The Petersen Automotive Museum now has a restaurant where you can dine on modern Italian cuisine if you're feeling peckish after salivating over a $2.6 million Bugatti. Drago Ristorante now joins the ranks of Los Angeles' esteemed museum-adjacent restaurants, like The Broad's Otium or LACMA's Ray's & Stark Bar. The Italian eatery opened in December...
READ MOREThe ribbon has been cut at the new San Giorgio Pizzeria Napoletana, a passion project spearheaded by the Calderone Club's Gino Fazzari. The restaurant, which is located in the former Thai Palace at 838 N. Old World 3rd St., hosted soft openings this week. Although a date has not yet been set, Fazzari predicts he'll open the doors to the public some...
READ MORECozy leather booths. Waiters in tuxedos. Massive portions of Italian-American food. A wide smile on every diner’s face. Welcome to Original Joe’s. Though initially established in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco in 1937, Original Joe’s opened a second and third location in 1956—in Daly City and San Jose. Wanting to bring the big city,...
READ MOREIf you have a sweet tooth for fresh, authentic Italian food, Eataly on Boylston Street will be your new favorite place. This trendy food emporium is a two-story wonderland of Italian food. The store is absolutely huge, featuring multiple restaurants, dining areas, shopping aisles, bars and cooking classrooms. Huge chandeliers beam down at the peopl...
READ MORETuesday, February 14, 2017. Events starts at 7:00 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm. Previous registration is required: $35 for members, $40 for non-members. Italian Cultural & Community Center - 1101 Milford - Houston, TX Chocolate: That's Amore! A Valentine's Day Workshop. Join us for a sweet and chocolaty evening on Valentine’s Day! Come experience a ha...
READ MOREIn this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we speak with proud first generation Italian-American Rossella Rago from “Cooking with Nonna” about her cooking experiences throughout her life, and the true meaning behind them. During this lively interview, Rossella tells the story of how her family relocated to New Jersey from her beloved Italian...
READ MOREIn a time of cultural erasure and broad public indecency, it's nice to see traditions and heritages respected. The next street food creation to hit NYC won't be a grotesque Frankenstein monster of fatty American favorites, like the infamous Double Down; but rather a revival of an old-school favorite from Italy: the Trapizzino. The triangular pizza...
READ MOREThere is really nothing quite like home cooking: meatloaf, Shepherd’s Pie, hot soup, fresh carved turkey, or overloaded calzones. When you can’t do it yourself, you can always count on the folks at Victor’s Deli. Located on Broadway in Somerville, Victor’s is a neighborhood institution known for serving hearty, homestyle cooking for over thirty yea...
READ MORERome’s esteemed pizza-maker Gabriele Bonci will open a pizzeria in Chicago. Rick Tasman, president of Bonci USA, confirmed in an email from Rome on Friday that a lease has been signed for 161 N. Sangamon St., which he said is in the 900 West Randolph project in the West Loop. "We are so very excited about the opening," Tasman wrote, noting he is in...
READ MORESpoleto, a fast-casual Italian restaurant that combines the speed of quick service with the sophistication of gourmet-quality food is expanding its presence in the United States with the opening of a new location in Irvine, Calif. This restaurant makes the fifth corporate-owned location in the U.S. and first location outside of Florida. The Irvine...
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