ROCA, a Roman-Style Pizza Pop-Up, is Coming to Los Angeles
The pizza boom in Los Angeles seems to have no end. Over the past few years, pizza trends like Neapolitan, Detroit, Sicilian, and more have swept across the city, raising LA’s profile to one of the best pizza stops in the country. One of the more recent trends in the city is Roman-style pizza, which has two variations. There’s tonda, which is a rou...
Pasta Sisters is LA’s Italian Restaurant on Wheels
Padova, Italy-born chef Paola Da Re and her family have accomplished a lot with Pasta Sisters since 2015. They started by offering mix-and-match, hand-made pastas and sauces from a tiny café in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. They expanded to a larger, higher profile space in the Helms Bakery complex, a patio-centric location tha...
The Cottages at Savoca emphasizes Californian-Italian cooking
Different chefs feel comfortable in different environments. While many prefer the intimacy of a small kitchen, from food trucks to hole-in-the-wall local haunts, Nathaniel Marcus, the senior sous-chef at the combo Ritz-Carlton-JW Marriott, prefers the massive corporate space a hotel kitchen provides. Talking about Savoca, the hotel’s centerpiece I...
New Semola restaurant in La Jolla to reinvent Italian gastronomic cuisine
This weekend, the Milanese trio behind the popular Pacific Beach pizzeria Ambrogio15 will open a new restaurant that its owners hope will encourage San Diegans to not only re-examine Italian cooking but also the concept of fine dining. Semola, the Ambrogio15 Gstronomy Project will open Saturday evening in the former PrepKitchen restaurant space at...
Last Supper in Pompeii, life in ancient Pompeii on view at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
Stepping into the life of ancient Pompeii without taking a flight to Italy. Impossible, you may think… unless you’re in the Bay Area. After a delay due to the pandemic, the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco opened its doors to visitors with a special and magnificent exhibition, Last Supper in Pompeii: from the Table to the Grave. By bringing...
First Taste: Toscano Brothers serves authentic NY bagels and Italian breads in North Beach
For the past two years, famed neighborhood pizzaiolo Tony Gemignani has been working on his own bakery concept with the hope of returning European baking traditions to North Beach. Now open, his Toscano Brothers bakery is serving throwback vibes and classic breads. Designed by Gemignani himself (the chef designs all his restaurants), the Vallejo St...
Gucci will hold its next show in Los Angeles
With an exceptional birthday comes an exceptional location. As Gucci is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, six years after the Cruise show in New York, the Italian brand is once again heading to the United States, more specifically to Los Angeles, for its next collection. This is a symbolic choice since Alessandro Michele, creative direct...
Arturo Avallone, the Italian chef all Hollywood celebrities wants
When he cooks for Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, he prepares the dish she likes best, spaghetti with fresh tomatoes and basil, while to Vin Diesel he serves classic bruschetta, of which the Fast & Furious actor is particularly fond. Chef Arturo Avallone arrived in Los Angeles with a dream that, with determination, talent and passion for g...
New franchise promises to become Fresno's 'go-to Italian'
A popular Houston-based pizza brand is coming to Fresno in a big way with a five-unit franchise agreement. The husband-and-wife team of Katharina and Don Haines are bringing Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Italian Kitchen to the Central Valley after falling in love with “that perfect slice of pizza” while living in Texas, according to a news release. T...
102-year-old Tosca Cafe reopens its exuberant dining room after nearly two years of hibernation
Historic North Beach Italian restaurant Tosca Cafe has reopened for indoor dining for the first time in nearly two years. The dream team of chef Nancy Oakes (Boulevard), restaurateur Anna Weinberg (Marlowe) and designer Ken Fulk took over the space in 2019 just a month after it closed following a tumultuous six-year run under restaurateur Ken Fried...
For I Madonnari Sponsors, Street Painting Festival Fills in the Blanks for Local Arts Education
Throngs of art enthusiasts will have the opportunity to admire locally produced street paintings in coronavirus-friendly, socially distanced style during the 35th I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival on May 29-31. Artists of all ages and stages will fan out on driveways, sidewalks, and South Coast nooks and crannies to offer inspiration and...
CMC75 Milestone Years (1958): Arce Leads New Athletic Department as the Claremont-Mudd Stags are Born
As part of the buildup to the 75th Anniversary celebration for Claremont McKenna College (visit CMC's 75th Anniversary Countdown Page to learn more), we are reliving many of the great moments from CMS athletic department history over the 75-day countdown from April 17 to July 1. If you were a part of one of these great moments and would like to add...