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by Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer   When they were visiting Siena, Italy, the team behind River North's Siena Tavern conceived of a restaurant. As Siena Tavern progressed from idea to reality, it moved away from that vision—but apparently without detriment, to judge from the crowds there. The owners have returned to the dream kindled on that...

by Heather Augustyn   With two locations, in Chesterton and Crown Point, Lucrezia houses some of the region's most authentic and fresh Italian food, including cavatappi pasta, corkscrews that individually hold a rich, Parmesan, buttery cream sauce, surrounded by generous amounts of Portobello mushrooms, lightly caramelized shallots, and plum...

Città: ChicagoPaese: STATI UNITIPeriodo di svolgimento: 01/04/2013 - 30/12/2013Descrizione: La Italian American Chamber of Commerce Midwest intende organizzare una missione del settore agroalimentare a Chicago. Le ditte italiane coinvolte saranno ditte Lombarde, Laziali. Toscane e Siciliane. Gli operatori coinvolti saranno importatori, distributori...

Diners in Mequon were taking Salotto Zarletti's tagline of "a place to gather" seriously. They crowded into the bar; they filled the tables in the dining room. Waiting until the same day to make a reservation meant I could dine quite early or quite late.   A couple of weeks in at chef-restaurateur Brian Zarletti's new restaurant, and it look...

Online Italian food specialist, Gourmet Italian, is thrilled to offer the entire line of Ariosto seasonings at GourmetItalian.com. Ariosto has been making their exceptional products out of Reggio Emilia, Italy, since the 1960s, and started as a restaurant specializing in roasting meats.   Today they use the same traditional techniques a...

Italian cuisine is almost universally loved and yet it's often written off as commonplace. We can debate why that is – or, well, we can just hit Chinato for Happy Hour...   OK, let's do the latter. Chinato rolls out some of the most liberal hours in Happyland. Perfect for a visit downtown to check out the Christmas displays, a Cavs game or a...

Buona is honored to announce its partnership with Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo to help raise funds for his foundation, the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation.   The family-owned restaurant group has worked with Rizzo to develop "The Rizzo Way" of preparing three classic sandwiches: the original Italian Beef, Sausage and Italian Beef...

di Barbara Ganz   Due banche – UniCredit e Intesa Sanpaolo – accompagnano l'internazionalizzazione del Gruppo Rana, Spa con base a San Giovanni Lupatoto (Verona) che detiene il 41% del mercato della pasta fresca, oltre il 50% nella pasta ripiena e la leadership nel mercato dei sughi con una presenza chiave nel mercato europeo dei piatti pron...

by Polly Campbell The owners of A Tavola, the wood-fired pizza restaurants in Over-the-Rhine and Madeira, are opening a new concept. Their new place will also specialize in pizza, but with a different approach. Taglio, coming to Columbia Tusculum, will focus on delivering New York style pizza, along with beer and wine. They hope to open on Feb. 7....

By Douglas Trattner   For the past nine months, the 100-plus year old structure that long had been home to the Mayfield Café has been getting a complete makeover inside and out. The aluminum siding has been stripped, revealing the original clapboard siding.   New windows have been installed up and down, including a fold-away glass faç...

To answer what is no doubt your first question, no, Bobby Arifi, owner of Bobby's Deerfield, is not an obsessive Al Pacino fan who created a theme restaurant devoted to what widely is considered to be the Oscar-winner's worst film (the 1977 film "Bobby Deerfield," about a race car driver). "I haven't even seen the movie," Arifi admits.   Ari...

by Liz Biro   An uncommon take on Italian food lands in Fountain Square in early September, or maybe as soon as late August. Restaurant Pioneer, at the crossroads of Shelby Street and Virginia Avenue, features the food of northeastern Italy and its Alpine neighbors Austria, Germany and Switzerland.   That means homemade bratwurst...