David Timney has joined Mangia Italiano as executive chef. He previously spent 15 years at Café Balaban in the Central West End, where he was also exec chef and a partner. Mangia plans to issue new lunch and dinner menus next month under him. Also next month, Mangia will open a pasta factory – a pasta-making facility coupled with a small retail space – in the former Berlinger Dairy Center at 2023 Cherokee St.
This article appears in Dec 1-31, 2009.