SF to Frisco: Former North Beach Restaurant, Baonecci, Settles Into Dallas Suburb
The dining room at Baonecci, a newly opened Italian restaurant in Frisco, Texas, is molto bene right now. This San Francisco transplant has only been open a couple weeks, but the place is nearly full on this Friday night, crackling with the kind of giddy electricity that so often accompanies the opening of something new. Walter Gambaccini, owner an...
Sacramento native to expand Italian restaurant from New York to midtown. Here’s the plan
Midtown’s food scene will soon make room for another pizza destination — and this one comes all the way from the Manhattan borough of New York City. Set to open spring 2023 at 1801 L St., Pazza Notte Restaurant’s second location will feature a 2,891-square-foot space with three outdoor patio sections, a brick oven, happy hour and a DJ, according to...
Vegan Italian Fast Food... In America?
Some dream in black in white, others in color. In 2021, one entrepreneur’s rainbow dream was realized when she helped bring Italy’s first self-described veganburgheria to Los Angeles after being inspired by a visit to the fast casual restaurant on a trip to Rome. Flower Burger’s brightly-colored buns, Instagram-ready design, and focus on plant-base...
Marisi Italian Gearing Up For Summer Opening In La Jolla
In development for over two years, Marisi is on track to open in August 2022, unlocking the doors to Italy by way of La Jolla. With a focus on Italian hearth cooking, featuring handmade pasta, classic cocktails, and fine wine, Marisi honors Italian customs with past and present practices of thoughtful service worthy of remembering. Meet the Marisi...
Serata Caprese at Capri
This summer, sweep off to Capri without leaving town at Serata Caprese! Find your dream Italian vacation in the heart of Eataly LA with unlimited southern Italian bites, endless wine pours to pair, refreshing cocktails featuring Malfy Gin, and live music! Join us for Serata Caprese on Thursday, July 28 from 6-8:30 PM at Capri, our pop-up restaurant...
Upscale Italian chophouse Tocca Ferro starts serving dinner service at JW Marriott, Anaheim Resort
Tocca Ferro, an upscale Italian chophouse offering pasta, fresh seafood, and an extensive beverage menu, softly opened for dinner service at the JW Marriott, Anaheim Resort on Thursday, July 7. Since launching in August 2020, the property, which is adjacent to Anaheim GardenWalk and Disneyland, has offered variations of breakfast and a brunch buffe...
Isabella’s Italian Restaurant is a longtime Redlands fixture
It has been ages since I’ve visited Isabella’s, a fixture in Redlands for more than three decades. Not much has changed — same classic décor with lots of brick, faux greenery, maroon walls and ceiling. We were even waited on by Tammi, a server par excellence and one of the original staff. Owners Ruthie and Martin Felix are still there, where she r...
Italian wine and food shop opens in Healdsburg
Ciao Bruto!, a new Italian wine and specialty food shop next to the Idlewild Wines tasting room in downtown Healdsburg, has opened with a curated selection of European wines and Italian foods such as honey, chocolate, organic pasta, olive oil, lentils, chickpeas, polenta and 40 varieties of tinned fish. Ciao Bruto partner Thomas DeBiase, director o...
Replacing Ciao Ciao Piadina, Ambrogio15 Enoteca To Open In San Diego's La Jolla
The team behind San Diego's Ambrogio15 restaurants has closed its Ciao Ciao Piadina concept in La Jolla and will rebrand the space to become Ambrogio15 Enoteca, a wine room and grocery scheduled to debut this fall.Milan-turned-San Diego residents Giacomo Pizzigoni, Andrea Burrone and Luca Salvi opened the flagship Ambrogio15 on Turquoise Street in...
Juliano’s Italian Restaurant serves Northern Italian cuisine in Hesperia
For 18 years, Juliano’s Italian Restaurant in Hesperia has been “the” place to enjoy authentic northern Italian cuisine. Juliano’s is famous for its fresh homemade appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, and desserts, open seven days a week and serves lunch and dinner. A comprehensive wine list awaits your perusal, and there are well drinks and mixed d...
Italian Powerhouse Flour + Water Will Bring Even More Pizza to North Beach Next Year
North Beach diners can look forward to one more option for thin-crust pizzas with bubbly, blistered spots, this time courtesy of one of San Francisco’s most respected Italian restaurant groups. Flour + Water Hospitality Group, the team behind the eponymous fresh pasta mecca in the Mission and Penny Roma just around the corner, will reopen Flour + W...
From Fast Casual To Full Service Restaurant: The Transformation Of San Francisco’s Italian Favorite, BarZotto
Located in San Francisco’s Mission District is BarZotto, a charming Italian restaurant and wine bar specializing in Cal-Italian-style pizza and pasta. BarZotto opened its doors in 2016 by owner Marko Sotto originally as a fast casual pasta spot. Fast forward to the end of 2020, and the beginning of a second shelter-in-place, BarZotto was forced to...