Don Mangione di Napoli (Chikusa/Imaike/Ikeshita｜Italian)

Born in 1982 and native to Aichi Prefecture, he was influenced by the attractive way in which Italian food and its ingredients could be prepared using simple cooking techniques, which got him thinking, "I would love to make Italian food as a chef." With an abundance of experience training at an Italian restaurant, he had acquired the necessary techniques to join Il Pomodrino Nagoya in January of 2012. He entertains guests with a stone hearth pizza oven made with stone from Italy's volcanic Mount Vesuvius, which can bake a Neapolitan pizza in no time and bring out the delicious flavor of Neapolitan-style Italian ingredients.