An Unsung Italian Pastry Sings in Scottsdale
When you think of great pastries, what comes to mind? Maybe you envision some laborious, beloved union of flour and sugar, something like a cannoli or almond-filled croissant. When you think of great Italian desserts, I bet your mind zips to sweet staples like gelato or tiramisu, or maybe something more obscure like semifreddo or zabaglione. Today,...
North Italia Makes its Way to Vegas
Not that the gondolas aren't authentic and everything, but Vegas could use a little more...Italian, Italian. Homemade sauce, prosciutto heaped atop pizza. The word "taverna." Something like North Italia, legit Italian fare from the people behind gastropub Culinary Dropout. It opens on the 13th. Sure, it's in a strip mall, but, just completely ignor...
Giada De Laurentiis’ New Restaurant Pronto At Caesars Palace
Giada De Laurentiis has transcended beyond a TV personality to a seat at the table with the boys on the famous Las Vegas Strip. Nestled between the acclaimed Bacchanal Buffet and MR CHOW, will be Pronto by Giada. But how did this happen? The celebrated chef brought something more to television cuisine than her grander than life personality. De Laur...
Italian Restaurants in Denver Offer a World-Class Authentic Italian Dining Experience
One of the best restaurants in Denver, Colorado, Venice Ristorante and Wine Bar, located opposite Union Station in Downtown Denver, brings an elegant and welcoming setting for diners to relax and enjoy true flavors of Italy. With exciting ingredients and traditional cooking techniques, the Chef’s Table is an opportunity to learn and be inspired as...
Opening Today: The Sicilian Butcher, a New Kind of Italian From the Maggiore Group
The Sicilian Butcher, a new restaurant helmed by Joey Maggiore, opens at 3 p.m. today. The place totes out meat-and-cheese boards that are 5 feet long. Bruschetta comes on rotating circular platters. Maggiore, who until now was the chef at Hash Kitchen, is the mind behind the gravity-defying Bloody Marys you have probably seen plastered on Instagra...
Italian Olive to Be Named for UA Anthropology Professor
David Soren, a Regents' Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, has spent more than 30 years working in the Italian region of Umbria, overseeing archaeological excavations, museum projects and the UA's largest study abroad program, Arizona in Orvieto. Much of his work has taken place in the small town of Lugnano in Teverina, where...
Taste of the Town – Baci Italian Bistro
For Frank Greco, owner of Baci Italian Bistro, running an Italian restaurant has always been a family business. “Right after the construction fall — when the interest rate went up — my dad and I decided to go into the restaurant business,” he said about opening his first eatery in 1986 in Illinois. “It was my dad and I, my mom and my sisters.” He w...
Piero's serves up 1,200 free Thanksgiving meals to local families
More than 1,200 low-income children and their families were served a special Thanksgiving meal courtesy of Piero’s Italian Cuisine. The Thanksgiving feast included preparing 400 pounds of turkey, 1,000 pounds of potatoes, and 300 pies. It was all to make people like Tiffany Hill and her family happy this holiday. They’re Vegas transplants and had n...
Marc Vetri to open Italian restaurant at The Palms in Las Vegas
The owner of several popular Italian eateries in Center City is looking to take his family name to Sin City. Marc Vetri, who sold much of the Vetri restaurant family to Urban Outfitters in 2015 but remains the restaurant group's, plans to open an Italian restaurant at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas in 2018. The resort's holding company, Red R...
Renata is Now Portland’s Best All-Around Italian Restaurant
Like the new Comiskey Park and Michael Jackson's Bad, Renata was a throwback before it even opened its doors. When this contemporary Italian spot set up shop in the spring of 2015, the city was moving away from large, full-service restaurants and toward intimate pop-ups and cheffy pop-ins. Renata is perhaps the biggest stand-alone dining buil...
North Italia restaurant expands to Southern Nevada
A modern Italian restaurant has announced plans to expand to the Las Vegas Valley. North Italia is set to open its first location in Nevada on Dec. 13 inside the Rampart Commons, located at 1051 S. Rampart Boulevard. Fox Restaurant Concepts is behind the new establishment and operates multiple restaurants in the U.S. including Arizona, California,...
Flashes of Gelato Brilliance in Old Town Scottsdale
If you’re a fan of pistachio ice cream and gelato, then you may know from reading ingredients labels that many are secretly loaded with almonds. Large producers often balk at spending what they should on the pricey green nut. They advertise pistachio, and they often deliver mostly almond. Sacrificing flavor, seeing dollar signs, they try to buffalo...