![]() ![]() But at the end of the day, even as the owner, I pick most of the wines on our list and I’m proud to do so. We have a great, great staff that is very knowledgeable about wine and about our wines in particular. Wine is one of my great passions and I love that part of my job. I’m the owner of Alba but also the wine director. What term do you use to describe yourself: Sommelier, Wine Steward, Wine Director, something else? Keka soon became a server, displayed a natural knack for hospitality and quickly worked his way up through management at both Legal Sea Foods and Grill 23 & Bar, before opening his fine-dining Quincy Center restaurant Alba in 2001. ![]() Keka, unable to speak English at the time, landed his first job in the industry when he was hired as a dishwasher by fellow Albanian-American and celebrated restaurateur Anthony Athanas of late Boston culinary landmark Anthony’s Pier 4. A native of Albania, he fled the impoverished former communist nation in 1990 by swimming across a lake to a refugee camp in Montenegro, before finding his way to the United States. Leo Keka is the owner of Alba Prime Steak + Seafood and Zef Cicchetti & Raw Bar in Quincy Center. ( Check out my Introduction to the The Mind of a Sommelier series.) ![]()
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