White Bull Owner Bringing Italian Eatery Grana to Piedmont Heights
Chef Pasquale “Pat” Pascarella is planning an Italian eatery called Grana for the Piedmont Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, according to a press release Thursday. Grana will specialize in wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas, housemade pasta, "authentic Italian specialties" and more. The casual Italian eatery is slated to open in mid-2019, at 1835 Piedmont...
Local New Yorker serves up authentic Italian cuisine on the First Coast
He's a self-taught business owner who went from IT to mastering the art of serving up delicious Italian recipes. Once you step inside his pizza joint, you’ll quickly realize where Tony Desimone is from. For the past 15 years, he’s made it his mission to bring a sense of New York style and flavor right here to the First Coast. "I started out doing I...
Gambino’s now sells its Italian dressing in four states
Rick Gambino first created his Italian dressing some 40 years ago for his Fairhope restaurant. “It was always a dream of mine to get it in supermarkets,” he says. His dream has officially come true. Gambino’s Original Gourmet Italian salad dressing is now available at Piggly Wiggly stores in Baldwin County, with more to come throughout Alabama, as...
The 5 best Italian spots in Miami Beach
Looking to satisfy your appetite for Italian fare? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian restaurants around Miami Beach, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to fill the bill. Topping the list is Pane & Vino. Located at 1450 Washington Ave. in Flamingo Lummus, the Italian spot is t...
Feola's Italian Ristorante Commemorates 5 Years on Treasure Island
In honor of their anniversary, Feola's Italian Ristorante, located inside the Thunderbird Beach Resort, throughout January will be running free Treasure Island delivery and free dessert with the purchase of two dinner entrees and two drinks. Signature Feola's menu items include a plethora of pizza, sausage and peppers, veal parmigiana, baked ziti,...
Charlotte "Aperitivo con Amici" on Friday, January 11th
Our Charlotte "Aperitivo con Amici" will be Friday, January 11th from 5:30-7:30pm at The People's Market at Dilworth, which is located at 1315 East Blvd. This casual meet and greet opportunity aims to foster friendships in the Italian community. While free, guests are responsible for their own purchases. More information can be found here. An excit...
First Look: Nina & Rafi brings pizza maker Anthony Spina back to O4W
Soon after New Jersey transplant Anthony Spina opened O4W Pizza in Atlanta’s Irwin Street Market in 2015, his signature Grandma Pie became a sensation, gathering a cultlike following and “best-of” accolades from dining critics. But in 2016, Spina left Irwin Street for a restaurant on Main Street in Duluth, where his famous 16-inch square pan pie c...
Roma Italian joins area melting pot
When it comes to food, Jacksonville is quite the melting pot for such a small town. Offerings range from the usual fast-food restaurants and home-cooking havens to Thai, Mexican and barbecue. Even Italian. Roma Italian Restaurant in Jacksonville -- in a strip center with plentiful parking -- looks rather nondescript. Inside, the walls are a deep pl...
Verducci's owner brings relaxed pizza, Italian option to South Pasadena
Vincent "Vinny" Fortunato has a knack for opening restaurants. Fortunato moved to the U.S. from Italy in 1974 at age 17. Two years later, after saving up $10,000, he launched his first Italian eatery near Aberdeen Proving Ground, an Army post outside of Baltimore. In four decades, he's opened (and sold) a total of 63 restaurants in both Maryland an...
Carrico’s Pizza
Italian brothers from Oakland, Tennessee, John and Charlie Harrell, had a cheesy idea to start a business in the Hub City. “I told my brother to keep all your recipes in your back pocket for later and finally, we said, ‘alright let’s make our own pizza business,'” said John. Since late October, the Harrell brothers have owned and operated Carrico’s...
Italian restaurant vets Andrea & Frank Randazzo launch online catering service
Frank and Andrea Randazzo are really busy people. For real. Most people who have kids, activities and full time jobs couldn’t imagine putting together fresh, homecooked meals on a regular basis. That’s where these two come in. The culinary vets who ran Talula together in Miami Beach from 2003 to 2010, have gone digital. Their company is called is R...
La Trattoria pizzeria debuts in downtown Naples
A new Italian pizzeria and restaurant debuted Friday in the Fifth Avenue South space occupied briefly by Kitchen and for many years by Mangrove Cafe. The partners for the new dinner-only La Trattoria in Naples are Luca Di Falco, who also is managing partner of Bice and Caffe Milano on Fifth Avenue South; Massimiliano Tonni, former manager of Caffe...