From the expansive outdoor patio seating to the ambiance of its long-legged bar and warm toned comfortable indoor dining enclaves to the eye-appealing finest meats dry-aging in the line of sight to the tastiest Italian dishes and oh so much salumi, Louie Bossi’s is enorme. Located on the first floor of Boca Raton’s first downtown hotel, the Hyatt P...

The music playing when you walk into the St. Augustine Family Barber shop on Anastasia Boulevard isn’t Muzak or from a Top 40 radio station. The tunes instead come from a record player stacked with single 45s playing jazz and other selections from the 1950s and ‘60s.  The walls of the place are adorned with instruments, photographs and paintings of...

La Centrale, the Italian food hall at Brickell City Centre, will debut with 14 different dining spaces in 40,000 square feet. Media were given a preview of the downtown Miami eatery before it opens in December. La Centrale will include a café with an espresso bar, a traditional Italian bakery, mozzarella and raw fish bars, a shop with grab-and-go i...

Three years ago, Carl and Jessica Meyers moved to Florida from Rhode Island and began serving customers out of their mobile restaurant. Their Italian food quickly developed a following and their catering business took off. "We just could not keep up," said Jessica Meyers. The husband and wife team decided to open up a brick and mortar restaurant, a...

The Italian American Club of Sebastian will be hosting their 21st Annual Golf Tournament on October 14, 2017, at the Sebastian Municipal Golf Course. The purpose is to raise funds for their Madeline Smith Scholarship Fund. The club is dedicated to community involvement and has awarded over $166,000 in scholarships for the past sixteen years to dese...

A deli debacle has given way to a pizza and pasta revival in Boca Raton. Veteran restaurateur Burt Rapoport says he is bringing back Prezzo, his popular Italian restaurant from the 1990s, to the site where two New York-style delicatessens flopped this year. Rappy’s, a modern twist on the classic Jewish deli named in tribute to Rapoport’s father, sh...

Bandleader Carl Granieri wants to let people know he's in town. He could send out letters. He could make phone calls. He might even tap out a social media link or two.  Granieri wanted to let local event planners know what he's made of, however, so he's offering a free public show Monday, planning to pour jazz over the ears of anyone who comes. Of...

Si è svolta a Washington D.C. la cerimonia di consegna degli Awards del Pete Taylor Partnership of excellence, che, per la prima volta dalla sua istituzione, ha visto protagonista l’istituzione italiana consolare di Miami grazie anche alla importante attività operativa dell' Ente Gestore Odli.  Il Console Generale d’Italia a Miami, Gloria Marina Be...

Italian food lovers have a new restaurant where they can indulge themselves with homemade pasta and seafood dishes. Ciao Italia Bistro, which is located at 985 Highway 98 E, opened its doors last week and will offers northern Italian homemade cuisine specialties. “We make everything from scratch with high quality ingredients and we also purchase ou...

Designed to make diners feel as though they’re inside an Italian home kitchen, Via Emilia 9 boasts an eat-in bar, a pasta making station, rustic chairs, a mini-market with Italian goods, and an entire chalkboard wall dedicated to showcasing featured wines. It’s intimate, romantic, and its shabby chic vibe makes you feel as though you’ve left South...