Oral historian Silvio Passalacqua (pictured here in 2019) is the youngest son of Giocomina Cirelingione Passalacqua and Angelo Passalacqua of Sicily, who founded Washington’s first Italian Restaurant in 1939.

West Chestnut Spaghetti Inn, founded by Angelo Passalacqua, was renamed “Angelo’s Restaurant” after the founder’s passing in 1952.