Alessandro Gentile May Be Headed To The Houston Rockets Next Season
Sensational Italian wing Alessandro Gentile may be suiting up for the Houston Rockets next year according to Marc Stein of ESPN. The Rockets purchased the rights to Gentile from the Minnesota Timberwolves, who selected the 6-foot-7, 230 pounder with the No.53 overall pick, in exchange for cash on draft night in 2014. He currently play...
Bess Bistro Transforms Into Italian Restaurant Sophia’s
A new restaurant is taking over Bess Bistro's vacant space on West 6th Street: Sophia's from owners Matt Deichl, Jonathan Gillespie, and James Brown of BDG Hospitality. The name is meant to evoke actress Sophia Loren and modern Italy aesthetic. Set to open in late spring, Sophia's is pegged as modern Italian-American supper club, serving p...
Major Italian designer plans Houston boutique in new River Oaks luxury complex
by Clifford Pugh Speculation that the new River Oaks District mixed-use complex will become Houston's newest luxury shopping destination got a boost with word that Roberto Cavalli has chosen the center for a new boutique. The Italian designer, a favorite of Houston's flashy society set for his revealing, body-hugging designs, plan...
Delicious, standard Italian served with great prices
A plate of spaghetti, a glass of wine and thou. It's still enough for most of us, and even in Santa Fe we can still get it at Piccolino, a small, friendly Italian-American place on Agua Fria Street. Best of all, the spaghetti and the wine, as well as dozens of other classics ranging from deep-fried calamari and braised lamb shank to chicke...
New Italian restaurant to open at former Zio's Italian Kitchen location
A new Italian restaurant is planned to open where another Italian restaurant closed in February. Campisi's Restaurants, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based company, is planning to open at 4414 82nd St., Ste. 218. That was the previous location of Zio's Italian Kitchen until it closed suddenly in February. Zio's had a sign on its door that read, "To...
Sons of Italy hosts Special Olympics
Dedicated athletes competed in a bocce tournament Saturday when the Sons of Italy hosted a Special Olympics event as teams from Belmont and Tuscarawas counties squared off in the traditional Italian game. The tournament began at 10 a.m. and continued until about 3 p.m. One of the Tuscarawas men's teams won the tournament, with a Tuscarawas...
Tutti ai fornelli della Piccola Cucina
The Italian Cultural & Community Center is organizing a fundraiser that will finance our school programs and the Milford House renovation. The event is open to everyone that wants to support the ICCC! So don't miss the first cooking contest for kids ever organized in Texas! The Cooking Contest will take place at Hil...
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...
FIAT gets a roommate . . . a seductive little Italian number that's turning heads at 5700 San Mateo, NE in Albuquerque
That's where Fiat of Albuquerque will now share its showroom with Italy's legendary, high-performance line of Alfa Romeo cars. Pat Melloy is all smiles as he shows off the 4C Coupe that arrived last month just after the ink dried on his New Mexico Alfa Romeo dealership agreement. Fiat of Albuquerque, and now Alfa Romeo of Albuquerque, are part of t...
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...