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...
READ MOREItalian Club of Dallas. Monday, February 9, 2015 from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM (CST) - Addison, TX Please join us as we take a Tour through Sicily with food and wine. Our guests, Alfonso Cevola and Joe Piccola with Glaziers and Paul DiCarlo with Jimmy's Food Store will share their experiences from their visits to Sicily and its' wineries. In...
READ MOREBy Jennifer Chininis Highland Park Village has a new high-fashion tenant: Etro, known for kaleidoscope prints, rich colors, and bohemian flair, just moved into Dallas' most upscale shopping destination. This is the first local standalone shop for the Italian brand and only the seventh in the United States. The 2,300-square-foot st...
READ MOREMake your reservations now for a romantic dinner at the Italian Club of Dallas on Valentine's Day. Celebrate the evening with your sweetheart by treating her to a fabulous dinner prepared by Guest Chefs Gerard and Christian. The dinner and the wonderful dessert along with the ambiance of the Club will say AMORE. Your evening will begin wit...
READ MOREChances are, you've never heard of the Feast of the Seven Fishes. The practice, with specifically seven "fishes," was translated into the Italian-American community, but it's rooted in Italy, surrounding the Roman Catholic custom of celebrating Christmas Eve with a shared meatless meal before the midnight Mass (Italians call it "La Vigilia," the vi...
READ MOREThe exact spot "where the West begins" must have moved. There is no other way to explain Avanti, a sleek Euro-Dallas restaurant on Throckmorton Street in the City Place tower west of Sundance Square. At lunch, servers glide beneath chandeliers to the tempo of what sounds like the Dave Matthews Band. Diners choose from the same menu a...
READ MOREby Michael Granberry Before his show opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in late September, Giuseppe Penone found himself doing a round of interviews. He noticed one particular interviewer staring at the pouch affixed to his belt. "Is that a gun?" she asked. At that point, Penone says with a laugh, he knew he was in Texas.&...
READ MORESarà più facile arrivare a New York da Milano Malpensa quest'inverno. Un volo giornaliero dell'American Airlines è in programma per l'inverno 2012/2013. La rotta, lanciata nel 2008, era operata giornalmente, su base stagionale, mentre durante l'inverno operava con voli settimanali, in progressivo aumento – da quattro a cinque voli per settimana- su...
READ MORENewly opened Restaurant La Perla d'Italia falls into a category that's strangely rare in Dallas: Italian food made by real Italians. It also has another notable distinction, because the restaurant makes its own mozzarella cheese. Owner Maurizio Primo is a veteran restaurateur well-known in Dallas' northwestern suburbs. A native of Nap...
READ MOREConstruction on the buildings in West Dallas' Sylvan Thirty development is almost complete, and now names of who will be inhabiting those storefronts between Interstate 30 and Fort Worth Avenue are starting to trickle in. Besides a family-owned grocery called Cox Farms Market (now open) and chef Teiichi Sakurai's ramen shop Ten (coming soo...
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