Experience Italy as Via Umbria Reopens
The new Via Umbriahas reopened its doors and you will want to be part of this experience ... starting now. Official reopening is in January but stop in today for a delightful and flavorful sneak peek. Remember the charming Geribi ceramics andTessitura Pardi textiles and Pardi wine, shelves full of Italian products? Well, they're all still ther...
Batali Is Writing Two Cookbooks on American Cuisine
Chef and restaurateur Mario Batali has signed a deal for two cookbooks with Grand Central Life & Style, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group. The first cookbook will be written in collaboration with Washington Post writer Jim Webster, and will "look at farmers and their top products in 12 American states acr...
Italian bakery celebrates 100 years of business in Clarksburg
Known for their baked breads, including famous pepperoni rolls, Tomaro's Italian bakery in the Glen Elk district of Clarksburg has now been in business for 100 years. It has remained a family business. "My great grandfather Antonio Carmen Tomaro started the bakery in 1914 and it's been passed through the family," said John Brunett, one of...
Little Nonna’s Opens Today! Here’s the Final Menu
We've been licking our lips at photos and videos for months, but today, Chef Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran will finally prop open the front door of their new Italian restaurant in the Gayborhood. Little Nonna's is the ladies' fourth restaurant and seventh business in the G'hood. It will seat 37 people inside and, when weather permits, a...
Touch Of Italy To Replace Reflections In Ocean City
by Joanne Shriner Adding a Touch of Italy to Ocean City was an opportunity that could not be refused for both the Harrison Group and restaurant ownership. Touch of Italy opened its first location on Baltimore Ave. in Rehoboth in October of 2009, serving fresh handmade mozzarella cheese, pasta, pizza, cookies and crispy bread as well as ma...
Italian man will make pizza in your driveway
by Shari Puterman Chaz Eicke, 42, loves a good slice of pizza. Coming from an Italian background, it's no surprise that he takes this signature New Jersey food pretty seriously. "That's where I got the cooking bug," he says of his ethnic upbringing. Eicke, a physical therapist at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawk...
Italian People's Bakery a Chambersburg mainstay after 80 years
Pasquale Gervasio made it to America by stowing away on a boat from Italy, eating only lemons for two weeks. In 1936, he opened an Italian bakery in Trenton with a single brick oven, and over the years its grown from one bakery to a seven-location business that create fresh bread and baked goods that are standouts in a community filled with sp...
Bar Civita to open in Woodley Park on April 28
Liam LaCivita has taken over the space of the old Murphy's Irish pub in Woodley Park, but part of it lives on in spirit. "I wanted to let people know that we're causal and you can come in just for drinks," LaCivita said of the decision to name his first solo venture Bar Civita, even though it's a restaurant. LaCivita kept Murphy's 25-...
Ralph's: How you get to be the oldest Italian restaurant in America
by Danya Henninger In 1893, Francesco Dispigno left Naples and traveled to America with his wife and young son. They landed at Ellis Island, where his son's Italian name - Rafael - was officially changed to Ralph. The family headed to Philadelphia and settled on South Ninth Street. Seven years later, Dispigno, who had worked in th...
South Italy Imports brings a taste of Italy to the Lehigh Valley
South Italy Imports has one foot in the Lehigh Valley and the other in Italy. The wine and food importer started in 2001 and now has a presence in Nevada, California, New York and they're applying to be a distributor in Delaware. Regardless, you'll still find the home base in Hanover Township. "To get a wine out of Italy, (vineya...
Gallucio’s Italian Restaurant Serving Sunday Brunch and a Side of Country Music
Greg Dorak, general manager of Gallucio's Italian Restaurant, which has been named Delaware's Best Italian Eatery & "Irish-Style" Pub, recently announced they are now serving Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. "We are excited to now offer brunch to our patrons," said Dorak. "Our brunch menu includes breakfast staples such as pancakes, omel...
2 Pittsburgh restaurants donate proceeds from pasta dish to Italian earthquake relief
by Tony Raap Two local Italian restaurants are raising money for victims of last week's deadly earthquake in central Italy by donating proceeds from a pasta dish to overseas relief efforts. Lidia's Pittsburgh at 1400 Smallman St. in the Strip District began offering the spaghetti-like dish Bucatini all' Amatriciana on its lunch and di...