Zoppé an Italian Family Circus in Elk Grove (CA)
Escape back in time with Zoppé - Italian Family Circus. Join us as we present Carnevale di Venezia at the Elk Grove Park (9950 Elk Grove Florin Rd, Elk Grove, CA 95624). Experience 178 years of family tradition happening daily in our home, The Big Top. We invite you to experience a suspension of the modern world for two hours and leave with joy, in...
2024 Maserati MCXtrema First Look: Great Neptune's Racer
Sixty-two Maserati collectors, racetrack-country-club members, and/or wannabe gentleman racers have already flashed their AmEx Black cards, securing every copy of the latest Maserati Corsa track-only model: the 2024 Maserati MCXtrema. We covered the concept based loosely on the Maserati MC20 supercar last year, when it was known only by its codenam...
Authentic Italian Vicini Ristorante and Wine Bar Is Now Open On Pico
A new Italian restaurant, Vicini Ristorante and Wine Bar commemorated its opening on August 16th, featuring a menu of authentic Italian family recipes by local Chef Lucio Bedon, who has worked at prominent restaurants between Los Angeles and Italy for two decades. Bedon’s father worked as a fisherman, and many dishes are inspired by the chef’s fami...
Barbera festival, an Italian classic at Terra d’oro winery set for September
The Amador Vintners Association is proud to announce the return of the Barbera Festival, now in its 10th year, to the historic Terra d’Oro winery September 9, 2023. Festival goers can taste Barbera wines from over 50 wineries across California in this beautiful outdoor setting nestled in the Sierra foothills. Along with the grand tasting, festival...
Che Fico is a restaurant reborn post-pandemic
Che Fico has been a special pizza, pasta and house charcuterie haven in a city that’s silly with the best in the nation in each of those categories. But despite our plethora of world-class pizza and pasta in San Francisco, chef David Nayfeld has a unique take unmatched in SF — or anywhere, for that matter. Yet the style is so very San Francisco. Th...
Celebrating Lamborghini: Concours d’Elegance will feature Italian sports car manufacturer on its 60th anniversary
Picture it. As the story goes, Ferruccio Lamborghini, who had been manufacturing excellent tractors since 1948, had bought a Ferrari about which he made complaints. His response from Enzo Ferrari came across as an insult when he said, “Why don’t you stick to tractors, and I’ll stick to cars.” Apparently Lamborghini replied, “I can do this as well,”...
Leonardo da Vinci Awards 2023 for Early Career Scientists and Scholars in any field
The Leonardo da Vinci Society and the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Bay Area Chapter are seeking applications for the Leonardo Award 2023. This award was established in 2019 on the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death to recognize the outstanding contributions of Italian/Italian American early career...
An authentic taste of Italy in Cali, north of the city
A restaurant in the Santa Monica residential neighborhood that imports ingredients and infrastructure from Europe to give its diners the best experience of Italian gastronomy. Italian food is renowned the world over for its fusion of flavours, the land of pizza, Neapolitan sauce and spaghetti mesmerizing locals and strangers alike with its culinary...
100th Anniversary Tridium, August 17 - 19, 2023
For 100 years Our Lady of the Rosary has served as a beacon of hope to her members of Faith. She has served as the center of a neighborhood to celebrate faith, family, community and traditions. This August we celebrate the community and the Church that saved and re-built Little Italy. Join us for a community Triduum that culminates with an even...
Fresh, hard-to-find pasta will star at new downtown S.F. restaurant
San Francisco is getting a new hotel restaurant inspired by seafood-filled summers on the Italian Riviera. Corzetti, named for a thin, coin-shaped pasta born on the Ligurian coast, will open in August inside the Hotel G at 386 Geary St. in Union Square. It will be the first hotel restaurant from Back of the House, a restaurant group that operates 3...
Southern Italian Restaurant Limoncello Coming to La Mesa
Life’s lemons are best when serving as inspiration for a 2,000-square-foot Amalfi Coast, art deco-themed restaurant plopped in the middle of La Mesa. You know the owner Alberto Morreale for his fleet of San Diego properties (The Seventh House, Smokey & The Brisket, Farmers Bottega, Farmer’s Table), now he’s gearing up to open his first Italian join...
San Jose: Italian Family Festa returns Aug. 5-6 with food, music, grape stomping
Grape stomping. A Roman encampment. Food and wine booths. And a children’s fun zone. The Italian Family Festa, now in its 41st year, returns to History Park in San Jose this weekend with live entertainment, culinary demos, arts and crafts vendors, and a new Italia Cultural and Culinary Pavilion. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, with...