini, and the late Lucia “Lou”
Bardenett.

GOOD IDEA: Bradford, too, has had some well-know chefs and great
restaurants over the years. While giving a tip of the hat to Olean
Chamber of Commerce and its Taste of Olean Committee, we would
suggest to counterparts in Bradford that a Wall of Fame would be a
worthy endeavor.