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Ready to experience the best of what makes Restaurant Fest so special? We’ve got you covered! Join us on Thursday, March 10 in La Piazza for a mini-Wine & Food Fest: Restaurant Fest Edition, featuring our favorite small bites from all three of our Restaurant Fest menus. Enjoy tastes of authentic Italian dishes from La Pizza & La Pasta, dishes inspi...

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The Vespa is such a potent symbol of Italian lifestyle that it is often a surprise to find that other cultures have embraced the iconic scooter. One country that I never thought would embrace the Vespa is America. The country that gave us large-displacement v-twins and gargantuan V8s designed to cover the vast distances across the country seems lik...

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A popular event will return to the streets of downtown Butler this summer. Thursday night Butler City Council approved an agreement to bring the Butler Italian Festival back for a 5th year. The festival will run from 5 p.m. on Friday, August 26th through 6 p.m. on Sunday, August 28th on Butler’s Main Street, which will be closed from Cunningham to...

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Lovers of the Venice Carnival know it means masks and costumes, but also tasty delicacies such as frittelle and galane. But only the most experienced know about mammalucchi: the mouth-watering fried, sugary pastry which began life as an accident. The original bakery in the lagoon city where you can have an authentic mammalucchi is Pastricceria Bar...

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Get ready, LA – our signature dining event is back! From March 4 - 20, 2022 experience Eataly Los Angeles like you never have before with Restaurant Fest.  Join us for a Restaurant Fest unlike any other! This March 4-20, you can enjoy restaurant menus starting at $22, Italian wine & cocktail flights starting at $19, and events and festivities at ou...

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There are two words that truly define the essence of Italian Carnevale: the  first is maschera, or mask; the second is — of course — Venezia.  While every corner of the country celebrates this time of the year with parades, masquerades and floats, there  is no denying that, even when considering the  most famous, the most historically interesting C...

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Italy’s Viareggio Carnival is often described as the most irreverent of all Italian Carnival celebrations. This is due to the fact that its main peculiarity is the parade of giant allegorical floats - papier-mâché works of art that can be up to 20 meters high - mocking politicians and celebrities.  The Viareggio Carnival is possibly the most famous...

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The Westfield Public School District superintendent said the district mistakenly did not name Columbus Day on the school calendar for the coming year and will be returning it to the calendar. “The absence of Columbus Day listed by name on the 2022-2023 calendar was an inadvertent omission when the document was reformatted for the coming school year...

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An ambitious plan has been unveiled to recreate the 100m final from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics - won by Italy's Marcell Jacobs - in the shadow of the Colosseum in Rome. The "global sporting event" was proposed jointly by Italian tourism minister Massimo Garavaglia and Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri during a meeting to discuss plans for the 2025 Jubilee...

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The Taste of Little Italy will return in its fifteenth year in Tradition Square in Port St. Lucie February 18-20. The cultural festival known for its inviting Italian ambience, national Italian-American entertainers, and authentic food will offer free admission in honor of its anniversary to thank the community for its continued support. Festival h...

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