Tutta Bella Pizzeria: Feeding Dreams, Nourishing Lives, Building Community
Never let it be said that Joe Fugere, owner of Seattle's Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria, won't move heaven and earth, or even a pizza oven, to create delicious, perfectly baked pizza for a customer, particularly when that customer is Barak Obama. During President Obama's 2012 visit to Seattle, Fugere arranged for a 4,000-pound portable wo...
At Portland food cart Burrasca, homey Italian dishes are rooted in owner's Florentine past
When they announced their decision to move their family lock, stock and pasta machine from Florence, Italy, to Portland, Oregon, to open a food cart, American friends of Florence native Paolo Calamai and his Michigan-born wife, Elizabeth Petrosian, were aghast. "But you're living in Florence!" the friends wailed, thinking their life in Ita...
Come see Italian cooking at Aliante March 24th
Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa, a AAA Four Diamond resort, will present its second Italian cooking demonstration hosted by Chef Francesco de Furia of Bistro 57 at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24. The evening will feature an interactive cooking lesson with each dish served to the guests upon completion. Priced at $50 per person, the four-course menu w...
Dining on passion and culture in the sleepy ’burbs
Carla Pellegrino, executive chef and owner of Bratalian Neapolitan Cantina, was born in Brazil and raised in Italy. She opened Baldoria Restaurant in New York City before moving to Southern Nevada in 2006. Pellegrino competed on season 10 of the popular reality-TV competition "Top Chef," winning one episode with a carrot soup and turkey meatball di...
Nove Italiano Keeps Standards High—And Customers Satisfied
There's something comforting about Italian food, a sort of sink-back-in-your-seat sort of satisfaction. It happens whether you're dining at your neighborhood café, or a modern hangout like Nove Italiano. Located at the top of the Palms Fantasy Tower, Nove, which recently celebrated nine years at the Palms, commands excellent views of the S...
Vintage Eldorado Oct. 7 kicks off Italian Festival
by Johnathan L. Wright In its 35th year, the Eldorado Great Italian Festival is officially a long weekend. Vintage Eldorado, the Italian food and wine event introduced a few years ago, has always been held on the Thursday before the Italian Festival. But this year, the tasting is Friday, Oct. 7, in the Reno Ballroom, the event joining...
Italian on the Fast Track
Growing up in Yonkers, New York, and later Greenwich, Connecticut, Rick Gencarelli enjoyed large homemade meals with his Italian family every Sunday. Back then, Gencarelli's mother, a first-generation American who learned the culinary trade from her Naples, Italy–born mother, prepared classic Italian dishes like Sunday Pork Ragu and Spaghetti Aglio...
Bratalian by Chef Carla Pellegrino Offers Brunch, Live Entertainment & Extended Hours
Bratalian Neopolitan Restaurant, known for its authentic Italian hospitality, now hosts weekend brunches, live entertainment and extended hours. In addition to the cantina being opened daily for dinner, award-winning Chef Carla Pellegrino now offers both breakfast and brunch on weekends. The delectable breakfast menu, prepared with a Frenc...
Think you know gelato? Try SE Portland's Pinolo: Cheap Eats
By Ben Waterhouse Just when it seemed the gelato craze of the early 2000s had finally petered out, the dense, silky Italian ice cream is back, all thanks to a lanky Italian with a Frank Zappa mustache. Sandro Paolini, a native of Pisa, opened Pinolo Gelato on Southeast Division Street, a neighborhood already awash in ice cream, in June....
Toni Rigatonis: A new Italian spot with a touch of old Vegas
THE PLACE: The name Toni Rigatonis, a new Italian-American restaurant in northwest Reno, reflects a very personal mash-up for owner Chris Schiavone. Toni honors his father, Antonio, and rigatoni was his favorite childhood pasta. The restaurant occupies a storefront space on the south side of the Raley's center at Robb Drive and Mae Anne Av...
La Marzocco Opens Its First Café and Showroom
La Marzocco recently opened its very first café & showroom, located inside KEXP's New Home in Seattle Center. In addition to the fully operating café that is open daily, the La Marzocco space includes a showroom with commercial and home espresso machines, as well as historical archives and vintage machines for guests to...
First impressions: Sorella, Restaurant Beck chef Justin Wills' Nye Beach Italian joint
By Samantha Bakall Nye Beach now has its neighborhood Italian restaurant. In early June, Restaurant Beck chef Justin Wills opened Sorella, a casual, family-style Italian spot, in Newport's Nye Beach, about 20 minutes down U.S. 101 from Depoe Bay, where Wills and wife Stormee Wills continue to operate brother Restaurant Beck. ...