The Albanian living the “American Dream”

He is 49 and he manages two popular restaurants in Quincy, named Alba and Zef.

His children go to Catholic schools and although he was raised in a small town in Albania, Keko is a proud American citizen.

Local media remind that Keka had left Albania swimming, and that he was kept for several months in a refugee camp before a charity organization paid for his flight to the USA.

Keka tells his difficult childhood and how he arrived in the USA when he was 20. He didn’t know a single word of English, but he made the best of the opportunity that was just given to him.

He started up as a dishwasher, then as a waiter in a Boston restaurant. In 2001 he opened his first restaurant, Alba, short for Albania. Later he opened a second one he named Zef, as his father.

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