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You might think the best Italian restaurant in America would be somewhere famous like New York City's Little Italy, but you'd be wrong, at least according to Yelp.   In its list of the highest-rated restaurants in the US, the top spot belongs to Mama D's Italian Kitchen, a family establishment in the sunny town of Newport Beach, California....

Pranzo del Piemonte - Thursday, July 23 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.425 N. Fourth Street - San Jose, CA 95112$12 members - $15 non-members RSVP online, by email or call 408-293-7122 Tino is back in the kitchen and this time he's serving a little traditional Italian by making Pollo alla Cacciatora with a little something special from his...

"Does it feel like a chain?" my pal asks when I invite her to dine at North Italia, Irvine's slick, new, and noisy Italian hot spot. I can't lie, so I don't answer. I simply point out that North Italia's neighbors include Houston's, Lemonade, LA Fitness, and Mother's Market. Open since December, the restaurant occupies an easy-access spot in Park...

January 21, 2015 - Wednesday 7:00 PM - 9:30 PMThe Ebell of Los Angeles - 743 S. Lucerne Boulevard - Los Angeles, California 90005: Old World vs New World: Italian Style Comparing traditional Italian wines to their newfangled California cousins. Our California climate is very similar to that of Italy so the early Italian immigr...

Saturday 5, Saturday - End of Summer Pasta Night at Newport Italian - We would like to celebrate the End of Summerwith our famous Pasta Night Event, alongside our fellow Italian motorcycle and scooter lovers!It will be a lively party with Italian music, our famous bruschetta, amazing focaccia made by Magnone Trattoria, pasta al pomodoro (spaghetti...

By Leanne Battelle   For the restaurant seeker, there are places that are on the radar and those that aren't. Personal limitations to discovery can be formed based on distance, cuisine, price and/or reputation. One for me that was figuratively hidden from view is Il Davide in San Rafael.   I'm not sure why I'd never been, since it's c...

Accolade Wines North America has just introduced Da Luca, a stylish range of super-premium Italian wines, to the U.S. Three distinct single varietal offerings from Da Luca include Pinot Grigio, Sangiovese and Prosecco and can be found in U.S. markets this spring.   According to Accolade Wines North America Vice President of Marketing Reid St...

By Jonathan Gold If you dine regularly in Los Angeles' Italian restaurants, you have probably lived through the fresh-pasta wars, the head cheese skirmishes and the incursion of the massive T-bones. We have not yet quite climbed out of the charred rubble of the wood-fired pizza moment, where the mozzarella comes from buffaloes and the thermostat i...

by Ellen Fort   Ghirardelli Square is heating up, with an influx of new tenants designed to restore it to the vibrant destination it once was. Not only will it be the destination of a full-service restaurant from local favorite Le Marais, but it will be the location of Berkeley-native Jonathan Waxman's first foray into the San Francisco dini...

A new, independently owned lunch spot, Wise Guy Deli, is slated to open within the next couple of months at 214 California St. (at Front), bringing old-school, hearty Italian sandwiches to the FiDi lunch crowd.   The awning is already up, beckoning hungry patrons. Owner Michael Tufo said he'd hoped to be open by now, but—as we hear frequentl...

di Riccardo Chioni   Per accogliere le migliaia di visitatori della 38.ma edizione del Winter Fancy Food Show al Moscone Center, ieri San Francisco ha sfoderato una giornata decisamente primaverile che ha favorito una eccezionale affluenza in quella che e' la vetrina internazionale delle specialità alimentari. Il Fancy Food Show dal 195...

Wine.com honored Terlato Wines International at its third annual Wine Industry Summit at San Francisco's historic Westin St. Francis Hotel.   Terlato Wines was named Exemplary Supplier of the Year in recognition of its growth (which is outpacing that of the industry overall), the quality of its portfolio of wines and its commitment to partne...