Miami-Born Italian Bakery Expanding to Atlanta
Something sweet is coming to Atlanta. Rosetta Bakery is planned for Two Buckhead Plaza, according to a building permit application with the City of Atlanta. The company aims to be “an official ambassador of the Italian art of baking.” The menu includes focaccia, sandwiches, sweet pastries and coffee. Customers are able to get a glimpse into the pro...
M’ama Napoli, new authentic Italian bakery and deli, opens in Winter Park
M’ama Napoli opened its doors Tuesday, introducing its pastries, coffee, pizzas and an authentic taste of Italy to Winter Park. The Italian bakery and deli serves up elaborate pastries like Ferrero Rocher maritozzi, Nutella maritozzi, cannolis, bombolone and more. In addition to the sweets, savory options include pizza mortadella topped with ricott...
A Trip to Angelina’s Italian Markets in North Carolina
Angelina's is an Italian market treasure in the Carolinas. You’ll find them in Waxhaw, North Carolina, which is a suburb of Charlotte. Co-owner Mariel LoRe is quite young, however this business is in her blood. Her father owned Enzo’s Italian Market in Matthews, NC. Small world story: Enzo's was my first experience with an Italian store in the Sou...
Fan favorites: 4 must-try dishes at this Italian restaurant in Wilmington
Al Cervini said that diners at his restaurant, Rosalie’s Trattoria, regularly try to categorize his food. “They ask if it’s Tuscan or Northern Italian,” he said. “To me, it’s just food.” In fact, the menu focuses on those dishes that Cervini enjoyed growing up in New York. He opened the restaurant, named for his wife who is a local teacher, in 20...
New Italian restaurant in Bluffton has a Charleston connection
Robert DeLeo was working in southern Florida when an opportunity came up. At the time, he had no idea how a move to Charleston would change the trajectory of his life and career. He met his wife, Breana, shortly after settling in the Holy City to lead the dining concepts at The Restoration Charleston on Wentworth Street. Nine years later, the husba...
Authentic Italian cafe celebrates Punta Gorda grand opening
Americans’ love affair with Italian food, wine, culture and art isn’t lost on Marzia and Nico Candelora. The husband-and-wife team of Italian restaurateurs opened their second Punta Gorda establishment—Fresco. Fresco is located at 321 Taylor St., next door to their full-menu Italian restaurant, Pizza Gorda, which opened in August 2020. Several doze...
Frankies Nashville: a Trifecta of Italian Delights
In 2004, partners and chefs Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli (aka “The Franks”) opened a charming Italian restaurant, Frankies 457 Spuntino, in Brooklyn’s historically Italian neighborhood, Carroll Gardens. It was a bold move for these culinary pioneers — Carroll Gardens was not well known, and Brooklyn hadn’t yet become cool — but they believ...
Chef Rocco Scarpino opens Rossini in Port Charlotte
There’s a new Italian restaurant in town from Chef Rocco “Rocky” Scarpino, who has been crafting Amalfi Coast dishes for decades. Scarpino has cooked for his family in Italy since he was 12 and arrived in the U.S. from Salerno, Italy, in 2015 to help his brother at his Bradenton restaurant. In Italy, “kids are taught to make handmade pasta and sau...
New Italian market and wine store opening in Olympia from chefs behind Bar Gran Sasso
Chefs who've worked at Terra, Enzo's and Bar Gran Sasso have teamed up to establish Alimentari Don Luigi, a new Italian wine and grocery store that's slated to open on June 20 at 11 a.m. Located in Suite C of 612 Whaley Street, Columbia (SC), Don Luigi's wooden-accented, chocolate-brown walls display over 120 unique bottles of wine — at least one,...
18 Years of Fratelli Milano: Downtown Miami's Best-Kept Secret Gets a New Look
Fratelli Milano, the beloved family-owned Italian spot in downtown Miami, is ready to celebrate its 18th anniversary this December. And what better way to do so than with a major summer makeover? Think new café, trendy bar, and revamped menu offerings, all set to debut just in time for the high season later this year.Founded in 2006 by twin brother...
This Italian Fayetteville food truck has roots in an iconic Boston restaurant
Looking at his name, you'd never guess that Robert Kalish has Sicilian blood running through his veins. But with one taste of the Italian meals he serves up from his popular Fayetteville food truck, Bella Nonna, there's no mistaking that Kalish is a paisano. Kalish got his culinary chops by cooking in his family’s old-school Italian restaurants in...
Italian-American family opening another restaurant, ‘still making pizza on the Coast’
An Italian-American family that tried for years to buy an empty restaurant near home is preparing to open Antonio’s Pizzeria in Gautier, MS. Now the owners of that restaurant at 2120 Ladnier Road, just off U.S. 90, are renovating it inside and out, with “a sit down, homey feel,” said Antonio Palazzolo. The hope to open in early June, he said. They...