Mamma Lucia Restaurants | 116 followers on LinkedIn. Let Mamma Do The Cooking! | While Bruno was running the successful Rockville Mamma Lucia, his future partner was operating his namesake restaurant, "Jimmy's Place"​ in Gaithersburg, MD. Introduced by a mutual friend, Jimmy and Bruno soon became good friends and, of course, had the restaurant business as a mutual interest. Having been raised in the Bronx, NY by his native Italian parents (from Rome and Naples), Bruno had worked at his father's Italian restaurant since he was 14 years old.