Italian food distributor got his start storing tomatoes in his swimming pool. Now he’s opening a market and cafe.
Every time that Flora Fine Foods CEO John Flora returns to his native Italy, he finds new ideas to bring home to South Florida. Like Taralli, a crunchy olive-oily wheat biscuit. “It’s the most popular snack in all of southern Italy,” says the 68-year-old Parkland resident and company founder. Flora Fine Foods was the first company to market t...
Worcester's Marco Turo singing six nights a week in Florida, but coming back for 60th
If it's Wednesday or Saturday, he's singing at Matteo's of Boca Raton. If it's Friday or Sunday, he's singing at Matteo's of Hallandale (Beach). Tuesdays you can catch him at the Seagate Hotel in Delray Beach. Thursdays, the Seagate Beach Club, Delray Beach. "My quote in life is 'When I’m singing, I’m happy,' " said Worcester native Marco Turo, wh...
Popular Georgia Italian restaurant plans to open a new location in Warner Robins
A new Italian restaurant is coming to Warner Robins. Christian Torres is planning to open a second location of his Tifton-based, family-owned Fresco Italiano restaurant. He described the restaurant as casual fine dining. “We want to be that neighborhood place where you can still go during the week and get a plate of lasagna and get a plate of pasta...
Nonna Rosa Chef Pays Homage To Italian Heritage
Chef Peppe Gialone pays homage to authentic Italian cooking with Nonna Rosa Italian Restaurant's menu. The Italian restaurant named after the chef's grandmother began many years ago in a small town called Pozzuoli, located on Italy's southern coast. In this town, like many other small towns, recipes that are most loved by everyone are passed down t...
It’s a family affair at Tolli’s Trattoria, a new Johns Island eatery spinning authentic Neapolitan pizzas
Pizza has been in Anthony Peluso’s family since 1934, and along with wife Giuseppinna and son Carmine, he’s bringing the family tradition to Johns Island with Tolli’s Trattoria, a modern Italian restaurant that quietly opened on Maybank Highway in September. “We moved down here about a year ago,” Anthony said. “The growth potential is there — it’s...
Fine Italian Dining at Home with Grassa Gramma
I wonder if you miss sitting down to a good meal in a fine local restaurant as much as I do. It’s not just about the food. Driving through Holiday Manor the other day, I spotted Grassa Gramma and remembered how much fun it is to dine there. Executive Chef Robert Rice’s fine Italian fare is a big part of that draw, of course, but that’s not all. T...
North Italia coming to Summit, hiring fair scheduled
North Italia is scheduled to open its first-ever Alabama location March 3. And the chain Italian restaurant has a hiring event scheduled for later this month. Bayer Properties announced North Italia was coming early last year before the COVID-19 pandemic began. The Summit location will be the chain’s 24th U.S. location, with other restaurants in Ar...
Bravo to Bravo! Italian Restaurant: Wood-fired pizza to gourmet pasta sure to please
When I compile a “best of” list of different cuisines, it’s inevitable that a few of my favorites get omitted in the interest of brevity. However, that’s sometimes a blessing in disguise. Those places get their own feature complete with detailed information about the menu and detailed reasons for its place on my “best of” list. Bravo! Italian Resta...
Atlanta: Chef Jonathan Waxman’s New Italian Restaurant, Baffi
This month, award-winning Chef Jonathan Waxman opened an Italian-inspired restaurant in Atlanta's West Midtown neighborhood. Baffi is currently the New York City chef's second Italian restaurant in the American South, along with Adele's in Nashville. At Baffi, the spacious dining room gives way to an exposed bar and kitchen, where a wood-fed heart...
This Coral Gables spot was just named the best Italian restaurant in Florida
Have you eaten at Fratellino Ristorante on Miracle Mile? If you have, you’ve eaten at the best Italian restaurant in Florida, according to Eat This, Not That. Now we know there will be plenty of push back to this assertion. We all have our neighborhood favorite. But Eat This, Not That — a franchise that aims to help diners make positive and healthy...
New Italian restaurant prepares to open in downtown La Grange
A new Italian restaurant is preparing to open in La Grange in the place where La Buona Vita closed in March. The timing is questionable, since as of Monday, indoor dining still was not allowed at Cook County restaurants per the Tier 3 restrictions of the governor’s coronavirus mitigation plan. La Grange Village President Mark Kuchler told the owner...
Bello Italian Restaurant on North Franklin Street
North Franklin Street Street in downtown Tampa is home to our latest Tampa Bay Food Tour partner Bello https://bellotampa.com/ . Bello opened in late November in the former Osteria location and we are happy to see signs of this stretch of Franklin Street being reborn once again. Bello offers up a bevy of delicious Italian specialty pastas, appet...