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Get ready to say goodbye to Passion8, Luca and Jessica Annunziata’s Elizabeth Avenue restaurant, and say ciao to Luca/A Modern Italian Kitchen, a reset they hope will bring them back toward the food they started out to make when they got to Charlotte 12 years ago. “It’s kind of been a long time coming,” she said after sending out a restaurant newsl...

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I FIRST ENCOUNTERED farinata last summer on the porch at San Fermo, the Ballard restaurant housed in two conjoined, historic buildings whose handsomely updated old bones are a fitting setting for chef Sam West’s rustic Italian cooking. Farinata is a simple pancake made of chickpea flour. The late Italian cooking authority Marcella Hazan described i...

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Sons of Italy Chapter 2561 will be sponsoring a fundraiser for Par-Troy Wrestling Club.  The fundraiser will be held at Parsippany Volunteer Fire District 5, 180 Bloomfield Road on Saturday, February 25 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. A $10.00 donation for adults and $8.00 for children. Included with the pasta dinner, cooked by the Sons of Italy member...

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Rise Pies and MidiCi, two Neapolitan-style pizzerias, are making their West Michigan debut at malls this week. Both plan to give away pizzas as part of their opening week promotions. Neapolitan pizza is a style of pizza from the Naples region of Italy that is prepared with simple and fresh ingredients. Rise Pies Handcrafted Pizza is slated to open...

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A brand new Italian restaurant and pub is opening in Herndon soon, and they're looking for staff. A recent Craigslist posting by Spazio Italian Kitchen & Bar, which will be located at 13005 Worldgate Drive, seeks hosts and hostesses at the restaurant. Spazio recently said on their Facebook page that they are hoping to open in mid-February. "We've d...

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Some things are sacred. Like the smell of Sunday dinner taking shape even before you have had your second cup of morning coffee. That’s the way it used to be in a lot of Italian homes. I remember the smell of onions hitting the pan as I woke up, my mother and grandmother already at the stove getting that “Sunday sauce” ready to cook just before goi...

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The former El Barrio Mexican Grill space in town has signed a new tenant. Come spring, Palio, an Italian restaurant in Ann Arbor, will open its second location in the space in Grand Rapids’ Midtown neighborhood, at 545 Michigan St. NE. Palio is operated by Ann Arbor-based Mainstreet Ventures, which operates 21 restaurants in five states, two of whi...

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The Noto family lends its famous meatball recipe. Chef Kim Leo tosses in a clam bar concept. And it will all come together soon as Noto's Casa Cucina in the Great Kills space formerly occupied by Jimmy Max. The Notos' V&J Soriano's Pork Store is a long-running Italian specialty grocery that prides itself on a Sunday tradition called "Meatball Mania...

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Joey Baldino's day job is chef-owner of Zeppoli in Collingswood, which sits high on most best-Italian-restaurant lists in the region. But for the last two years, he's been working under the radar on a passion project near his boyhood home in South Philadelphia. Joey's family ran the Filippo Palizzi Social Club since the early 1950s, and when his un...

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Good luck getting a reservation at this place on Valentine's Day. Trattoria Stella in Traverse City was recently named the most romantic restaurant in all of Michigan, by USA TODAY. The Italian hot spot is located inside the Village of Grand Traverse Commons, with a farm-to-table food philosophy. The Commons is also known as the former site of the...

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