Identical Twin Chefs Heat Up the Kitchen

NEW YORK <br/> April 26, 2010&#151; -- It's one thing to have eyes larger than your stomach. But diners at Miami's Quattro Gastronomia Italiana have been seeing double for years.

No, it has nothing to do with the house beef ravioli or the pan-seared tuna but with the chefs: identical twins Fabrizio and Nicola Carro. For years, the brothers have done everything together from cooking to playing soccer to running a marathon.

But now their success has forced them apart. After years of working side by side in Miami, Fabrizio has moved to New York to set up another branch of Quattro in the new Trump SoHo hotel.

The brothers were both recently in New York for the opening of the restaurant, and the interaction between them -- both inside and outside the kitchen -- was uncanny.

Fabrizio started to explain that he and his brother "have different" before Nicola cut in with "characteristics."

"Fabrizio and I have a different point of view," Nicola explained. "What we serve is a combination of that."

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The brothers designed the dishes together, and even though each had his own responsibilities in their joint Miami kitchen, each could easily do the other's jobs. Now that they are 1,088 miles apart, they still plan to collaborate but said each restaurant would have a slightly different feel. (The brothers also operate Sosta Pizzeria in Miami.)

While the twins are normally hard to tell apart, these days it is clear which brother has been spending more time in Miami. Nicola has a better tan.