Celebrity Chef Chris Cosentino Announces Portland Restaurant
Famous for winning Top Chef Masters, San Francisco-based and offal-obsessed chef Chris Cosentino announced today on KATU 2's AM Northwest live television show he's opening a restaurant in Portland. Eater has reached out to Cosentino to learn more about the forthcoming Portland establishment, and here's the message from AM Northwest's Twitt...
Retail Properties of America : DOPO Restaurant Opening at The Gateway
Retail Properties of America, Inc. (NYSE:RPAI or the "Company") announced today DOPO, LLC is opening a new restaurant concept, DOPO, at The Gateway in Salt Lake City, Utah. DOPO, meaning "NEXT" in Italian, is an upscale, live music-oriented restaurant, featuring Mediterranean and Italian fare with nightly live jazz. DOPO will feature a 1930's supp...
Italian bakery and gelateria to open in Point Ruston
by Sue Kidd Gelato. Cannoli. Pignolata. Bignè. Panettone. Cannoncini. An entire vocabulary of Italian pastries and sweets will be new to South Sound bakery fans when Dolce Si Sicilian Bakery and Cafe opens in Point Ruston. The bakery and gelateria plans a late November opening, if all goes as planned. It will be the only ba...
Owners of The Breadfruit open new Italian restaurant in Scottsdale
A new Italian restaurant has opened in Scottsdale. Leoni's Focaccia is serving up Italian-style sandwiches, as well as salads and desserts, like albacore tuna, Pecorino Romano, and arugula sandwiches, according to the Phoenix New Times. The restaurant opened April 1 at 7116 E. Mercer Lane, near Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard. Leoni's is u...
Got coffee? La Marzocco International calls Seattle home
If you are a coffee aficionado, you've heard of La Marzocco. A hands-down favorite among baristas, these high-end espresso machines can be found in cafés and restaurants worldwide. The venerable company, founded in Florence in 1927 by Giuseppe and Bruno Bambi, still manufactures its machines in Italy but its headquarters are in Seattle, thanks to t...
Former basketball pro to open Sicilian restaurant (with Oregon flair) in the Pearl
A native Sicilian — and former professional basketball player — will open an authentic Sicilian restaurant with a touch of Oregon flair in the Pearl District later this month. Francesco Inguaggiato, a chef and former professional basketball player for the Italian League in Italy, recently moved to Portland and will open his third restaurant, B...
Author brings wine to Hawaii
by Michelle Ramos A small group of diners met with "Under the Tuscan Sun" author Frances Mayes Monday at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel for lunch. The author and her husband Ed, in town to promote Mayes' label Tuscan Sun, chatted with about 15 people about life in Italy, where Mayes bought a house in 1990, and in North Carolina, w...
Christmas in Tuscany - December 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm
On December 6th, 2014, Award winning restaurant Tuscan Kitchen and Italian-style market Tuscan Market in Salem, NH will host its 3rd Annual Tree Lighting. Open to kids of all ages, the annual festival will include a visit from Santa, food, drinks and good holiday cheer! Santa Claus will arrive at 1:00PM at Tuscan Market to greet merry make...
Portland chef Jenn Louis brings Italian comfort home with terrific 'Pasta by Hand'
by Grant Butler Portland chef Jenn Louis' star has been steadily rising in recent years. In 2012, she was named one of Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chefs, a prestigious honor, given that the list of past recipients reads like a "Who's Who" of modern American cooking. The following year, she competed briefly on TV's "Top Chef Masters."...
Tomaso Maggiore of Tomaso's and Vivo Ristorante on What Makes a Restaurant Last
Tomaso Maggiore opened his 12th Valley restaurant, a shiny new Italian spot, in a trendy Scottsdale strip mall earlier this fall. But while the restaurant, with its more affordable menu and relaxed atmosphere, fits well in current times, its owner longs for the days of tuxedoed waiters and salads tossed tableside. "Young people, frankly, I...
From Italy with cheese: Sister city delegation visits Fairbanks
by Sam Friedman Fenano, Italy, and its sister city in Alaska have more in common than a link to the prospector who discovered gold here in 1902. There's also hockey, industrial sprockets and parmesan cheese. This week, Fairbanks hosted seven guests from Fenano, including town mayor Stefano Muzzarelli, his tourism minister and several...
Pie fight! Giordano's of Chicago brings stuffed pizza to Peoria
It's officially a full-blown pie fight. Now, 2016 is firmly enshrined as the year the Chicago deep dish proxy war came to the Valley. First was Lou Malnati's, where waits for a table have routinely topped the 90-minute threshold since the restaurant opened at Phoenix's Uptown Plaza in May. Then came Gino's East, which is bringing its own...