Vittorio!

PACIFIC PALISADES

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This is really a story about what towns, and families, and passionate hearts bring to the table in people’s lives.

“Bring to the table.”  We’ll come back to that.

Vittorio.  We lived down the street from this neighborhood Italian family restaurant.

Last Friday night, with a whole town of the dearest Palisadians, I was there to celebrate their 40^th Anniversary.  The odds of a restaurant in LA pulling that off?  About the same odds I’d give a Tyrannosaurs crossing Wilshire at the LaBrea Tar Pits.

I knew the original owner, Giovanni Mazzola.  New York Italian.  The real deal.

Back on the tough, tough streets of New York, a guy called him “Vittorio.”