Shu is the brainchild of Giacomino Drago, the well-known restaurateur and chef of several restaurants including Il Pastaio and Piccolo Paradiso in Beverly Hills, and Mauricio Oberfeld, a young real estate developer. Drago and Oberfeld set out to completely transform the former location of a Japanese restaurant in the Beverly Glen Center in Bel Air into Shu Sushi House Unico