Catching up with Chef Luciano Pellegrini

May 29, 2014 1021

by Brock Radke

Daniel Boulud's DB Brasserie opened recently at the Venetian, a welcome return for the New York chef who first operated a Las Vegas restaurant at Wynn. The DB design is completely unrecognizable from Valentino, the award-winning eatery that operated there for 14 years, the anchor of Venetian's many Italian restaurants.

Valentino may be gone, but its chef remains. James Beard Award winner Luciano Pellegrini—a longtime partner in Valentino with Southern California restaurateur Piero Selvaggio—already had a small side business that's been keeping him busy in the last year: DolceVita Gelato.

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