Downtown Bangor’s Tesoro to reopen in late December, and it’ll take credit cards
Two months after putting it up for sale, Tesoro Pizzeria & Restaurant owners Fortunata and Rocco Agrusa have sold their business to a pair with extensive experience in the local restaurant scene. Johanna Harvey and Mark Greenleaf, both of Bangor, purchased Tesoro from the Agrusas last month, and have been busy over the past few weeks renovating the...
Business Spotlight: Pomodoro Is A Jewel In Nearby Woonsocket, RI
“Great atmosphere. Great prices. Great food. Great staff. A jewel in Woonsocket” is the way one Facebook poster describes Pomodoro, located just across the border in Rhode Island. Now in its second-generation ownership, previously operated under the name Savini’s, the restaurant first appeared as the Sons of Italy in 1934. Owned by Roger and Mitch...
Bangor’s Momma Baldacci’s resurrected
Momma Baldacci's has been resurrected, a decade after the bricks-and-mortar Bangor restaurant closed, as a food truck. The Bangor Daily News reported that Paul Baldacci Jr., the fourth generation to be involved in the well-known restaurant, was in his early 20s when his father died in 2006. Baldacci Jr. wasn't ready for the operation, which closed...
New Southington pizza restaurant ‘very authentic, very Italian’
While it only takes about a minute for personal-sized pizzas to cook in Mamma Mia restaurant’s oven, the handmade dough is prepared and left to rise for 48 hours before being topped with fresh ingredients. Mamma Mia, 1765 Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, held its grand opening Friday after finishing renovations and installing the pizza oven ordered from...
Spirito brothers return to roots to open new restaurant
Ever had a Frog City Burger or Thornton Grinder? If not, think about trying a Pocasset or Plainfield Parma Pizza, or dishes like veal and peas, polenta, tripe, soffrito or other authentic homemade Italian dishes that feature large portions, pleases people’s palates and pocketbooks and is now being served by the Spirito brothers – Gregory and David...
Natick: Agostino’s Italian Restaurant to open after long hiatus
Maria and Zissis Klisiaris are a husband-and-wife team who know what it takes to run a restaurant. “Food is the center of our universe,” Maria said recently as a worker climbed a ladder to install speakers in the dining room ceiling of Agostino’s Italian Restaurant at 23 Washington St. It’s one of the finishing touches that must get done before Mar...
Pasta e Basta boasts interesting environment
Pasta e Basta is an Amherst restaurant with two personalities. The first floor is given over to a casual pizzeria space where one orders at the counter, while the second and third floors are set up for bistro-style dining. Those upper floors also feature an open kitchen where one can watch the culinary goings-on; both also offer tables with fine vi...
Already-Acclaimed Meatballs Star at Forthcoming North End Restaurant
Nick Frattaroli’s North End empire grows by one next month with the opening of Tony & Elaine’s (111 N. Washington St., Boston), most likely debuting a few days before Christmas. After a ramp-up in restaurants that started in 2013 with the opening of Ward 8 (90 N. Washington St.) and continued with both North Square Oyster (5 North Sq.) and Bodega C...
Phantom Gourmet: Babbo Pizzeria e Enoteca
Mario LaPosta was pretty much born to be a chef. “From the age of five, my nicknames were Mario Mozzarella and Mario Meatball and pizza was my favorite food. My whole entire life I said, I’m going to become a pizza maker and have my own pizzeria and this and that,” said Mario. And now he is at Babbo Pizzeria e Enoteca, located in Boston’s Seaport....
Truffle Day at Eataly Boston
Mark your calendar: Eataly Boston is celebrating Truffle Day on Wednesday, November 21. In time for the holidays, you can bring home a fresh white truffle from Italy at the season's lowest cost and specially-priced truffle dishes in our restaurants! Why is this exciting? Fall is the peak season for the revered white truffle! In Italy and across th...
Local Critic Tries Papa Gino’s for the First Time
The Boston Globe’s Devra First took the opportunity this week to eat at Papa Gino’s for the first time after news came out that the long-running Massachusetts pizza chain abruptly closed numerous locations and was filing for bankruptcy. “I expect it to be unfamiliar, but when I walk in, it is utterly familiar,” she writes, opting for carry-out, tak...
Apizza one of many Wooster Square traditions
How can you speak about Wooster Square without mentioning apizza, the iconic product of our neighborhood? Because there are so many versions of the apizza legend, I hesitate to tread on such hallowed ground. We claim to have invented, or at least concocted, what we now consider American pizza. New Haven’s version often leads just about every nation...