Chef Mario’s extensive food knowledge has been shared with his loyal audience of listeners on the airways in Southern California for over nine years.
In August 2005, he debuted the entertaining and informative “Mario Martinoli on Food & Dining” featurettes heard each day on KFWB News 980, L.A.’s first all-news radio station. The appetizing segments air daily in morning drive, the afternoon, and afternoon drive and are encored on the weekend.
Previously he hosted “The Mario Martinoli Restaurant Show” in which he chatted with the luminaries of the culinary world at his "Family Table" and resolved listeners challenging dining-out dilemmas for two hours each week on the radio.
He also was the on-air food-and-restaurant authority for TV station KCAL 9 News in Los Angeles. His entertaining and highly rated restaurant profiles, “The TV Diner,” were featured in prime-time KCAL 9 (and picked up at sister station CBS 2 News beginning in 2002). The chef also presented fast-moving daily featurettes on cooking, produce, wine appreciation and kitchen gadgets on KCAL’s “News at 2.”
Mario started his culinary career with a modest neighborhood cooking school in the Larchmont Village area of Los Angeles. The school became Mario's Cooking For Friends, a popular Hollywood Italian restaurant, cafe, deli and gathering spot on Beverly Boulevard.
He also was the official caterer for television shows including Seinfeld, Cheers, Wings and The Arsenio Hall Show.
DOUG DRAUNER - AUTO EXPERT - "CARS ON YOUR BUCKET LIST"
Once each year, on the third Sunday in August, about 200 of the most prized collector cars and motorcycles in the world roll onto what is often called the best finishing hole in golf the famed eighteenth fairway at Pebble Beach.
Tire meets turf and transformation occurs: the stage is set for one of the most competitive events in the automotive world. The occasion is the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.