What happens when Barbara Lynch alums bring Italian food to the South End?
By Nestor Ramos If you had 10 grand and a time machine, you could do a lot worse than buying up land in the Ink Block section of the South End. A decade ago, this was a wasteland. Now, dudes in linen blazers and tailored shorts stroll past the latest condo construction projects, and the fanciest Whole Foods in the Whole World has taken up...
Aniello’s in East Haven re-creates dish from famed New Haven restaurant
By Stephen Fries This column started out with the idea of sleuthing out recipes for dishes you enjoyed at area restaurants. It still does, and has grown to include columns related to "everything food." I have been a subscriber to Bon Appetit magazine for many years and have enjoyed their R.S.V.P. column where they also seek out restau...
Fiorella’s To Celebrate Fifteenth Anniversary
by Carla Balzano Fiorella's in Newtonville is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary in August. Throughout the month, it will be offering delicious dishes for $15. The dishes will vary and rotate daily. Some of the meals they are offering are Lobster Ravioli Florentine, Chicken Limoncello, Pork Chop Madeira, and etc. If that isn't incentiv...
Bakers seek new law for Rhode Island’s beloved wine biscuits
Bakers are asking state lawmakers to make it easier for them to mass produce an Italian-American treat. The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to pass legislation that would create a special wine biscuit license allowing bakers to buy up to 2,000 gallons of wine a year from wholesalers. North Providence baker and Town Councilwoman K...
A New Gelato Shop Opens in Back Bay this Week with Free Treats
Good news, folks! A new Boston gelato shop is opening just in time for spring. Amorino, a luxurious European cafe and gelato shop, is set to debut its first Boston-area location this Thursday at 7:30 a.m. And, per a release, guests can experience a "special discovery period" that day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with complimentary gelato. The up...
Pasta Beach combines Italian cuisine, American summer
Nestled between the many home goods stores, bistros and coffee shops in Wayland Square lies the neighborhood's newest resident: Pasta Beach. The third installment of the chain, which boasts locations in Newport and Boston, opened just weeks ago Aug. 18. Already the restaurant attracts many culinary cognoscenti native to Providence and the surroundi...
Dine Out Maine: Find classic red-sauce cuisine at Rose’s Italian in Windham
Weaknesses come in all shapes and sizes. One of my biggest is an inability to turn down a meal at a red sauce joint. My fondness for Italian-American food probably has roots that Freud would love to explore – especially since neither side of my family is Italian. If I had to guess, I'd venture that some of my attraction comes from the cuisine's unu...
Q&A with Michael Marchetti, owner of Columbus Park Trattoria
A: My parents opened their first restaurant in 1983. I was 13 years old and had already been around restaurants before that. My mom's brother owned and operated a very popular Italian restaurant called Rugantino's on the Stamford-Darien border. My mom purchased a rundown pizza place on Main Street in Norwalk. I washed dishes and learned ho...
A 'certified' Italian pizza joint comes to Fairfield
Although he was born in Bridgeport, Paolo Cavalli spent the majority of his childhood in Italy. Growing up there, on a large farm just outside Rome, helped Cavalli learn the definition of fresh food -- everything either came from an animal, grew out of the earth or was homemade. "All of our cooking was pretty much natural," Cavalli said....
La Motta's Italian Specialties Will Shower the South End in Red Sauce
by Rachel Leah Blumenthal Union Bar & Grille, part of the Aquitaine Group, closed at the end of 2014 after more than a decade at 1357 Washington St., but the Aquitaine Group promised to open something new in the space in 2015. Today, the company has announced details for the new concept, La Motta's Italian Specialties, which will open...
In the Bender Kitchen: Italian Style Mother’s Day
Chef Silvio Suppa, Executive Chef of Café Allegre and Woodwinds, prepares a delicious Mother's Day Feast that can be enjoyed by all moms. Chef Silvio will host special Mother's Day events at the two restaurants for any family wishing to celebrate Mother's Day – Italian Style. While Chef Silvio prepares a Mother's Day dish, Anthony Riccio,...
Carando Gourmet Foods of Agawam to sell pot pies on QVC
Kathleen R. Carando, vice president of sales and marketing at Carando Gourmet Foods, traveled to Pennsylvania four months ago to demonstrate her company's pot pies for food buyers at retail television channel QVC. "I didn't realize it, but I wasn't just showing them my food," Carando said. "I was auditioning to be an on-air guest." It...