Chefs and Restaurants
Celestino Drago, on Everything but Food
October 13, 2011
His first name means “heavenly,” and if you’ve ever had a bite of his pappardelle with roasted pheasant and morel mushrooms, you’d know there’s no other way to describe chef Celestino Drago. Originally from Sicily, Drago got bit by the cooking bug when he started working at a restaurant while studying mechanical engineering in Pisa. He moved to Los Angeles in 1979 and opened his first restaurant, Celestino, in Beverly Hills...