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The Drago family has owned and operated some of the most famous high-end Italian restaurants in Los Angeles, California, since the 1980s. They are known for their pasta dishes. The family includes four brothers:Tanino, Calogero, Celestino, and Giacomino. Giacomino is co-owner of 11 Los Angeles restaurants—including Beverly Hills' iconic Il Pastaio and Via Alloro, and referred to as the scion of the family's restaurant businesses. Celestino Drago immigrated to Los Angeles from Sicily in the mid-1970s, and held his first job with Osteria Romana Orsini on Pico Boulevard as a chef before leaving to launch Celestino, "his seminal Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills (now defunct but re-created in Pasadena under the same name)". He brought over three of his brothers from the family restaurant in Messina. Celestino parted ways with investor Art Vella in 1991. Some of their dishes have been featured in cookbooks. Restaurants *Celestino (in Beverly Hills until 1991; now operating in Pasade ...
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ...
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California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, most populous U.S. state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated Administrative division, subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous Statistical area (United States), urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7million residents and the latter having over 9.6million. Sacramento, California, Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the List of largest California cities by population, most populous city in the state and the List of United States cities by population, ...
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Celestino Drago
Celestino is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Anthony Celestino, the touring bassist for the ''Blink-182'' side project, Box Car Racer *Celestino Alfonso (1916–1944), Spanish republican and volunteer in the French liberation army * Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé, Equato-Guinean politician of the Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS) *Celestino Caballero, professional boxer from Panama *Celestino Cavedoni (1795–1865), Italian ecclesiastic, archæologist, and numismatist *Celestino Corbacho (born 1949), Spanish politician, Minister of Labour and Immigration *Celestino Migliore (born 1952), Italian archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church * Celestino Mukavhi (born 1972), Zimbabwean sculptor *Celestino Piatti, Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer *Celestino Rocha da Costa (born 1937), former prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe *Celestino Rosatelli (1885–1945), Italian aeronautics engineer *Celestino Sfondrati (born 1644), Itali ...
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Messina
Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 219,000 inhabitants in the city proper and about 650,000 in the Metropolitan City. It is located near the northeast corner of Sicily, at the Strait of Messina and it is an important access terminal to Calabria region, Villa San Giovanni, Reggio Calabria on the mainland. According to Eurostat the FUA of the metropolitan area of Messina has, in 2014, 277,584 inhabitants. The city's main resources are its seaports (commercial and military shipyards), cruise tourism, commerce, and agriculture (wine production and cultivating lemons, oranges, mandarin oranges, and olives). The city has been a Roman Catholic Archdiocese and Archimandrite seat since 1548 and is home to a locally important international fair. The city has the University of Messina, founded in 1548 ...
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List Of Italian Restaurants
This is a list of notable Italian restaurants, which specialize in the preparation and purveyance of Italian cuisine: * Amato's * Bella Italia * Beppi's Restaurant * Buca di Beppo * Carrabba's Italian Grill * Cibo Espresso * Drago restaurants * East Side Mario's * Fazoli's * Frankie & Benny's * Italian Tomato * Kissa Tanto * Locanda Locatelli * Manganaro's * Marea * Modern Apizza * Mosconi * Murano * Numero 28 * The Old Spaghetti Factory * Olive Garden * Osteria del Mondo * Pasta Pomodoro * Pastamania * Patsy's * Piada Italian Street Food * La Porchetta * Prezzo * Probka Restaurant Group * Rao's * The River Café (London) * Romano's Macaroni Grill * Saizeriya * Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto * San Lorenzo * Spaghetti Warehouse * Spizzico * The Station * Tony Macaroni * Totti's * Umberto's Clam House * Union Street Café, London * Vapiano * Veeno * Veniero's * Zarra's * Zizzi – a chain of Italian restaurants found across the United Kingdom which is ...
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Restaurants In Los Angeles
A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and Delivery (commerce), food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearance and offerings, including a wide variety of cuisines and Customer service, service models ranging from inexpensive fast-food restaurants and cafeterias to mid-priced family restaurants, to high-priced luxury establishments. Etymology The word derives from early 19th century from French language, French word 'provide food for', Literal translation, literally 'restore to a former state' and, being the present participle of the verb, The term ''restaurant'' may have been used in 1507 as a "restorative beverage", and in correspondence in 1521 to mean 'that which restores the strength, a fortifying food or remedy'. History A public eating establishment similar to a restaurant is mentioned in a 512 BC record from Ancien ...
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Italian-American Culture In Los Angeles
Italian Americans ( it, italoamericani or ''italo-americani'', ) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major US metropolitan areas. Between 1820 and 2004 approximately 5.5 million Italians migrated from Italy to the United States, in several distinct waves, with the greatest number arriving in the 20th century from Southern Italy. Initially, many Italian immigrants (usually single men), so-called “birds of passage”, sent remittance back to their families in Italy and, eventually, returned to Italy; however, many other immigrants eventually stayed in the United States, creating the large Italian-American communities that exist today. In 1870, prior to the large wave of Italian immigrants to the United States, there were fewer than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of th ...
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Italian Restaurants
Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Italian, regional variants of the Italian language ** Languages of Italy, languages and dialects spoken in Italy ** Italian culture, cultural features of Italy ** Italian cuisine, traditional foods ** Folklore of Italy, the folklore and urban legends of Italy ** Mythology of Italy, traditional religion and beliefs Other uses * Italian dressing, a vinaigrette-type salad dressing or marinade * Italian or Italian-A, alternative names for the Ping-Pong virus, an extinct computer virus See also * * * Italia (other) * Italic (other) * Italo (other) * The Italian (other) * Italian people (other) Italian people may refer to: * in terms of ethnicity: all ethnic Italians, in and outside of Italy * in ...
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