Miami Is Getting An All-You-Can-Eat Gelato Festival And It's Going To Be Epic
Next month, Miami is getting sweeter than ever. And if you love Italian gelato, this is an event you can't miss. The Gelato Festival America is the first of its kind in North America and will make its final stop in Miami. This festival is an all-you-can-eat gelato festival and it will be hosted in Brickell City Center on March 16th. You'll get to t...
Adalina transforms a former tavern into an Italian beauty
A black-and-white photograph of a young, curly-haired woman with a loosely knotted shawl around her shoulders leans against vintage Italian books on a small table near the entrance of Dennis Lange’s new restaurant. “This is the only picture left of her,” Lange says with a devilish grin. He will later admit that the woman who supposedly inspired his...
Announcing Civetta, StoneCrest’s new upscale-casual Italian restaurant
The owners of Vivace are bringing a new upscale-casual Italian dining concept to StoneCrest at Piper Glenn this week. Civetta Italian Kitchen + Bar, in the old Smoke Modern Barbecue space, will feature Bucatini with housemade meatballs, Lobster Risotto, Bolognese, chicken or eggplant Parmesan, Veal Saltimbocca and Winter Risotto with mushroom conse...
As Wild Olive on Johns Island turns 10, original staff reflects on Italian restaurant’s success
Chris Hills is Wild Olive’s bar manager: You know how those openings are. We were overstaffed, of course. It was chaotic, but more just because you don’t know where everything is. I’ve worked over 2,500 shifts here now, so you just turn around and you know. Brad Gozis is Wild Olive’s chef de cuisine: It was crazy, because at the time, Fred Neuville...
Italian restaurant opens in Knoxville
The Knoxville square is now home to a new eatery, Baggio’s Italian Restaurant owned by Maggie Qerimi. The new business took over the location of the former Red Rock Grill & Still at 124 S. 2nd St. and held their grand opening Monday, Feb. 4. The restaurant specializes in Northern Italian cuisine and the menu offers lunch and dinner options, includ...
Civetta Italian Kitchen + Bar Coming to StoneCrest at Piper Glen
Stacey and Kevin Jennings, the husband-and-wife team behind Vivace, are bringing a new casual Italian concept to south Charlotte. Civetta Italian Kitchen + Bar will open in the StoneCrest at Piper Glen shopping center in the old Smoke Modern Barbecue space. The southern Italian restaurant will be open for dinner only during the first few weeks, the...
Restaurant review: Luigi’s brings a bit of New York to Lake Alfred
Luigi’s Italian Restaurant opened in 2008 with Luigi Uzhca at the helm, having recently vacated the hustle-bustle of New York’s Forest Hills community. Situated in Queens, Forest Hills was, and certainly still is, rife with quintessential Italian-American trattorias, a good many, no doubt, headed by Old Country transplants. Tutto Bene was such an e...
It’s almost National Pizza Day. From Carmella’s to Zio, here’s how Charlotte pie makers do it differently
Appreciating a pizza you’ve come to know and love is easy. And in the Queen City, whether you prefer a thick crust ringed with caramelized mozzarella, or one that is thin and charred; cheese stretching to the length of your arm, or in a rich, contained bite; toppings piled high or conserved for one special ingredient to shine — pizza makers in town...
Pizza pride: Five spots to celebrate National Pizza Day from Naples to North Fort Myers
Pizza as we know it was invented in Naples. No, the one in Italy. So it makes sense that we — American Neapolitans — celebrate National Pizza Day on Saturday by savoring some of the best pizza along the Gulf Coast. We have options: New York-style, Chicago deep dish and coming on strong, Detroit squares from my hometown. There's plenty of choices fr...
Il vino italiano in Florida, crocevia tra Nord e Sud America, con la passione per i rossi
Parlare di vino italiano negli Stati Uniti vuol dire addentrarsi in un mondo complesso, una storia iniziata tanti decenni fa, che oggi vive probabilmente il suo apogeo, grazie ad un giro d’affari che nei primi 10 mesi del 2018, come ricordano i dati Ice di New York, ha toccato 1,65 miliardi di euro, per una quota di mercato che vale il 31,8% di tut...
Ciro Damiano looks back as he preps to celebrate two years on his wood fired pizza truck this Saturday at Low Tide
Damiano's Wood Fired Pizza, a local food truck serving Neapolitan-style pies, celebrates two years around the sun this Sat. Feb. 2 starting at 4 p.m. at Low Tide Brewing. In honor of all things pizza and beer, we chatted with owner Ciro Damiano, who was happy to deep-dish about his 'za and how he sees his food truck helping Charleston's cuisine sce...
East Haven’s Tolli’s Apizza poised to expand — to South Carolina
You know that line you always hear about there being no decent pizza — let alone apizza — down South? Fuhgettaboutit! One of East Haven’s oldest and best pizzerias, Tolli’s Apizza at 410 Main St., is getting ready to open a second place later this year in a well-traveled, fast-growing shopping area of Johns Island, S.C., a barrier island just outs...