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Portillo's officials announced Thursday it will open a Davenport restaurant in 2019.  The fast-casual restaurant chain, known for Chicago-style hot dogs and Italian beef, unveiled more plans for a restaurant, complete with a design rendering with a "Welcome to Davenportillo's" sign. It'll be the company's first Iowa location, located across from Co...

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Like many people who come to the United States, Rita and Franceso "Frankie" Molin arrived in America with a dream. They wanted to share the authentic cuisine of their native Venice, Italy, with those who may not have otherwise been exposed. The Molins opened La Gastronomia in downtown Grass Valley in 2014, offering a selection of meats, cheeses, sa...

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CIAP (Chicagoland Italian American Professionals) #39 Presents: The 1st Annual Meatball Fest (September 16th @ Nonna D's - 7109 Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402 - 11:30pm to 3pm). $40 for non-members; $20 for members. This is the event you have been waiting for! The 1st annual meatball fest. Homecooks wanted! Bring your homecooked meatballs and parti...

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If you are someone who believes eating good Italian food can be a religious experience, the churches of Nitro are ready to answer your prayers. How so? They’re teaming up to host a $10 all-you-can-eat “Italian Feast” dinner from 4-6 p.m. this Saturday at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church at 2008 20th St. in Nitro. Proceeds from the event benefi...

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Bushels of the plumpest plum tomatoes from New Jersey. Crates of achingly aromatic fresh basil. Salt to taste. These are simple ingredients that belie the complexities of time, taste, and tradition. As devout members of the sisterhood of sauce making, Angela Giordano and Ida Mangano say it all boils to this: family. Giordano, from Somers, and Manga...

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When Sicilian farmer Rosolini Palazzolo first started growing papayas 11 years ago, hardly any of his neighbors even knew what they were. Now, the southern Italian island famed for its picturesque orange and lemon groves is dotted with the kind of exotic fruit trees more usually associated with tropical climates - from papaya to bananas to mangoes....

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A new bar and Italian restaurant, offering pizza and more, has opened up shop in the neighborhood. The new arrival to Lincoln Park, called La Roccia, is located at 1909 N. Lincoln Ave. in the old Bricks Pizza spot. Featuring red-and-white-checkered tablecloths and exposed brick walls, the new restaurant is in a cozy, underground space.Pasta dishes...

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Niven Patel, the man behind one of Miami’s most successful new restaurants, Ghee Indian Kitchen, is expanding his mini culinary empire with Erba, a pasta focused restaurant debuting sometime in 2019. “When I started this career of mine I always had a fascination for pasta, and a lot of people who don’t know me perceive me as the Indian chef,” notes...

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"You're talking to a dinosaur," says Judy Duren, the 66-year-old owner of Dino's Italian Food, a restaurant that has served homemade everything — noodles, meatballs, sausage, red sauce, pizza and even ice cream — since 1961. "I think we're a dying breed. Independent restaurant owners are a dying breed," she elaborates. "You can't afford to do it an...

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Il Mulino is on an expansion roll. Just a month after opening a new outpost in Tribeca, the clubby Italian restaurant chain has announced that it will take over the Flatiron space that housed Scott Conant’s restaurant Fusco, at 43 East 20th St., between Broadway and Park Avenue South. A more casual trattoria was located across the street but closed...

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