From Forest Park
To Uptown.
Chef Jose Marquez started in this kitchen the way a lot of great chefs do — at the bottom. In 1997 he came on as a dishwasher, and over the better part of three decades he worked his way through every station, learning the food from the inside before he ever ran a line. That path is still in the cooking: nothing on the menu is complicated for its own sake.
Piacere Mio started in Forest Park, where owners Antonio de la Rosa and Francisco Perez built the kind of neighborhood trattoria people plan their week around. Uptown is the second location — the same Sicilian-inspired, house-made approach, brought to a new block and a new set of regulars.
The name is the whole philosophy. Piacere mio is what you say in Italian when someone thanks you — literally, “my pleasure.” That's not a slogan here. It's the answer the family wants every table to get, every night.
