Briana DiTommaso Cardone is an Italian/Greek American restaurateur. She and her husband and business partner, Salvatore, are the purveyors of the award winning restaurants, Mambo Italiano Ristorante and Wild Buffalo Italian Gastro Pub, both in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

Briana was raised on an Italian vineyard in the Chicago area where she learned the importance of natural organic ingredients in making a quality product for consumption, and to treat everyone at her table as though they were members of her family.