Experience

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  Self Employed

  • Restaurant Owner

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  Cobblestone Cafe

  • Boston North End

  • President

    • May 2013 - Present
    • Boston North End

    In recent months, Carla, along with her sons Robert and David, opened Cobblestone Café on Hanover St. in the North End of Boston. While Boston’s North End is renowned for its Italian cuisine, Gomes decided to put a new spin on the usual with menu items such as the breakfast burrito, pulled barbeque pork and the New England lobster roll. The café also serves ” breakfast, coffee, burgers, barbecue, salads, fries, grill foods, rotisserie, milkshakes, and seafood in a casual to-go setting.”The new café is also receiving attention for it’s flavored iced coffee. “CobblestoneNE snickerdoodle iced coffee… life changing,” tweeted one customer.

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  Antico Forno

  • 93 Salem St., Boston, Ma. 02113

  • President

    • Jul 1996 - Present
    • 93 Salem St., Boston, Ma. 02113

    BOSTON MAGAZINE BEST OF BOSTON 2012 NEIGHBORHOOD EATSAntico Forno - Italian for "old stove" Sawdust-covered floors, a mural-sized rendition of the Tuscany countryside (painted by a local artist Jack Dunlea) and a blessed statue of The Blessed Mother Of Medjugorie tucked into a beehive-shaped, wood-burning brick oven set the stage at the North End's rustic trattoria, Antico Forno. With Their successful 1993 flagship restaurant, Terramia, across the street, Carla Agrippino-Gomes took on a new challenge in 1996 of bringing dishes to Salem Street. Antico Forno - Italian for "old stove" - features brick-oven classics such as roasted chicken in a natural juices with garlic and herbs stuffed under crusted skin; pizza with artichoke hearts, imported Italian porcini mushrooms, and Campania buffalo mozzarella, finished with truffle oil; and linguini with clams, mussels, calamari and shrimp, sautéed in a plum tomato sauce and baked in parchment paper. Even the double-domed brick oven was custom-built by a native Napolitan craftsman. Antico Forno is an inviting neighborhood trattoria that provides a truly authentic Neapolitan experience.

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  Terramia Ristorante

  • 98 Salem St., Boston, Ma. 02113

  • President

    • Jun 1993 - Present
    • 98 Salem St., Boston, Ma. 02113

    BOSTON A LIST BEST TRADITIONAL ITALIAN 2012With its stucco walls and beamed ceilings, Terramia manages to evoke the atmosphere of a rustic hideaway in the overwrought North End. The tables are packed close (and always packed) in this boxy, 39-seat trattoria, but Terramia is worth both the wait and the tight squeeze. While its interior design is pleasant enough, it's clear that the draw here is the merger of traditional and 'nuovo' Italian cuisine, which is thoughtful and complex without lapsing into unnecessary excesses. The seasonally changing menu is always rife with inventive, calling-all-taste-buds medleys like grilled marinated octopus (with fresh ceci and fennel salad) or chestnut ravioli (with date mascarpone puree, pork medallions and caramelized onions). You'll never meet a salad you don't like here, either, and for dessert try the delicious home made bread pudding and tiramisu( Ruth Tobias from AOL City Guide)