Eat Pasta Out of a Cheese Wheel at New Bay Park Restaurant
New Italian restaurant La Pastaia is now open in Bay Park, with handmade pasta and other Italian dishes. La Pastaia opened Monday, June 5 at 3055 Clairemont Drive. La Pastaia serves a variety of Italian dishes like pizzas and antipasti, but the focus is on the pastas, which are all made in-house. There are two dishes served from cheese wheels (fett...
Dante Beverly Hills Is the Rooftop Cocktail Destination of Summer 2023
Beloved New York City institution Dante will open on the top floor of the Maybourne Beverly Hills on July 4, offering lunch and dinner, sweeping views of the city and Hollywood Hills, its signature aperitivo-style cocktails, and a fresh Italian-meets-Mediterranean menu. The original Caffe Dante has been a cocktail staple in Greenwich Village for mo...
How Oakland’s Mr. Espresso Taught Us To Properly Enjoy Coffee
When you visit a Bay Area coffee shop, it’s almost a foregone conclusion that you’ll be able to order some form of espresso on the menu, whether as a latte, a cappuccino, a macchiato or an americano. Some 45 years ago, that was not the case. That’s when an Italian elevator repairman in Oakland named Carlo Di Ruocco—new to town and yearning for a t...
Little Italy San Jose gives visitors a taste of new restaurant, museum
Supporters of the two newest additions to Little Italy San Jose got a sneak peek at a June 22 preview event for Poor House Bistro and the Little Italy Museum and Cultural Center. The 5,000-square-foot piazza that connects the two venues was full of people who paid $30 a pop to dine on food from Poor House Bistro as well as Paesano’s and Bibo’s Pizz...
A pizza master opens her first place in Berkeley
My Sicilian side can tend to dominate. That intense passion for the things I love, bordering on an obsessive impulse to research, study and dig deep, includes food. This was only fueled by homecooked pastas and sauces from my Italian mama and grandfather growing up on both coasts. Add in my crucial teen years in New Jersey after we moved across the...
Luxury Italian Design House Cassina Opens Their Largest Store in West Hollywood
Highlighted by a display of its design collaboration with the late Virgil Abloh, high-end Italian furniture brand Cassina unveiled its largest store to date in May on North Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood. “We are extremely excited to open the largest Cassina Store in Los Angeles, sharing our unique vision of the home with the American public...
Who needs Soho House? This Italian social club hidden in L.A. is an absolute delight
Lauren Veca was worried about the meatballs. The 62-year-old doula had insisted on making her mother’s recipe for the Garibaldina Society’s upcoming monthly pasta dinner, but now she was having second thoughts. “You’re having performance anxiety because of these meatballs,” said the club’s president, Nicole Infante, 48, a mother of two who never si...
If Pasta Is Your Love Language, You’ll Be In Heaven At La Parolaccia Osteria Italiana In Southern California
Don’t worry, if your love language is less “word of affirmation” and more “drenched in carbonara,” you are not alone. Food brings people together, feeds the soul (literally), and makes us happy. And if you are anything like me, it is that much better when the food happens to be hand-made traditional pasta, like it is at this Italian restaurant in L...
Frank Sinatra Favorite La Dolce Vita Returns
Behind the walls of the windowless Barman Building in Beverly Hills, La Dolce Vita—the legendary restaurant and Frank Sinatra-Sammy Davis Jr. hangout that opened in 1966 but closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic—is back. The front door, with its massive cheetah-shaped handle, swings ajar to reveal a luscious new dining room, and maître d’ Ch...
San Diego’s Michelangelo of Screw Art: Navy Chief Again Wins Top Prize at Fair
The hand of God animating Adam just by a touch is not how Adam’s creation is described in the Torah. Genesis 2:6 reads: “And Hashem God formed the man of dust from the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the soul of life; and man became a living being.” However, the divine touch is the way the great medieval Italian artist Michelangelo imagined t...
Silvia Bottini brings Pinocchio, the wooden boy to Sylmar
Italian actress Silvia Bottini is bringing her show, Pinocchio the Wooden Boy around the LA area, with the next date in Sylmar, on Saturday 24. The play has been produced by the Italian Consulate in LA and IAMLA (the Italian American Museum in Los Angeles), where it has also debuted. Bottini received the support of the IIC for the staging of her wo...
Two Pasta Queens’ Dreams Become Reality As They Open La Pastaia In Bay Park
La Pastaia, a Venetian-style Italian restaurant, has opened its doors in Bay Park. The restaurant is owned and operated by two women who moved to the United States from Sicily, Italy in their early 20s to chase their dream of opening their own Italian restaurant. The restaurant’s name, La Pastaia, means “The Pasta Lady.” La Pastaia is the brainchil...