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"After years of the restaurant trying to secure a visa, I’m relieved that award-winning Neapolitan chef Ernesto Palmieri has finally taken the top slot in the kitchen at Lucia’s, a Neapolitan pizza restaurant in downtown Berkeley; the restaurant had been working since 2018 to properly hire a real-deal Neapolitan pizza chef, and Palmieri—who has won a slew of Italian cooking awards—has prompted menu updates that include fried mini pizzas like the kind sold on the streets of Naples." - Eve Batey