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Vapiano, the Italian restaurant chain with a location in The Loop, is opening another Chicago restaurant. Ownership has leased space in the AC Hotel in River North, the same building where SafeHouse Chicago opened in March. Look for a two-floor, 9,188-square-foot restaurant to open this fall, according to REJournals.com. The location at 630 N. Rush...

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"Marcus Gavius Apicius purchased me on a day hot enough to fry sausage on the market stones."So begins the tale of Thrasius, the fictional narrator of Feast of Sorrow. Released this week, the novel is based on the real life of ancient Roman noble Marcus Gavius Apicius, who is thought to have inspired and contributed to the world's oldest surviving...

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Flatbreads of sorts, crafted with dough and baked in a hearth, may date back to ancient times, but 18th-century Naples is the birthplace of pizza as we know it today. Renowned chef Enrico Sautto and his family have been making pizza Napoletana, since 1870. Today, he can be found in front of Hearthstone Kitchen & Cellar’s large ovens demonstrating t...

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The lead up to the Italian Festival at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Daytona Beach is always kind of fun for me — not just because it’s my parish and I look forward to the good food and good time, but also because I get my annual phone call from my buddy Pete Sicilian. Great name for a guy who helps with publicity for an Italian festival, is it not...

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A second Design District eatery from Tim Headington is here. Called Sassetta, it's an Italian restaurant and it'll open on May 2. Oh wait, that's today. You free for dinner? The official address is 1617 Hi Line Dr. It's tucked inside the Decorative Center at the corner of Oak Lawn Avenue and Hi Line Drive, where it joins Wheelhouse, Headington's re...

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Ittalian food fans get another shot with North Italia, the Italian food concept from Fox Restaurant concepts, which is scheduled to open on June 27 in Plano. Texas currently has two branches of North Italia in Austin and Houston but this is the first branch in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It'll be located at Legacy West, along with its corporate sib...

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The dining out public's appetite for Italian seems to remain predictably consistent. No sooner than one such eatery closes, another opens to take its place. That's certainly a story line for Compari's Ristorante, which debuted late last year in the spot once home to Salvatore's. Housed in a Boston Road location that's had a long history of restaura...

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Vinnie Bilancio is quite the tour guide. He's been coming to the Di Loreto Club, an Italian-American social club at 914 Division St. in Mishawaka, since boyhood. Bilancio's parents were members. Their wedding reception happened on site. After spending 19 years living in California, Bilancio returned to Mishawaka five years ago to help care for his...

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As the Denver food scene continues to grow, we are seeing a lot of restaurants come from other cities. And Cherry Creek seems to be a hub for these transplants: Departure came from Portland, Matsuhisa came from Aspen (and Vail and California), and now Quality Italian came from the Big Apple. Most of these restaurants have given their menu a Colorad...

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L’inizio è stato una battuta: «Ma perché in America nessuno fa i tramezzini?». Perché, pur essendoci migliaia di bar, paninoteche o simili, non si vede quel «sorriso» di ingredienti tra le due fette di pane bianco del famoso «sandwich» che deve il suo nome addirittura a Gabriele D’Annunzio? E così il 38enne Filippo Paccagnella, da dieci a New York,...

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