New Orleans Italian restaurant legend Tony Angello dies
Tony Angello, owner of the beloved Lakeview restaurant that bore his name and was famous for home-cooked versions of New Orleans Italian specialties, has died. He was 88. Known to regular customers as "Mr. Tony," Angello's health had been failing recently after a fall, according to family members. Still, he remained a fixture at the r...
NOLA Pizzeria Reginelli's Celebrates 20 Years with Special Menu
Reginelli's founder Darryl Reginelli just returned from Italy as passionate as ever about pizza. His special brand of enthusiasm and humor jump off the menu with the new New Orleans Italian favorite: Gumbo Pizza—andouille, spicy smoked tomato sauce, Crystal marinated shrimp, roasted eggplant, holy trinity & pickled okra. His passion for great f...
Sud Italia Offers a Different Kind of Southern Comfort Food
Puccia is like pita bread's Italian cousin, but thicker and with a softer texture. The outside is toasted to a mild crisp in a pan and the bread is then used for simple sandwiches. At lunchtime, Sud Italia offers three types of puccia in the style of the Puglia region. The one named after the city of Foggia is lavished with luscious 'nduja...
This Parmigiana has actually made a grown man cry
By Tina Danze Alfonso Cevola of Dallas has a family recipe for Eggplant Parmigiana unlike any you'll find in cookbooks. It's baked in a deep, round casserole or bowl. It doesn't call for frying the eggplant, or even a breadcrumb coating. It includes hard-cooked eggs, and it uses Pecorino Romano, not Parmigiano Reggiano. The recipe is so good that...
Arturo's last weekend draws celebrity crowd who bid fond farewell to fave restaurant
by Clifford Pugh Even though Arturo's Uptown Italiano Restaurant is closing this weekend, the atmosphere was festive Friday night as Houston notables jammed into the Uptown Park eatery for one last meal. Neil and Maria Bush were dining at one table while former Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and a sizable party were at another tabl...
3 Sicilians Wine Dinner
Italian Club of Dallas. Monday, February 9, 2015 from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM (CST) - Addison, TX Please join us as we take a Tour through Sicily with food and wine. Our guests, Alfonso Cevola and Joe Piccola with Glaziers and Paul DiCarlo with Jimmy's Food Store will share their experiences from their visits to Sicily and its' wineries. In...
Lick, pray, love: wonderful ice cream at Dolce Neve in Austin
Posting in a hurry today because I'm super slammed with work. But, dulcis in fundo, how not to end the week on a sweet note after having visited my new favorite ice cream shop, Dolce Neve in Austin? I loved talking to owners and ice cream-makers Marco Silvestrini from Umbria (below, right) and Leo Ferrarese (left) from Lombardy. I did...
The 5 Best Muffuletta Sandwiches in New Orleans
I HAD EATEN a muffuletta many times, and over several visits to New Orleans, before I actually understood the real purpose of the giant, bready, sesame-crusted wheel stuffed with salumi, cheese and olive salad. Soon after Hurricane Katrina, my husband, his aunt, uncle and I went down to New Orleans to volunteer. We were helping a family rebuild the...
It’s Italian Market brings European food, wine to Austin
In an otherwise nondescript shop beneath the 7East Apartments in East Austin, Al Fini has created a tribute to his beloved home country of Italy. Along two walls of his It's Italian Market, wines rest three or four bottles deep on shelves that stretch nearly to the ceiling. A bar serving coffee, wine on tap and other beverages stands nearb...
A High End Trattoria Just Opened Inside a Baller Garden District Mansion
Altamura, the hotly-anticipated and long-awaited high end trattoria from the Manhattanjack team has opened in the Garden District's historic Magnolia Mansion. Early reports from Ian McNulty and Todd Price both note that the restaurant is on the mansion's first floor (ie. basement level) with a Mid Century Modern vibe including a grand pian...
New names for two downtown Italian restaurants
The dual Italian restaurant concepts being constructed at 500 Crawford in downtown Houston appear to be on track for a December launch. But the restaurants – managed by restaurateurs Bill Floyd and Bryan Caswell – will open with entirely new names: Kristalla and Osso. When the project was first announced last January the restaurant names were pitc...
Tutti Ai Fornelli Della Piccola Cucina
WHAT: On March 14, 2015 the Italian Cultural & Community Center whose mission is to preserve, celebrate and advance Italian culture and heritage, will organize the first cooking contest for kids organized in Texas. The event will help finance the Scuola di Italiano Programs and the renovation of the Historical Milford House, home of the ICCC....