Vario owns Toasted Monkey, as well as Buoys and Rick’s Reef in the area. He also has another restaurant in a beach next door, called The Reef-Madeira Beach. Vario said Toasted Monkey took the brunt of ...
Husband-and-wife team Karina Garcia, 31, and Eduardo “Lalo” Rodriguez, 36, met while working at the now-closed Upper East Side Italian restaurant Morini.