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More than fIve years after closing his popular Enoteca Marcello’s Wine Bar and Café in the Southdowns Shopping Center on Perkins Road, Gene Todaro is bringing the restaurant back to the same space, which has been home to a string of short-lived eateries ever since Marcello’s departed. “We’re thrilled,” says Todaro, who also operates Marcello’s rest...

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A series of special events organized to promote and share the culinary excellence and food-and-wine knowledge of Italy as a distinctive trait of our identy and culture. The main themes of the second edition of the Week are quality, sustainability, culture, food security, the right to food, education, identity, territory and biodiversity.  The secon...

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Mario Batali returns to Las Vegas on Saturday, Dec. 9, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Carnevino at the Palazzo with a special dinner. Award-winning chefs including Chicago’s Paul Kahan, Los Angeles’ Nancy Silverton, and Batali’s The Chew co-host Michael Symon join Batali to create the five-course menu that kicks off with cocktails at 7 p.m. W...

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If you're searching for the best Italian restaurant in New Jersey, you need to head to Elizabeth. Spirito's is the king of Italian cuisine in the Garden State, at least according to national food website The Daily Meal. The praise for the Elizabeth institution came Thursday morning, when the website published "The Best Italian Restaurant in Every S...

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Miami, a city where New York-style pizza was once rare, this week welcomes a third pizza joint from up North. Roberta's, a popular Brooklyn restaurant and pizza shop based in Bushwick, has fired up its oven in the Design District to produce a lineup of traditional and exotic pies. The pop-up opens Wednesday, October 18, and will remain in Miami thr...

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PIZZA SHOP introduces us to Charlie and Fred Osso, immigrant brothers from Calabria, Italy, who have run a wildly successful pizzeria and restaurant in a strip mall in northern New Jersey for nearly forty years. Retirement is a dirty word to these workhorses: Charlie is serious and detail-oriented, with a short fuse and a soft center, while Fred is...

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Portillo’s made official on Monday morning what has been reported for months: The Chicagoland fast-casual restaurant is coming to Peoria. The company made the announcement in a full-page advertisement in the Journal Star as well as a news release confirming the site of the location at 4412 N. Rockwood Drive. The chain, known for its Chicago-style h...

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Rolando Beramedi, author of Autentico, is also the founder of Manicaretti, a San Francisco-based company that imports high-quality Italian products. Beramedi has a true passion for excellent ingredients, and in Autentico, he conveys the idea of simplicity in cooking to highlight the best produce and products. There’s no need to overcomplicate cooki...

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How does that saying go, “If you’re eating well, you’re eating Italian”? For us, no truer words were ever spoken. Few can resist the temptation of ripe tomatoes, a multitude of meats, flavorful pasta and endless cheese! We were definitely not among those “few” last weekend. After a busy Saturday morning, we decided we were in need of a hearty, carb...

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Coming soon, an authentic taste of Brooklyn that moves beyond its food truck origins and into a prime corner location at 20th and Lincoln streets. Gumba’s Italian Restaurant & Bar plans to open next month. Chris Auriemma, the operator of the Gumba’s Italian Kitchen food trucks, takes over the 4,200-square-foot restaurant space that stood vacant sin...

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