Eating News & Notes: Italian Festival meatball contest
by Johnathan L. Wright Food & Drink and Eldorado Resort Casino invite people to enter the meatball contest celebrating the Great Italian Festival running Oct. 11-12 in downtown Reno. Submit full name, city and recipe to Johnathan L. Wright at jwright@rgj.com. Recipe must be in standard cookbook format and contain all ingredient amounts...
Now open: Italian bakery and gelateria Dolce Si on the edge of Tacoma
By Sue Kidd Three choices of cannoli. Let that sink in for a moment. That's an offering for which many Tacoma pastry hounds have dutifully waited. And now it's available at the edge of Tacoma. Dolce Si, a Sicilian-style bakery and gelateria, opened Monday at Point Ruston, the development that spans Tacoma and Ruston,...
Club plans chocolate celebration
The Italian American Club of Maui will be hosting a chocolate celebration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 14 at Ulupalakua Ranch. The $15 admission includes a winery tour, wine tasting, beverages and chocolate desserts. (Participants are asked to bring a favorite chocolate delight to share.) The event will begin with a no-host lunch...
Italian Restaurant To Open At The Summit
Later this Spring, Skipolini's Italian, an award-winning, Bay-area restaurant, will be joining The Summit community. Skipolini's will be bringing a 41-year, award-winning, reputation to The Summit, in the building just south of BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse. The menu at Skipolini's Italian will feature pizzas, pastas and other classic Italia...
Zappone’s Italian Bistro offers a ‘delizioso’ dining experience
Traditional Italian cooking at its finest, combines with a distinctive modern twist to give diners at Zappone's Italian Bistro a delectable and "delizioso" dining experience. At the heart of the operation are the years of experience and family tradition of owners, Dina Zappone, and her husband, Chef Salvatore Zappone. Read more S...
Is Giada at the Cromwell going after Giada’s Italian Cucina in Anthem?
By Robin Leach A Wicked Whisper & Racy Rumor to start the week: Are lawyers for celebrity chef Giada de Laurentiis and Caesars Entertainment, which owns the Cromwell where her new restaurant Giada is located, flexing their muscles and legal briefs over rival Giada's Italian Cucina in Henderson? I'm hearing solid rumors that's the cas...
Gayle’s Italian Market opens in downtown Salem
I grew up in what I think is a typical Italian-American family, with big feasts on Sundays and holidays. My uncle owned and operated Gabrielle Macaroni, a company that made a variety of pastas with machinery he imported from Italy. He sold his pastas to several Italian specialty markets and restaurants. Going to the Italian market as a chi...
All (Italian) American
Growing up, I had a friend with dark hair and espresso-colored eyes whose skin turned a deep shade of copper in the sun. Her brother was flame-haired, fair-skinned and freckled. (Yes, I'm positive he wasn't adopted.) While they both shared the same roots of an Irish father and a Native American mother, their characteristics couldn't have been more...
Ernest Loves Agnes Brings Simple but Superlative Italian Food to Capitol Hill
By Nicole Sprinkle It's not easy stepping into the footprint of a long-running, beloved restaurant and bar like Kingfish Café, the soul-food mecca on north Capitol Hill that closed last winter—partly because of the neighborhood's increasing rents, according to the former owners, twin sisters Leslie and Laurie Coaston. But Ernest L...
Piero's Italian Cuisine serves up 1,350 Thanksgiving meals to families in need
by Kelsey Thomas Imagine serving more than a thousand turkey dinners in just a few hours. The family that owns Piero's Italian Cuisine did just that to make sure families in need got a Thanksgiving dinner to remember. Volunteers served up more than 300 pounds of turkey and 250 pounds of potatoes. It's all part of a tradition that's be...
Valter Nassi In Salt Lake City Secures Coveted Ospitalità Italiana Certification
by Mauro Battocchi Valter Nassi is the proud proprietor of Valter's Osteria in Salt Lake City which recently achieved Ospitalitá Italiana's prestigious certification as one of its "Italian Restaurants around the World." Valter has been in the restaurant business for more than forty years and established his first restaurant in Salt Lake Ci...
Vivere Veneto & 15th & 15th Tavern
By Ted Scheffler One of the most exciting new restaurants to hit town in a while has opened in the space that was previously home to Forage. It's called Veneto Ristorante Italiano (370 E. 900 South, 801-359-0708,VenetoSLC.com)—named for the northern Italy region that owner Marco Stevanoni hails from. Stevanoni and his wife Amy are committ...