Italian food has been a long appreciated culinary art long before anyone living today was around, yet new takes on the long-held traditional cuisine are popping up with great frequency. It is the uniqueness that a restaurant can bring to the Italian cuisine experience that keeps a business open, and that’s just what Umberto’s plans to do in Culver City.

Restaurant owner, Robert Borgese, immigrated from Italy to America in 1967 with his family when he was 11 years old. With the move also came the transferring of generations-old Italian recipes passed down by his family, a tradition of cooking styles and Italian foods that has carried on into the menu of his restaurant.