LUPO RESTAURANT

Finding a collaborator in the workplace -someone you instinctively understand, share values and seek the same ideals as- is next to impossible in the restaurant industry. Yet that’s just what happened when Julio Gonzalez Perini and Michael Mameli first worked together at Villa Del Lupo, one of Vancouver’s most beloved Italian restaurants. Perini hired Mameli in what would become Mameli’s first fine dining post. There, at Perini’s posh eatery where Holywood came to dine while in Vancouver, he set the standards of excellence and intensity that proved the foundation for Mameli’s continued career.