Chef Art Michaelsen and his wife Julia, are celebrating their new restaurant, Bartolo, with the Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce and a ceremonial ribbon-cutting on January 31, 2013. Art and Julia have started other area restaurants in the past such as Thirty-Three and a Third and The Catch and have happily settled into their new location in The Marketplace at Copps Hill Common.
Pictured Left to Right are: Kyle Ely; Joe Strilowich, Personal Touch Welcome; Robin Ely, Drukker-Ely Group/Merrill Lynch; Suzanne Brennan (background-Chamber of Commerce); Maria Markus, Tutoring Club; Theresa Santoro, Ridgefield Visiting Nurses Association; Cathy Tango-Dykes (peeking-Ridgefield Montessori School); Marion Roth, Chamber of Commerce; Chef Art Michaelsen; Julia Michaelsen; Trey Michaelsen (with scissors); Cara Fratino, staff; Tess Michaelsen; Ryan Dolan, staff; Manager April Burton (peeking); Arnold Light, Arnold Light Consults and Chamber Board of Directors; Dee Strilowich, Personal Touch Welcome.