I'm jumping in kind of late, but Tony Manutano is chef in a good Italian place in Kenosha called Mangia. (My husband and I ate there the day we got our marriage license.
) I believe it was his cousin that started the business in a former gas station.
Here's a review by a critic whose sensibilities I usually agree with:
http://www.onwisconsin.com/dining/dining.asp?id=1759.
The food is consistently excellent in my experience. They were the first to have a wood-fired oven between Milwaukee and Chicago, I think, when they opened more than 15 years ago. (I lived in Kenosha for 18 years. Pizza's the thing there. You can have a different style every day for a year, and it's almost all great pizza.)