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The best pizza in Italy? It’s in New York City, of course. Well, officially, it’s in Southern Italy — either in pizza king Naples or in Tramonti, a tiny coastal town that gives its big-city neighbor a run for its dough. But southern Manhattan has the next-best thing at Tramonti La Pizza pizzeria, on Saint Mark’s Place. There, chef Giovanni Vittorio...

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Save for a few SXSW day parties and the occasional boozy brunch, we haven’t spent much time in the daylight near East Sixth Street. But all that may change soon when New Waterloo’s latest concept opens a block from the bustling strip. The hospitality group behind the South Congress Hotel and Hotel Ella, and restaurants like La Condesa and Sway, ann...

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 Buona, The Original Italian Beef, has set a date of Dec. 6 for the long-awaited opening of its Oak Lawn restaurant. The restaurant at 6235 W. 95th St. will officially open at 10 a.m. Anyone lined up outside before the restaurant opens on Wednesday will get a free Italian beef sandwich. The family-owned, fast casual chain serves its signature Itali...

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The secret ingredient behind DiFebo's Restaurant is family. The Italian restaurant that began as a small deli is reaching 30 years in business and opened the doors of its newest eatery in Berlin in mid-November. Nestled on Main Street, the eatery brings the DiFebo's staples further down the Eastern Shore, with this being the family's first location...

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Restaurateur-sommelier Joe Campanale and chef Erin Shambura, both late of L’Artusi, had been searching earlier this year for the perfect Brooklyn location to open their own place. Then came the call from Francine Stephens, with the shocker that she and her husband, Andrew Feinberg, would be closing local landmark Franny’s, and did they want the spa...

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Fans of Tony’s Pizza Napoletana can now have chef Tony Gemignani’s fresh Italian food at home, and not just by ordering takeout. His retail store, Giovanni Italian Specialties, in North Beach now sells fresh pasta, sauces, focaccia, and specialty cooking implements. The store, named for the chef’s three-year-old son, recently celebrated its grand o...

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Italian DOP buffalo mozzarella exports have more than doubled in the period between 2006 and 2016, from 15.6% to 32.1%. During the same period, production increased by 31%, according to data published by the Consortium for the Protection of Buffalo Mozzarella. A further record looks set to be established in 2017, as in the first eight months there...

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I love Mulberry Street. My great-grandfather was born there in 1916, back when it was truly an Italian-speaking neighborhood. Most of the Italians have since moved up and out to Long Island or New Jersey, but there are still plenty of spots where you can step out of Little Italy and into the old country, and M’O Il Gelato is one of them. Finding ge...

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The Sicilian Butcher, a new restaurant helmed by Joey Maggiore, opens at 3 p.m. today. The place totes out meat-and-cheese boards that are 5 feet long. Bruschetta comes on rotating circular platters. Maggiore, who until now was the chef at Hash Kitchen, is the mind behind the gravity-defying Bloody Marys you have probably seen plastered on Instagra...

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The Roma Café you remember is gone forever. You should know that from the outset. The original, an Italian-American restaurant that once occupied the lower floors of the Rines mansion in Portland’s West End, had a remarkable run. When its white tablecloths were taken to the laundry for the last time in 2008, the restaurant had been open (and mostly...

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