Italian Chefs On The Move In Downtown Ventura

Downtown Ventura looked like an episode of the old cable-TV show “Trading Spaces” this week, as the operator of an Italian restaurant started moving his framed photos and other artworks to a new location four blocks away.It was the first step in clearing the way for the return of the restaurant’s founders, who plan to start serving their own menu there around the first of the New Year.The restaurant in question is the movie-theater-adjacent Sicily by Gino, opened in the spring of 2009 by Gino and Connie Milano but operated for the past four years by Ubaldo Foschi.The Milanos, who also own Gino’s Sicilian Express in Santa Barbara but closed Cucina Isabella in Camarillo in 2012, went into semi retirement about a year ago.