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I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chef Andrew McCabe a few weeks back and vowed to put his restaurant, bar Vetti, on my list, in part because I was struck by how much he puts into his food. I finally made it in for a meal, and I wasn’t disappointed. First of all, the clean, upscale feel of the place — the neon “bar Vetti” sign on the wall com...

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When Eric Fosse and Glenn Deutsch teamed up to open Mino's Italian in Winnetka, they decided to create a restaurant they wanted to eat at. "We built this based on what we wanted," said Deutsch, a Winnetka resident. "We didn't mold this into what we thought would possibly satisfy every person. We found out a lot of people wanted that as well." Since...

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Michael Paolercio and Christian Prior, both Tuckahoe residents, use their mother’s collective recipes as the inspiration for the menu on their Mac’s Food Truck, serving Italian-American comfort food including sausage and pepper, chicken cutlet parm, and meatball parm wedges. In addition to the aforementioned wedges, the pair is developing an eggpla...

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When Charlie Salvaggio bought Giuseppe’s Restaurant in 1993, there were only a handful of restaurants on Louetta Road in Spring. “There might have been six restaurants out here,” he said. “Now there’s 80 or 90.” There is also no shortage of Italian food in the area, with restaurants serving up traditional and modern cuisine at locally owned and cha...

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Want to know how the sausage is made? Slide into a seat at Macellaio’s L-shaped counter and ask. The servers are fluent in all manner of Italian-style sausages and cured meats, and they are itching to tell you about the day’s offerings, all made in-house. If your timing is right, you might get to ask the chief sausage geek himself, chef and co-owne...

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The great thing about pizza is that even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good. So, when a pizza is genuinely delicious, like the offerings at Danny Boys Italian Eatery, it’s something you want to eat again and again. This review wasn’t my first experience with Danny Boys—the Frank Sinatra themed restaurant has six locations around Northeast Ohio a...

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If you’ve been to an airport, or a train station, or a highway rest stop, and gotten a cup of coffee or a sandwich, salad, or fresh pasta, then it’s likely you know Autogrill. You may not be aware you know Autogrill, but you know Autogrill. You know it because Autogrill is everywhere. The Italian food and beverage conglomerate, which specializes in...

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A flood-ravaged Houston restaurant will rise again in a new location. The owners of Spaghetti Warehouse, the downtown restaurant that shuttered after Hurricane Harvey flooded it with several feet of water, are bringing a new concept to Spring Branch. Warehouse 72 (named for the year the restaurant opened its first location in Dallas) will update th...

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August marks a decade of perfect pasta and carefully curated wine inspired by northwest Italy on Capitol Hill’s 14th Ave. Cascina Spinasse turned ten this month and it celebrated with a party full of longtime customers. “Most of our regulars came over and showered us in love and support,” Spinasse’s general manager Angela Lopez said. “We’ve been on...

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When Pete Lombardi, owner and founder of Lombardi Pizza Co., studied cooking and baking at Baltimore International College and hotel restaurant management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, he wasn’t planning on one day cooking up Neapolitan pies in the then-unknown-to-him Martinsville section of Bridgewater. Instead, the Edison resident planned on...

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