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Few things in life stay the same. But for 50 years, Romano’s Italian Restaurant has been serving up old-fashioned Italian food using the same recipes, in the same cozy dining room. The menu and the dining room are a little bigger than when Neil and Ellie Romano started the place in 1967, but for generations of area residents, Romano’s, at 5666 S. W...

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Caterina’s doesn’t announce itself from the street with its small parking lot on Oklahoma Avenue, its unobtrusive entrance, and its location in the outer reaches of West Allis. For people who love traditional Italian cuisine, it’s the real deal, not to be confused with Olive Garden or Buca di Beppo. They don’t serve froufrou food, just authentic ho...

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If you’ve ever felt the desire to eat a 14-inch slab of chicken Parm with your hands, NYC’s Quality Italian has precisely the entree for you. The Italian-American eatery in Midtown is famous for its chicken Parm pizza -- which comes with a crust made entirely of fried chicken. “Pizza is the ultimate comfort food” says Quality Italian Chef Angie Rit...

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Denver-based Sage Restaurant Group has introduced its latest concept, Torali Italian – Steak, at the Ritz-Carlton, Chicago. The new Italian eatery features an atmosphere crafted by San Francisco-based interior design practice BAMO that pays homage to Italian modernism. The design incorporates oversized plush booths, fine Italian leather, and ornate...

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Michele Ferrero was a pragmatic man. He was able to create the second greatest confectionary multinational company after Nestlé, becoming one of the richest Italian men. Until his death in 2015, Michele Ferrero used to surprise with his unconventional personality: he did not like to be interviewed or to be photographed and he did not trust managers...

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Da un’isola ad un’altra. E poi ancora un’altra isola. Un destino isolano a cui Salvatore Fraterrigo, titolare e chef del ristorante newyorchese Norma- Gastronomia siciliana, non sembra riesca a sottrarsi. Lascia la sua Sicilia nel 2004 per Manhattan. E sposa una sarda. Della sua Trapani si porta dietro sapori e saperi che diventano l’ambiente e il...

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PASATINA FIGS—a breed native to Sardinia—aren’t a common ingredient in the U.S. Yet if you look for the fruit in Houston, you’ll have little trouble finding it. Twenty years ago, Efisio Farris, owner of beloved Italian restaurant Arcodoro in the Galleria area, brought a single stick from one of his father’s trees back to Houston from Sardinia. He p...

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Joe Impastato, wearing a black sport shirt with a New Orleans Saintsemblem on the pocket, balances six salad plates on his arm as he pushes past the swinging door of his kitchen into the dining room at Impastato's Restaurant in Metairie. The 78-year-old restaurateur delivers those plates expertly to a table of well-dressed men having lunch in the e...

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“Rita and I tend to create places we are longing for,” says chef Jody Williams, who opened the West Village’s Via Carota three years ago with partner Rita Sodi as an homage to Sodi’s onetime home outside Florence. The couple’s next collaboration, Pisellino, celebrates the classic Italian bar, an icon of urbanity that serves so many crucial social a...

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Medusa Pizzeria owner Ernesto Villico was grinning, though you could hardly tell because of the giant orb of fresh mozzarella he’d shoved in his mouth as a joke. He held a pizza peel with a freshly-stretched dough in his hand, had his name stitched along the back of a custom Italia soccer jersey and sported a lipstick outline on his cheek from wher...

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