Luca Lorusso comes from a large southern Italian family and spent his childhood in his hometown of Corato, Puglia. Luca’s love of cooking comes from his ‘mamma’ who cooked and prepared legendary meals for his large family using only basic produce. Luca moved to Australia in 1991 Luca and opened a restaurant in Melbourne where he has been cooking Pugliese-inspired food ever since, based on quality ingredients, simple cooking methods, and lots of passion.