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Popular Italian restaurant Trevioli, which has operated out of a north Columbus storage complex for three years, is moving toward completion of its brand new home on Blackmon Road in Columbus. “We’re scheduled to open the second week of March or the third week of March at the most,” said Sanjay Choudhury, a Columbus businessman who is a partner wit...

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Eataly, the giant Italian marketplace that's co-owned by Mario Batali, will soon be getting a new rooftop restaurant at its Boston location. The new eatery, called Terra, will feature "a wood fire grill and regional Italian-inspired dishes," according to a job posting on BostonChefs.com. "The menu will showcase a number of specialty Italian items s...

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Students from all levels of Italian joined the officers of the UW Italian Club on Friday to prepare a four-course meal together. On the menu was a caprese salad, pasta al pesto, duck breast in orange sauce (petto d'anatra all'arancia), and a mandarin sorbet. Everyone pitched in with shelling, peeling, slicing and boiling to get the dinner ready, sp...

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Pizza finds a place on every country's table and is topped with countless delicacies, each country creating its own - more or less - orthodox version of this quintessentially Italian food. Yet it remains Neapolitan in the  minds of all of us and having a pizza in Naples is certainly on the bucket list of more than a foodie.  Neapolitan pizza, or “v...

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I went to Tulane University in New Orleans, and prior to that my family opened a restaurant here in Columbus, Ohio, called Lindey’s. It’s an Upper East Side, New York–style café-bistro that has now become an institution in Columbus. It opened in 1981, and that was the year I started college, so my career was launched with the family business. When...

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Jack Petronella has never been to Altamura in Southern Italy. But he knew he had family there. That's the town his grandparents left in the 1900s to immigrate to New York. When Petronella, who also owns the bakery Manhattanjack, opened an Italian restaurant in the Magnolia Mansion last summer, he called it Altamura to honor his grandparents. "My gr...

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Now serving good news: Congratulations to one of Staten Island's own. OpenTable.com, a popular digital restaurant-reservation service, has ranked Bocelli Ristorante of Grasmere among the "Top 10 Best Italian Restaurants" in the New York/Tri-State area. Foodies use the online service to find, explore, reserve, and manage restaurant reservations free...

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David Levi has reopened Rossobianco, his restaurant at 3 Deering Ave., under the name Trattoria Fanny. The restaurant is serving a simpler, more affordable menu than Rossobianco, and is named after Levi’s grandmother, Fanny Levi, who was born in Milan in 1908. Dinner dishes are all under $20, and include seafood stew in tomato broth and a veal cutl...

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A popular Italian proverb goes, “A tavola non si invecchia;" which means, "At the table, one does not age." Because in Italy, the meal is meant to be a leisurely pleasure shared with others. (I might add, also because time flies when you're eating pizza.) This is the philosophy of Locale 90, which recently opened its second location in the old Umam...

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People come to Arthur Avenue to stock up. On a recent Saturday afternoon, I stood outside Vincent’s Meat Market with Danielle Oteri, who leads tours of the neighborhood with her husband Christian Galliani. The window of Vincent’s is decked with fat Boston butts and whole sides of pork. Customers stream in and out carrying hefty shopping bags. Danie...

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