About Restaurant

Passion8 Bistro is owned by Luca & Jessica  Annunziata. Chef Luca is from Sorrento, Italy;  the land of lemons and sunshine. He developed a penchant for lovingly prepared  cuisine early on under his mother’s traditional tutelage. At age 17, he left home to quench his thirst  for the world stage and the flavors of distant locales. The first stop was London,  where he worked at the Dorchester Hotel, then onto Germany. Austria  then beckoned and eventually the snowy peaks of St. Moritz, Switzerland,  where he was hired to take the role of Chef de Partie at, The Suvretta House, a  ‘Leading Hotel of the World’.  Luca spent  3 years honing his skills under great chef’s of the world. His European back drop would eventually motivate  him to seek out more distant destinations. This led to a position as an officer aboard;  Cunard Cruise Line’s World Cruise. Another 3 years were then spent traversing  the globe and touching down on each continent. While his repertoire expanded he  began to experiment with integrating new found flavors unobserved as a boy in Italy. Luca’s  mastery of traditional European Cuisine led to a blending of cultures and  styles always with a high regard to quality and a true respect for the  integrity of each culture and traditions of perspective countries. Upon disembarking from the ship, New York City  followed.   Luca split his time between  working for the Hearst Corporation’s Good Housekeeping Magazine; where he  prepared private luncheons for celebrity guests and Fire   Island on the Long Island Sound.   This is where he met the woman who would eventually be his wife,  Jessica. The two chose the name Passion8 to describe  both a life lived well as the 8 is the infinity symbol leading to joy and as  well as the 8 being representative of food made with love and an ample dose of  passion.

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