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Squisito Franchise Enterprises, Inc. has signed on a new franchisee in the Fairfax County, VA area, Kevin Trump. Squisito Pizza & Pasta is a fast casual, authentic Italian restaurant originating in Anne Arundel County, Maryland and expanding across the Eastern Seaboard. Mr. Trump marks the 4th franchisee for the brand and his first location will be...

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Replacing the Royal Stone Restaurant & Wine Bar, the Bankers Hill bistro that shuttered in September, is a new Italian restaurant called Mia Trattoria. Named after owner Sergio Torrisi’sone-year-old daughter, the eatery is his first stateside restaurant. Torrisi and his father Ivan each have over two decades of industry experience in Rome, Italy, w...

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Winchester’s newest eatery, Comella’s, opened on Dec. 6 in Winchester Center. The Comella brothers have been eyeing the Winchester location on 529 Main St. for their pizza shop for a few years now. With the spot to the middle school and high school, the town had two key elements Comella’s look for while expanding -- family demographics and a busy c...

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In an Italian household, where there’s food, there’s family. At Pepe’s Italian Restaurant in Worcester, that has never been more true. Teresa Travaglio and her family are the folks behind Pepe’s, a casual spot where you will feel at home the second you step foot through the door. “People walking in the first time, they walk in and they just see how...

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Maestoso is moving into The Hub at Hillcrest as early as February 2018. Named after Roman chef/owner Marco Maestoso, who moved to San Diego with partner Dalila Ercolani this year, the modern Italian restaurant is replacing the Hillcrest outpost of Napizza. Napizza founders Christopher Antinucci and Giulia Colmignoli, who are childhood friends of Ma...

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For over 50 years, the Ajello family has filled Pastosa’s creamy ravioli and their customer’s bellies with the finest ingredients. Whether grabbling a handcrafted specialty sandwich for lunch, a dinner to go or placing a catering order, Pastosa stands ready to serve up culinary delights with old fashioned values and a tradition of quality. Anthony...

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It doesn't get more Italian-American than Pizza of the Seven Fishes. The dish is the pizza of the month at Slice, a Philadelphia-area restaurant which has been making it every December for the past four years. The pizza is a twist on the traditional Christmas Eve dinner for Italian-Americans, Feast of the Seven Fishes. "That is my family tradition,...

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OK Google, which is the typical recipe for the Italian Christmas dinner? You may try asking this to Google or to your Italian friends, but you will be probably surprised to get dozens or even hundreds of different answers to this question. The right answer is that there is no particular Christmas dish in Italy that can be found on the table in ever...

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The rainy afternoon did not keep customers from going to the grand opening of Marco’s Pizza Sunday. The pizza chain opened at the old Hog Heaven location on Lafayette Parkway. “We haven’t advertised, so what we’ve done is doing it through word of mouth,” franchisee Chris Lopez said. “Some young folks first came in at the beginning of the week, we j...

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Amid the stalls and shops of the Italian Market, word has been spreading of the impending retirement of Sonny D'Angelo, whose grandfather opened the family butcher shop on Ninth Street just south of Christian Street in 1910. When D'Angelo, 67, hangs up his apron at the end of the month after a half-century of work, D'Angelo's Specialty Meats is due...

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