Wed, 11/15: Mediterranean Diet: Past, Present and Future
The Italian American Museum and The Ph.D. School in Cultural Heritage, Educational & Territory - Faculty of Humanities - University of Rome Tor Vergata cordially invite you to attend a seminar on the Mediterranean Diet. Topic:Mediterranean Diet: Past, Present and Future. A Tribute to Ancel Keys and Flaminio Fidanza. Wednesday, November 15th, 6:00 P...
Una Pizza Napoletana Closing In San Francisco And Moving To New York
The wildly popular Una Pizza Napoletana (210 11th St.) is set to close in late November or early December. In operation 4 days a week in SOMA since 2010, Anthony Mangieri makes his award-winning pizza’s in San Francisco with dough made using a special three-day process, unrefrigerated and naturally leavened, in a single room attached to an old auto...
Cafe Dolce serves up casual Italian fare in Mamaroneck
Cafe Dolce is a throwback to one of the village's longest-standing Italian bakeries. After Artuso Bakery shuttered last year, Dolce owner Luigi Fata got in touch with the Artuso family and decided to open a similar operation in its place. "Besides the bar, I kept it exactly like Artuso," Fata said of the eatery at 270 Mamaroneck Ave., which opened...
So Italian food can be strengthened in America
“Five or six years ago, more than 50 percent of American consumers believed that truffles were a chocolate dessert and they didn’t know that they are also and above all something else; now they know it” Vittorio Giordano, vice-president of Urbani Truffles, international branch of the historical pocket multinational truffle Umbrian, amuses the audie...
Vinum, for Italian Food and Wine, Opens on Staten Island
VINUM Massimo Felici, who owned La Nonna and Ribollita in Manhattan, has now set up a welcoming Italian wine bar and restaurant on Staten Island, a borough that’s not long on such amenities. Without jumping onto the ferry or driving over a bridge or two, local Italophiles can indulge in a collection of meatball plates and small servings of eggplant...
United States…Gustoso is coming!
While waiting for the first container of the Gustoso products, which is expected to reach the United States on February 2018, the managers of the project Daniele Cipollina and Paolo Internicola and the representatives of the businesses which have joined the network will land in New York. The framework event is called ‘The Best Italy’ and is organis...
Where to Find Authentic Tramonti Cuisine in NYC
When you think of Italian cuisine, surely that holy trinity of pizza, pasta and gelato comes to mind. But in Tramonti, a small town in the territory of the Amalfi Coast whose name means "between the mountains," a rich culinary history and hyper-local ingredients create a menu worlds away from the cacio e pepe and cheesy pizza of Rome and Napoli. I...
Once-Heralded Italian Restaurant A Voce Shutters Its Final Location
The remaining location of longtime Italian fine dining destination A Voce has ended its tenure. After 13 years, the restaurant’s 41 Madison Avenue location across from the park closes for good Friday night. Parent company MARC, a London-based group from prolific restaurateur Marlon Abela, released a statement saying that it’s part of “a reorganizat...
Popular Western New York restaurant rises from the ashes
It’s a true story about a restaurant rising from ashes. Popular Clarence restaurant reopens, but this time on Transit in East Amherst restaurant. The Italian restaurant was closed for more than two years, after it caught on fire, while owner, Kelly Jacobbi was at the Taste of Buffalo. Part of the roof caved in during the fire, which was sparked b...
Brooklyn Pizzeria Roberta's Pop-Up Now Open in Design District
Miami, a city where New York-style pizza was once rare, this week welcomes a third pizza joint from up North. Roberta's, a popular Brooklyn restaurant and pizza shop based in Bushwick, has fired up its oven in the Design District to produce a lineup of traditional and exotic pies. The pop-up opens Wednesday, October 18, and will remain in Miami thr...
Crazy for Carbs at Mandolino Ristorante & Pizzeria
This past weekend, the Mister and I were in the Union Square area of Manhattan when the hankering for some pasta and pizza hit. As luck would have it, we happened to walk by Mandolino Ristorante & Pizzeria, a fairly new Italian addition to the neighborhood - we heard good things already about this place through the grapevine, so we decided to stop...
Brooklyn-inspired Italian food truck parks first brick-and-mortar
No more life behind the wheel of a food truck for Chris Auriemma. The Brooklyn transplant is opening Gumba’s Italian on Nov. 3 at 100 E. 20th Ave., at the corner of Lincoln Street. This will be the first brick-and-mortar location for Auriemma, who owns two food trucks. “I’m bringing them a taste of Brooklyn,” he said, adding that he wants to import...