September 17, 2004

De LucasÕ Italian touch apparent at Pane e Vino

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LOUISVILLE — When you get an opportunity, you take it.
That˜s why after 12 and one-half years of running successful Boulder institution Antica Roma on the Pearl Street Mall, Silvano and Elvira De Luca closed the restaurant˜s doors and opened Pane e Vino in Louisville.

In 1991, the De Lucas were living in Rome, and both were looking for new careers. Silvano was a mechanical engineer and had worked for General Motors for 11 years, often traveling to the United States. But he was tired of being someone else˜s employee.

"I wanted to do something on my own," he says. As…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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