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More than a cafe, better than a bookstore: the Caffè Letterario tradition started four centuries ago in Europe when artists and writers used to meet in a public place, to exchange experiences, comments, and ideas on their work.   The "Caffè letterario" has changed over time. Today it is that place where literature-lovers gather to drink a cu...

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Announced last month from illy's global headquarters in Trieste, illy Foundry is a nimble, Italy-based unit of developers and interaction designers being drawn from all over the world. The unifying purpose of this group is to deeply understand people's habits and wishes related to the coffee experience, and then build new digital products and servi...

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Before you can graduate from Olive Garden's endless breadstick basket, you need to know how to actually say your entree choice. Pointing at the menu and hoping the server says it first can only get you so far.   To keep you from looking totally dumb during your next OG trip, we created this handy pronunciation guide to popular Italian dishes...

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Starbucks Corp., counting on food sales to help maintain growth, is investing in an Italian bakery and plans to expand it with new locations. The world's biggest coffee-shop chain is buying a stake in Princi, which sells pastries, pizza and pasta in Europe, according to a statement. Starbucks will also act as a global licensee of the Italian compa...

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Though the origins of coffee hail from the Yemenite peninsula (in MOkha city), it only spread throughout Italy, starting from Venice, in the XVIth century, then in theUnited States, a hundred years later, with the opening of a Cafè in Boston. First question coming up is why the coffee we taste in Italy is literaly different from the one made in US...

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Authentic pizza, pasta, cups of espresso, leather bags, historical sites, religious relics, and scoops of gelato often make a tourist's itinerary when visiting Italy. But don't you forget about the most important thing that completes the entire country – the locals.   Facts about the locals and their culture are usually ignored and leav...

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Espresso, Italy's gift to the universe, will soon be coming to space. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will have authentic Italian espresso to enjoy during their orbits around Earth later this year, thanks to the 119-year-old espresso company Lavazza and the aerospace engineering company Argotec.   The companies paired up t...

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Even if the passion for kava is common to most countries in the world, with some (I am looking at you, Finland) even consuming more of it per capita than Italy itself, the relationship we Italians have with our favourite beverage is the stuff of legend: always ready to criticise a less-than-heavenly brew, we will judge your hosting capabilities on...

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By Marcy Nicholson   Italy's Lavazza is joining the ranks of Starbucks and Gevalia in the highly competitive specialty coffee section on grocery store shelves as the nearly 120-year-old roaster makes another push into the U.S. and Canadian consumer markets.   The family run business, a brand little-known by North American consumers th...

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Giovanni "Gianni" Giotta, founder of Caffe Trieste and one of North Beach's great personalities, died Saturday at 96. He was born in 1920 in Rovigno on the Istrian peninsula, a town that now belongs to Croatia. He came from a fishing family and began accompanying his father on the boats when he was just 6, graduating to merchant marine ships b...

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