By Molly Karr This month, couple Sam Epps and Kami Drake will open Gola Osteria, a new restaurant in Collegetown focusing on local ingredients and Italian tastes. "We will cook in a way that an Italian would: with Upstate New York ingredients," Epps said. "The difference between our restaurant and others [around the area] is that...
READ MOREIf you must live by bread alone, best make it Genova's. A few years shy of its centennial year, the once-predominantly Italian neighborhood around the Stockton bakery, market and deli has changed dramatically over the past 100 years. What haven't changed are the loaves and loaves of bread hot from the oven — French, sourdough, Dutch c...
READ MOREby Andi Berlin Fans of the popular west-side pizza and wings joint Bianchi's Italian will be pleased to know, the restaurant is now shooting for a June 1 opening date for their second location. The Tucson staple is opening the former home of Marana's sprawling The Steak Out restaurant. Owner Vincent Bianchi says the new spot...
READ MOREby William Porter Whatever other virtues Café Mercato possesses — and there are several — the newish spot in Denver's Lowry neighborhood has to be the only upscale Italian restaurant anywhere with a close-up view of a B-52 Stratofortress. That's how close the establishment is to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, where...
READ MOREby Hannah Palmer Egan There's plenty to do in Burke: Despite struggling through bankruptcies and ownership changes in recent years, Q Burke Mountain Resort draws thousands of visitors each winter. In the summer, Kingdom Trails is one of Vermont's premier mountain biking destinations. And even as controversy continues to swirl around the half-built...
READ MOREby Cristine Struble Chicago has a celebrated culinary scene. While not every person can harness the talent of the city's acclaimed chefs, even the budding culinarian can master a variety of cooking techniques and flavors. Fortunate to have Eatly located in Chicago, food lovers and aspiring chefs can glean inspiration from this Italian mecca. To ce...
READ MOREby Florence Fabricant It doesn't get more artisanal than this: In the tiny village of Anversa in the Abruzzo region of Italy, the Marcelli family has made cheese for about 500 years. "Many of the people in the village are our relatives," said Christina Marcelli, a member of a younger generation who is involved in the family's import busine...
READ MORETrained as a pizzaiolo and baker in Naples, Gennaro Lombardi came to America when he was just 14 years old. He settled in the Little Italy section of New York City, and began to bake for a small grocery store on Spring Street. He also started to bake and sell pizzas in the back of the store. Several years later, Gennaro purchased the grocery store...
READ MOREBy Wesley Case In June, chef-owner Brian Lavin opened Gnocco, a love letter to his time not long ago studying abroad — and eating and drinking — through Italy and Spain as a University of Maryland, College Park student. An August Baltimore Sun review of Lavin's cuisine called the Brewers Hill establishment "a restaurant you don't want to overlook....
READ MOREby Adam Zolkover Street vendors, saints, and live outdoor music marches into the Italian Market this Saturday and Sunday, May 18 and 19. The market, located on South Ninth Street in Philadelphia and widely regarded as the center of the Italian-American community in the city, will be throwing its ordinarily crowded doorways and streets wide...
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