La Locanda: classic Italian cuisine served with passion and flair
Tried and true, old-world Italian classics fill a very extensive and diverse menu. Seventeen years ago, in June of 1998, La Locanda Ristorante became an integral part of the Delaware County culinary landscape. It's a gem still recognized as one of the finest restaurants in the entire area and well beyond its own boundaries. Read...
Montclair's Scala del Nonna builds on family's Italian cuisine foundation
by Teresa Politano Given the swarms of Italian restaurants in this state, and the fierce loyalty they inspire, it might be fair to classify a significant portion of the job of a Jersey restaurant critic as waxing poetic over one meatball or another. Which is no small writing challenge, waxing poetic over a meatball. Of course, one mig...
Holy cannoli! Readers share where to find beloved Italian pastry
by Patricia Talorico I hope you have a sweet tooth. Our mailbag, and voice mail, was flooded with suggestions after a reader last week asked where to find good cannoli now that Serpe's Bakery in Elsmere is out of commission due to its Dec. 24 fire. We received dozens of ideas in and around Delaware. Clara and Jack Rust of Newark s...
Il giudice mette i sigilli allo storico ristorante Casa Dante di Jersey City fondato da due italoamericani
Gli agenti della polizia giudiziaria hanno messo i sigilli al popolare ristorante di Jersey City Casa Dante, che tra i suoi clienti famosi annoverava il leggendario Yankee Phil Rizzuto, a causa di una disputa sull'affitto arretrato che gli attuali prorietari dovrebbero al padrone di casa. Il ristorante Casa Dante, situato lungo Newark Avenue, in p...
Authentic Italian right in our backyard
by Danielle Gomes There is nothing that matters more to Italian-born chef Franco Raimondo than preparing and serving only the freshest food possible at Marco Polo in Ocean City. "I never serve food that was made yesterday," Raimondo says. Each day, Raimondo makes the sauces and soups fresh and at the end of the night, if ther...
N.J.'s best Italian restaurant finals: A place worth flipping for
You wouldn't think that LuNello in Cedar Grove, with its valet parking, hushed main dining room, well-mannered bar and black-jacketed head waiters, would be the kind of place where they'd allow people to throw things around. You'd be wrong. The high-end restaurant, one of ten finalists in our search for N.J.'s best Italian restaurant,...
Philadelphia si promuove a Showcase Usa-Italy 2013
Il Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PHLCVB) ha annunciato la sua partecipazione a Showcase Usa-Italy 2013, evento promosso dall'U.S. Commercial Service del Consolato Generale Americano in collaborazione con l'Associazione Visit Usa Italia e la U.S. Travel Association. Quest'anno la manifestazione – una vera e propria vetrina degli Sta...
McDonald’s pairs with Barilla pasta to develop "Mediterranean diet" menu items
by Lizzy Davies One is an iconic brand of Italian cuisine that has been in the same family for four generations. The other is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the world. They may, as one Italian newspaper remarked on Thursday, be seen by purists as "the devil and holy water", but McDonald's and the Parma-based pasta maker Barilla have now jo...
Airmall USA to open Italian fine foods store at Pittsburgh International
USA. North American concessions developer Airmall USA is to open Italian fine foods store Bottega dei Sapori at Pittsburgh International Airport's Centre Core this Summer. Airmall forged a seven-year agreement with Italian travel retail operator Airest Collezioni in March to develop concessions in the Airside Terminal. The new stores are part of a...
M Cafe Bar brings contemporary Italian to 14th Street
By Tom Sietsema The smartest thing the owner of the new MCafe Bar did was wrap the restaurant's exterior in a big blue awning that commands the attention of everyone who passes it. The fabric acts like a neon sign on a street where competition for diners is fresh and fierce. "Contemporary Italian Cuisine," the letters on the facade practically scr...
Value vino: comeback for fizzy Italian wines
By Ron Bechtol What was it about the '70s? Richard Nixon, bell-bottom pants, Hamburger Helper...need we say more? Oh, sure—why not: "Riunite on ice....that's nice!" also springs to mind. In the 1970s and '80s, Banfi Vintners aggressively peddled a sweet and fizzy, soda-pop style wine made from the lambrusco grape in Italy's Emilio...
LaStalla Restaurant owners, executive chef to open specialty Italian Market at the Promenade in Newtown Township
By Jeff Werner You know that free standing building at the recently opened Promenade on Sycamore Street? Soon it will be bustling with the sights and sounds of an authentic Italian Market courtesy of the owners and executive chef at La Stalla Restaurant. "We've had a very nice experience as an Italian restaurant in Newtown and we...