Three restaurants associated with celebrity chef Mario Batali will be closing in Las Vegas. Batali has been accused of sexual misconduct. He has denied any wrongdoing. Employees of Carnevino Italian Steakhouse, B&B Ristorante and Otto Enoteca e Pizzeria received notification Friday morning. All three restaurants are located at The Venetian/The Pala...

Fort Worth is going to get another big player in the local pizza game -- but not until 2019. On Wednesday morning, Cane Rosso owner Jay Jerrier's restaurant group -- it's an acronym , but we're still not sure our standard and practices department will let us say it -- announced that it will add a Zoli's NY Pizza location at 3501 Hulen St. in Fort W...

Giada de Laurentiis is a cookbook author, television host, restaurateur, and chef. She’s known for her Food Network series, Giada at Home, and her frequent appearances on NBC’s Today and talk shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The author of nine books (the most recent is Giada’s Italy, out this past March), she has two Las Vegas restaurants, G...

After visiting friends in Bologna, I came away with a sense that the Italians have embraced many things that we North Americans would do well to adopt. This past week, I had the tremendous fortune to spend three days in Bologna, Italy. I went to visit my friend Francesca, whom I met while on a year-long exchange to Sardinia when I was 16. We've kep...

Good news for pizza and beer lovers. Louisville-based BoomBozz Craft Pizza & Taphouse announced the company will open a location at 2839 Medical Center Parkway in Murfreesboro in mid-June. "Murfreesboro is one of the fastest-growing communities in all of Tennessee, and we are extremely excited to begin growing with them,” said Bryan Beach, COO of B...

New Jersey’s own Franco Robazetti of Zeppelin Hall and Surf City (pictured above), in Jersey City, will appear on Chopped, on the Food Network. The episode premieres on Tuesday, May 29. About the ShowChopped is hosted by author, television personality, and food connoisseur, Ted Allen. In the show, four chefs use their skills to compete with each ot...

In just four months, restaurateurs Maria Buonsante and Franco Franzese brought their "EAT Italian" restaurant concept to life. The casual bistro-style eatery, located in the Woodrow Shopping Center, just debuted lunch, dinner and its egg-focused "colizione" concept with a friends-and-family fete that attracted South Shore neighbors. "The reception...

Made in Italy is not just a geographical indication. According to latest KPMG research, it has the same value of a brand and if it were really a brand it would be the third best known in the world after Coca-Cola and Visa. For 82% of foreigners interviewed, it communicates the values of beauty, luxury (72%), passion (58%), and creativity (53%). Tha...

Oltre 50 eventi, 50 tra consorzi, cantine, aziende del food & wine e del lifestyle italiane presenti, più di 500 importatori e distributori locali e oltre 100 ristoranti italiani certificati coinvolti: questi i numeri di “Authentic Italian Table”, la manifestazione con cui le 9 Camere di Commercio Italiane all’estero di Chicago, Houston, Los Angele...

Armando’s Restaurant and Bar, Brooklyn Heights’ classic Italian restaurant, has closed its doors after almost 82 years of business. City finance records show that Peter Byros, the restaurant’s owner since 1981, sold the building located at 143 Montague St. to Uri Koptiev for $7,418,000 on Feb. 14. Koptiev is a real estate agent. The roughly 2,000 s...