NAPI

Napi was was born in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1932. He was better known by his nickname Napi which, legend has it, was given to him by his grandfather who thought the world needed a new Napoleon... Napi met his wife Helen in the summer of 1955. Together they opened an antiques shop on a land that housed a string of auto-garages. Two years later, when the couple decided to enter the restaurant business, Napi, began construction himself. Along the way, he enlisted the support of friends and talented townspeople including Jackson Lambert, Mike Bagley, Bob Baker, and many others. Using reclaimed and salvaged materials, skill and imagination were active partners in the construction. Discarded lumber from a salvage yard in Quincy provided quantities of yellow pine torn out of old factories in Boston. Refinished and given a second life, today's building gradually took shape. Esoteric antiques and local artwork became integral parts of the restaurant. Napi's vision, from the outset, was that..