BizHawk: Santa Ynez Chef Offers a Taste of Italy with New Montecito Restaurant

A taste of Italy

Add Celebrity MasterChef to your watchlistWhat inspired your love of food?I was raised in a village called Corgeno, on the shore of Lake Comabbio in the north of Italy, where my granddad had a hotel that the whole family worked in. I was the smallest of my siblings, so I couldn’t be a waiter. Instead they put me in the kitchen. By the time I was nine or 10, I said to my grandma, "I want to be a chef,” and that was my decision for life. To this d…

BizHawk: Santa Ynez Chef Offers a Taste of Italy with New Montecito Restaurant

A well-known Santa Ynez chef opened a new Italian restaurant in Montecito this week. Ancora Osteria is taking over the former Via Vai space at 1483 East Valley Road, offering pastas, pizzas, salads, ribeye fillet, fish, pork chops and roasted vegetables. Chef Luca Crestanelli of S.Y. Kitchen said guests can expect “an honest menu” with high-quality ingredients, hearty portions, seasonal items and good service. “I see the restaurant for all momen…